"Complete Nightmare Disaster": Zedd Lived Out Every DJ's Worst Fear at Ultra—But Still Delivered a Set for the Ages

Zedd discovered himself in a strain cooker on one of many world’s greatest pageant levels.

You are about to carry out for tens of 1000’s of followers at one of many world’s greatest festivals. You have been making ready for months. However minutes earlier than you’re taking the stage, all the pieces falls aside.

This situation is the stuff of nightmares for DJs—even luminaries like Zedd, whose world was a real-life fever dream when his plans to throw down on the Extremely Mainstage had been throttled by a freak software program accident. Within the wake of his set on Friday evening—which was nonetheless as spectacular as ever—the Grammy-winning producer took to Twitter to lament the efficiency, which he known as a “full nightmare catastrophe.”

Zedd discovered himself in a strain cooker, “freaking out your entire present” after his USB and backup drives had been corrupted by a software program malfunction. Replying to a fan who requested why he hadn’t examined his USB prior to make sure it functioned correctly, Zedd stated he was producing edits till the final minute. His staff did not have the brand new tracks but and once they tried to sync them to the thumb drive, all the pieces went haywire.

It is an all-too-familiar predicament for digital artists. Updating software program like Ableton and rekordbox—two industry-standard applications for music manufacturing and DJing, respectively—comes with excessive stakes. An artist might not have the correct drivers put in for the revamped software program to speak with their system’s working system, resulting in vexing penalties like corrupted recordsdata and lacking plugins.

“Very precious lesson realized on my aspect although; by no means replace rekordbox till you’re pressured,” Zedd, who appears to be in good spirits regardless of the dilemma, wrote in a follow-up tweet. “I’ve simply not been enjoying reveals for a little bit so I used to be WAY behind on updates and thought I possibly ought to.”

The followers, in fact, had been none the wiser. They danced and screamed as if Zedd weren’t frantically navigating technical difficulties amid an imbroglio on the nation’s greatest stage. And the consensus was that nobody even seen—a testomony to the resiliency of one of many world’s best digital music producers and songwriters.

A slew of Zedd’s contemporaries in the end chimed in with their help and empathy for the unlucky state of affairs, which trance music icon Ilan Bluestone known as “the worst feeling on earth.”

“i’m so sorry this occurred to you brother, i can’t think about the way it should really feel,” wrote Deorro. “being so ready for such a present and increase, all the pieces falls aside final minute.”

“Oh wow def didn’t discover and danced my ass off,” added Sam Feldt.