5 Things You Can’t Miss at Electric Zoo 2023

New York’s premier digital music pageant, Electric Zoo returns this weekend with a wild time in retailer for attendees.

Featuring model new phases, expanded pageant grounds, distinctive stage curators and a genre-bending lineup, there’s loads to be enthusiastic about. To tame choice paralysis, listed here are 5 issues we expect it’s best to sink your enamel into.

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Kx5 East Coast debut

Two of the largest names in digital music, Kaskade and deadmau5, are making the East Coast debut of their collaborative Kx5 alias at Electric Zoo. Expect nostalgic hits like “Move for Me” and “I Remember” alongside cuts from their debut album.

Artists as iconic as Kaskade and deadmau5 don’t come collectively typically, so it is 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.

Electric Zoo attendees shall 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 pageant with a bass-heavy B2B alongside Zeds Dead on Sunday.

House and techno B2B galore

Speaking of B2Bs, there are many them as well at Electric 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 power.

Chris Lake & FISHER, John Summit & Dom Dolla, Nore En Pure & Franky Wah, Hi-Lo & Eli Brown, Dubfire & Ilario Alicante, and the Desert Hearts crew (Mikey Lion, Lee Reynolds, Marbs, Porky) incorporate an distinctive programming of B2Bs at Electric Zoo this 12 months.

MegaMirage

An inflow of B2Bs isn’t the one factor welcoming home and techno followers to Electric Zoo. With the MegaMirage stage, Avant Gardner’s acquisition of Electric Zoo is bringing the aptitude of New York’s most well-known digital music venue to town’s most prized digital music pageant.

MegaMirage will host top-tier expertise, provide separate entrances and exits from the remainder of the pageant, embody a location on newly expanded pageant grounds, and current the manufacturing prowess Brooklyn Mirage is revered for.

CamelPhat, Cloonee, Mau P, Green Velvet and Stephan Bodzin are a number of of the 20-plus acts taking the decks at MegaMirage throughout the weekend.

Afterparties

Set instances for Electric Zoo have been revealed on the pageant’s official cell app and the conflicts might need you pulling your hair out. Fear not, for lightning strikes twice in The City That Never Sleeps.

Plenty of the pageant’s headliners—together with FISHER, GRiZ, Madeon and Tiësto—are enjoying afterparties throughout celebrated New York venues like Superior Ingredients, Webster Hall, Elsewhere and Avant Gardner. Dancing into the AM is the New York approach.