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EDC Las Vegas 2022 Special
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Welcome to Episode 136 of Beyond the Beats: a podcast about dance music news and culture. This is our EDC Las Vegas 2022 special episode.
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NEW MUSIC
Note: New to this year, we will be rating each of the songs in the new music section!
Ghastly, Lil Jon - Dance
Sumthin sumthin, CloZee - Salt
Sub Zero Project, Diandra Faye - Nightmare Nirvana
Armin Van Buuren, Shapov - Let’s Rave, Make Love
EDC LAS VEGAS 2022 SPECIAL
This week, we're going around the speedway to take you in a whip-around preview of all the action going down. We will go day by day to mention who our top picks are and whom we think you should go see (or check out if you can't make it).
Full Lineup | Official Playlist
Day 1: Alec's Picks
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Favorite Act: Tale of Us
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Song played during episode: Anyma - Running (this is 1/2 of Tale of Us but they play it together all the time)
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Top Act #1: MEDUZA
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Song played during episode: Innadadance
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Top Act #3; Seven Lions
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"Dark horse" (Don’t sleep on this): Matroda b2b Bleu Clair
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Song played during episode: Disco Tool
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Alec's 3 honorable mentions: Alix Perez b2b IMANU (DnB) | Nitepunk | Capozzi (Bass House)
Samir's 3 honorable mentions: Eric Prydz (progressive house) | Jayda G | Madeon (DJ Set)
Day 2: Samir's Picks
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Favorite Act: David Guetta & Morten (Future Rave set)
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Song played during episode: Titanium (Future Rave Remix)
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Top Act #1: LP Giobbi
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Song played during episode: Take My Hand
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Top Act #3; Vintage Culture
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"Dark horse" (Don’t sleep on this): Kasablanca
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Song played during episode: Hold Me Close
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Alec's 3 honorable mentions: Hybrid Minds (Liquid DnB baby!!!) | Delta heavy b2b Koven b2b Muzz | Chapter & Verse
Samir's 3 honorable mentions: Alesso | Junkie Kid b2b GEO (hardstyle) | AIR2EARTH (Porter Robinson's live disco-house project)
Day 3: Alec's Picks
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Favorite Act: Kaskade Redux
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Song played during episode: Love Like That (ft. Dani Poppitt)
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Top Act #1: Deborah De Luca
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Song played during episode: Dori Me (Intro Mix)
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Top Act #2: Rusko
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Top Act #3; Vintage Culture b2b James Hype
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"Dark horse": Martin Ikin
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Song played during episode: Sometimes
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Samir's 3 honorable mentions: Zedd | Mat Zo | Anfisa Letyago
Alec's 3 honorable mentions: Friction b2b Kanine | Moore Kismet | Dom Dolla
EDC Memories
Samir's favorite memory: Seeing Porter Robinson during his World live show at my first EDC in 2017. Got to share that experience with Alec, who was also seeing Porter for the first time.
Alec's: Figuring out how to even find Samir for that Porter Robinson Worlds set and the jubilation of finding your man amidst a wild crowd after being separated for a while.
ARTISTS WE'RE WATCHING
Samir: thook // Soundcloud // Instagram // Twitter // Menace to Society (track)
Alec: UNIIQU3 // Soundcloud // Instagram // Twitter // Body Pump (UNIIQU3 remix) (track)
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She is playing at EDC. She was put on my radar by an AWW, R3LL
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Check out R3LL’s Artist Spotlight
SPECIAL THANKS
Shoutout to our main man Tyler Lawrence for creating our intro song! Alec no longer hates our theme song!
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Check out his Beyond the Beats Profile Page // Instagram // Spotify.
And a very special thank you to all of YOU - the EDM Champion community.
Your support week-in-week-out means the absolute world to us. It inspires us to continue growing the global community and, most importantly, connect as many people as possible with the very essence of dance music.