Under the Electric Sky

There are lots of problems that plague our regular culture.

Hate, people discriminate against each other.

There's this world where you can come

and it's free of a lot of those problems.

If you want to feel welcome,

you want to feel loved and accepted for who you are,

this is the place to be.

No one cares about where you go to school, or how much money you make,

or what the color of your skin is.

All of that is just put to the side.

You don't see any walls. You see everyone together.

I'm beginning to be who I actually am.

Experiencing EDC really changed my life.

One of the best moments of my entire life.

Only rave left...

I actually threw events for my first time

'cause I wanted somewhere for me and my friends to go

to have a good time.

I thought of it being big,

but I never thought of it being this big.

Electric Daisy Carnival is so many different things.

People are coming here to be inspired.

- It's a music event. - It's an art show.

If you go back to the purpose of cathedrals

and what people were going for,

it was to feel small and spiritually alive.

We have a small city, 115,000 people,

which is larger than some towns in America.

You can build a sick production. You can have the best DJ.

But it is way more magical

when you bring the people in,

and their energy and their costumes.

That's what takes it to the next level.

I'm 19 years old and I'm from Forney, Texas.

There's not really much going on in Forney.

No one knows what EDC is.

Here it's country music, and Christian music

and Lil Wayne, that's it.

I was always bullied a lot

because me and the friends that I had

were kind of different.

It made me feel kind of depressed

and I felt there was no reason to even talk to people.

And that was when I started getting into EDM music and rave culture.

That music changed who I was as a person

and completely changed my outlook on life and everything.

I still got lots of internal struggles going on.

I'm dealing with lots of anxiety.

And I can't even drive yet because of my anxiety.

But going out to EDC,

I can forget about all my worries for a little while.

Maybe I'll get all that pent-up stress out of me.

Okay, Google Now, EDC 2013 Las Vegas lineup.

Check out these pictures.

So Above & Beyond is playing

at Kinetic Field Sunday night.

I'm not going to miss them.

I've never been to EDC. I've never even been to a massive rave event.

Oh, my gosh, he's here.

Paying for college out of my own pocket, it's been really difficult.

Hey!

I'm super broke,

so my boyfriend surprised me with my EDC tickets.

- You ready? - Yes!

Missing EDC wasn't going to happen.

I was going to walk if I had to.

I looked up the directions and it was about 443 hours,

and I was prepared to make that walk if we had to do it.

Bye, house.

I'm so excited!

Load 'em up!

We're going to Electric Daisy Carnival,

and we're driving across country

all the way from Cape Cod, Mass.

We're going to be all piled

- in Jjay's aunt's RV. - Whoo!

We all pretty much put our jobs on hold.

I had a great job.

Kind of broke up with my girlfriend.

I left everything just to go on this adventure.

One nice shirt for the trip.

We're going to Vegas.

- Hi. - Hi.

So I got passport...

EDC tickets.

EDC tickets on...

The EDC tickets are in the bag.

I live in Tokyo, Japan.

It was always my life's dream to move over to Tokyo,

and I actually got this position at a large Internet company

and it was too good to pass up.

I just graduated from college,

and I'm about to start a job at a cancer research center in New York City.

This is the best thing that I could be doing for my career.

I've been with Jim for a year.

But we haven't seen each other in six months.

We're two days, 15 hours and three minutes

away from seeing one another.

EDC, it's uplifting.

You let go of everything you got

going on at home, work, school.

All your stress, all your worries.

Leave it all behind.

During the daytime, I take care of my little nephew.

He's five years old.

Do you like the type of music Popito likes?

- No. - No?

- Why? What's wrong with it? - Why not?

When I listen to his music, I can't breathe.

You can't breathe? Why not?

You're holding your breath?

How? What happens when you listen to...

Right now I'm just finishing up

getting my high school diploma,

'cause I've been out of school for a while

due to my health complications.

That was very hard on me.

But the first time I listened to electronic dance music,

I was really amazed.

It makes me happy.

It keeps me going. It keeps me motivated.

Alley-oop.

Oh!

We have to brush our teeth with beer.

It's like this...

Here you go.

Shotgun!

Brother, what, that's still half full!

- Down we go, fellas. - Let's go.

12:35 and we're on the road finally.

I kind of got stuck driving,

so I really can't drink,

which is a bummer right now.

There's a whole bunch of us,

but only a couple of us actually have

licenses to make this drive.

We got McBride right here.

We got Money Mike in the back.

Big Bob for security.

We got Luan, aka Disco Drop.

He's going to drop some tunes.

So I say crank that shit up, big boy.

My artist name is Disco Drop.

And to be out here as a DJ,

I go to these shows 'cause I know one day I'm gonna be onstage,

on that main stage, and I promise everybody I will do that.

And last but not least, we got our boy

Michael Ferris, alpha male, right here.

He's with us the whole time. We're going to bring him to EDC with us.

Michael Ferris was like a brother to me

and the rest of the Wolfpack.

He died two months ago.

I was taking finals in law school.

And not only did I spend every day with him at school,

I lived with him last summer.

And it really was incredibly difficult for me.

And this is going to come with us the whole way to Vegas.

The whole way to Vegas.

Might as well hang this up right here

right next to the wolf blanket.

You know what I'm saying?

Ferris started the Wolfpack name and the whole idea of it,

and his outgoing personality brought us together.

All of us were supposed to go to EDC Las Vegas this summer.

Just tear it up. Wolfpack in Vegas.

And he started this. It's not The Hangover. It's not nonsense.

We're the original Wolfpack.

Let's hang this bad boy up right here for him, you know?

The alpha male of the Wolfpack.

He made us the animals that we are today.

Boom! Number one.

One, two, three. Wolfpack!

In one hour and one minute, Jim lands,

and we get to start our magical EDC weekend together.

Jim and I really, really want to be in the same city,

but we both wanted each other to live our dreams,

even if it made things harder for both of us,

'cause that's what will make our partnership stronger in the end.

He texted me.

He landed.

It's not going to be real until I see him.

I don't believe that he's going to be here at all.

Ready for EDC! Yes!

Are you ready for the best weekend of your entire life?

Yeah.

Jim and I have three, four days together.

We want to maximize our experience in those four days.

- Isn't it nice? - Oh, my God!

Jesus!

We're really looking forward to the Ferris wheel.

It's every raver's dream

to kiss on top of the Ferris wheel, so...

My goal is to make the event better.

I want it to be epic, as it was for me.

When I went to my first underground rave, it was magical.

Everyone was dancing. People were dressed in all different ways.

People weren't tripping on the guy that was different.

That's what really grabbed me, the energy behind the culture.

So, that's why, for EDC,

we really said, "You know what?