Electric Daisy Carnival 2012 Las Vegas - Line Up Phase 1 [Line Up]

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Escape From Wonderland [Line Up]

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Afrojack // AN21 // ATB // Benny Benassi // Bobina // Bobby Burns // Borgore // Brookes Brothers // Cassy // Cedric Gervais // Crizzly // Dash Berlin // Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike // Doctor P // Funtcase // Heidi // Jochen Miller // Le Castle Vania // Marco Carola // Markus Schulz // Martin Buttrich live // Max Vangeli // Moguai // Paco Osuna // Pendulum w/ MC Verse // R3hab // Ramon Tapia // Steve Angello // Size Matters // Subfocus w/ MC ID // Sultan & Ned Shepard // Thomas Gold // Tritonal // Umek // Wally Lopez // Wilkinson w/ Armanni Reign

Afrojack & Steve Aoki ft. Miss Palmer - No Beef [Video]

Watch Afrojack and Steve Aoki as they venture through Las Vegas doing the weirdest randomest funniest activities as they shoot the video for AFROKI - No Beef, featuring Miss Palmer. Both Afrojack and Steve Aoki performed extremely amazing sets at this year's Electric Daisy Carnival. I can't help but imagine enormous stages with flashing lights and confetti when hearing this track and I definitely can't wait to return to the desert for some more wild electronic fun!

Afrojack : Official | Steve Aoki: Official

Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas 2011 [Final Line Up]

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Tickets have been purchased. Shuttle passes as well. Hotels been booked. All we need now is some gas money and some other miscellaneous items. Below you will find the final line up for what Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman has declared as Electric Daisy Carnival Week...

Tommie Sunshine - Spring Sprung DJ Mix

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Apologies for the lack of updates everyone. March Madness really kicked my a$$. I really need three of me to get everything done. Any hoo, enough of my complaining. Back to the music. Here's a mix that's going to help me get through tonight's "burning the midnight oil" session. Lots of gems in this mix. Here's what Sir Tommie Sunshine had to say about his latest mix:

Since the radio is full of mainstream dance music right now, I decided to pull things WAY underground for this mix. The world is operating at a fever-pitch and this is the soundtrack of you closing your eyes on a Saturday night and cutting the cords that hold you to this Earth. This is straight up, psychedelic dance music that is intended to cause a state of disconnection with the real world and its made with ultimate love. Do whatever it is that takes you to that place and turn this the fuck up and play it LOUD!

Tommie Sunshine – 'Spring Sprung' DJ Mix by tommiesunshine

Tommie Sunshine - Eyes Towards Summer DJ Mix

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Mr. Tommie Sunshine has presented us with another volume of auditory pleasures. His Summer Soundtrack Mix '10 was definitely a good source of dance floor grooves last year and his current Eyes Towards Summer DJ Mix continues the party with more inspirational dance tunes. Here's what he had to say about the mix...

With a winter so harsh as this one has been it was time to set my sights on the oncoming Summer and make a musical representation of what that looks and feels like inside my mind. We are experiencing a wonderful time in music and this is an audio celebration of that time. I treated the last 3 songs as my "end of the night" tracks so imagine this to be me shutting the club down and kick starting the mood for the after hours. - Tommie Sunshine

Tommie Sunshine - Eyes Towards Summer DJ Mix by tommiesunshine | Mediafire

Bart B More - USA Tour Mixtape [Tour Dates]

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Bart van der Meer, otherwise known as Bart B More, has presented us with an hours worth of fun tunes perfect for practicing your dance moves in your bedroom, or driving around from here to there. He is the creator of the dance floor smashers Brap, Listen To This(created with Harvard Bass), and one of my more recent favorites, Zombie Nation - Squeek (Bart B More Remix). And along with Avicii, Afrojack, and Sonic C, he perfected his craft through Laidback Luke's online forum[great resource]. He has quite a few dates around the US so if you're one of the lucky ones living in a town where he's performing, just go. You'll be happy you did.

Bart B More Janfebmarch '11 USA Tour Mixtape by Bart B More

Together As One 2011 [Concert Review]

Afrojack @ SNS Arena | Photo Source: Together As One's Facebook
Now that I've had about a full day to rest|recover|reflect on the insanity I partook during the last moments of 2010 into the first moments of 2011 I can finally share some of the highlights of Together As One [Go Ventures + Insomniac Events]. I'll explain things in the order I experienced them and I'll focus on some of the musical moments that really stood out for myself and the crowd. Following these highlights I'll share a couple comments and suggestions for future events. Let's begin...

Saturday Night Sessions Arena
Afrojack [ Official | Facebook | Twitter | Youtube ]
The first song we heard when we stepped into the Saturday Night Sessions Arena was Show Me Love by Steve Angello & Laidback Luke feat. Robin-S. The positive energy of the arena was electrifying. Everyone was singing, dancing, merrymaking and we knew things were just getting started. When you take that amount of energy and double it, that's what occurred when Afrojack dropped his remix of Show Me Love right after the original track.

Afrojack - Pacha On Acid by Ace Agency

The crowd also went wild when Pacha On Acid began to play. There's just something special about hearing the build up from 3:45 - 5:12 in a giant sized arena with the bass thumping and possessing you to move your body in ways you didn't know they moved. To be honest with you, I don't get many songs by Afrojack until I hear it live on a massive sound system. Case in point his recent track titled, Replica. Once I heard it in the arena it made perfect sense.

Favorite sing along moments would be during Take Over Control and his remix of Watcha Say by Jason Derulo. Definite TAO moments right there.

Bassrush Arena
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With all the posts we've done with Nero on Dank Radio you can probably guess the excitement I had to finally ring in the new year with these guys at Bassrush. I would be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed when I only saw one of the two forces behind Nero. But no matter I had the music to bring my spirits back up.

I've been playing their Essential Mix over and over for the past couple weeks and their set consisted most of the key tracks you'd expect. Early in the set you heard their In The Middle Remix and it seemed like the crowd wasn't too familiar with that track from my vantage point. The crowd however did respond when they heard MJ Cole's Sincere ( Nero Remix ). Let's just say the ladies got expressive at this point.

MJ Cole - Sincere (Nero remix) by Sunday Best

In a matter of moments I finally got to hear the set of songs I've been waiting to hear on a proper sound system. Nero's remix of The Jets Crush On You sounded spectacular. I missed it when they played the track at Audiotistic and was waiting for this soung to drop during their set. The moment when they played Downlink's Factory
 + Chase & Status' Let You Go (Nero Remix) + Nero's Welcome Reality was amazing. The passion behind the lyrics of Let You Go over Welcome Reality is perfect for a massive's speakers.

We stayed for a handful of the Drum & Bass tracks but had to make our way to the Together Arena for Laidback Luke. One thing that stayed with me was what the MC's said about Bassrush. They were happy for the continued growth of the LA Bass scene and how more people are accepting of the music and declared that Bassrush would never ever leave the scene and stay until the very end.

Together Arena
Laidback Luke [ Official | Facebook | Twitter ]
What more can I say about this guy that hasn't already been said. I've seen him a handful of times throughout 2010 and each time I see him perform he does something new/different that blows my mind. And after each set I'm extremely inspired and driven to practice even harder.

The best way to describe a LBL set is that the crowd's energy fluctuates between 80% at it's lowest point and reaches it's highest at about 120%. In essence he always manages to keep the energy at a constant of about 100% throughout his sets. Don't ask me how the math works, It just does.

LBL used his remix of iSquare's Hey Sexy Lady to build the crowd up for the countdown. Which was very appropriate especially with the "People people put your hands up" lyric. After the yelling, confetti, and toasts he brought the crowd back in with his & Steve Angello's track Be. And just when you thought things couldn't get even wilder he drops Timebomb (Original Mix).


After Timebomb he proceeded to drop a continuous stream of audio bombs that prolonged the special feeling felt during the point of countdown. If I can recall, he did a combination of Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand & Fake Blood - I Think I Like it that made the crowd erupt in excitement. In every LBL set there's always a time when you say to yourself, "WTF?! is he really playing this?". During that night it occurred when he played Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are. Just as the song was playing with the ladies singing their hearts out and the guys confused with the song choice he drops his remix of Dirty Talk.

With all musical journeys piloted by Luke a flight wouldn't be complete without a dash of Dubstep thrown into the mix. Despite the negative reaction of some audience members he still manages to guide us through the turbulence and get us from point A to point B.

Wolfgang Gartner [ Official | Facebook | Twitter ]
Just when you think the TAO attendees were beginning to run low on fuel Wolfgang Gartner picks up from where Laidback Luke left off and continues the party well into the night. 2010 was a good year for Wolfgang. He solidified his production status with a slew of continuous bangers which culminated into his signing with Ultra Records. He also left us with a special going away 2010 present in the form of an Essential Mix.

The moment he strung together Mr Oiozo's Rubber + Beyonce's Single Ladies + Mumbai Science's Gold I was in awe. It truly was one of those "OMFG I can't believe you just did that?!" moments. Another song that caught the whole tent's attention was MC Lyte - Cold Rock A Party. I never thought I'd ever hear that song at that type of event. One song I NEVER thought I'd ever hear that night was Jodeci - Freakin You. If anyone knows who made that remix he played that night please let us know in the comments section!

Wolfgang Gartner - Space Junk (Original Mix) by Adrinanna

Aside from the random songs he through into the mix to throw us off[in a good way] he included all his crowd favorites: Wolfgang's 5th Symphony, Undertaker, Yin, and his latest tracks Illmerica & Space Junk. All in all it was a great set and despite the crowds chants for an encore he only teased us and left us wanting more.

Comments + Suggestions
1) Disorganized Entrance: Bicycle racks to snake the line and organize the concert attendees in a more orderly fashion. Additional staff to do ID/Ticket checks & security pat downs. A third GA entrance point. We understand that if you want to get in quickly to an event you need to show up early and be patient. But this is never an excuse for a lack of planning by event organizers.
2) Running out of Water in the Arena: Periodic refilling[once every 30min during peak hours of 9pm-12:30am. Once an hour from 12:30am-close] of each station by additional push-carts or golf carts. The best example of this was during Coachella. Even when a station ran out, it only took 15 min. for a cart to come around and refill the buckets. If costs per additional people power are an issue you need to remember that water is a BIG sell at these events, more so than alcohol[no hard data. just based on observation].
3) Countdowns out of sync: Better communication between each stage through walkies/synchronized clocks|computers. Sound/Tech guys easing up on the alcohol consumption before the countdown[i did front of house at an all ages venue for 2 years so i know there are certain shows when you say "F(*)ck it I'm partying w/ everyone else"].

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Electric Daisy Carnival 2010 Lineup

The lineup for this years Electric Daisy Carnival Los Angeles has been released and so far it's looking pretty good. Jack Beats had the date on their myspace page as far back as January while Laidback Luke confirmed he was performing on his twitter page not too long ago. Kaskade has also shared through his Facebook page his excitement for the upcoming 2 Day event. And for those of you who complained last year that there was just way too many people on Saturday, it's been reported that they'll be expanding the grounds. "This year there's a lot more ground," said Rotella. "We've had the same basic layout for the past three years, but this time there's a bigger footprint. We'll have two main stages -- an A Stage and a B stage -- and are using a lot of area that we haven't used before. Last year was a little too crowded on Saturday -- Friday was perfect. I don't like it when people are bumping elbows the whole time. With this new footprint, people will be able to breathe." [via] Purchase tickets here.
Current lineup:

Deadmau5

Armin van Buuren

Groove Armada

Moby

Swedish House Mafia

Benny Benassi

Kaskade

Above & Beyond

Fedde Le Grand

Sasha

Laidback Luke

Armand Van Helden

MSTRKRFT

Wolfgang Gartner

BT (Live)

Dirty South

Claude von Stroke

Z-Trip

Jack Beats

Boys Noize

Steve Aoki

Bart B More

Gareth Emery

Dada Life

Afrojack

Chuckie

Felix Cartal

Afrojack - Pacha On Acid

Claude VonStroke - Vocal Chords [Dirtybird]

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