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If you aren’t familiar with Steve Aoki, this quote taken from his website is all you’ll need to know: “I’m a time traveling, speed reading, fortune telling, machine gunning, gypsy loving, scuba diving, multi-tasking, poker playing fan of life. I like playing the odds. My beliefs are radical but I embrace the conservative. I love green tea and believe I was a fish. I love producing music and performing art. My biggest heroes are Bruce Lee and Malcolm X. Be like water by Any Means Necessary. I’m a perfectionist that hates perfection.

Insomniac and Dick Clark productions (DCP) announced during today’s EDMbiz conference they will be producing a new award show dedicated solely to electronic dance music in Las Vegas next year. The show will serve as the premier industry showcase for the genre’s best work each year. 

Not pictured: Your future self, crying in the back because you have no way home You’ve been starving yourself for 3 months now, making Spotify playlists of EDC artists, and really, really focusing on making sure your pasties stay in place all night. Nobody is as ready as you are!Electronic prom is here, the most amazing night of your life, the one you’ll think back to when your future kids wear their jackets inside out and say, “You partied like that?” However, more often than not, you get to EDC and not everything goes as you planned.

EDC Las Vegas 2013 is less than a week away and we here at ThisSongSlaps are excited as you are, the people, the fans, the headliners for this years annual Electric Daisy Carnival at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway!We also care about you having a successful and overall safe experience for the time you spend at the festival! Whether this is your first EDC experience or second or so on, we have decided to supply you guys with 10 things we think you should bring to EDC to make it as awesome and successful as it can be! 

So as many of you guys know, Insomniac Events has been working hard in setting up the production the past couple of days for this years Electric Daisy Carnival at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. 

Legendary EDM producer and DJ Steve Aoki has been ripped from stage in Italy yesterday after website wunderland reported the below. Take it with a grain of salt or look further into you make your decision but this time things went a little to far. 

These sensationalized stereotypes were created for comical consumption. But we think you can find any of this charackters in a real live when you will visit your favourite rave. 

We’ve passed them around in our emails, shared them on Facebook walls, spread them across Twitter, and now we present them to you: the five funniest dubstep parody videos around. Of course, we here at Beatport News love dubstep to bits, but let’s be honest, there are many angles one could take to poke fun at the heavyweight genre, so why not enjoy them while you can? We invite you to take a look at the lighter side of dubstep below. 

If you’re lucky enough to snag a ticket to the sold-out Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas on June 21-23, it looks like you’ll be in for one of the all-time great electronic dance music festivals. Never mind the who’s who of headlining acts — spot-on promoter Insomniac Events leads with big names such as Calvin Harris, Gareth Emery and Carl Cox — the festival also promises larger-than-life theatrics and effects. 

Corporate interests are swarming and dance music is being attacked from all angles. Pop music has gone EDM, DJs are get into silly twitter feuds and blogs (like this one) cover it. When the EDM Apocalypse finally hits, these are some of the people that you can place the blame on. 

Although most EDM artists choose to DJ during their performances, there are quite a few who integrate various different instruments and controllers to create an on the fly experience when they perform. Although we could not include all of them, below is a list of some of the best live shows in EDM that make for a different experience than just watching the DJ mix tracks: 

Some do it for the anonymity, others do it for marketing, and some do it for both. No matter the reasoning, masks can transform DJs into something bigger than simple music artists -- they become icons. Masked DJs are maybe the closest thing we have to real-life superheros. By donning a mask, these ordinary individuals become otherworldly beings possessing awesome powers beyond our comprehension.Here's a list of our favorite DJ masks.