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After leaving fans on the edge of their seats in anticipation for the sold out 17th Annual Electric Daisy Carnival at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway -- Insomniac finally revealed the diverse lineup of musical "conductors" as founder and CEO Pasquale Rotella likes to call them. This year's list includes musical acts, artists and theatrical performers. Yesterday we told you that HARD events will also present a stage at this year's festival, which takes place June 21-23 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway from 6p.m.-6 a.m. The full lineup is listed in alphabetical order below.

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Angelo Patino-Patroni and Josh Anaya of PeaceTreaty

It's hard to believe all that the Chino Hills duo PeaceTreaty has achieved in the mere couple of years they have been making electronic dance music together. Since we last spoke to Josh Anaya and Angelo Patino-Patroni they have continued their momentum on the OC native Steve Aoki's Dim Mak Record Label touring the world including at Insomniac's Nocturnal Wonderland in San Bernadino and Electric Zoo in New York. With remixes for artists like Robbie Rivera and Hot Mouth out now their primary focus is to finish their full length debut album which has been in the works since they released their EP in 2011. Tonight they are bringing their eclectic big room house sound to White Rabbit's Havoc Thursdays at the Yost Theater in Santa Ana. We caught up with Josh, Angelo and their cute pug Ziggy at their studio in Newport Beach where the two reside, to catch up on what life has been like for the OC duo as a part of the well known Dim Mak family.

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*Pendulum DJ Set - Yost Theater - November 15, 2012
*PeaceTreaty's Name Was Coined as a Joke By an Ex-Girlfriend -- But It Suits Them Perfectly

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Insomniac announced the dates for the next installment of the Electric Daisy Carnival today. EDC 2013 returns to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway June 21, 22, 23. On Nov. 7 at 12 p.m. PST, a "very limited" pre-sale is happening on promoter Insomniac's website. Three-day General Admission tickets available at $199, then $259, and three-day VIP tickets available at $450, until allotments run out. More details on next year's EDC were also revealed today.
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Courtesy of Tom Donoghue

Insomniac CEO and Founder Pasquale Rotella Addresses the Crowd

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*Identity Management Group and Insomniac Events Create an EDM Power Merger in OC

*Top Five Parties During EDC Week

*What's So Important About the EDMbiz Conference?

For all the crowds, freakish costumes and profits that Electric Daisy Carnival attracted during its second round in Las Vegas, we've also learned that the event's promoters at Insomniac Events did some solid good outside the EDM community when we weren't looking.

For every one of the dance music fans who attended throughout the three-day festival at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway from June 8-10,  Insomniac's charitable donations gave $1 per ticket transaction and $10 per guest list attendee to charitable organizations in the Las Vegas communities for a second time in a row.

The Clark County School - Community Partnership Program, Emergency Medicine Resident Research Fund, Speedway Children's Charity - Las Vegas Chapter and Injured Police Officers Fund all benefited from the $115,000 donation including an additional initiative with Rock the Vote called Spin the Vote. Representatives from all of these organizations as well as Insomniac's CEO and Founder Pasquale Rotella were in attendance at the official check presentation held yesterday at the Cosmopolitan Hotel.

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Olivier Hennesy (right) / Facebook

One of the reasons Electric Daisy Carnival moved to Las Vegas last year was the scrutiny (and subsequent scandal) sparked following the ecstasy overdose death of a 15-year-old attendee in 2010. Turns out she had sneaked into the party.

Since then, organizers have had to come to terms with with the behavior of ravers, including off-site deaths of EDC party-goers in Dallas.

This year's three-day EDC in Vegas (June 8-10) was massive -- about 100,000 people attended each day -- and successful. But once again a few party goers in town for the event died off-campus after apparently imbibing:

Over the weekend officials confirmed that a 31-year-old party-goer from Florida died Saturday after spending the week in a hospital. He had been struck by a truck as he left EDC at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway the morning of June 11. According to reports, friends said he had been drinking.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal ID'd him as Olivier Hennessy of Ponce Inlet, Florida. Olivier graduated from UC Irvine in 2003 with a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering.

The paper reported that he was hit about 4:30 a.m. Monday (June 11) in front of the speedway's gate 6.

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Brenton Ho, Powers Imagery

Nicky Romero at Tao Beach

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* EDC 2012: High Winds Knock Speakers Around During Markus Schulz' Set

* What's So Important About the EDMbiz Conference?

* Kaskade Talks EDC, Freaks of Nature Tour and Partying at Focus Tuesdays in OC

Now that the dust has settled in Sin City, it's time to take a look at all that went on during this long week of electronic dance music madness, including most of the parties you didn't see. From the time we arrived at the  inaugural EDMbiz Conference at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, the strip was filled with a plethora of events from club nights, pool parties, festivals and massive events all over Las Vegas from Tuesday, June 5th - Monday, June 12th. Insomniac partnered with the TAO Group for EDC Week Events at LAVO, Marquee, TAO and Drais after hours. That doesn't even include all the events at the surrounding properties. Here is our run down of the top five events.

Courtesy of SpyOnVegas.com

Markus Schulz and Ferry Corsten at Tao Beach

5. Tao Beach at the Venetian Hotel with Markus Schulz and Ferry Corsten Back to Back--Sunday, June 10th

Tao Beach was the place to be on Sunday for these two legendary DJs teaming up at the infamous pool party at the Venetian Hotel. Markus Schulz and Ferry Corsten's style are complementary and it's no wonder that they kept the crowd going crazy at this party for over five hours. Schulz' deep, hard progressive style compliments Ferry's melody-infused trance sound. The pool party was packed as trance fans from all over the world came together on this amazing day of music and good weather. Corsten dropped his songs like "Check it Out" and "Punk," which were followed masterfully by Schulz's darker tracks from "Coldharbour" and "LA12." Possessed by the sound system (and plenty of alcohol) high-rollers spent the day dancing up and down in their cabanas, while the half-naked masses swarmed the dance floor and the shallow end of the pool to live out their MTV Spring Break fantasies.Two signs that shit was popping off: the party lasted until well after 6:30pm (two hours later than it was scheduled for) and at one point, Schulz grabbed a unicorn mask from the crowd and started DJing with it on.

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Erik Kabik, Insomniac

Main Stage kineticFIELD

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Top Five Parties During EDC Week

EDC 2012: High Winds Knock Speakers Around During Markus Schulz' Set

What's So Important About the EDMbiz Conference?

Last weekend, the Las Vegas Motor Speedway hosted over 300,000 electronic dance music fans under the glittery desert sky for Electric Daisy Carnival's annual dance beat bacchanal. Built on a foundation of  pyrotechnics, theatrical performances and world class artists and DJs, the hype and anticipation surrounding this event was felt all over the world (you can probably tell by the way we've been covering it non-stop for a week now). So did the Electric Daisy Carnival live up to the hype? Here's a look at what the top DJs had to say.

Erik Kabik, Insomniac

Sebastian Ingrosso

Sebastian Ingrosso after playing the Main Stage kineticField - "Woooooow, over [my] expectations, one of my best shows of 2012 so far, the crowd was unbelievable!!"

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Chris Victorio

By Christopher Victorio and Ben Westhoff

We love you, Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas. In fact, here are five reasons why you rule the roost. But my oh my you dance funky. We're not saying we're any better; truth is, we're utterly captivated by you and your awkward ways. Were God to create a third left foot, we know you would utilize it. Here, then, are the top ten awkward EDC Las Vegas dance move GIFs.

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Christopher Victorio

See also: EDC Vegas Pulls Plug on Music Due to High Winds

Organizers of the second annual Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas declared the three-day party a success, despite high-winds that cut its marquee night short on Saturday.

Promoters say a whopping 115,000 people were in attendance on the final night Sunday, which saw performances by David Guetta, Avicii, Dirty South, Chuckie, Morgan Page, John Digweed, Armin Van Buuren and more.

On Saturday ...

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