For Immediate Release- (June 7, 2021) –– Disco Donnie Presents is excited to introduce its newest festival to the DDP roster, Freakazoid Robots taking place in Ascarate Park, El Paso, Texas over Labor Day Weekend September 4 and 5. The festival will feature three stages, with a focus on techno artists on stage three. The lineup features some of the biggest names in techno and electronic music, including Alesso, Deep Dish (Dubfire + Sharam), Gryffin (DJ set), Lane 8, Nicole Moudaber, Slander and ZHU, as well as El Paso hometown hero Riot Ten.
This announcement comes hot off the heels of DDP being the first promoter to lead live entertainment into the post-pandemic era with not one, but two, large-scale music festivals these past two months. Putting smiles on the faces of nearly 125K music fans, between the Ubbi Dubbi Fest in Ennis, TX on April 24 and 25 that entertained 60,000 people over the two days and 64,000 at the 12th inaugural Sunset Music Festival in Tampa, Florida on May 29 and 30, DDP has entertained over 124K happy people these past two months.
ARTISTS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
ADVENTURE CLUB
ALESSO
ATLIENS
AUDIEN
BOOGIE T B2B DIRT MONKEY
DECADON
DEEP DISH (Dubfire + Sharam)
DEVAULT
ELI & FUR
GRYFFIN (DJ SET)
JANTSEN
JAUZ
JOYRYDE
KAYZO
KUMARION
LANE 8
LAYLA BENITEZ
MIDNIGHT TYRANNOSAURUS
NAZAAR
NICOLE MOUDABER
QRION
RIOT TEN
RUSKO
SHIBA SAN
SLANDER
SUBTRONICS
SULLIVAN KING
TRIVECTA
WAX MOTIF
WOOLI
ZHU
Saturday Sept 4 & Sunday 5, 2021 • Ascarate Park, El Paso
ABOUT DISCO DONNIE PRESENTS:
Disco Donnie Presents (DDP) is an award-winning and recognized leader in electronic dance music event production, founded by veteran promoter James “Disco” Donnie Estopinal. Since the company’s inception in 1994, DDP has sold over 16 million tickets producing over 16,000 live events, arena shows, and outdoor festivals in over 100 markets around the world including the U.S., Mexico, Canada, and Panama. Annually, DDP is responsible for organizing and promoting nearly 1,000 club events across the U.S. ranging from Portland, Columbus, Houston, Tampa, New Orleans, Dallas, and St. Louis to name only a few. He is also known for producing major festivals such as The Day After, Ultimate Music Experience, Sun City Music Festival, and most recently Ubbi Dubbi, Sunset Music Festival, Ember Shores, and Freaky Deaky.
Founder and CEO, James “Disco Donnie” Estopinal, Jr. is considered one of the godfathers of U.S. electronic dance music, evolving over the past 27 years to become one of the top dance music promoters globally. From his early days in the 1990s New Orleans dance scene, Disco Donnie coupled eccentricity with ingenuity to create elaborately themed parties that charmed patrons, garnered an international following, and unwittingly became a catalyst for a national debate over the First Amendment right to expression.
In 1999, Donnie first partnered with Pasquale Rotella, CEO of Insomniac Events, and worked together on EDC Los Angeles, Nocturnal Wonderland Los Angeles, and Beyond Wonderland Los Angeles. In 2008, the duo merged officially, setting their sights on strategically developing the Insomniac brand throughout the world and making Insomniac a household name. Working together, the pair ushered in events such as EDC Orlando, EDC Dallas, EDC Puerto Rico, EDC New York; Beyond Wonderland Seattle; Nocturnal Wonderland Austin, and co-founded Electric Forest. The partnership also produced hundreds of club shows annually in markets across the U.S.
In 2012, DDP shifted its focus to the genesis and development of SFX Entertainment, as the first company to sign with founder Robert F. X. Sillerman; a media entrepreneur with a vision to invest nearly a billion dollars in electronic dance music to bring the world’s leading promoters under one roof.
Disco became a part of LiveStyle in 2017, which housed a worldwide portfolio of top-tier event companies including, Disco Donnie Presents, React Presents, Life In Color, Made Events, ID&T, Tomorrowland, Sensation, TomorrowWorld, Beatport.com, Electric Zoo, Awakenings, Q-Dance, and more.
After shelving the Something Wicked and Something Wonderful brands, Donnie partnered with a sister company in 2018 to bring Chicago’s Freaky Deaky to Houston, Texas, selling 50,000 tickets in its first year. In 2019, DDP announced Freaky Deaky Texas and Ubbi Dubbi, both wholly owned by Disco Donnie Presents. Ubbi Dubbi is Disco Donnie’s newest festival brand which takes us into a world curated by two whimsical imaginary characters known as Ubbi and Dubbi. The new brand took the EDM world by storm, gathering 45,000 attendees in its inaugural year.
In 2020, James “Disco Donnie” Estopinal announced he re-acquired sole ownership of Disco Donnie Presents (DDP), the namesake company he founded 26 years ago. This historic acquisition concludes an epic eight-year journey through being the first company acquired by SFX, surviving SFX’s subsequent bankruptcy, becoming a part of LiveStyle, and finally buying his company back and delivering fan refunds in the face of COVID-19 festival cancellations. Dedicated to continuing to serve the EDM community, DDP created No Parking On The Dance Floor, a new brand that brought 25+ drive-in shows to fans across the U.S. through April 2021.
In 2021, Disco Donnie Presents was finally able to move forward with club shows and festivals once again. In the first week of April 2021, he launched Ember Shores in partnership with Illenium. This announcement marked the company’s first all-inclusive destination music festival, set for December 2021 in Cancun. Ubbi Dubbi returned in April 2021 as the first festival back in the US with 60,000 tickets sold and the company’s first festival camping experience. With the company back in Donnie’s control and the events world returning to its former glory, DDP plans on rapid expansion of new festival brands and show concepts in 2021 and beyond.
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