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Updates and Improvements Abound for the 2023 Lost Lands Festival

Here’s what’s new for Lost Lands year six. Each year, headbangers from all over the world descend on Ohio for the world’s premier bass music festival, Lost Lands. The mastermind behind the madness, Excision, annually gathers an elite cast of talent for a weekend of nonstop dubstep, trap, melodic bass and everything in between. As detailed in our review of last year’s massive festival, Lost Lands has improved so much since its debut in 2017 that it’s nearly unrecognizable—in all the best ways. Now, Excision and his team of organizers have revealed what’s next for the festival, which returns to Legend Valley September 22-24, 2023. He took to his verified Instagram to share a long list of updates inspired by attendees’ feedback. Dubstep star Kompany p...

EDM.com’s Best of 2022: Performances & DJ Sets

EDM.com proudly publishes four installments of annual year-end coverage: Industry Leaders, Performances, Music Producers and Songs.  To honor their creativity and deeply influential work to challenge the boundaries of performance, we’ve recognized 10 of the year’s best sets from around the electronic music world.  Alison Wonderland Alvarado Laundry, Los Angeles If you asked us to think of a rarer show than a rave with Alison Wonderland in a laundromat, our hands would be Tide. In celebration of her remarkable third album, Loner, the superstar DJ and singer-songwriter rinsed out a slew of filthy tracks live from a vacant L.A. laundromat. Organized by Brownies & Lemonade, the pie-in-the-sky performance was attended by less than 100 people, who raved away as strobe l...

Relive Lost Lands 2022 With 15 Complete Sets From Excision, ILLENIUM, Knife Party and More On Apple Music

While many of us are still nursing our damaged necks and backs from the mayhem that was 2022’s Lost Lands festival, Excision and co. have given fans a reason to pull out the braces once again. With help from Apple Music, the Lost Lands team has made 15 sets from the bass music extravaganza’s momentous fifth year available to stream. Fans can now stream a bevy of full DJ sets from the prehistoric party by the likes of Excision, ILLENIUM, DJ Diesel, Dion Timmer, Jessica Audiffred, Knife Party, Kompany, Ray Volpe, Herobust and more. Kompany performs at Lost Lands 2022. Andrew Freeman Rather than being released as one continuous mix à la SoundCloud or YouTube, each set is released like an album with individual tracks that seamlessly play into each other. This fo...

Lost Lands 2022 Inspired a Sense of Adventure—And the Future Is Brighter Than Ever

While walking around Lost Lands and hearing from the festival’s ravers, one thing was loud and clear: it has become unrecognizable in the best way. New and improved Lost Lands festival grounds It was astounding to see what Lost Lands’ organizers have done with the festival grounds year after year. As someone who attended the first three years of Lost Lands and has not been back since the onset of COVID-19, the event was nearly unrecognizable. It was immediately made apparent from the moment you step off the street and walk to the entrance gate. Before officially entering the grounds, attendees walk through a corridor speckled with life-sized dinosaurs, dinosaur eggs you can climb into, flowing waterfalls, volcanos that light up at night and more. It all served as an interactive...

Watch Shaq Pause His DJ Set to Help a Fan Caught In a Mosh Pit

The EDM community has never seen someone quite like Shaquille O’Neal. It’s rare to see such unbridled enthusiasm for the genre from someone like Shaq, a decorated NBA champion and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame member. And the community has responded in spades, embracing him as a “dubstep dad” who tirelessly champions rave culture. O’Neal, who is affectionately known as DJ Diesel to fans of electronic music, appeared in Ohio over the weekend to perform at Excision’s Lost Lands. It’s prevalently regarded as the nation’s leading dubstep festival and a breeding ground for the next generation of bass music stars. So naturally there’s mosh pits. And at one point, Diesel paused his set to address the crowd and diffus...

Watch Lost Lands 2022 Performances By ILLENIUM, Subtronics, REZZ, Madeon, More

It’s the Monday after Lost Lands, which means ravers have traded earplugs for neck braces after one of the nation’s most popular dubstep festivals. Headbangers showed out at the 2022 edition of Excision‘s flagship fest. The sheer amount of talent at Lost Lands was staggering, and if the festival’s reputation as the “Dubstep Olympics” was ever in doubt, any scintilla of that was effectively quashed this year. One Lost Lands devotee has uploaded footage from “Couch Lands,” the prehistoric-themed festival’s livestreaming counterpart. Fans can now head to YouTube to watch over 50 DJ sets from the likes of Knife Party, Wooli, REZZ, ILLENIUM, Madeon, SVDDEN DEATH, Eptic, Barely Alive and a momentous closing performance from Subtronics, among ...

Lost Lands 2022 Festival Guide: Set Times, Camping, Weather and Everything Else You Need to Know

Excision is preparing to open the floodgates of Lost Lands. At this open-air celebration of bass music, the lights, sounds, people and life-size dinosaurs are unlike anything you’ve ever seen at a music festival. Whether you’re going for the first or fifth time, here’s some essential info that will help you party like it’s 500 B.C. Lost Lands 2022 Dates This year’s Lost Lands will take place September 23-25, 2022. Those with early-access tickets can arrive as early as Tuesday, September 20th and participate in campground activities as well as a special pre-party on Thursday, September 22nd. Lost Lands Address Like the four years before this weekend’s party, the fifth iteration of Lost Lands will take place at the beautiful Legend Valley in Thor...

Here Are the Set Times for Lost Lands 2022

Get ready to go back in time at Lost Lands, Excision‘s prehistoric electronic music festival. As the dinosaurs begin to thaw out and travel to the middle of Ohio, the world’s biggest dubstep and bass music artists are preparing to take the stage at Excision’s flagship event. This includes REZZ, DJ Diesel, Knife Party, SVDDEN DEATH, TroyBoi, Subtronics, ILLENIUM, Pendulum, Ace Aura, Papa Khan, A Hundred Drums and many more. The fifth edition of Lost Lands is scheduled for September 23-25, 2022 at Legend Valley in Thornville, Ohio. Check out the set times and full lineup below. Lost Lands 2022 Set Times 2022 Lost Lands set times. Lost Lands Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles 2022 Lost Lands set times. Lost Lands 2022 Lost Lands set times. Lost Lands 2022...

Shaq Wants to Break the Guinness World Record for Largest Mosh Pit at a Music Festival

If you thought the world’s biggest DJ couldn’t reach new heights, think again. Shaquille O’Neal, who is affectionately known in the electronic dance music community as DJ Diesel, wants to break the world record for largest mosh pit at a music festival. The legendary basketball player-turned-DJ is currently gearing up for a performance at Excision’s Lost Lands, one of the world’s most popular music fests for fans of dubstep and bass music. And fans attending his set may very well be a part of history. “Should we go for Guinness world record for biggest moshpit at @lost_lands ???” Diesel tweeted. With his relentless brand of dubstep, the NBA Hall of Famer can easily start a moshpit—that we know. What we don’t know is how his team will...

Excision Drops Enormous Lost Lands 2022 Lineup With Knife Party, Madeon, REZZ, More

Excision has shared a massive lineup for the fifth edition of Lost Lands, his annual celebration of bass music in Legend Valley. Lost Lands returns this fall with arguably its largest lineup to date. Featured at this year’s fest will be headlining performances from Knife Party, ILLENIUM, REZZ, Madeon, TroyBoi, Space Laces, Rusko, DJ Diesel, Said The Sky, Pendulum, Subtronics and more. As is tradition, Excision himself will also take the stage for three different experiences: a special two-hour performance, a rare “Detox” set and a B2B with Sullivan King. You can learn more about the prehistoric-themed bass music spectacular and purchase tickets here. Lost Lands Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles Also featured on this year’s lineup are all ten of the winning act...

Excision Drops Two-Hour Lost Lands 2021 Mix, Announces Compilation Album

The day Excision fans have been waiting for since September is finally here. It’s March, which means we are at the official halfway point between last year’s and this year’s Lost Lands festival. To help future attendees get over the hump, Excision has dropped the next entry in his annual Lost Lands mix series. Clocking in at two hours, the enormous mix features 111 tracks from the likes of Kai Wachi, Dion Timmer, Blanke, Kompany, Wooli, Seven Lions, ILLENIUM, Riot Ten and many, many more. The gargantuan mix is not the only treat Excision is delivering to fans this month. Coming later this week is the official Lost Lands 2021 compilation album. The record will feature standout tracks from many of the artists who took the stage at last year’s prehistori...

Lost Lands to Add New Stage at 2022 Festival

Headbangers will have a brand new stage to enjoy at Lost Lands 2022. The organizers of the prehistoric-themed music festival, one of the world’s most popular for fans of dubstep and bass music, recently announced a slew of updates to the event’s infrastructure for its 2022 edition. And after revealing a brand new stage, it seems Excision and his team are planning to go bigger than ever. They took to social media to announce the new Village Marketplace Stage, adding that it will feature a blend of international and local artists. The stage’s name derives from the campgrounds’ Village Marketplace and Discovery Center, which offers food, shopping, workshops and more. Another major update coming to the festival this year is a revamped camping entryway. Organiz...