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UPDATE: The first batch of tickets are sold out.

North America’s Largest Electronic Music Festival Will Return to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, June 8-10, 2012

LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwire – Nov 1, 2011) – Tickets for Insomniac’s Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas, will go on sale today at noon Pacific Time. After hosting more than 230,000 amazing fans during Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas 2011, the world’s top musical and artistic talent will return to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS) for the 16th Annual Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) on June 8, 9 and 10, 2012.

Anticipation is high for the return of North America’s largest electronic music festival, as a special pre-sale event at Insomniac’s debut Halloween festival, Escape from Wonderland, already sold several thousand tickets to attendees on Saturday. Last year’s on sale date shattered records with more than 85,000 tickets purchased in the first 24 hours.

Three-day General Admission tickets will start at $215; three-day VIP tickets are to start at $500 each. There will be a very limited quantity of single-day tickets available at a later date.

To purchase tickets and keep up with the latest announcements related to Electric Daisy Carnival please visit www.electricdaisycarnival.com and www.insomniac.com. (more...)

ELECTRIC ZOO 2012 Early Bird Passes on Sale www.electriczoofestival.com

After the smash success of the third annual Electric Zoo, Made Event is pleased to announce that Early Bird passes for Electric Zoo 2012 go on sale today at 1 p.m. EDT. Buy your Early Bird pass at www.electriczoofestival.com. The supply is very limited, so don’t miss out! Electric Zoo 2012 will take place at Randall’s Island Park, NYC, on Labor Day Weekend, August 31 to September 2, 2012.

The Official Electric Zoo 2011 Recap Video has just been released! Recapture a glimpse of the magic that was Electric Zoo 2011 in this official post-festival recap video, just released today on our Youtube channel. Watch the video here: Youtube.com/ElectricZooNY.

Official Electric Zoo 2011 Recap Video 



Electric Zoo is also working with Music Unites, a 501(c)3 non-profit, to auction off a CDJ-2000 provided on behalf of Pioneer DJ and signed by Electric Zoo 2011 artists: 12th Planet, ATB, Beardyman, Benny Benassi, Big Gigantic, BT, Calvin Harris, Daedelus, Egyptrixx, Fake Blood, Felguk, Gabriel & Dresden, Gui Boratto, Guti, James Holden, Jaytech, Michael Woods, MiMOSA, Sander Van Doorn, Serge Devant, Sidney Samson, Steve Bug, Sub Focus, The M Machine, The Martinez Brothers, Tiga and TOKiMONSTA. In addition, the auction includes 2 general admission tickets to Electric Zoo 2012 (more...)

This video gave me the chills. I’m very sad to see Electric Daisy Carnival leave LA, but if it takes a move to Las Vegas to pull in 230,000 people then go for it. I’m excited to see how they plan to top 2011′s EDC.

Press Release:
Las Vegas, October 6, 2011 – After hosting more than 230,000 amazing fans during Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas 2011, the world’s top musical and artistic talent will return to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS) for the 16th Annual Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) on June 8, 9 and 10, 2012.

“When Insomniac decided to produce EDC in Las Vegas last June, we knew we were working with the ideal venue but we weren’t sure how our fans would react,” said Insomniac President and CEO Pasquale Rotella. “But after seeing more than 230,000 people show up to enjoy our show we knew we picked a City and venue that serves as the perfect home for the largest electronic music festival in North America.” (more…)

From an LA Times Article:
If time-lapse photos existed to illustrate the movements of the crowd during the first two nights of the Electric Daisy Carnival this past weekend at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a bird’s-eye view would show clusters of human ants, an estimated 80,000 for each of the three days of the annual electronic music festival, moving in packs within the grounds of the 1,200-acre complex as if by mysterious force.

Zoom in, and patterns would begin to emerge. Within the facility’s 1.5-mile oval track, home on most weekends to racing events like the Kobalt Tools 400, thousands of bobbing heads gathered in darkness around five booming, crystal clear sound systems, bouncing among carnival rides and strobing lights to the sounds of some of the world’s most popular DJs — including Benny Benassi, DJ Tiësto, David Guetta, Swedish House Mafia, and Skrillex — and some of the genre’s most innovative and forward-thinking masterminds, such as Richie Hawtin, Green Velvet and Rusko.

Focus on just one of the event’s many stages — Guetta’s 1:30 a.m. Sunday set — and witness party trains snaking through the crowd, rolling in time to a 128-beat-per-minute metronomic thump. Notice one fivesome, holding hands; boys musclebound and shirtless; bikini-top girls wearing matching panties that say “booty” on the bottom; faces lost in music; Mona Lisa smiles.
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This was recently posted on the Coachella.com website. It’s a cool time-lapse video shot using a tilt-shift lens to give it that “miniature” feel.

Coachella has just announced its dates for 2011 and the whispers are getting louder as everyone speculates as to the headliners this year. The three-day festival in Indio, CA betwee Los Angeles and Phoenix has earned a reputation for being the top music festival in the United States for Indie, Rock, Hip Hop, and Electronic Dance Music. This year’s event will take place on April 15-17th.

There have been whispers of headliners such as Blur, OutKast, Kanye West, Daft Punk, or The Rolling Stones. You can also expect Dance Music stages from The Do Lab and Pure Filth.

Get your tickets now.

Headliner.fm
Promote your music by leveraging your current fanbase on Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace. Send messages to your fans promoting other people’s music and earn credits to have bands you like promote your sound. [Headliner.fm]

Drumssette the Cassette Drum Machine
Check out this cool drum machine from Mystery Circuits made out of a Tascam 4 Track cassette recorder. [Make Blog]

Sander Kleinenberg – M.A.N.I.A.C.
Nice new track from Sander Kleinenberg called M.A.N.I.A.C. over at Beatport. [BeatPortal]

Tiesto Didn’t Die in LA Car Accident
He might make $20 Million a year, and he might be the World’s most recognized DJ, and he’s still alive. Tiesto let everyone know via twitter that he is not dead. [TrackitDown]

LA Rave Task Force Created
In the aftermath of the death of a 15 year old at Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Angeles the city has set up a special group to investigate electronic music events and report back with their findings. [LA Times]

Electronic Music Events in LA Cancelled
HARD LA Music Festival and Fresh Squeezed both cancelled in wake of Electric Daisy Carnival death. [SoundSpike]

iPad DJ, Ok Maybe This Thing is Useful
It’s definitely overpriced but it just may prove useful for DJs and musicians after all. [Fosfor]

50 Most Charted Tracks at Beatport
Taken from DJ charts for the first half of 2010. [BeatPortal]

If you’ve been to Coachella, then you know the Do Lab… they are the nice folks who bring out the unique themed stages equipped with hoses and misters to cool you down while you dance your ass off.

Well, after a year of hiatus,  this weekend May 28-31st is their flagship So Cal festival Lightning in a Bottle, at it’s new location in the hills of Irvine. Along with the festival’s distinctive emphasis on art, sustainability and conscious living is a lengthy line up of DJs and live acts including Booka Shade, Adam Freeland & The Glitch Mob, to name a few.. full line up here.

The Do-Lab crew know how to set a mood: trademark organic structures, well lit environment, indoor and outdoor stages, happy people doing things to help good causes, top-notch artwork in every direction you look… oh ya, and big name dance music acts pushing some serious sound. This year’s annual Lucent L’amour event in honor of Valentines Day, was a perfect example of this. If you weren’t outside taking in the live avante garde dance performances or live art, you were treated to this years headliners: N.A.S.A., Bassnectar and Stanton Warriors (in order of appearance) on the multi screened main stage inside. (more…)