Whethan brings his 360 show to Rockwell at The Complex on Saturday

The Chicago producer who launched on Future Classic at 16 plays Salt Lake City's 2,500-capacity room on Nov. 14, in the round.

Most electronic shows point everyone the same direction: toward the booth, the LED wall and the drop. Saturday's Whethan show at Rockwell is billed as a 360 show, which flips that. The booth sits in the middle, the crowd wraps around it, and there's no bad side of the room.

Whethan plays Rockwell at The Complex on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 8 p.m. Tickets are through AXS. Rockwell holds about 2,500, and the Salt Lake date comes a week after Phoenix on Nov. 7 and ahead of Los Angeles on Dec. 4 and a New Year's Eve stop in Chicago.

Whethan is Ethan Snoreck, a DJ and producer from Chicago, born in 1999. His Wikipedia entry notes that at 16 he became the youngest producer to launch a record on Future Classic, the Australian label, and that he caught the attention of Skrillex not long after. His sound is hard to pin to one genre on purpose; his work moves across future bass, electropop, hyperpop and rap-adjacent production, and the brief we work from lists him under indie, EDM and pop in the same breath.

That genre-hopping shows up best in his collaborations. His debut full-length, "Fantasy," came out on Atlantic Records on Oct. 16, 2020, with a guest list that read like an indie-rock festival lineup: Grouplove, K.Flay, Chrome Sparks, STRFKR, The Wombats and The Front Bottoms, with the STRFKR collaboration "Stay Forever" as its first single. He followed it with "MIDNIGHT" in 2022. Few dance producers his age have spent as much time making records with guitar bands, and it's a big part of why his sets pull a crowd that isn't strictly EDM.

The booth sits in the middle, the crowd wraps around it, and there's no bad side of the room.

The 360 format is the hook this fall. A Navy Pier event listing for his Chicago date bills the run as the Warehouse.wavs Tour (360 Show), and the AXS page for Salt Lake carries the same 360 billing. For a producer whose catalog swings between bright, singalong pop hooks and heavier club material, a stage the crowd can surround tends to turn the room into one big dance floor rather than rows of people filming a screen.

Rockwell is the right Salt Lake room for it. At 2,500 capacity, it's large enough to handle a production setup and a real crowd, but not so big that the in-the-round idea gets lost. The Complex has become a regular stop for touring electronic acts coming through Utah, and a Saturday night in mid-November, after the first real cold settles over the valley, is exactly when people are ready for something warm and loud indoors.

Practical notes: it's an 8 p.m. start on a Saturday, so expect a full house by the time the headliner is on. Check the AXS listing for age restrictions and bag policy before you go, and plan your ride home.

Go with people who'll actually dance. A 360 show only works if the whole circle commits, and Whethan's catalog gives you plenty of reasons to.

Sources: Whethan (Wikipedia) (en.wikipedia.org); Whethan - Warehouse.wavs Tour (360 Show) at Navy Pier (app.discotech.me); Whethan 360 Show tickets (AXS) (axs.com); Whethan at Rockwell At the Complex (JamBase) (jambase.com)