With less than a week remaining before we head out to Schlitterbahn Waterpark on South Padre Island this March 13-15th, we’re releasing the artist schedules by day for the anticipated three-day event. There will be great music pumping all through the night, so we’ve made it a little easier to make sure you don’t miss your favorite performers!

Limited tickets are still available, buy your tickets today and secure your spot on the dance floor before it’s too late!

Thursday, March 13th: Day 1

• 12:00 AM – 02:00 AM Tiësto
• 10:45 PM – 12:00 AM Carnage
• 09:45 PM – 10:45 PM Dyro
• 08:45 PM – 09:45 PM Pegboard Nerds
• 08:00 PM – 08:45 PM Local Support: Skootr Valdez
• 07:30 PM – 08:00 PM Local Support: Ruben Divine & Kyzer
• 07:00 PM – 07:30 PM Local Support: Hubba-Bubba
• 06:30 PM – 07:00 PM Local Support: Radar & IQ
• 06:00 PM – 06:30 PM Local Support: Blinxxx & Anthony Van Atten

We’re just one week away from Ultimate Music Experience but before the fun starts, we wanted to give you all a sneak peek of the official commemorative merchandise from the anticipated event!

Our tropical-inspired designs were screen printed on t-shirts and tanks made from 100% cotton so you won’t have to worry about shrinkage for years and years. From colored skulls, a sun-soaked island, or neon waves, there are multiple designs to appease any tastes. Let the world know how much fun you had for Spring Break this year and stop by the UME Merch booth on March 13-15th.

Before we get down at Ultimate Music Experience on March 13-15th, the fun will start on Wednesday, March 12th with the official pre-party at Clayton’s Beach Resort. Get ready to sweat as cake monster Steve Aoki headlines the night along with #PandaFam leader Deorro, genre benders GTA and SiriusXM’s own Liquid Todd.

What better way to start off your three-day experience than with great energy and great music? Official UME Pre-Party tickets are now on-sale, buy your tickets today!

Wednesday, March 12: Pre-Party

• 12:30 AM – 02:00 AM Steve Aoki
• 11:30 PM – 12:30 AM GTA
• 10:30 PM – 11:30 PM Deorro
• 09:30 PM – 10:30 PM Liquid Todd
• 09:00 PM – Gates Open!

Catch your local artist support once the gates open, including JonWayne Eaden & Tayrie, VanVan/Xioxx/Tapiaman, DJ Dirty.

In only 10 days, we get to experience the beach life on South Padre Island as the country’s largest Spring Break dance music event, Ultimate Music Experience returns to Schlitterbahn Waterpark on March 13-15th.

If you couldn’t get enough time off work or you made prior engagements that interfere with your would-be Spring Break plans, you’re in luck! We just released a batch of single day tickets for UME for only $60. Keep in mind, there are a very limited quantity of these available, so grab them before it’s too late.

And don’t forget! The celebration kicks off on March 12th at official UME pre-party with Steve Aoki, Deorro, and GTA.

Single day tickets to Ultimate Music Experience are now available, buy your tickets today!

Volunteering is a great way to get involved with your the festival community – and there are tons of benefits too. If you sign up to volunteer at this year’s Ultimate Music Experience, you’ll receive access to the Spring Break event, get hands on experience by working at a major festival event and meet others with similar interests like yourself so you can network.

Sound like something you interested in? Email volunteer@umesouthpadre.com with your full name, email address, phone number, date of birth (to confirm that you are at least 18 years old) and attach your résumé. Once we have your application for consideration, we’ll contact you with more details.

Come celebrate Spring Break this March 12-15th with Disco Donnie Presents, Global Groove Events, and Sugar Society for the Ultimate Music Experience pre-party at Clayton’s Beach Resort and anticipated three-day event at Schlitterbahn Waterpark. Tickets are still available online, purchase your tickets today!

We have names like Tiësto, Steve Aoki, Bassnectar, and Zedd all making their way down to South Padre Island but they won’t be the only ones soundtracking the evening. We’ve have tons of great regional talent who will also be performing, so you can rage on with great music all night.

Regional Acts for Ultimate Music Experience

Wednesday, March 12: Pre-Party

• JonWayne Eaden & Tayrie
• VanVan, Xioss, & Tapiaman
• DJ Dirty

Thursday, March 13

• Skootr Valdez
• Ruben Divine & Kyzer
• Hubba-Bubba
• Radar & IQ
• Blinxxx & Anthony Van Atten

Friday, March 14

• Gamma
• Danny Desmadre
• Surain
• Frankie Gusto & DJ Broseph
• DJ Agro & Cannibass Effects
• Blast FX & Angel Vene

Saturday, March 15

• Andrew Parsons
• Impact & Exceeder
• Beanie Bros
• Raul Magallan & DJ Portek

With the Ultimate Music Experience less than two weeks away, time is running out to ensure your entry to the Spring Break event of a lifetime. Only a limited amount of tickets remain for the three day event and official pre-party, so act fast to make sure you don’t miss out on the fun.

The party starts on March 12th at Clayton’s Beach Resort as Steve Aoki, Deorro, Liquid Todd, and special guests GTA take the stage to kick off the weekend right at the official UME Pre-Party.

The following three days, is when things really start to heat up as we invade Schlitterbahn Waterpark on March 13-15th and enjoy the sounds of artists like Tiësto, Bassnectar, Zedd, Carnage, Paper Diamond and Boys Noize all scheduled to perform on our massive stage.

Come be a part of North America’s largest Spring Break dance music event and buy your tickets to Ultimate Music Experience and the official pre-party today!

No matter what medium he’s using, the Bassnectar experience is always a treat for the senses. Whether he’s fusing the familiar with the strange or the classic with the cutting edge, his music coupled with his enigmatic stage presence makes every set an adventure free of rules and limitations.

Born and raised in the outskirts of San Francisco, Ultimate Music Experience talent Lorin Ashton, better known as Bassnectar, was drawn to visual arts rather than musical arts, often making movies on his father’s camera. After attending raves at the age of 18, Lorin began researching electronic music. Though he recorded songs off the radio to create makeshift mixtapes, being a DJ was the furthest thing from his mind, “I never cared about being a DJ, but I cared deeply about creating community events or inciting gatherings that were subversive to mainstream culture. I wanted to reach out and kind of give back to the world because I felt inspired to a point that was almost out of control. I also identified as a musician, so there was no doubt in my mind I would make music for the rest of my life.”

Honing his style, the UME talent began playing house parties in the Bay Area as DJ Lorin. Quickly picking up momentum in his home state, Lorin was asked to perform at Burning Man multiple times, often playing up to seven sets in a night. Using a varied workspace, Lorin’s open-sourced musical format is unlike any other artist in the industry, drawing inspiration from every genre imaginable, “My influences are not necessarily how I sound, they include everything from NWA to Simon & Garfunkel to The Cure to The Field Of Dreams Soundtrack to Sibilant & Metal Spark to Cannibal Corpse, Exhumed & Emperor to My Dying Bride to FreQ Nasty, Tipper, Ed Rush & Optical, to Frank Zappa to The Who to Boards Of Canada to REM to Salt N Peppa to Run DMC to Led Zeppelin to Grave to Disembowelment to Beethoven and Mozart to Oizo, Mr. Rogers, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Mr. Mayagi, to loma prieta earthquakes to Native American flute music and the soft humming of my mother. I guess Bassnectar is an amalgamation of every sound I’ve ever heard, mixed with ultra wicked basslines.”

He released his first album Freakbeat for the Beatfreaks in 2001 and in the following year, Lorin performed as Bassnectar for the first time. Through the years, Bassnectar worked and toured relentlessly releasing an extensive list of singles, EPs, and albums every year since his first while continuing to be a staple at music festivals like Camp Bisco, Coachella, and Lollapalooza. Even when he’s not playing at a festival, his solo shows pull some huge numbers. In 2012 alone, Bassnectar sold over 250,000 tickets. His fans, “Bass Heads,” are one of the most devout communities in the world, traveling long distances to experience the notorious live performances whenever they can.

Outside of making stellar music, Bassnectar’s active involvement with the community is another reason we love this bass veteran, “I want to give back and catalyze my fan base to have a greater impact. A part of that is the Dollar Per Bass Head campaign. I will donate a dollar from every ticket sold for the rest of my life to go towards charities that my fans vote on each year.”

Currently, you can find Bassnectar hard at work in the studio, “I’m working on an album of songs and collaborating like a lunatic. And I’m looking forward to having some adventures in unexpected places, exploring new things, and trying new ideas.” Taking a break to come vacation and party with us at Schlitterbahn Beach Waterpark, we’re excited to have Bassnectar close out the second day of Ultimate Music Experience.

Join the celebration and pre-party taking place March 12-15th. Tickets are now available, buy your tickets online today.

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Ultimate Music Experience is almost here and soon we will be taking over Schlitterbahn Beach Waterpark on March 13-15th. If you like fun in the sun with a great soundtrack to boot, the buy your tickets online today and join the celebration!

For this sound clash, we’re pairing two of our duos who have carved their own style in dance music. Though one duo is known for their glitchy, open format, and the other for their bassmentality, we are in for a real treat when Pegboard Nerds and Zeds Dead perform at Ultimate Music Experience this year.

Pegboard Nerds

Hailing from Denmark and Norway, Pegboard Nerds have been producing and remixing for established artists for well over twenty years but it wouldn’t be until 2011 that the two would create Pegboard Nerds, “We have been making music together for several years, but started Pegboard Nerds last year in an effort to focus on our own productions and our own style.”

Their first release “Gunpoint” was just the beginning of a string of successful releases that were soon to follow. Fans couldn’t get enough of tracks like “Self Destruct,” “Disconnected,” and “Fire In The Hole,” the latter of which held the number one spot on the Beatport’s Glitch Hop chart for nearly three consecutive months.

Known for creating a unique blend of electro, dubstep, moombahcore, and glitch hop, the two have never confined themselves to one genre. Pegboard Nerds’ latest single “Bassline Kickin,” shows off the boys’ knack for producing electro bangers with funky synths, hard-hitting drops, and a gritty bass. Join us on March 13-15th when the duo brings that kicking bass line to Ultimate Music Experience. Grab your tickets today!

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Zeds Dead

“Zed’s dead baby. Zed’s dead.” Actually, Zed is alive and well thanks to the two men behind Canadian outfit Zeds Dead. Forming the summer of 2009, the boys first showcased their tracks at their debut performance at The Social and about a year later, they were booked weekly for a gig called “Bassmentality.”

The duo gained international recognition long before their first official release by offering free downloads of their productions. Their first freebie was “Journey of a Lifetime” in June 2009 and by the following year, the two released “Rumble in the Jungle” on Mad Decent. The track went on to reach #1 on Beatport’s breakbeat chart and cemented their position among the bass music’s elite.

Known for their raw, bass-influenced tunes, the Zeds Dead style is heavily hip hop influenced, borrowing the synths from electro and giving it some distortion for a gritty overall sound. We can’t wait to get ratchet with Zeds Dead as they take the stage at this year’s Ultimate Music Experience. Grab your tickets today to be a part of the celebration!

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The countdown has begun and soon we will be heading off to South Padre Island for the 2014 edition of Ultimate Music Experience. Starting with the official pre-party at Clayton’s Beach Resort with Steve Aoki on March 12th, UME will be taking over Schlitterbahn Beach Waterpark with sounds from the heavyweights of dance music from March 13-15th. Tickets are already on-sale, buy your tickets online today!

For this sound clash, we’re pairing two newcomers who are making big waves in the music industry. Though one is known for his progressive flavor, and the other for her tribal-laced big room sound, get ready for two very in-your-face performances by Dyro and Brazzabelle when they make their way to Ultimate Music Experience.

Dyro

The year 2011 was when Dutch remixer and producing maestro Dyro decided it was time to focus on being a creator of music rather than just a fan of it. Only 19 at the time, once Dyro gained the confidence to put his work online, it wasn’t long before one of his own personal heroes, Hardwell caught wind of the new talent, “I was in contact with some fellow producers and through sharing my music with these guys, via one of them, one of my tracks fell into the hands of Hardwell. He took it and played it at Electric Zoo Festival, New York, I didn’t even know!! Then when Hardwell’s label manager got back in touch saying they were feeling it and wanted to release it, well I was blown away.”

Dyro’s first release “Metaphor” was signed by Revealed Recordings in 2011 and received massive support from everyone from David Guetta to Afrojack. Known for creating huge progressive tracks with electro-influenced drops, Dyro knows how to create that peak-time sound, claiming that energy is the core element in each of his productions.

Closing out 2013 with mega-hits “Never Say Goodbye” and “Paradise” with Tiësto, Dyro is marching into 2014 with a new release in “Black Smoke,” a slow-burning track with raw, relentless synths that is sure to get you in the mood for Ultimate Music Experience. Buy your tickets to this year’s edition of UME today!

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Brazzabelle

Brazzabelle has always been interested in a variety of musical genres. Listening to bands like 311 and The Offspring, she would eventually discover dance music in her teens, “When I was 14, I started getting into dance music but none of my peers were really into it except for the four ravers I had at my high school whom wore candy jewelry and huge parachute pants.”

Brazzabelle started DJing and producing in 2010. By 2011, the fashionista made her debut release with the tech house banger “Break Your Body.” Following the success of her debut, Brazzabelle has released a steady stream of mixtapes and the single “Drop The Beat” featuring Zashanel. Audiences were all clamoring for more big room stabs and huge builds and Brazzabelle was ready to give it to them.

Known for creating big room bombs with her own flavor of tribal vibes, this UME talent is still honing her individual sound saying, “It will always be unique to Brazzabelle.” Her latest festival edit of the classic anthem “What is Love” is sure to make its way in sets around the globe. Come drop the beat with Brazzabelle when she performs at Ultimate Music Experience on March 13-15th, buy your tickets today!

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