The first set I see is from Tommy Trash mid-afternoon on Friday at the Main Stage. Skrillex, 'Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites' It looks like a hybrid of a Cylon helmet and a Predator mask. Earlier in the day, I stood next to Skrillex's DJ booth set when it was still backstage. The rough rumble and scrape of his music sounds like a war zone from here, distorted by the distance. As I walk to the park, the red and white lights from Skrillex's set light up the sides of buildings hundreds of yards away. On Friday night, it feels like Skrillex alone has taken over this corner of the city. House and electro blast from even the most improbable places near the festival grounds-an upscale steakhouse, poolside at the Epic Hotel, from the facade of a French bistro at 1 a.m. So EDM has arrived, and Miami, long one of its hometowns, goes all out for Ultra. Rolling Stone profiles of Diplo and Skrillex followed. Around the same time, Skrillex, Diplo, and A-Trak appeared on the cover of Billboard together. That night, Deadmau5 performed on the same show as Paul McCartney and Foo Fighters, actually performing with the latter.

Despite losing the 'Best New Artist' category, Skrillex won three awards at the 2012 Grammys. Welcome to the zeitgeist.ĭavid Guetta became this generation's first major EDM pop star when he collaborated with the Black Eyed Peas on 'I Gotta Feeling.' Avicii's 'Levels' soundtracked a Budweiser commercial that ran during the Super Bowl. This scene is one of my first things I witness at Miami's Ultra Music Festival, the premier destination in the burgeoning electronic dance music (EDM) scene. Ahead of me, a shirtless man sways and careens into a fence. Next to me, three people continue dancing to the street-side mini-stage, not noticing the commotion. Various onlookers appear too zoned out to fully process the scene. He's beginning to pull the man's arms around his back to cuff him when I turn and see no fewer than six more policemen converging, walkie-talkies still in hand. The man does something to anger him though, and the cop throws him on the ground. Eventually, the cop gets him over to a gap in the fence, where I'm assuming he planned to just throw him out and be done with it. He alternates between kicking furiously and letting his body go limp in the policeman's chokehold. I don't know whether to attribute this to the chemicals in this man's system or to the burly forearm around his throat.

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