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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.

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By now, deadmau5 ought to need no introduction. His iconic style bridges the gap between electronic music’s bygone era and the contemporary EDM generation – between the era when progressive house was still progressive, and an age during which it’s basically engineered for festival main stages.

But there’s a much more significant reason why he stands out as the single most anticipated artist on Decadence NYE’s lineup: It’s been a number of years since the “Ghosts N Stuff” producer even played a gig in Colorado.

According to an anonymous source, following DJ booking controversies that would bubble up into a monopolistic practices lawsuit between two of Denver’s leading nightclub owners, deadmau5 began demanding outrageous amounts of money to play anywhere near the city. Allegedly, the bid put in for last year’s Decadence NYE was for over $1 million.

Whether deadmau5 had a change of heart about Colorado or Global Dance moved mountains to pull together the kind of budget necessary to make the booking a reality, Colorado electronic music fans have waited a long time for this performance. Between his geodesic dome stage setup and his constant stockpile of unreleased music, he’ll undoubtedly make the fifth year of Decadence NYE a celebration for the books.