TBD Fest concluded Oct. 5 with a performance by the EDM giants, Justice, to a full crowd in West Sacramento’s Riverfront by Raley field.

The three day music festival, October 3-5 featured 75 acts with headlining shows by Moby, Empire of the Sun and Justice, respectively.

Other notable acts included Blondie and Dillion Francis. TBD also had multiple sets from Sacramento based artists like Sister Crayon and Andru Defeye.

What started as a one day event called, Launch, in 2008 has expanded every year and in 2012 turned into a multi-platform event. This is the first year that Launch founders, Mike Hargis and Clay Nutting, have put it under the moniker TBD Fest.

The founders hope to bring “emerging and nationally relevant talent to Sacramento while still maintaining the independent spirit of our humble beginnings,” according to a letter from Hargis and Nutting, in the TBD pamphlet.

“I consider myself an ambassador of Sacramento hip-hop so the folks who run this are paying attention to who is doing work and who is out here representing,” said featured artist, Andru Defeye. “They got all the right folks involved, from the artists to the vendors. It’s a lot of folks who are trying to put Sacramento on the map and it’s unifying.”

The visual arts have been a staple of Launch and are continued in TBD. An illuminated cube made of Plexiglas and steel gave festival goers an admirable piece of art and meet-up spot, given it was in the festival’s epicenter.

“This is the facto meeting point. If anyone gets lost they meet at ‘The Cube,’” said artist Alexander Amaya.

Keeping with Sacramento being the Farm-to-Fork capital, chef competitions were incorporated during all three days. Restaurant and clothing vendors were also present during the festivities.

“It’s a good thing they’ve done for Sacramento,” said Sam Stevenson, digital marketing for Official Brand headwear. “A lot of the venders are happy with how it turned out. I know we were happy with how it turned out.”

Being that this is the first year of the festival there were problems with dust clouds coming from foot traffic and water was in high demand. Measures were being made to minimize the dust.

“This big tank spewing out what they call gorilla snot puts a glue over the dusk,” said Stevenson. “It is helping a lot, the first day was super dusty.”