George Clanton played to a packed house at The Miramar Theatre Saturday night, presented by Cactus Club with Full Body 2 opening. The show was Clanton’s first time in Milwaukee.

Full Body 2 hail from Philadelphia. Their electronic-infused shoegaze style is loud, textural and spacious, building vast soundscapes of distortion and psychedelia. The band’s most recent EP “Infinity Signature” was released in November.

Originally from Virginia, George Clanton is an electronic artist whose eclectic and inventive style applies many terms, ranging from vaporwave to hypnagogic pop to trip hop. He is known for invoking feelings of nostalgia with his sonic and visual aesthetics, utilizing vibrant, immersive animations (which he programs all himself) and stacked retro TV sets on stage to convey pop culture imagery from decades past. Clanton previously made music under the names Kid’s Garden, ESPRIT and Mirror Kisses before ultimately switching to his real name starting with 2015 album “100% Electronica.” Since then he has released albums “Slide” in 2018 and “Ooh Rap I Ya” in 2023 in addition to a collaborative album with Nick Hexum of 311. Clanton also has his own record label, which has the same name as his first album.

George Clanton’s set on Saturday was balanced with songs from all three of his albums, complete with the encore “Bleed” off “100% Electronica.” Clanton arrived onstage full of brazen banter (which he had lots of throughout his set) before kicking things off with “Livin’ Loose.” His performance encompassed him singing with backing tracks and playing guitar while Jack Chaffer from Full Body 2 joined him behind the kit. Visuals projected incarnations (both on backdrop and the TVs) of old-school spinning globe animations, emojis, alien faces, anime shows and even a PlayStation logo. Meticulously twinkling lights mixed with smoke machines and water bottles being emptied onto the crowd. Clanton did plenty of jumping around and dancing from song to song, even climbing the stacked TV sets on either side of him and leaping into the crowd at several points.

A dynamic performer who’s clearly having the time of his life up there and genuinely loves the music he’s making, George Clanton puts on a really fun show, and I’m intrigued to see how both his stylistic direction and stage production will continue to evolve in years to come.