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[Boogie9IGN]

Sooooo anyone going to EDC this weekend? This is my first rave and I'm super excited, but I'm only able to go for Friday ):

For those wondering wtf EDC is, we have wiki!

Electric Daisy Carnival is an annual electronic dance festival held on the last weekend of June in Southern California, but has also been held in Puerto Rico and Colorado. In 2009, the festival was expanded to a two day event, which brought in over 140,000 attendees[1], making it the biggest electronic dance festival outside Europe.

--LINEUP--
June 25 (Friday)

Kinetic Field
Deadmau5
Swedish House Mafia (Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso & Axwell)
Kaskade
Dirty South
Chuckie
Oscar G
Joaquin Bamaca
Visuals by Vello Virkhaus

Circuit Grounds
Moby (DJ Set)
Basement Jaxx
Infected Mushroom (Live)
BT (Live)
Z-Trip
Afrojack
Visuals by Brien Rullman

Cosmic Meadow
Armand Van Helden
TRVS & A-Trak
Jack Beats
Steve Aoki
Bart B More
Dada Life
Spank Rock
Congorock
Autoerotique
Breakdown
Hyphy Crunk

Bassrush
Dieselboy
Shy FX
Excision
Evol Intent (Live)
Marcus Intalex vs. Calibre
Xample and Armanni Reign
12th Planet
Circuit

Neon Garden
Claude Von Stroke
Avicii
Felguk feat. Sporty-O
Vive La Bunny
The Japanese Popstars
Manufactured Superstars


June 26 (Saturday)

Kinetic Field
Armin van Buuren
Above & Beyond
Benny Benassi
Will.i.am
Laidback Luke
Afrojack
Dada Life
Bart B More
Joaquin Bamaca
Visuals by Vello Virkhaus

Circuit Grounds
Groove Armada (DJ Set)[6]
Sasha
Fedde Le Grand
Roger Sanchez
James Zabiela
Chuckie
Avicii
Boys Noize (special guest)
Visuals by Brien Rullman

Cosmic Meadow
MSTRKRFT
Duck Sauce (A-Trak and Armand Van Helden)
Wolfgang Gartner
LA Riots
Harvard Bass
Felix Cartel
Sounds of Stereo
Huoratron
Two Fresh
Them Jeans

Bassrush
Andy C & MC GQ
Friction & Dynamite MC
DJ Marky
LTJ Bukem w/ MC Conrad
Dirtyphonics (Live)
Logistics
Fury
Subflo

Neon Garden
Christopher Lawrence
Gareth Emery
John 00 Fleming
Aly & Fila
Simon Patterson
Sean Tyas

 

[MickD]

Had some friends go to the one here (Dallas). I will be attending next year. Although the lineup wasn't as impressive as the LA one

 

[DSK123]

Was on the to do list but I never found a job and plus I have nobody to go with. Armin + Above & Beyond + Bt would have made it one amazing experience for me.

 

[Feep]

I live around 10 minutes from this. Is it cool? What's the charge? Any impressions from past goers?

 

[opticalmace]

I would love to go just for the drum and bass, but man those are expensive tickets ($149 starting).
http://fla.vor.us/171441-Electric-Daisy-Carnival-LA-tickets/Electric-Daisy-Carnival-LA-Los-Angeles--.html

 

[djtiesto]

Sounds like an awesome time... go and have fun! Who in particular are you gonna see? I'd recommend Sasha of course

 

[Boogie9IGN]

To be honest I'm pretty new when it comes to all these artists. The only ones I know by name are Kaskade, Armin (fuuuuuuuuu I'd give anything to see In & Out of Love live), Deadmau5, Above & Beyond, and Benny Benassi. My friends are all hardcore trance/house/etc lovers though so I'll just follow them and hope they lead me well :lol

And Feep, here's a thread from 2008. Tickets are about $75 for one day or ~$140ish for both days. VIP seating and all that bs is a lot more of course

 

[Prince of Space]

Going on Friday as well with some friends. Never been before -- can't wait to see the line-up!

 

[RaymondCarver]

price of drugs > price of tickets ....or maybe that's about even with EDC




I haven't seen a good DnB party in years. Enjoy it if you get the chance! I'd want to be totally lucid and sober so I'd remember LTJ Bukem, BT, Armin van Buuren, Roger Sanchez, Sasha, Sean Tyas and Basement Jaxx.




I'll eventually have to schedule dev conferences around the weekend of good parties.

Now we've all got kids and stuff.

 

[djtiesto]

To be honest I'm pretty new when it comes to all these artists. The only ones I know by name are Kaskade, Armin (fuuuuuuuuu I'd give anything to see In & Out of Love live), Deadmau5, Above & Beyond, and Benny Benassi. My friends are all hardcore trance/house/etc lovers though so I'll just follow them and hope they lead me well :lol

And Feep, here's a thread from 2008. Tickets are about $75 for one day or ~$140ish for both days. VIP seating and all that bs is a lot more of course

Like I said definitely go see Sasha. Guy is a legend, real talk.

 

[Ashhong]

so did anybody end up going? i went on saturday and it was an amazing experience for sure. never heard of afrojack before, but i really liked his songs, this one in particular

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AendGvEyj6s

 

[velvet_nitemare]

I was there on Friday!

I went to Monster massive last year, and EDC definitely shits all over MM IMO. They just had the planning down pat, no ridiculous wait times to get in, crowd was well controlled and the girls were hot and down to party. Not a fan of the music, but my friends were and their enthusiasm was infectious and i was soon jumping around with them. Got several light shows from some cool people and it was just an amazing experience.

After MM, i was very resistant to going to EDC, but my friends won't have to do any convincing to get me to go to Hard Halloween/Monster Massive and TAO. I have some pics i could post if people are interested.

Only damper was that my friend's car window got smashed in, and they took his Ipod, sunglasses and stereo. Also took my unopened soda. I heard quite a few people that parked in the streets far away like we did had this happen to them too.

 

[Eggo]

Would love to see pictures of it.