Photos: Look Inside deadmau5 and Kaskade’s Historic Kx5 Headlining Performance In L.A. – EDM.com

After headlining one of the vital important live shows in digital music historical past, it appears Kx5 are decided to take the style to locations it is by no means been.

Not even a mid-show generator fireplace may cease Kaskade and deadmau5 from engrossing followers on the L.A. Memorial Coliseum, the place they carried out for a DJ set for the ages. The present was finally record-breaking in scale, taking the excellence for the most important single-day live performance by an digital artist ever in North America after drawing an viewers of fifty,000 and netting $3.7 million.

However the numbers had been solely a part of the story. Kx5’s present was a very particular second for EDM.

Kaksade and deadmau5 performing as Kx5 on the L.A. Memorial Coliseum on December tenth, 2022.

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Their set started in cinematic vogue with a mixture of “Arrakeen” from Hans Zimmer’s Dune soundtrack, which led straight into their beautiful debut single, “Escape.” From there, eye-popping visuals and columns of fireside blitzed the group as Kaskade and deadmau5 rinsed their many hits, like “Beneath With Me,” in addition to a bevy of recent IDs. Glittering drones periodically spelled out the names of those tracks within the sky.

About midway by way of the present, a generator fireplace all of the sudden minimize the facility and left us a bit perplexed. Regardless of this setback, which induced a close to half-hour delay, spirits remained excessive. At one level, practically everybody within the crowd flipped on their cellphone flashlights and waved them within the air in a very surreal second.

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Fortunately the facility was restored, and after just a few signature cheeky feedback from deadmau5, Kx5 ran roughshod by way of their full set, previous the unique cutoff time. As a grand finale, they reprised “Escape” with a dwell efficiency by Hayla and a dramatic fireworks show.

So what’s subsequent for Kx5? Their debut album, which is predicted to launch in early 2023. Within the meantime, look contained in the historic L.A. Coliseum present under.

All photographs by Brian Rapaport for EDM.com.