Electric Daisy Carnival Weekend: 5 Insiders That Non-EDM Fans Need To Know in 2015

For EDM novices, oldsters looking in, and those in Hollywood who have yet to embrace the beat, here’s TheWrap’s primer on the big names spinning in the desert

EDC Founder Pasquale Rotella, "World's #1 DJ" Hardwell, and the symbiotic nightlife executives that fuel Vegas's biggest music weekend: Wynn's Sean Christie and Jesse Waits, and Hakkasan's Neil Moffitt. (Getty Images)

In 106 degree heat, 400,000 EDM fans are descending on 1,200 acres of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway starting Friday night for the 19th edition of the Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC).

Producer Pasquale Rotella, founder of Insomniacย Events and its flagship EDC, has 18,000 pounds of confetti preloadedย and 5.3 million watts of speaker power that will thump from 7 p.m. until 5:30 a.m. for the next three nights.

“Walking Dead” fans back at the hotels will appreciate the parade of exhausted people pouring back to the Vegas Strip in the not-so-early hours of the morning, sliding pastย gamblers already hitting the slot machines.

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