Ultra Music Festival Miami 2016 (UMF) gathered yet another enthusiastic crowd this year ready to get their party on with a lineup of the world’s greatest DJs to kick off the start of festival season. UMF Miami is known for awesome live performances, and gives attendants a first listen to a ton of new track premieres.

Listen To Live Sets From Ultra Music Festival Miami 2016 Day 3

With all the killer sets jam packed into three days its hard to pick a top favorite list; we know! So we took a shot, and made a list of our favorites for all you guys to enjoy. Here is our handpicked top 5 sets from Ultra Music Festival Miami 2016.

Martin Garrix

Martin Garrix was honored to close the Ultra main stage day 1 Friday night (March 18). It’s hard to believe this rising young talent is only 19, and continues to accomplish great things is dance music. A long way come since when he first burst onto the scene with “Animals” in 2013. Garrix’s hyped up the arrival of his set, and met that hype when he played tons of new music that we are hoping will be IDed very soon (Martin Garrix UMF IDs). Garrix had an incredible production vision to display during his live set through lights and visuals that would continuously change thorough his set to match the tone of the music. The crowd soaked up every minute of his set, and so were everyone at home who tuned into the #UltraLive stream making his set a must add to our top 5 picks.

Zedd

Boy oh boy did Zedd play a spectacular set at the Ultra main stage day 3 Sunday night (March 20). Opening with his 2012 original “Spectrum” drew in the crowd to prepare for a musical adventure as he ventured through an amazing mixture between a Clarity of True Colors and hit singles. Zedd brought the energy with hits from True Colors like “Beautiful Now” and oldies but goodies like “Stay The Night” that had the crowd singing along from front to back. He event dropped his new release “Candyman” featuring Aloe Blacc that was a crowd pleaser. You will be sure to enjoy this one.

Slander

LA duo Slander spread #GudVibrations throughout Ultra worldwide stage day 1 on Friday night (March 18) as they filled the air with an electrifying trap set that set the crowd on fire. The even brought their homie NGHTMARE out on stage to drop a couple hits with them. Slander posted on their social media that performing at Ultra was a dream of theirs for a while now that finally came true making it a surreal and life-changing moment they will always be thankful for the support they received. Rock out with Slander as you replay their live set that absolutely played the worldwide stage.

Alison Wonderland

Hailing from Australia Alison Wonderland took the Ultra worldwide stage day 1 on Friday night (March 18) for the next inspirational trap set of the night that absolutely rocked the house. Hot off her debut album release Run in 2015 Alison Wonderland has been blasting her way to the top of the dance music scene with originals that express her emotions and free spirit in the form of infectious beats and groovy rhythms like “Already Gone” featuring Brave & Lido and “U Don’t Know” featuring Wayne Coyne. It was a great moment to see Alison Wonderland drop to her knees mid set to give her thanks for the positive energy the crowd was feeding her as she looked out to take in the draw-dropping moment. If you haven’t heard her before check her out here, and after listening just go ahead and mark yourself down as a new fan.

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Julian Jordan

Dutch DJ/producer Julian Jordan is a must watch rising new talent who is creating his own hype within the dance music scene. Welcoming Julian Jordan for the first time to the Ultra main stage day one Friday (March 18) he brought an incredible live performance for his set that continued to evolve with layers of sounds and beats that gathered an impressive day crowd to his set. He is a free spirit within the industry releasing tracks on various labels as he explores them all, and is also good friends with Martin Garrix where you will find some of his originals released to Garrix’s new label as well. Garrix played a collaboration the two of them work working on during his set… Can you ID which one it is? Listen to Julian Jordan’s live set that brings a fresh spin to dance music as we know it, and continue to listen to him blow up the scene in the coming future.

BONUS SET: Knife Party B2B Pendulum

Ultra goes hard all the way till the very last set. Closing out the third and final day of Ultra on the main stage on Sunday night (March 20) was Knife Party B2B with Pendulum who performed an 80 minute set to bring the festival to a full throttle close. If you don’t know, Knife Party is an Australian duo consisting of two members Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen who are originally members from the drum and bass band Pendulum. Anticipations were met when Pendulum arrived to begin their set by opening with their classic 2010 track “The Island” that filled the hearts of many with a live original performance. They even brought out Deadmau5 to perform his 2004 hit “Ghost n’ Stuff” featuring Rob Swire on the vocals. The ultimate throwback moments. Here is a closing set that will go down in Ultra history. Way to save the best for last Ultra.

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