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2012.06.08-2012.06.10 [LV] Insomniac presents// Electric Daisy Carnival (pg. 69)
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| darthseph |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cool1g
And Darph - i assume you drove yourself, right? yeah i've heard how long its taken to get in/our that manner.
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Yea, I was driving myself and my group of friends. Last night we left earlier and got there quickly (as in over an hour before the gates opened.) Such BS though that you can't get in, in a timely manner, regardless of the time you leave. I understand traffic; what I don't understand is the lack of organization when managing it. Line cutting by vehicles driving through safety lanes was a HUGE issue. |
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| Calabria |
| electric noob festival. cheese level was at an all time high along with traffic getting in. but carl cox and digweed blew up last night. |
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| darthseph |
| quote: | Originally posted by Calabria
electric noob festival. cheese level was at an all time high along with traffic getting in. but carl cox and digweed blew up last night. |
BT killed it as well -- I heard KSky driving and her set was good. Armin was Armin, Luke was Luke. Cox rocked -- I caught a huge amount of bits and pieces of so many people while doing rides it wasn't funny. Last night was the best for me, probably because it was void of most of the BS travel issues and the whole experience felt much easier (note I didn't say organized). |
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| Paradox-SJ |
First the bad...we spent no fewer than 14hrs traveling between the event and the hotel. And with the Saturday night shutdown that adds up to more time than we spent in the event. They oversold shuttle passes and underbook enough shuttles. Couple that with 80k people driving and inconsistent gate staff with the attitude of the Nazi SS...and we have more than likely attended our last EDC in LV.
Poor planing, execution and lack of training...nothing more nothing less. Maybe you put up with less as you get older as you value your time and money more so take my rant with grain of salt coming from at 30something. |
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| SillySilvia |
| quote: | Originally posted by drEamer
cant believe no one played sandstorm! |
Actually, my husband & I were listening to Electric Area(channel 52) and they were playing sets from Friday night(we left Sat morning). We were listening to Joachim Garraud and we heard it. I was like "is he really playing this song?" haha |
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| Trancelover24 |
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| Cool1g |
| quote: | Originally posted by Paradox-SJ
First the bad...we spent no fewer than 14hrs traveling between the event and the hotel. And with the Saturday night shutdown that adds up to more time than we spent in the event. They oversold shuttle passes and underbook enough shuttles. Couple that with 80k people driving and inconsistent gate staff with the attitude of the Nazi SS...and we have more than likely attended our last EDC in LV.
Poor planing, execution and lack of training...nothing more nothing less. Maybe you put up with less as you get older as you value your time and money more so take my rant with grain of salt coming from at 30something. |
for me, shuttles worked about as well as they could have... took no more than 15 minutes to get on 1st two nights and no wait night 3.
returning...1st night the line for our hotel MGM (Signature) was by far the longest so we jumped on the Hard Rock line which was the shortest.
the shuttle service is outsourced to AWS and they sold 22K passes i think.
hence that means 90K people driving to the event with basically 1 major road to get there hence gridlock.
IMO LV Blvd should be one-way going in and the far left lane should be shuttle/limo/taxi only and enforced. |
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| DjWoody |
Highs, lows of weekend's Electric Daisy Carnival
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http://www.lvrj.com/neon/highs-lows...-158446745.html
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BY JASON BRACELIN
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
We spent more than 20 hours at the Las Vegas Speedway this past weekend, taking in as much of the Electric Daisy Carnival as we could, becoming nocturnal over the course of three late nights and early mornings.
Here's what we took away from the dance music marathon this year:
■ The EDC has to get traffic issues under control.
On Friday, it took us 2½ hours to get out of the lot at the end of the night.
On Saturday and Sunday, it took us almost that long to get into the event.
Leaving EDC ultimately was a chaotic free for all, as there didn't seem to be anyone directing the flow of cars within the lot itself, resulting in huge bottlenecks with a mass of automobiles seven and eight vehicles wide trying to squeeze into two- and three-lane exits.
The result was confusion and gridlock.
We've seen soccer riots that were better organized.
At the very least, EDC needs to staff the parking lots the entire show so that someone can ensure that departing the event is done in an orderly fashion.
Otherwise, there's going to be a repeat of this year's snarl, which, on Friday, was highlighted by lots of people peeing in public (male and female) and a longhaired dude in a British flag unitard frantically running circles around his ride while waving his arms in the air like he was trying to swat away a swarm of invisible bees.
■ The French make good cheese.
We're talking about David Guetta's Sunday night set, of course.
As Guetta told us in an interview prior to the EDC, with dance music exploding in terms of popularity, he feels a need to balance mainstream aspirations with the original, underground spirit of the scene.
Guetta did this well at EDC, blending Sia sung dance floor Velveeta like "Titanium" and "Wild Ones" with an overdriven synth throb and a tireless pace, resulting in house music whose impact rivaled that of the bumper cars nearby.
■ Certain strains of dance music have become more metal than a lot of heavy metal.
Taking in the 1,000 beats-per-minute blitz of the Headhunterz, whose velocity rivaled that of "Scum"-era Napalm Death, the bass depth charges of Datsik, which roiled intestines like acid reflux in song form, and the vertebrae-abrading beats of the Noise Controllers was way more brutal than, say, your average Disturbed gig.
■ Coolest EDC stage set: Borgore.
The Israeli DJ-producer inhabited the facade of an ice cream truck, bookended by stripper poles, performing where treats are normally dispensed. His so-so set was an acquired taste, though, kind of like a battery-acid-flavored creamsicle.
■ Most frequent EDC utterance: "Sorry." Said every time you bumped into someone or vice versa, which happened about three times per breath in the vicinity of the packed stages. There are rugby scrums with less contact.
■ Line that could only be said at EDC: "Meet me at the giant mechanical octopus. It's by the Tilt-a-Whirl and the three-story daisy."
■ Leading EDC fashion accessory: anything the color of Don Johnson's wardrobe circa the first season of "Miami Vice."
Seriously, we hadn't seen that many confrontationally bright pastels since Wham was still making videos.
■ Bummer of the weekend: Richie Hawtin's Saturday night performance getting canceled due to high winds, which blew harder than said gusts.
■ EDC's 2012 Co-MVPs: Steve Aoki and Martin Schulz, who kept the show going Saturday night.
The crowd could have grown restive when the music was stopped on the main stages due to inclement weather, nixing much-anticipated sets by Tiesto, Avicii (who came back on Sunday) and many others.
But then Schulz, who had already turned in one of EDC's best performances on the CircuitGrounds stage, returned for an impromptu set on one of the fest's roving arts carts, which culminated with inflatable rafts being tossed into the crowd for members of the audience to climb into and ride upon the outstretched arms of several thousand strong.
Then Aoki further upped energy levels, registering like an IV drip of Red Bull, kicking out hair flinging, rock-centered jams until the sun came up.
No one wanted the party to end, and because of these two, it didn't.
Contact reporter Jason Bracelin at [email protected] or 702-383-0476. |
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| Ronald Ravin' |
| Think the best thing they could do for traffic would be free shuttles like european festivals. People hear 70 dollars for a shuttle pass vs free parking and think free is better so lets all drive. Thats what i thought even though i much regretted it, it honestly did not even occur to me how crazy things could get, since we dont have anything so large in the bay, and LA actually has the infrastructure to deal with that on a daily basis. Even raise the ticket price or charge for parking if thats what it takes. Also didnt see one bicycle and not many motorbikes |
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| jonmitz |
I had the most fun ive ever had in my entire life. T was entirely due to the people I was with and met and very little to do with the event (took 3 hours to get to the festival).
I really wanna go back next year but idk. The article posted above is pretty spot on. The traffic was ing stupid. There should have been cones set up and police ticketing the who were driving on the shoulders
I won't buy go back next year unless they are making an effort to fix the traffic issues. |
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| jdub889 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DjWoody
EDC's 2012 Co-MVPs: Steve Aoki and Martin Schulz, who kept the show going Saturday night. |
dude... just... ugh |
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| Quazar |
That was a ing AWESOME weekend. My first time going to a massive that big, and I had a blast. Shutting down early on Saturday sucked, and yeah the shuttle bus situation was a cluster, but I had fun so screw it. I'll probably be back next year.
And Ferry threw down yesterday! I haven't seen him play like that in a long time! |
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