Electric Zoo Roundup

Just a few more quick things before the festival this weekend:

- There will be an Ultra Records tent on-site both days where the following artists will be signing items for fans:

Saturday: Markus Schulz, Benny Benassi, Kaskade
Sunday: Above & Beyond, Grum, Armin Van Buuren

- The list of food vendors has also been released:

[taken from a Plexi press release]

FOOD BOOTH VENDORS  @ ELECTRIC ZOO

Ruthy’s Bakery – Middle Eastern/Italian/ vegetarian

Circles Café – hot dogs/Italian ices

Vegetarian Oasis – Mexican/Carribean/Thai/falafel/burritos/jumbalaya      

Water Taxi Beach LIC  – cheeseburgers/fruit (grass fed beef/hand cut fries)

Strawberry Fields Inc. – burritos/smoothies/Pita/Falafel

Masala Times – Indian/specialty drinks (Mango Lassi yogurt drinks)

PizzaMoto – wood oven pizza/ice cream (locally produced products)

Sigmund Pretzelshop – pretzels/sandwiches (handmade & vegan)

Thai Trio Platters – Thai/salads

Nyota’s Ting – vegan health food

Shaved Ice – flavored shaved ice

MOBILE TRUCK VENDORS @ ELECTRIC ZOO

Green Truck – American/Mexican/vegetarian (organic/locally produced) 

Kwik Meal – Indian/Mediterranean/pitas

La Cense Beef – steak burgers (natural grass fed beef) 

Rickshaw Dumplings – Pan-Asian/Pacific Rim 

Street Sweets – coffee drinks/cookies (gluten free/organic dairy)

Van Leeuwen – ice cream (hormone free) 

Miss Softee – soft serve ice cream (kosher) 

Je & Jo Cookie Dough Ice Cream (cart- tricycle) – organic ice cream that's cookie-dough-a-licious!

Mexicue – Mexican/BBQ (gluten free foods) 

Electric Zoo 2010 set times, scheduling tool, and afterparty info announced

When announcing new info on this year's Electric Zoo Festival, usually Made Event will send out small updates, such as a ticket price increase or a couple new names added to the schedule.

But today they sent out a huge update with some decent surprises.

First off, New York's Zack Roth has been added to the Hilltop Arena schedule for an 11am-noon set on Sunday. I've seen Zack play his house and progressive sets before on Bars N' Beats, and he's always fun to watch.

The official set times for the festival can be found here. This year the schedule is a new format where you can create your own printable list of who you want to see and listen to tracks from each artist. Artist bios are also built into the schedule, and can be viewed when you mouse over their names. An iPhone scheduler app is also in the works (no Android or Blackberry love though?).

Some of the bigger names like Markus Schulz are playing sets earlier in the day since they have separate gigs that night, but I'm glad that Made Event didn't run into some possible scheduling snafus (Above & Beyond and Armin Van Buuren are the headliners for their respective stages on Sunday, but they're not playing at the same time).

You can also get to the festival this year through the local ferry, and tickets for that can be purchased here.

Finally, Dresden & Johnson, Italoboyz, Heartthrob, and Taimur & Fahad have been announced to round out the lineup for Saturday's official afterparty at Pacha. Guy Gerber is the only name right now for the Sunday afterparty, but more details will be coming soon.

Weekly shows update

- Sean Tyas, Ryan Tyas, MadRiverRai, James Costas, and Jay Kinard will be playing another boat cruise through Manhattan's harbor on August 20.

- Deadmau5's unhooked show with 22 other acts, which was originally scheduled for July 5  (but got canceled) at the pool at Harrah's Resort and Casino, has been rescheduled for October 3.

- TranceAddict and Massive Event are putting on a "Trance Takeover" event at Pacha on the weekend of September 24th. The only two names confirmed so far are Andy Moor and Marco V, but many more are going to be announced in the coming weeks.

- Sappho's Journey of Royal Advisor Records will be at The Bitter End this Sunday.

- Lastly, if you haven't bought tickets yet for this upcoming Labor Day weekend's Electric Zoo Festival, prices will increase again at midnight tonight.

Axwell added as Electric Zoo headliner

A couple weeks ago Paul Van Dyk was taken off the lineup for this year's Electric Zoo Festival.

So what does Made Event do? They announce today that Axwell (one-third of the Swedish House Mafia) has been added to the roster of performing artists. Not a bad choice for a replacement...

Also in that announcement is the details of one of the official afterparties, where Robbie Rivera, Sharam, and others will be playing Pacha on Saturday, September 4.

In my opinion, Axwell is the most unique-sounding member of the Swedish House Mafia when compared to Steve Angello, who played Electric Zoo last year, and Sebastian Ingrosso. He still carries that signature SHM sound, but at the same time produces some quality stuff outside the normal parameters, like his new single "Nothing But Love". The "Remode" version of the track is the one faring better on Beatport charts, but I like the "Classic Mix" more.

[Info credit: PlexiPR]

Weekly shows update

The biggest news this week is that the 2010 Electric Zoo lineup has been finalized with schedules released for each day (minus set times):

And at Pacha last weekend during the Oakenfold and Laidback Luke shows, flyers were being handed out to advertise a bunch of new events, including Aly & Fila's first-ever visit to NYC.

Lastly, Royal Advisor Records and their artists have a couple shows lined up for the next two weeks.

[Image credit: PlexiPR, Brad Miller @ TranceAddict]

Weekly shows update

One thing to mention this week: Made Event is posting up single-day ticket sale options for their Electric Zoo Festival on July 8.

This probably means they'll also announce the remaining names on the same date. On the Sunday lineup, there are two headliners yet to be revealed, so some big names could be coming down the pipe.