TAG: rave

Nov16

Waterpark Rave Kills Dolphin

An eight-year-old dolphin named Shadow mysteriously died after being exposed to two days of techno music at a waterpark in Switzerland. The park was the venue for a weekend-long dance event, which exposed the highly sensitive marine mammals to nearly 48 hours of repetitive beats. Several days later, Shadow became agitated and died. While there is no way to prove a direct correlation between the two events, animal activists had warned park management that the noise from the event could cause undo stress on the dolphins who call the park home.

“We have reasonable evidence to suggest that the extreme noise levels from the two day techno party severely affected the immune system of the dolphins,” said Jürgen Ortmüller from the Whale and Dolphin Protection Society. “Dolphins are very sensitive creatures.  We warned against a techno party taking place …

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Oct27

NEW Orbital :: “Never” (Video)

It’s been seven years since the brothers Hartnol gave us new music as Orbital. Now the legendary UK rave headliners are back with a new album due out next year. As a teaser, they’ve given us the video for a new song, “Never.” The clip features nighttime drive through what we assume is the duo’s home base in London. More importantly, “Never” features the melodic blips and bleeps we’ve always loved from these electronic music pioneers.



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Aug30

Identity Festival LA Moves To Hollywood Palladium

Traveling electronic music tour Identity Festival launched this summer as a sort of touring Electric Daisy Carnival, aiming to bring the recent dance music craze to secondary markets such as Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and Long Island in venues with names such as PNC Bank Arts Center, 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre and Jiffy Lube Live (seriously). And while we’re not so snobbish to think that kids who live outside of major metropolises don’t deserve to see the country’s most popular DJ—including Kaskade, Steve Aoki and Skrillex—it is interesting to note that in Los Angeles, the city that pretty much hatched the current rave movement, Identiy Festival has relocated from the originally planned San Manuael Amphitheatre to the Hollywood Palladium. …MORE

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Aug22

Electric Daisy Carnival CEO Responds To Criticism

Electric Daisy Carnival founder and chief executive Pasquale Rotella has written an op-ed piece that was published in today’s LA Times. In the article, Rotella finally speaks out about the unfair targeting of EDC by the media that eventually pushed the festival out of Los Angeles after 15 consecutive years and millions of dollars in revenue for the city.

“A snowball of negative press and political fallout followed the tragic death of a teenager after the Electric Daisy Carnival in June 2010,” Rotella wrote. “Attention focused on such an alarming incident is understandable, but ever since then Insomniac has been unfairly placed under a microscope. The same scrutiny has not been applied to individuals engaging in illegal behavior or to other festivals and mass gatherings that endure similar issues.”

You can read the full op-ed at LATimes.com, and tell us in the comments section how you feel about EDC’s treatment more than a year after the events. …MORE

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Jul26

Five Reasons Tomorrowland Trumps EDC

Early Monday morning, Belgium’s Tomorrowland Festival drew to a dream-like close after attracting record crowds (the final numbers showed nearly 200,000 attended over three days this year). Sporadic rain could not and did not deter Dutch, French and Belgian fans of electronic music who flocked en masse to the event, which is quickly emerging as Europe’s answer to the Electric Daisy Carnival and now firmly established as a global DJ circuit “must” for fans and industry alike.

But the truth is Tomorrowland is in many ways better than EDC.  Here are just five reasons to hit this sensorial experiential extravaganza next year (start saving up now, tickets sold out early this year and will again in 2012). …MORE

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