Live 105's Spookfest Scares It's Way To The Top Of EDM Scene

The Daily Meal Staff|Oct. 9, 2014 3:30 pm EST

OAKLAND (CBS SF) – Long before EDM (electronic dance music) had become a household name, Bay Area radio station Live 105 were strong advocates and supporters of the underground electronic music scene. Dating back to the early origins of the station in the mid 80's.

"Subsonic," one of the countries longest-running electronic radio shows made its debut on the Bay Area airwaves in 1996 and has been an influential and pivotal EDM platform for over 15 years.

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"Spookfest," Live 105's Halloween concert, was first put together in 2009 and was modeled after our two major station benchmark events: "BFD" and "Not So Silent Night."

spookfest 0661 Live 105s Spookfest Scares Its Way To The Top of EDM Scene Spookfest at The Oracle Arena, Oakland (credit: Live 105)

Derived from the insanely enormous crowd inside the BFD Subsonic Dance Tent, Live 105's impetus was simply to fuse together Halloween with a very passionate lifestyle and appetite for electronic music. Resulting in another cool and unique Live 105 concert event in Spookfest.

102234478 Live 105s Spookfest Scares Its Way To The Top of EDM Scene Calvin Harris (credit: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

The first two Spookfests took place inside Daly City's Cow Palace in 2009 and 2010 and featured EDM heavyweights that included The Faint, Basement Jaxx, Infected Mushroom, Crystal Method, Diplo, Zombie Nation, Dyloot, Flosstradamus, Steve Aoki, Classixx, DJ Shadow, Underworld, Booka Shade, Wolfgang Gartner, Dada Life and Mstrkrft.

In 2012 Spookfest moved to its current home at the Oracle Arena in Oakland. It has since hosted electronic luminaires such as Calvin Harris (pictured above), Benny Benassi, Datsik, Example, R3Hab, Sebastian Ingrosso, Empire of The Sun, A-Trak, Nervo and more.

Over its 6-year history, Spookfest has drawn over 56,000 Northern California electronic music fans.

This year, Spookfest arrives on Halloween, October 31st. Their featured artists include Alesso, Chromeo, Gareth Emery, Duke Dumont, Henry Fong, Slaptop, Aaron Axelsen and St. John.

Tickets are on sale now at LiveNation.com.