Author: Keith Wozniak
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2014 ProTip #17: A Festival Hotel Room Needs Air Fresheners
There’s some topics that just don’t get talked about but should and this one is the stink. It’ll happen and you’ll need air fresheners. You’ll be in a hotel room for at least three nights and four days if not much longer with a number of people in a hotel room and for three of…
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Dennis Sheperd Responds, He Was Not Beatport Banned
If it’s on the internet it has to be true, right? Not quite. The internet has been a buzz with a new social media account that has popped up called Beatport Banned and features tracks that have been removed from Beatport. The assumption is that the tracks have been banned for fake sales to increase the…
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2014 Helicopter Rides to EDC Almost Sold Out
A lot has been written about the EDC shuttle services both official and unofficial. There’s the option of paying a big chunk of change and taking a taxi. The option of using your own car or renting a car is also an option. All of those will take you a minimum of at least 30…
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2014 ProTip #18: Chap Stick is the Most Essential Item
When we started protips in 2013 the first one was chap stick and anyone who’s an EDC veteran, lives in Las Vegas or visits often can tell you that chap stick is one of the most essential items you’ll need. Don’t just travel with one stick either, bring many. The first time I went to…
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EDMbiz Opening Party June 17 with Crystal Method
The 2014 EDMbiz Expo and Conference kicks off in less than a week and Drais has announced the opening party on Tuesday, June 17, 2014 by celebrating 20 years of The Crystal Method. The event is what Drai’s is calling a Yacht Club party and is free to EDMbiz badge holders and tickets are $20…
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2014 ProTip #19: Your Hotel Room Needs Cold Drinks
You’re traveling to a hotel room for anywhere from three to seven days, have you thought about how to keep your water cold? What about your beer? Chances are that your hotel room does not come equipped with a fridge and the standard ice bucket isn’t big enough to keep a six-pack cold for very long. It’s Las Vegas,…
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Stunning Aerial Footage from the Mysteryland USA Debut
Mysteryland made its North American debut over the course of the 2014 Memorial Day weekend and it has received great reviews from everyone that attended, including this writer. The location was historic and beautiful (minus some mud). The stages all had their own great vibe. The cashless system for the most part worked very well…
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2014 ProTip #20: Free Water for Camelbaks and Aluminum Bottles
The veterans are well aware of this tip but there’s still a lot of new people going to festivals for the first time, especially Electric Daisy Carnival. Insomniac will have multiple water stations located throughout the festival where volunteers will fill up anything that you have with free and clean water. There’s rarely more than…
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2014 ProTip #21: Call Your Credit Card Company and Bank
This is tip that applies to any sort of travel to another state or country and especially a large city. Plan about 15 minutes over the next week and look at the back of your debit card and credit cards and call the 1-800 number on each and every one of them and tell them you’ll…
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2014 ProTip #22: Bring a Power Strip and Portable Router
This tip can apply to just about any vacation when you’re travelling whether it’s to a hotel or even a friend’s house. We all have phones and often travel with tablets and computers as well which means they’ll all have to be charged. How many people will you be sharing a room with? Probably more…
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Armin van Buuren Introduces the Darker Side of Trance on ASOT 666
Armin van Buuren reached another milestone this week with episode number 666 of A State of Trance, his weekly radio show that’s listened to by millions around the world every Thursday. He could have just treated it like any other episode with the popular tracks of the week along with his favorites but thanks to…
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Bored With Bikini Bottle Service Girls? A Drone Delivers at Marquee
Las Vegas is the capital of outrageous pricing and features and every club is trying to one up another with crazy options. Drais recently debuted their options where you can pay to have a fireworks display or even spend $737,000 to have a Boeing 737 fly you into Las Vegas. Hakkasan has a $500,000 option. Marquee…
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2014 ProTip #24: Make Smart Decisions Before a Festival
Every year before any festival whether it’s EDC, Ultra, Coachella, Bonnaroo or any other festival there’s often stories about someone getting into some sort of trouble or problems in the weeks before and they aren’t able to go. It could be spending too much money going out in the weeks prior and going broke or…
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EDC Las Vegas 2014 Construction Begins
There’s less than three weeks until Electric Daisy Carnival kicks off in Las Vegas for the 2014 edition and that means workers have started arriving at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway to begin construction for the massive festival. Don’t worry Insomniac, we remember our chat last year and will not be spoiling any surprises. We…
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Apply Today: 150 Guards Needed for EDC Las Vegas
While a lot of the focus is on going to Electric Daisy Carnival and having fun there’s a lot of people working behind the scenes to make it happen. The construction workers, technicians, engineers, food service and of course security. Today, June 3rd, is the last day to visit the offices to get your fingerprints…
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2014 ProTip #25: Removing a Wristband You Put on Too Early
As you receive your ticket package and shuttle wristband in the mail there’ll be excitement to just put it on and raise your hand in the air in victory but we suggest you wait. Do you really want to be wearing it for another three weeks? What if you put it on too tight? Unless…
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Inside the EDC Las Vegas 2014 Ticket Boxes
It’s like Christmas morning as a little kid when your Electric Daisy Carnival ticket package arrives in the mail. Chances are by the time yours arrives you’ve already seen other people posting pictures online ruining the surprise but it’s still fun opening up the box. They could very easily just send an envelope with your ticket…
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90 Minute Coffee Run with deadmau5, Dillon Francis and Skrillex
This is the Mothership of all coffee runs. Clocking in at 90 minutes deadmau5 takes Skrillex and Dillon Francis out on a coffee run in his backup car, his Porsche GT. Skrillex is on the road for his Mothership Tour which is why they’re both in Toronto. At the start Dillon Francis says, “Just so you…
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Pasquale Rotella Memoir Coming to the Big Screen
Deadline.com has reported an exclusive story that Fox 2000 has made a preemptive acquisition of Insomniac: The Life And Times of Pasquale Rotella, a memoir being written by Pasquale Rotella and James Frey, the author of A Million Little Pieces. We all know of Pasquale Rotella as the CEO of Insomniac, one of the worlds biggest…