Electric Zoo 2015 Festival Recap

This Labor Day weekend started off with a bang as Electric Zoo kicked off their seventh annual EDM festival in NYC’s Randall’s Island. Electric Zoo survived what some have called ‘the Sunday curse’ with gorgeous summer sun shinning down on festival-goers during the three-day event. This year’s Electric Zoo produced fewer artists than previous years with a later festival start time and the elimination of a second main stage. The lineup also underwhelmed compared to past years with performances by headliners Avicii, Kaskade, Armin van Burren, Zedd and more. However, that did not stop over 80,000 festival-goers from taking part in the celebration.

Electric Zoo organizers were able to transform the festival with enhanced crowd control, a wide variety of delicious foods and snacks from popular New York City restaurants and vendors, abundant drink stations and two brand spanking new stages.

Featuring main stage, Riverside stage, Hilltop Arena and the Sunday School tent, Electric Zoo managed to provide non-stop music within all genres of EDM imaginable! Staying true to the animal theme, the main stage converted into a rising Phoenix with glowing eyes and elongated wings that produced LED lights throughout its body. As the sky turned to dusk, the main stage lit up the night sky with fireworks shooting off in every direction as NERVO, Zeds Dead, Deorro, Adventure Club, Borgore, and headliners The Chemical Brothers, Above & Beyond, and Alesso dropped sick hard hitting beats.

Riverside stage transformed into a trippy black and white octopus with its arms intertwined around the DJ booth where Sam Feldt, Markus Schulz, Thomas Jack and others threw down awesome deep house, trance and tropical house tracks.