New York’s premier digital music competition, Electrical Zoo returns this weekend with a wild time in retailer for attendees.
That includes model new levels, expanded competition grounds, distinctive stage curators and a genre-bending lineup, there’s a lot to be enthusiastic about. To tame resolution paralysis, listed below are 5 issues we predict it is best to sink your tooth into.
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Kx5 East Coast debut
Two of the most important names in digital music, Kaskade and deadmau5, are making the East Coast debut of their collaborative Kx5 alias at Electrical Zoo. Anticipate nostalgic hits like “Transfer for Me” and “I Keep in mind” alongside cuts from their debut album.
Artists as iconic as Kaskade and deadmau5 don’t come collectively usually, so this can be a uncommon alternative to see them carry out aspect by aspect.
GRiZ trifecta
Say farewell to digital music’s favourite saxophone-wielding celebrity. GRiZ is taking an indefinite hiatus from touring this October to spend extra time with family and friends.
Electrical Zoo attendees can be handled to not one, not two, however three GRiZ units. A becoming New York send-off, GRiZ performs his sultry “Chasing The Golden Hour” act on Friday, headlines The Continuum stage on Saturday, and closes the competition with a bass-heavy B2B alongside Zeds Useless on Sunday.
Jason Siegel
Home and techno B2B galore
Talking of B2Bs, there are many them besides at Electrical Zoo, particularly throughout the home and techno spectrum. Seeing your favourite DJs come collectively on stage feels particular, bringing forth sudden monitor choice, and naturally, untamed vitality.
Chris Lake & FISHER, John Summit & Dom Dolla, Nore En Pure & Franky Wah, Hello-Lo & Eli Brown, Dubfire & Ilario Alicante, and the Desert Hearts crew (Mikey Lion, Lee Reynolds, Marbs, Porky) incorporate an distinctive programming of B2Bs at Electrical Zoo this yr.
Luis Colato
MegaMirage
An inflow of B2Bs isn’t the one factor welcoming home and techno followers to Electrical Zoo. With the MegaMirage stage, Avant Gardner’s acquisition of Electrical Zoo is bringing the aptitude of New York’s most well-known digital music venue to the town’s most prized digital music competition.
MegaMirage will host top-tier expertise, supply separate entrances and exits from the remainder of the competition, embody a location on newly expanded competition grounds, and current the manufacturing prowess Brooklyn Mirage is revered for.
CamelPhat, Cloonee, Mau P, Inexperienced Velvet and Stephan Bodzin are just a few of the 20-plus acts taking the decks at MegaMirage throughout the weekend.
Afterparties
Set instances for Electrical Zoo have been revealed on the competition’s official cellular app and the conflicts might need you pulling your hair out. Concern not, for lightning strikes twice in The Metropolis That By no means Sleeps.
Loads of the competition’s headliners—together with FISHER, GRiZ, Madeon and Tiësto—are enjoying afterparties throughout celebrated New York venues like Superior Elements, Webster Corridor, Elsewhere and Avant Gardner. Dancing into the AM is the New York method.
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