10:45 -- All I learned from watching Zedd is that Magic!'s "Rude" actually is popular and that Billboard hasn't been playing some sort of bizarre joke keeping it in the Hot 100. I also manage to catch "Clarity," which is still a lovely song.

1:10 a.m. -- Skillex is basically exactly what you expect him to be, all fire and bombast, until he isn't what you expect at all. After blasting through his big songs and other aggressive tracks, he slows down things during "Cinema" to address the crowd on the subject of how we all should be nicer, better people in the next year.

He's real good at connecting with a crowd, and for a moment the whole thing approaches something poignant. Then he says he's going to play something for the haters and throws on Big Sean's "I Don't Fuck With You" and yep, we're definitely at a Skrillex show.

Saturday, December 27:

6:45 p.m. -- There was a 20-degree temperature drop over the past 24 hours, but if you thought that would make for modest outfits on Day 2 you clearly don't understand the dedication to EDM fashion.

8:15 -- Although on the grand scale they may be best known for their viral hit "Selfie," The Chainsmokers have legit chops when it comes to putting together a festival set. They had the crowd going mental for the entire length of their set, which at the early hour was pretty impressive. The highlight was taking the piss out of their big song; I guess they've learned the same lesson Baauer learned via "Harlem Shake."

9:15 -- Every festival seems to have that one set that sticks out because it's almost completely divorced from everything else on the bill. In this case, that set came from Odesza, a Seattle duo with laid back beats that were among the most enjoyable of the fest. Enjoyable, that is, if you could get past all the people trying to talk over it. A non-bombastic electronic music set getting talked over? Shocking, right?

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