EDM Video : RELIVE #ULTRA MIAMI 2013

ULTRA MIAMI 2013 - FOREVER IN MY MIND

A special video to thank everybody for an historic 15th anniversary of Ultra Music Festival in Miami. Attended by 330.000 people and watched by more than 10 million people on Youtube! We really made history together!

The clip shows some of the most magical moments to keep forever in your mind! But it's just a little taste for what is to come in RELIVE ULTRA MIAMI 2013 (the official aftermovie) coming in June. #RELIVEULTRA 

 

Ultra 2013 : Deadmau5's Ultra return

As Deadmau5 told his two-million-strong Twitter horde last week: “Looks like we’re bringing out the Cube one last time for Ultra!” The Cube in question is of course this high-tech structure that the man in the mau5head Joel Zimmerman first developed alongside production and lighting gurus Bionic League and POSSIBLE. Before Saturday’s closing set on the Ultra Main Stage, the Cube had been dormant for a while. Judging by the huge turnout ahead of his 10:45pm slot, with homemade Deadmau5 helmets in every direction, its return is well-overdue.
The moment the Rubik’s Cube was revealed at the centre of Ultra’s vast Main Stage, the atmosphere (which was already red-lining during Kaskade’s feelgood set) reached fever-pitch. With arms raised and glowsticks waving, the crowd lifted. At the centre of it all, surrounded by spinning colours, was the shadowy figure in his dark mouse helmet, only the eyes illuminated.

All around the structure, the thousands of lights pulsed, with the giant ‘U’ logo lit up spectacularly. Camera phones flashed from front to back. In Main Stage terms, Deadmau5’s set had a slower build to Kaskade’s before it, but when the pay-offs came, they were non-stop. A huge blast of pyro from all sides of the stage greeted the drop of Raise Your Weapon, and throughout the show the Cube’s endearingly-goofy graphics went from spaceships to mini-Mau5s to tentacles and circuitry. Each kick came cracking through the sound-system, clear and rattling. While very familiar, it was the middle-section – taking in Ghosts ‘N Stuff, Some Chords and Professional Griefers – that hit hardest with the might of the Ultra’s production behind it. Melodic moments worked too (not for all), with The Veldt leading the way into the closing firework bonanza. (There was one ‘WTF?’ moment of the set, when Zedd popped up beside Deadmau5, shirtless, in braces and a bow-tie.)
“All of the creative teams work closely with us, and some bring their custom content,” Ultra’s designer and technical director James Klein told inthemix as he walked us through the workings of the Main Stage. “Some teams, like Deadmau5’s, invest a lot more than others. This whole stage has been put into a virtual reality visualisation suite, so our guest lighting operators can sit and tune it all in.”
“I had a cool mouse head and a few well rounded ideas,” Zimmerman quipped to inthemix about starting out as Deadmau5. After tonight, we can’t wait to see where that talent for well-rounded ideas next takes him. “I’m 180-percent focused on a headline show at the moment,” he told us. Now we wait…

Credit : In The Mix

Video : David Guetta playing NEW Chuckie track (ULTRA Exclusive)

 

The Chuckie Cam has captured David Guetta playing Chuckie's latest track: "Chuckie vs Dzeko & Torres - Down to This" @ UMF 2013

EDM : Why Marc Sarnoff and the City of Miami couldn’t afford to topple Ultra

Ultra Music Festival usually takes places over a span of three days – six, as of 2013 – but remains relevant for 365 days a year. News surrounding the festival has dance music fans on their feet and excited for March — most of the time. The latest bit of controversy, however, was far less optimistic than the announcements of Swedish House Mafia’s finale or Deadmau5′ return. The two-weekend expansion that had been announced in October was found in jeopardy when the City of Miami’s commissioner, Marc Sarnoff, introduced a resolution that would’ve prevent Bayfront Park from hosting the festival’s second weekend. Despite arguing that “Ultra doesn’t bring a dollar to the city of Miami,” Sarnoff lost, and Ultra’s double-header survived the commissions vote.
But was Ultra really ever in danger? The statistics say no.

The man behind the plan to topple dance music’s favorite festival, Marc Sarnoff, quickly became public enemy number one in the eyes of Ultra fans. Much like Al Walser and his Grammy heist, Simon Cowell and his rumored reality show, Madonna and her drug references, or Paris Hilton and her Afrojack affair, Sarnoff has landed on dance music fans’ list of villains – only not for threatening the integrity of the genre, but for threatening one of its most famed weekends.
Sarnoff has had it out for Ultra; listing noise and traffic gridlocks as reasons to close down the festival in his latest piece of legislation. Off the legal documents, yet on the record, he has slammed festival attendees, estimating “about 70 to 80 percent of these kids are on some sort of mind-altering drug.”

“I happen to have an office in the Miami Center. We average about 30 people a day either urinating, defecating, or throwing up in our building, in the traffic garage” – Marc Sarnoff

How much power does the commissioner of the city really have over the fate of event? Let’s just say all the shit, piss, and puke in the world couldn’t stop Ultra from its annual reign. Why? Monetarily, these “kids” are urinating gold and defecating dollar bills all over Biscayne Boulevard.
Ultra Music Festival pumps millions of dollars into Miami-Dade’s economy – enough to staff an army of janitors to clean the vomit outside Sarnoff’s office and then some. The statistics from last year’s one-weekend event are astounding, and the economic impact from a two-weekend event would just be mind-boggling. Let’s take a look at Ultra by the numbers:
165,000 – The number of people in downtown Miami, not only for the festival, but to experience the greatest week in dance music, Winter Music Conference and all. At a rate of 55,000 people per day, the expansion would result in over 300,000 consumers spending their time and money in South Beach for 2013.
60% – The percentage of attendees from outside Miami-Dade County. These are tourists, the reason every hotel in Miami is booked a year in advanced for March occupancies. Higher demand, higher rates, and those in the business of Miami hospitality have more to be excited about than their costumers.
915 – Over the span of a single weekend, Ultra Music Festival supports almost one thousand jobs for Miami laborers. For a nation concerned with job creation, who can oppose such a statistic? If that number doesn’t double across two weekends this year, the paycheck for those already employed will.
$40M – Forty million dollars are pumped directly into the county’s economy. This derives from everything festival related – from equipment rentals to rave gear, and everything in between.
$79M – Almost eighty million dollars are spent in Miami beyond the realm of the festival. When Ultra closes at midnight Friday and Saturday, and at 11pm on Sunday, the 55,000 partygoers are looking for more. After parties and events affiliated with Miami Music Week and Winter Music Conference bring in the type of revenue that doubles Miami’s economic profit from the festival alone.
When Miami’s commission members kicked off their Ultra debate, Sarnoff was quick to withdraw the repercussions that would’ve doomed the festival. Instantly throwing in the white flag, Sarnoff appeared defenseless and helpless in a near-empty board room, in front of his few colleagues — all of whom stood ground, leaving their leader cornered. Watching the commission’s chatter via live stream, Sarnoff’s trepidation was clear even through the lens and a computer screen. The commissioner opened his mouth and before the conversation was under way, it was perceived that Ultra was safe from its wrongful fate. As for Marc Sarnoff’s ”Ultra doesn’t bring a dollar to the city of Miami” comment — well, the numbers don’t lie.

Credit : Dancing Astronaut

Ultra Music Festival 2013: City of Miami to Vote on Resolution "Disapproving" of Second Festival Weekend

It can't be Ultra Music Festival without a little bit of drama. This time it comes from Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff who has introduced a new resolution "disapproving" of the second weekend of Ultra Music Festival.The resolution, which the commission will consider on Thursday, claims the "event will be disruptive to the local business community and area residents due to noise, nuisance behavior of festival goers, and grid lock traffic."That's a different tune than Ultra organizers claimed a few months ago, when they stated the festival generated
A source at the city attorney's office told Crossfade that the resolution came from unhappy downtown business owners who lobbied during a December meeting. The resolution also seems to confirm what we already knew: the festival will be returning to Bayfront Park this year. And while there is a separate trust for the park, the resolution affirms that the city code says that the trust's broad powers are "subject at all times to city commission approval."

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It's unclear at this point whether the resolution would actually prevent the second weekend of Ultra from happening, and we are waiting back to hear from the city's attorney office to clarify the possible repercussions.

 

Credit : Crossfade

EDM : Ultra Music Festival rounds out Phase 1 lineup, releases teaser video

Though the Phase 1 lineup was leaked last week by Avicii, Ultra officially announced the complete Phase 1 today. While the headlining acts haven’t changed, Ultra has included a plethora of new “live” acts for the first installment of their lineup. DA favorite Disclosure have been added, along with Major Lazer, Modestep, and Rudimental. Check out the full lineup here. In tandem with their Phase 1 release, Ultra has already begun hyping Phase 2, claiming their intentions to create “a lineup that will fuse the mainstream and the underground…a lineup complete with an unprecedented array of Deep House and Techno artists.” With Richie Hawtin on the bill and Carl Cox returning with his famous stage, Ultra is laying the foundation to fulfill this promise.  Ultra has also released the official Phase 1 teaser video, and as expected, it’s quite tantalizing. Watch the video above, and start preparing for the Phase 2 announcement.



Credit : Dancing Astronaut

EDM : UMF TV Episode 04 - A STATE OF TRANCE

This episode is all about 'A State Of Trance' at Ultra 2012. It's a special on the ASOT Sunday in the megastructure. In this feature we will focus on Trance music, How it has changed over the years, what that 'state' of trance is and why it fits Ultra so well. It captures the energy and feeling of Trance and gives more insight about the genre through interviews with the Armin van Buuren, Dash berlin, Sander van Doorn, Ferry Corsten, Cosmic Gate & Gareth Emery. Who all played amazing sets at the arena that day. 

Events : Ultra Music Festival 2013 Dates Announced

​Are you beat-freaking kidding me?

We're still uhntz-uhntz-ing around Ultra Music Festival 2012, waiting for EDM riot-starter Kaskade, David "The French Tickler" Guetta, and super-Dutch trance man Armin van Buuren to hump up onto the Main Stage and bring this sweaty, pheremone-soaked festival of dance to a furious, fist-pumping climax.

And yet ... Ultra organizers have already revealed the dates for the 2013 edition of UMF!

OK, so this isn't really all that surprising. Last year, the fest blasted out its plans for 2012 before Ultra 2011 had even started.

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And sticking with that pre-emptive approach, just a few minutes ago, an official Ultra Music Festival app alert was sent out to subscribed beat freaks. It read: "Ultra Music Festival 2013 dates announced - March 22 - 24 during Miami Music Week 2013! #CANUFEELIT"