Where is ultra fest 2011

Contact: Jose D. Don't Miss Out. Join Today. Sign Up. I Support Learn More. Latest Stories. Duran Nov 8, More ». Sign Up Now No Thanks. Become a member and go ad-free! Support Our Journalism. Privacy Policy. This Week's Issue. The days were hot and long; the crowds were big and young. But the 13th annual Ultra Music Festival filled its purpose: Stating in no uncertain terms that electronic dance music has found its biggest audience since its inception in the youth of America.

The , partiers at UMF, the nearly 15, at Masquerade Motel, and the thousands who went in and out of Beatport's free Beach Party every day, were there for a single purpose: To listen to music they love with their friends. Which is about as pure a motivation as you'll find in any slice of culture these days. Skrillex Sunday, Tower of Ultra, p.

This song is for the girls. For a genre that treats its women almost as dubiously as hip-hop, it was a moment; and one more reason why dubstep - and Skrillex, its most passionate champion - might take over the world. They treat the connection of anger, dissonance and beauty as natural, which alone might be the most important statement of this UMF. The man who started it all didn't let anyone forget it during his headlining main stage set on the festival's last night.

Because let's face it, Guetta is no fool. He set the new standard of uptempo, urban-inflected Top 40, and knows how to tweak it, ever so slightly, to stay fresh. Flo Rida , will. It was almost like they recognized that Guetta was the engine that made the plane fly. The kids who had sweated through the degree day in lovingly created custom mouseheads finally had their moment on Saturday night, when deadmau5 took to his infamous cube and let loose his huge and lush tech-trance soundscapes.

If there's one artist the Ultra massive would agree on, it's probably the mau5: His music cuts across all electronic genres, and his story is so relatable - pasty nerd dons costume, becomes superhero - that no awkward beat-lover taking refuge in the subculture could resist it. Any why should they? The sensory onslaught of the deadmau5 experience is so total that even the uninitiated would have to stop and stare.

When he dropped his own "Right This Second" - perhaps one of the biggest electronic anthems ever created, with a two-minute build so anxious and intense that it feels like a rollercoaster climb before a freefall - the earth literally moved.

If is about new sounds, new blood, and new norms in dance music, then veteran Carl Cox shouldn't be on this list. One of the original superstar DJs, the bald-headed, gap-toothed Cox has been doing his thing with little variation since the genre's earliest days.

But that thing happens to be systematically tearing apart every venue he visits. Please lookout for fun and rewarding ways to participate in this important project while on the festival grounds. This year, UMF has expanded for the first time to a three-day festival, as opposed to the two days in previous years. This event will take place on Sunday the 27th. This will be the first year that UMF is not hosted during the same week as the Winter Music Conference in Miami due to scheduling complications between the two events.

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