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5 Artists You Can’t Miss At Decadence NYE Colorado

For electronic music fans in the Southwestern United States, no New Year’s Eve event compares to Decadence NYE in Denver, Colorado. In case the cutting-edge production values and otherworldly installations aren’t enough to make it the kind of affair that you and your friends would remember for a lifetime, though, this year’s edition arguably features a stronger lineup than any of the previous installations. Where in years past, artists like Pretty Lights, Krewella, Claude VonStroke and Wolfgang Gartner drew sizeable enough crowds to the grandiose expanse of the Colorado Convention Center, the fifth edition will showcase artists of a caliber that Denver’s discerning music fan base has deserved from a New Year’s Eve massive for much longer - and this time at a different venue, City Hall.

Bassnectar

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If you don’t like Bassnectar, you’re just not that Colorado. Dubstep may have been the awkward teenager phase that the rest of the electronic music world prefers not to talk about nowadays, but for music fans in the mile high, it’s a way of life.

Bassnectar’s not strictly a dubstep DJ/producer by any means, but with acts like Pretty Lights and GRiZ blazing the state’s musical trails, its festival goers expect acts with more dimension anyways. Given that Lorin’s been a bass music pioneer since the turn of the century, he more than fits the bill.

Hot Since 82

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On the opposite end of the spectrum, though, is Denver’s rapidly growing house and techno underground. In what feels like a direct response to the culture of excess surrounding contemporary EDM events, warehouse parties at which DJs cue up nothing but four-four beats provide an arguably more sophisticated alternative to the status quo.

British house music DJ/producer Hot Since 82 is certain to resonate well with this growing subset of the electronic music community. Aside from his already impressive credentials, he consistently puts out music which meets the sometimes impossibly high standards of dance music’s intellectual elite.