Our Favorite Sets from EDC Las Vegas 2014

After three days of utter EDC madness, with 130,000 people walking through the Las Vegas Motor Speedway daily into a world of dance music sensory overload, Vegas is now in recovery mode. But today, we're not here to harp on what we may have missed. Instead, let's talk about what we still have—hours and hours of new festival-smashing sets from the world's biggest DJs. Thanks to Insomniac (and the folks at Sirius XM) and their unwavering generosity, we've got some of the top sets up on SoundCloud already. Of course, there are some underground lesser-known gems like Kove and OWSLA's Durante unfortunately missing, but we've picked out a top five of what's currently online to keep your week as bass-faced as your weekend.

A-TRAK

The dude is a set destroying monster. He's pretty much always on tour playing every possible venue, festival or even house party, yet somehow manages to never get boring or old. It's a miracle that towards the very end of this set of "bossy hard trap" he jumped up on the decks and reached his arms out in a christ-like pose before ending with what brought him to these supreme overlord levels in the first place—some very nasty scratching.

CARL COX

After our EDC reporter Jemayel awarded Carl Cox with the inaugural Carl Cox Award for Awesomeness, it's only fair that he make this list. Actually, this list would really just be completely irrelevant without him. Tell me, who else might make a saxophone work so smoothly with a techno hitter? He's an EDC legend and we are all his loyal followers.

TIËSTO

He's the reason people come to these things in the first place, right? Tiësto didn't have the easist set time following a killer hour of Kaskade, but he came through with a strong performance starting with his own haunting opus "Adagio For Strings." The uptempo drum kicks in, the light show begins and the crowd freaks the fuck out. The same can happen in your very own bedroom with an active imagination.

CARNAGE

This set has been on the internet for a total of two days and already has over 11,000 listens. If you trust 11,000 people and their music taste, then this is certifiably amazing. Anyone into big room EDM and trap basically lives for Carnage, so he closed out EDC day one with this late night/very early morning set. Stay up late and see how wrecked you can get to this baby. This. Is. How. We. Do.

DASH BERLIN

And the highest honor of all went to Dutch trance legend Dash Berlin who played the very last set on the very last night of EDC as the sun began to rise over the Las Vegas Motor Speedway at 4am on Monday morning. "Dragonfly" emanated over the crowd as a voiceover chanted, "We are EDC," hitting peak PLUR before it all dissapeared.

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