Excerpt from the official recap of 2012's Electric Zoo

* What you'll hear: 45 of this year's top EDM artists * What you'll see: strobes, lasers, projections, purple smoke, and throngs of party people * Number of stages: five, in celebration of the fest's fifth birthday * On the Main Stage West: Headliners Avicii, Above & Beyond, Alesso, Flux Pavilion, and Showtek * On the Main Stage East: Headliners Knife Party, Benny Benassi, Martin Solveig, Excision, and Otto Knows * In the Sunday School Grove: Danny Tenaglia, Dixon, and more * In the Hilltop Arena: Headliners Ferry Corsten, Baauer, Big Gigantic, and Jack Beats * In the Riverside Tent: Boysnoize Records & Owsla presents Dog Blood and Kill the Noise * The most succinct summation of Electric Zoo 2012: “It's the best”— [Billboard.com](http://www.billboard.com/articles/photos/live/475247/electric-zoo-2012-14-things-seen-heard)