Making history. The annual Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) was truly out of this world — but not for the out-of-this-world reasons anyone could predict.Tiesto, Zedd, David Guetta and Kaskade were just a few of the DJs performing at the legendary electronic dance festival, held from May 20 to 23 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Sin City.
However, it was a surprise appearance by Snoop Dogg that really got the crowd hyped up.The “Drop It Like It’s Hot” rapper — along with headliner Grimes — partnered with ZASH Global Media to drop exclusive ZASH NFTs from space via satellite for the awestruck crowd.During Snoop’s surprise performance, the audience was captivated by an extraordinary light show when a galaxy of drones beamed a first-of-its-kind Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT into the sky, which has since been minted into its own NFT.The California native, 50, knows a thing or two about the non-fungible token landscape: He’s set to release an NFT album called Da Da with DJ Steve Aoki this month.“It’s truly remarkable being a part of history and creating the first ever Bored Ape drone NFT for ZASH and Lomo at EDC 2022,” Bart Hendrikx from Drone Stories tells Us Weekly.On the day of her DJ set, Grimes, 34, teased what was ahead. “Taking u on a T3chn0 Odyssey tonight at EDC with the first ever Space Drop ….
And New unreleased Music,” she tweeted on Saturday, May 21, accompanied by a futuristic video.In the spirit of spreading the festival’s signature good vibes, ZASH also gifted one lucky concertgoer with the actual Bored Ape NFT (valued at nearly $300,000) that lit up the crowd in the drone show, while Lomotif gave away a new 2022 Tesla Model X Plaid.Lomotif — a revolutionary video-sharing app slash social networking tool that allows