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EDC NY came, saw, and conquered.

EDC NY returns to Met Life Stadium for Memorial Day Weekend 2014

After petitioning the town board in Saugerties NY to allow Insomniac to host a festival on the grounds of Woodstock '94, Insominac CEO Pasquale Rotella took to Facebook today to announce that EDC NY would be moving both its date and location. Now scheduled for Memorial Day Weekend 2014, New York's version of the Electric Daisy Carnival will receive a significant upgrade, taking placing over 3-days with camping and Las Vegas's owl as the center of attraction. While an official location has not been set, recent reports would indicate a possible Woodstock home for the Northeast's Electric Daisy Carnival.

Last weekend the Electric Daisy Carnival descended on New York City, bringing 90,000 dance music obsessives to Citi Field in Queens for two days of ear-drum destroying bass. With 5 stages-packed to the brim with the dance music's most premier talent and a sea of neon-clad twenty-somethings in tow, EDC NY left its mark on the at-times-too-small parking lot in Queens. If you weren't in attendance or you are just looking to relive the experience, hop past the break for livesets from Porter Robinson, Afrojack, Nicky Romero and more.

Overcast skies and an early afternoon rain made Electric Daisy Carnival New York's second day a much different experience than the first but that didn't stop 50,000 dance music fans from descending on Citi Field for a second day of thunderous bass. Once again we found ourselves tucked away in the Neon Garden tent to seek refuge from the weather, an area that developed into a mainstage-sized crowd by the end of the night for Carl Cox and Loco Dice's grand finale.

We spent our first day at EDC NY braving the massive crowd and the scorching heat as it bounced off the asphalt of Citi Field's massive parking lot. Sampling the sounds and styles of the festival's 5 diversely-curated stages, we found ourselves gravitating most to the Neon Garden tent - seeking shelter from the packed crowd, sweltering heat, and noisebleed that plagued the festival's other 3 stages.

EDC NY 2013 returns to the tri-state area for two days in May, relocating from New Jersey's Met Life Stadium to an official New York location at Citi Field. The festival's second foray into the Northeast market has been scaled back to a two-day affair but will likely feature more of the over-the-top atmosphere than it did in its inaugural outing. Phase 1 of the festival's lineup has just been announced, featuring Calvin Harris, Eric Prydz, Afrojack, Porter Robinson, Dirty South, Carl Cox, Damian Lazarus and more. Interestingly enough, Empire of the Sun is also listed - bringing a live performance element to the festival in 2013.

Electric Daisy Carnival NY is a thing of the past, but we've got a roundup of all of our coverage, in addition to some of our own thoughts on the event.

It's true that to most of us the addition of a third day for EDC NY seemed like an afterthought. An entire stage was cut from the lineup and the addition of Armin Van Buuren as the closer felt forced, wouldn't two closing sets cheapen the Armin experience? The answer after two days at EDC NY is a resounding "HELL NO!" Armin Van Buuren is the world's biggest DJ for a reason -- he is one of the few left whose sets are true artistry. He masterfully mixes tracks to create an atmosphere rather than a party, taking listeners on a journey with peaks and valleys and highs and lows. While many popular artists play nearly identical sets at every big festival, Armin's is always a surprise.