Stereosonic 2014: Crunching the Numbers

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Stereosonic 2014: Crunching the Numbers

Stereosonic, the 100% US owned ‘Australian’ festival has released a mammoth lineup for this years festivities that’ll see among others Calvin Harris, Tiesto, Diplo, Skrillex, Steve Aoki and more play host to tens of thousands around the country.

Although the lineup does have a heavy headliner stance there are plenty of real-deal players with Tale of Us, Nina Kraviz, Kolsch, Carl Cox, Alex Metric and Deetron all representing the other spectrums of dance while Australian producers have firmly planted their foot through day one and two with Peking Duk, LDRU & Yahtzel, Alison Wonderland and The Aston Shuffle all calling the mainstages home.

What really struck us this year was the literal splash of artists from varying genres all coming together to play host to what is hopefully a progressive day and night of dance music!

This got us thinking. What genres are you really paying for?

Below is a breakdown of artists representing their closest home genres based on Soundcloud, Facebook, Youtube and Wikipedia (if we’re off, give us the word in the comments).

Electro & Electro House (20): Calvin Harris, Peking Duk, NERVO, Oliver Heldens, Cash Cash, Timmy Trumpet, M4SONIC, Tigerlily, Generik, Alesso, Steve Aoki, Porter Robinson, Laidback Luke, Deorro, DVBBS, Crookers, Jack Beats, The Ashton Shuffle, Alex Metric, Kaz James,

House & Tech-House (15): Disclosure (DJ set), Duke Dumont, Cedric Gervais, Tale Of Us, Destructo, Scuba, Kolsch, Mano Le Tough, Carl Cox, MK, Booka Shade, Hot Since 82, Route 94, Ian Bluestone, Acid Jacks

Trance & Progressive (14): Tiesto, W&W, Cosmic Gate, Andrew Rayel, Orjan Nilsen, MaRLo, Shogun, Mark Sixma, Dash Berlin, New World Punx, Ferry Corsten, Markus Schulz, John O’Callaghan, Simon Patterson

Trap (7): Diplo, DJ Snake, RL Grime, Nina Las Vegas, What So Not, Alison Wonderland, L D R U & Yahtzel

Melbourne Bounce (4): Will Sparks, Uberjak’d, Joel Fletcher, TJR

Drum & Bass (3): Noisia, Nick Thayer, Wilkinson

Dubstep (3): Skrillex, Willkinson, Foreign Beggars

Techno (2): Nina Kraviz, Deetron

Hardstyle (2): Showtek, Headhunterz

Taking the above and presuming that a majority of them purchase a $200 General Admissions ticket that covers both days and there are 70 artists on the official announce it works out to be roughly $2.85 an artist, that’s not bad hey?

So what if we start breaking it down further and finding out what each genre represents from the ticket price.

Lets begin (X x $2.85 = ?);

Electro & Electro House: $57.0
House & Tech-House: $42.75
Trance & Progressive: $39.9
Trap: $19.95
Melbourne Bounce: $11.4
Drum & Bass: $8.55
Dubstep: $8.55
Techno: $5.7
Hardstyle: $5.7

So give or take cents on what artists are actually worth and you’ve got a pretty weighted festival towards the Electro & Electro House, House & Tech House and Trance & Progressive side of things. There’s still a decent bump of Trap and Melbourne Bounce before things trickle off!

Full national dates and ticket information here.

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