83 reasons to be excited that EDC Las Vegas is tomorrow
by: Cara Daley
Jun 20, 2013
Electric Daisy Carnival fever has finally struck Las Vegas in earnest. In case you needed an additional reason to be excited for one of the premier electronic dance music events of the summer, we’ve got you covered… 83 times.
- That moment when you walk into the Speedway for the first time
- Getting just enough service to text your friends and tell them how much fun you’re having
- Richie Hawtin on Kinetic Field
- Hoping for a wind storm so you can bang on trash cans to make your own music
- Flying monkey swings
- The Bass Pod at sunrise
- Fireworks.
- Figuring out exactly how Insomniac spent $35 million this year
- Free water, and nice people giving it to you
- Toxic bunnies
- Nigel
- Outfits more outlandish than you’ll see anywhere else
- Insomniac opening up service roads so traffic isn’t as bad
- Finding a way to drink champagne
- Being outside all night
- Telling your friends to meet you by the fire thing before realizing that that’s everyone and their mom’s meeting spot.
- Being outside all night and not getting cold
- Running around a Speedway usually reserved for race cars
- Feeling like you’re in an EDC trailer
- Trying to get into an after movie every time you see a camera
- Not finding your friends, getting lost, and running into someone you never expected to see
- Making new friends
- Avoiding glovers, or not
- Watching nervous underage kids getting their IDs checked in line
- Seeing the first hint of sunrise on the first day
- Carl Cox & Friends
- Being thankful EDC is no longer in LA
- And that it’s staying in Vegas.
- Realizing how good Vegas is at the service industry
- Never feeling crowded like you do at other festivals
- Seeing exactly what all that scaffolding in set up pictures is for.
- Dance-walking to other stages (like it’s some kind of catwalk)
- Random DJs you’ll discover at the Wide Awake Art Car.
- The realization at the end of the first night that there are two more nights to go.
- Trying to find that old hippie on an ice cream truck who blasts Queen
- Dancing in the bamboo forest right by Cosmic Meadow
- Going on the giant drop at 4am
- Walking through the maze of lights over by Circuit Grounds
- Finding as many people as possible wearing daisies
- Not caring what you look like
- Dancing so hard you sweat
- Moombahton
- Screaming so loud you lose your voice
- Techno
- Having enough space to build a designated dancing radius that looks like a nest if you’re in the dirt
- House
- Secretly hoping someone plays “Levels” for laughs
- Secretly hoping no one plays “Clarity”
- Hearing music you’ve never heard before
- Hearing music that gives you chills
- Hearing music you didn’t think you’d like
- Deep house
- Tech house
- Big room
- Hardstyle
- Guessing which random pseudo celebrity will appear on Kinetic Field stage (Maybe Aziz again? Or Flava Flav?
- Watching kids from LA shuffle
- Trying to shuffle but failing miserably
- That first time you sit down in eight hours
- Finding grass to sit on
- Not waiting in lines for bathrooms
- Feeling like a part of something bigger
- Turning around to take a picture as you leave the Speedway every morning
- Drum and bass
- Finding your ride home really easily
- Knowing better than to think you can get a cab home
- Not worrying about anything for three days
- Dubstep
- Leaving on Monday morning completely exhausted, but feeling like you had the best weekend of your life
- Running into that guy from EDC last year…and the year before…and Ultra 2013
- Burning 3,500 calories per day
- Free hugs
- Planning out your set schedule to a tee
- Stretching circles
- Standing in front of the subs at the main stage
- Lasers, so many lasers
- Dancing on someone’s shoulders in a sea of 50,000 people
- Going to see dubstep with someone who has never seen it live
- Tanktops at 2am
- Being handed a full water bottle by a stranger
- American flag paraphernalia
- Getting married or renewing your vows
- Hoping your EDC marriage lasts longer than the average Las Vegas marriage
Categories: Music