Category: DJ Raannt

 

300,000 fans.  7 Stages.  3 Days.  America’s Largest Dance Music Festival…or in other words, EDC: Electric Daisy Carnival.  EDC in Las Vegas has officially matured.  Not just in popularity but in quality as well.  This year Insomniac Events, the creators of this epic experience, have teamed up with some of the finest venues in Las Vegas, if not the world, to extend the EDC experience to a full week; June 5^th through June 12^th. Oh yes! A full week of awesome DJs, sexy people, crazy parties, incredible shows, and above all…body shaking-beat thumping music.

Insomniac Events officially kicks off the week with the incredible Dash Berlin performing at the super sexy LAVO Nightclub at The Palazzo. The lineup for the week includes such huge names as Benny Benassi, Fedde le Grande, Armin van Buuren, Hardwell, Above and Beyond, A-Trak, Kaskade, Avicii, Danny Tenaglia, Ferry Corsten, Markus Schulz and many other favorites!

Throughout the week, EDC will move from incredible pool parties at Marquee Day Club and the boulevard pool at The Cosmopolitan (our favorite hotel in Vegas), and club parties at Tao, Tao Beach, Drai’s and more.  EDC didn’t forget about the youth responsible for the music of the future either! The week festivities will also host an 18+ event at the Bassrush Massive – Orleans Arena with a sick line up!

This will be the first year the EDC is officially mixed with the city life of Las Vegas. Founder and CEO of Insomniac Events, Pasquale Rotella, who is no stranger to throwing epic events around the globe, says “I’m excited to bring a taste of the EDC experience to the Las Vegas strip for an entire seven days”.  The EDC experience not only has come up with an incredible line up of events and DJs for the whole week, it has also brought together Steve Aoki and The Blue Man Group, making it another first time and one of a kind event!

Not only will there be concerts, shows, pool parties, after parties and more; the schedule of events will also include EDMBiz Conference events that will guide music lovers and DJs to learn more about the industry and prepare them with epic new sounds and trends (Kind of like the Fashion Week of EDM music!).  We’ll be sadly missing out on the action this year, but get ready Vegas because not only will we be there for a week later this summer but we’ll for sure be making it out for EDC next summer!

For more information go visit the official EDC site HERE! As well as the week’s lineup below!

Have the fucking time of your life and play safe…and send lots of pictures and stories to us at raannt@raannt.com

And stay tuned to a few surprises we have coming about EDC!

Be Yourself.  Be Fearless. Be Your Own Unexpected Luxury!

 

Image Source: Electric Daisy Carnival Official Website

 

Donna Summer died today.  To anyone under the age of 30 this probably won’t mean much…but to the rest of us, with her, literally, dies one of the greatest eras of dance music ever.

As a little kid, I spent hours with my best friend Jessie roller skating to Donna Summer’s albums in my driveway.  We would act like we were at the Playboy Mansion and I was Hugh Hefner while Jessie was Donna Summer.  We, Donna and Hugh, were the best of friends and would throw the most lavish parties including, of course, a roller skating dance routine! One of my greatest childhood memories is being stuck inside during a blizzard and we turned my cement floored basement into a roller disco! Donna would have been proud.

My love for Donna Summer probably started when I was 5 or 6 and with it began my life long obsession with celebrities and pop culture.  I watched her as she rose up the charts of the disco scene into country music and even gospel music.  As a gay icon, I think I worshiped her from afar because she was everything I couldn’t be…but lace up those roller skates and turn on the records and I was in the spotlight.  When kids talk today about feeling liberated after seeing Lady Gaga I relate…because Donna Summer was my Lady Gaga.

I walked down into our basement today and pulled out my old records, Bad Girls being my favorite, and even found my VCR copy of the movie Thank God Its Friday! I put the music on in the background while I was working but found myself getting sad.  Another legend gone.

But as the record spins and I watch her dance on my television screen to Last Dance, with that gorgeous sparkling dress and amazing hair, I’m liberated again…knowing that life is much too short and we have to enjoy the party while we’re here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVShxahrOAQ

We’ll miss you Donna!

xo

The boys of raannt

Be Yourself.  Be Fearless.  Be Your Own Unexpected Luxury!

As June approaches, the daunting annual question is upon us…What will be the Summer Anthem of 2012? We have three major contenders in our prediction…and one or two unexpected contestants.  As summer approaches, we’ll highlight one of our picks each week until summer begins!

We knew as soon as we heard Pitbull‘s new song Back in Time, featured in Men in Black III(which will be released May 25th), that it was going to be at the top of our list.  The song makes us so darn happy and dancy that we find ourselves rolling down the windows and smiling into the breeze like a couple of pups! Check it out and let us know what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIDwgpBh0Aw&feature=plcp

Let us know your thoughts and tell us what you think will be the Summer Anthem of 2012!

Be Yourself.  Be Fearless.  Be Your Own Unexpected Luxury!

 

Image Source: Zimbio