I arrived ~7:30pm and had no problem getting in through the north entrance. I heard the south entrance was more hectic.

Insomniac has done one hell of a job growing this event. My first EDC was 2008 and it was nothing compared to Saturday night. I heard from a friend that access to the ground level was cut off by 4:30pm! When I walked into the Coliseum around 7:30-8pm, it was FULL of people on the Coliseum floor and in the bleachers! In 2008, when EDC was still a one day event, I could go in and out of the Coliseum floor all night.

The production in the Coliseum was awesome, but I think I could not fully appreciate it being in the bleachers. Fireworks were plentiful.

$3 waters were nice. I'm very surprised that Insomniac lowered the price of water (at EDC 2009 there was one $3 water booth, but it was higher elsewhere).

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pretty incredible night...they had blocked off the main entrance before you even go to groove tickets/will call/the main entrance path...so that definitely cut the lines once you reached that, but i was a huge cluster*uck prior to that...

when we got in at 5, we 'thought' we'd have time to look around and enter the main area at around 7..boy were we wrong.

i believe the coliseum was closed at 5...while in the stands there was a huge bum rush during william's set...it got pretty crazy when the people from the floor started throwing water bottles and cups...it nearly hit the cops a few times.

since the floor was closed, this allowed me to check our emergy which was definitely a blessing in disguise. he delivered a very hard and energetic stage..just wish the neon garden wasn't the 'bastard' stage as it lacked the productions of circuit grounds. i also checked out CL for a little after, never heard him, definitely a fun set to listen to.

after that we made way to the bleachers to check out above & beyond and armin. this was the first time seeing above and beyond, and honestly, their set seemed a little weird to me..it was too floaty and didn't really have that deep/progressive feel...is this how they normally are?

armin played an EXCELLENT set. this was my 4th time seeing him, and asides from a chain of vocals he played in the middle of his set, he had a lot of new tunes (mostly from his new album) and didn't really overdo it with the vocals...but i was definitely surprised. i really enjoyed tiestos remix of the new faithless track..and i don't care what anybody says but the break in broken tonight is amazing..very energetic and bangin'.

i think insomniac did a good job with the event, but im beginning to feel that its out-growing the coliseum...what's next, EDC in a desert like coachella to avoid space issues?..or maybe move the main acts to the parking lot so you're not confined? don't know, but these massives are definitely growing!

oh yaa, took us 1hr 15 min to get out of usc parking lot..was an absolute mess.

Saturday was fun. But during the time that WILLIAM came on, it was just bad music everywhere(to me). No where to hide.

Finally LBL came to the rescue, with little wayne. And boy I thought lil wayne was annoying. Then came the black eye pea x2 as annoying. Why would you have MC during in the middle of songs. It was the black eye pea right? Couldn't really enjoy Benny because of it. Even thou I was all the way in the front of the stage already.

Went back up to the VIP after A&B came up. Got really tired around 1 so i bailed. Still recovering from jetlag i guess.

Overall yes I would go to EDC again and VIP was worth it.

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as horrible as will.i.am was, A LOT of people were cheering for 'em...i guess it shows the demographic of rave atendees loll.

ahhh!!! good times! what a fucking experience... easily the largest crowd i've ever performed to in my short career so far. ( i think my previous record was Creamfeilds in Argentina.... but EDC completely blew that away.

thanks to every single person that attended this event and granted me the privilege and honor to be a part of it, even if the fire marshalls were pullin on my leg at the end there


if anyone has haters, it's me... and BELIEVE ME on this one...theres not a single thing anyones gunna say that's going to override the feeling you get when you hop on stage in front of 100k+ smilling faces.

once again, thanks LA for hosting me! ...and all those who were a part of this amazing event!

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that's sick if that's really deadmau5..props posting in this thread.

2 song ID's from armin & ge set.

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl82ooZxdlE

from small sample i was able to listen too Roger sanchez was great and sasha was as usual
heres link to sasha

http://uploaded.to/file/jsqu0t

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Originally posted by modthispny that's sick if that's really deadmau5..props posting in this thread. 2 song ID's from armin & ge set. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMfhcppmeks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl82ooZxdlE

The track from GE's set is Tiesto's Suburban Train (Tyas Dirty Mix)

did anyone see that one guy getting chased around neon gardens during tyas or filas set?

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Morons.

Also, 185k reported in attendance - WOW. Now that is a sold out show - and they even limited the floor to 70 percent.

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Originally posted by sako487 did anyone see that one guy getting chased around neon gardens during tyas or filas set?

Yes I saw that. Pretty funny when he got tackled to the ground.