The Veld Festival will be held on August 3-4 this year at Downsview Park in Toronto and feature Deadmau5, Above & Beyond, and Kaskade as the main headliners. Like the Digital Dreams Festival, the Veld Festival will be releasing a new DJ to the lineup everyday starting today until April 3rd. So stay tuned to the Veld event page as EDM Canada will continue to update the lineup as new names are released!
As you all probably know by now I am a big supporter of DJs mixing techno, psy-trance, and trance into sets as I believe dark techno fits like a glove when combined with tech-trance and psy-trance tracks in an overall mix. Over the past month I have found some great DJs that have been moving over to this style such as Simon Patterson and Will Atkinson, and now I'm happy to add Greg Downey to the list. Greg Downey put together a great set live from L.A and I hope you check it out below:
From inthemix.com:
“Especially on our largest stage, we’re going to have everything from hardstyle to house to dubstep to trance to techno,” Rotella told inthemix of the line-up."
“It’s going to be different. We’re actually going to have a hardstyle act play on our mainstage, which has never been done in the United States. We’re going to experiment.” In 2012, the line-up was revealed in April, so the EDC team won’t keep us waiting for long."
Great news for those that are yearning to experience a little something different at a major festival. Will the fans that are more accustomed to hearing big room sounds stick around on the mainstage to check out other acts outside their favourite EDM genre? Or will fans instead decide to pack smaller stages as Rotella puts on more experimental acts on the mainstage?
It's an interesting experiment from the Insomniac boss who promised a year ago to change things up by emphasizing the EDC experience rather than booking the biggest names.
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Not bad at all considering 300,000 fans attended both weekends in Miami. Currently UMF organizers have only announced the March 28-30th weekend due to the Miami Commission holding veto power over the possibility of allowing a second weekend. But this low crime number could pave the way towards another 2 weekend long UMF festival in 2014.
(VIA @EDMslob)
