Chapter Seventeen: Electric Daisy Carnival [Las Vegas, Nevada--June 24-26, 2011]

338.     “#WMC – R.I.P.”: https://twitter.com/kaskade/status/4687590548570113

340.     By 2010, EDC was in Denver, San Juan, and Dallas as well as L.A.: http://www.electricdaisycarnival.com/archive/edc_2010/

342.     global listenership was estimated at six million: Matt Earp, "Low End Theory" (XLR8R #100, September 2006)

342.     “The scent of revolution is high in the air tonight”: Mary Anne Hobbs, Mala, Skream, Kode9 & the SpaceApe, Vex’d, Hatcha, Loefah and Sgt. Pokes, and Distance, Breezeblock (BBC Radio 1), January 10, 2006

343.     prominent play from Ricardo Villalobos: Richard Carnes, "Label of the Month: Hessle Audio" (Resident Advisor, January 12, 2009)

343.    “It sounds ambiguous”: Colin Shields, "Breaking Through: Untold" (Resident Advisor, October 19, 2009)

343.     eight thousand at Barcelona’s Sónar Festival: Bill Bearden, “LWE Interviews Mary Anne Hobbs” (Little White Earbuds, October 2, 2009)

344     killed a couple inside a tent: Brad Wieners, “Hot Mess” (Outside, October 2012)

345     started spinning trip-hop and psychedelic trance in 1996: Justin Hampton, "Bassnectar: Bass in Your Face" (DJ Times, September 2011)

345     “I figured everybody’s seen a lot of Phish shows”: Peter Conners, JAMerica (Da Capo, 2013), p. 88-89

346.     Alex Paterson of the Orb, DJ DB, and Scott Hardkiss: n-a, “The Disco Biscuits revive trend-setting techno jam festival with Camp Bisco III: Senor Boombox” (Homegrown Music Network [blog], July 31, 2002)

349.     “are, in fact, stealing from the Walt Disney Co.”: n-a, “Rave: Dancing the Night Away” (Philadelphia Inquirer, September 13, 1992)

349.     “We think this is the coolest thing”: Sarah Liss, “How Deadmau5—a.k.a. DJ Joel Zimmerman—came to make $100,000 a show and have four million Facebook fans” (Toronto Life, November 1, 2011)

350.     the press release didn’t even include his bio, “Atlantic Records President Craig Kallman to DJ at Winter Music Conference” (The Daily Beast, March 23, 2010)

351.     Winter Music Conference’s registered attendance was 3,763: Jose D. Duran, “Does Winter Music Conference Need Another Makeover?” (Miami New Times, March 4, 2012)

351.     some seventy-seven million people: Pew Research Center, “Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change” (Pew Social Trends, February 24, 2010)

351.     Within hours, Ultra announced it was staying put: Adam Stewart, “Winter Music Conference Officials Explain Conflict With Ultra Music Festival” (MTV News, November 18, 2010)

351.     “blindsided”: Adam Stewart, “Winter Music Conference Shifts, Ultra Music Festival Stays Put In 2011” (MTV Newsroom, November 16, 2010)

351-352.     “I think they went to sleep”: Michael Hammersly, “Winter Music Conference 2011” (Miami.com, March 3, 2011)

352.     The 2011 Ultra drew 150,000: Farryn Weiner, “150,000 Fans Descend on Miami for Ultra Music Festival” (Huffington Post, April 1, 2011)

352.     which had sold out in January: Duran, “Does Winter Music”

352.     1996’s Desert Move brought only a few thousand: Mike Prevatt, "Finally" (Las Vegas CityLife, June 23, 2011)

355.     many kids jumping over an eight-foot fence: Jason Bracelin, "Electric Daisy Carnival to electrify Vegas" (Las Vegas Review-Journal, April 9, 2011)

355.     When they found her again: John Gregory and Miriam Hernandez, “Friends Claim Drug Was Slipped to Dead Teen” (Eyewitness News [ABC7, Los Angeles], June 29, 2010)

355.     “sodium [and] electrolytes were so low”: Rong-Gong Lin II and Sarah Ardalani, “Girl, 15, dies after weekend rave at L.A. Coliseum” (Los Angeles Times, June 30, 2010)

355.     despite generating some forty-two million dollars for Los Angeles County: Bracelin, “Electric Daisy Carnival to electrify Vegas”

356.     nine of America’s ten highest-grossing clubs were in Vegas: Bracelin, “Electric Daisy Carnival to electrify Vegas”

356.     Some 230,000 fans came over three days: Jason Bracelin, “Electric Daisy Carnival returning to Las Vegas in 2012” (Las Vegas Review-Journal, October 6, 2011)

356.     Coachella had sold 75,000 three-day passes, a decrease from 2010: Philip Sherburne, “The New Rave Generation” (Spin, October 2011)

356-357.     “We have big events here thirty to forty times”: Bracelin, “Electric Daisy Carnival to electrify Vegas”

357.     to a crowd that had barely arrived: Mike Weatherford, "Thousands Jam Electric Daisy Carnival for 'humongous' three-night blast" (Las Vegas Review-Journal, June 25, 2011)

358.     Vegas hit a high of ninety-five: Conor Shine, “‘So far, so good’ at Electric Daisy Carnival, Metro Police say” (Las Vegas Sun, June 24, 2011)

359.     embedded in an exposed-steel framework: Plastikman, Live at EDC Vegas 2011, via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcaC7Oz0bUo (accessed August 19, 2014)

360.     stage left by a large VIP area: Spencer Patterson, “Rushing over to Electric Daisy Carnival’s opening night” (Las Vegas Weekly, June 25, 2011)

362.     a backdrop of some two hundred hangers-on: Sherburne, “The New Rave Generation”

363.     clogged Monday-morning Interstate 15 traffic: Bracelin, “Electric Daisy Carnival returning to Las Vegas”

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