Zune Social: What is it about this music festival that makes me feel I can tackle it for the third straight year in a row? I don't know. It might be the people, the sounds, the sights... or the booze. For whatever reason, the 2010 Electric Daisy Carnival is starting today. For those who are uninitiated let me give you a little low down.
The EDC is one of the largest electronic dance festivals (read: raves) in Southern California (if not the world). Thousands travel from far and wide to overtake Exposition Park in Los Angeles and basically leave, in their wake, plenty of empty drink cans, crushed Red Bull cans, overflowing bathrooms, worn-out carnival rides and deep feet impressions in the ground. What the people take home are souvenirs, plenty of phone numbers and a chance to say that they saw some of the biggest names in the world of electronic and dance spin some of the biggest hits and groove shakers under one roof.
When I first went to the EDC in 2008, it was a one-day 12 hour affair. That's right I went from 4pm to 4am through the course of a Saturday. Needless to say that I crashed hard on Sunday and I kind of think I never recovered from that experience. Since then EDC has been turned into a 2-day affair that ends at the more reasonable hour of 2am (like most clubs in Los Angeles; although EDC is also promoting after parties that will take you into the 8am hour -- who are these people? Zombies?)
Performers such as BT, Deadmau5, Boys Noize, Christopher Lawrence, DJ Colette, Kaskade and more have graced one of the 5 stages that are strewn throughout the venue. Each of the stages have a particular theme to them, like for example the BassPod stage is for the drum-and-bass heads, while the Kinetic Field is more balanced but includes the more heavy-hitting headliners of the day.
This weekend, I plan to attend the festivities on Saturday. Of course, I got myself the VIP ticket because if there's one thing the EDC does extremely well (based upon firsthand experience) is the VIP setup. The area is cozy, not a lot of people, open bar, VIP-only bathrooms and nice clear views of the main stages. Granted you have to leave the VIP area to experience other parts of the festival, but you definitely feel better knowing that you have a homebase to come back to.
If you wish to keep up with me during the EDC, I'm doing what I did for E3 and I'll be live tweeting from the festival (let's see if I can avoid embarrassingly drunk tweets that enter the feed). I hope that I can at least give you some sense of how overwhelming but awesome the event can be. Additionally, if you have satellite radio, EDC will be broadcasting some of the acts during the course of the weekend. They won't be live (as in as they're happening) but you will get to hear some sets from some great artists.
So let's do this! It's EDC weekend and I think I've recovered enough from E3 to make this happen!
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