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Ten years, millions of fans, and astatine slightest that galore memories: A decennary ago, Electric Daisy Carnival archetypal touched down successful Las Vegas successful a cocoon of airy and sound.
The world’s largest creation euphony festival, EDC present draws astir fractional a cardinal fans annually.
That’s a batch of fuzzy boots, brother.
We’ve virtually spent hundreds of hours taking it each in. Here are 10 peculiarly memorable moments since EDC relocated to Las Vegas Motor Speedway from its autochthonal Los Angeles successful 2011.
The sax antheral cometh
Because it’s not a enactment — not ever, ever, ever — until Kenny G’s successful the house.
That’s right, the curly coiffed sax antheral is the living, breathing, horn-tootin’ embodiment of a bully time. And that’s what was had by each erstwhile Kenny G appeared with Ookay connected the keytar-wielding DJ-producer’s deed “Thief” successful 2018.
Go ahead, sanction a amended EDC impermanent spot.
Drake with Metro Boomin successful 2017?
Please.
John Legend with Tiesto successful 2016?
Double please.
Walter White with Above & Beyond successful 2015?
Wait, what?
Yeah, we’re talking astir that Walter White
“Say my name!” helium demanded, bellowing 1 of his character’s signature phrases successful a code suggestive of a disgruntled orc.
“Walter White!” the assemblage howled.
“You’re (expletive) right,” Bryan Cranston said with a motion of approval.
And with that, the “Breaking Bad” prima windmilled his limb down and deed play, launching British trance trio Above & Beyond’s 2015 EDC acceptable with the opus named aft said character.
Somewhere, Jesse Pinkman stewed with envy.
Dig the totems
Totems are homemade signs affixed to agelong poles that groups of friends usage to find 1 different successful the crowd. Every year, fans get progressively inventive erstwhile creating them.
Here are our favorites from 2017:
1. “My probation serviceman doesn’t cognize I’m here”
It’s comic due to the fact that it’s true.
2. “Krusty Krab unfair”
Clearly clip for SpongeBob and Squidward to unionize.
3. “I emotion drum and bass”
The ‘d’ and ‘b’ were X’d out.
4. “Ground power swiped my weed”
Was that wherefore information was truthful chill?
5. Tiger Woods’ mug shot
No words were necessary.
The ‘Hand of Man’
On a Saturday nighttime successful June 2 years ago, we smashed a full-sized car with a elephantine robot fist.
Yes, determination is ever an abundance of gnarly creation installation pieces astatine EDC.
During the play successful question, for instance, determination were 80-foot-tall, flower-adorned towers that belched flames, tree-looking sculptures that belched flames, flames that belched flames, etc.
But undoubtedly the coolest attraction that twelvemonth — oregon arguably immoderate different — was “The Hand of Man,” a monolithic robo mitt with which you picked up a junkyard wreck and further destroyed it.
Here’s however it worked: You sat down connected a hydraulic platform, slid your pathetic quality manus into a metallic mitt contraption that controlled the awesome robot hand, dilatory maneuvered the manus down, flicked backmost the wrist to assistance up the soon-to-be-flattened car, past dropped the sucker successful an intensely satisfactory whoosh.
And past it was clip for a large elephantine metal-handed high-five for us.
Drew Carey’s atrocious trip
“It was, like, insane, this place,” Drew Carey begins.
He’s talking astir EDC.
“All my friends determination are each doing drugs — but me, due to the fact that I’m the big of ‘The Price is Right,’ ” Carey remembers with a wink, followed by a hearty, knowing laugh, arsenic helium recounts his EDC adventures 1 twelvemonth successful a hilarious conception that aired connected Comedy Central’s “This Is Not Happening” series — Google it. This is simply a household publication; we can’t proviso the link.
Carey past recalls his “friend” taking a fig of mind-altering substances and having a intelligence breakdown involving “Dancing With the Stars” formed members, The Eagles and immoderate frightened tourists.
“Oh man, I deliberation I broke my brain,” his person confesses the adjacent morning.
You’ll laugh, you’ll outcry (with laughter), you’ll relate, maybe.
Skydiving into EDC
On the EDC grounds, there’s specified a smorgasbord of spectacle for eyeballs to gorge upon that you tin beryllium pardoned for not looking up. But there’s ever thing going connected successful the “Electric Sky” supra EDC. Of course, there’s the nightly fireworks display, which is similar the Fourth of July acceptable to a spinal-cord-liquefying beat.
And, successful 2011, during EDC’s archetypal twelvemonth successful Vegas, the Red Bull Air Force skydived into the speedway.
Of course, they changeable 25-foot flames from their feet. “Hopefully, we stroke people’s minds,” 1 of the skydivers said successful a video clip taped earlier their jump.
Mission accomplished, guy.
DJ Khaled’s meltdown
The trains ever tally connected clip astatine EDC. This is 1 of the champion things astir the event: For a fest that features hundreds of performances each year, things tally similar clockwork — we’re talking atomic clockwork.
Here’s however it works: If you’re precocious to the stage, it comes retired of your acceptable time. No exceptions. So don’t beryllium late.
And fewer acts ever are — and past determination was hip-hop super-producer DJ Khaled successful 2017.
Though there’s been plentifulness of statement since astir wherefore Khaled was tardy, with the rap hit-maker aboriginal citing method issues, which EDC besides contended successful a consequent quality release, it was a messiness erstwhile it each went down.
Khaled came retired 30 minutes precocious to the Cosmic Meadow stage, and aft the precise archetypal song, the dependable chopped out, which took different 20 minutes to fix, leaving him conscionable 10 minutes to execute — to his wide agitation. (“Don’t disrespect my acceptable similar that!” helium barked astatine the dependable guys.) Khaled opened the amusement with 1 of his biggest hits, “All I Do Is Win,” but helium took an L connected this night.
The chaotic weather
Oh, to beryllium the shirtless chap successful blistery pants during the last nighttime of EDC 2019 — yes, specified a antheral was successful the crowd. It was full-on wintertime overgarment weather, acold capable to crook vodka Red Bulls into slush.
OK, possibly temperatures weren’t rather that low, but it surely felt similar it during 1 of the fest’s coldest, windiest nights ever.
Wind occasionally wreaks havoc astatine EDC. It closed the Kinetic Field signifier precocious connected Saturday nighttime successful 2019. And connected a Saturday nighttime 7 years earlier, it led to the full fest being unopen down … almost.
In 1 of EDC’s coolest-ever moments — virtually and figuratively — Steve Aoki performed an impromptu acceptable conscionable earlier dawn successful the writer adjacent the Cosmic Meadow signifier erstwhile each the authoritative stages were closed due to the fact that of the harsh weather. That didn’t halt Aoki from signifier diving and riding an inflatable raft upon the outstretched arms of the assemblage that remained.
Somehow, the antheral enactment connected a amusement adjacent erstwhile the amusement was technically stopped.
Kaskade commandeers an creation cart
Everyone knows the creation cars astatine EDC — they’re hard to miss, these massive, motorized enactment platforms designed arsenic pirate ships and elephantine roar boxes and such. Various DJs execute connected them; fans tin sometimes clamber aboard.
In 2017, though, superstar DJ-producer Kaskade took things up a notch — oregon 5 — by showing up unannounced and performing a astonishment acceptable connected the Kalliope creation car.
To enactment things successful perspective, Kaskade is the benignant of household-name EDM headliner who usually performs connected the monolithic Kinetic Fields signifier successful beforehand of tens of thousands of fans.
And it each went down arsenic the prima came up.
There’s a acquisition here: Stay until the precise end, kids.
Tiesto honors a fallen friend
The physics creation euphony assemblage mislaid 1 of its biggest stars. Tiesto mislaid a friend.
It happened simultaneously erstwhile Swedish DJ-producer Avicii took his beingness successful April 2018. He was 28.
A period later, Tiesto paid tribute to Avicii during his Kinetic Field performance, wherever helium aired Avicii hits specified arsenic “Waiting for Love” and “Levels” for much than 10 minutes.
Tiesto performs astatine the Kinetic Field signifier during the 2nd time of the Electric Daisy Carnival astatine the Las Vegas Motor Speedway successful Las Vegas during the aboriginal hours of Sunday, May 20, 2018. Chase Stevens Las Vegas Review-Journal @csstevensphoto
“That was a truly peculiar moment,” Tiesto recalls. “People were gathering astatine the main stage. They were laughing, crying, and quiescent astatine the aforesaid time. It was a truly insane moment. That’s the benignant of infinitesimal you privation to make — the affectional ones.”
The ones that last.
Contact Jason Bracelin astatine jbracelin@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0476. Follow @jbracelin76 connected Instagram
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