I brought Rip Van Hippy to Oregon in 2010. It was a dream come true. I love him so much.
I really wanted to add SWM to the line up but couldn't afford it. Was a great party though... http://apolloslute.com
Bummed to not be getting SWM but MASA had the best set at the Oregon Eclipse festival the other year and I'm super excited to hear him again. While a lot of these artists are common for many parts of the world, not for the USA.
In 2006 I started throwing a series of events called **GOA PARTY** [note: Marsh who run goatranch.com and the Global Goa Party events played at the first **GOA PARTY** and hi-jacked the name for his stuff a couple of years later....] The first one had each DJ playing a tribute set of a specific artist. Over half of those are playing ZNA (you can listen to about 8hrs of the first **GOA PARTY** here: http://goaconstrictor.com/thoughts/goa-party/ )
The second year **GOA PARTY 2.3** was a trip back in time. First set was 2007 and each set went back a year
The third year was the TR1LOLGY and had a secret DJ set from Process and we brought out astro turf and pine tree car air freshners to the forest to give the outdoors a good outdoor motif
The fourth year I DJ'd a 25 hour set to battle Goa Gil. It was my Goa Gil Constrictor set. I played many tag team sets with friends throughout the gig and it was a lot of fun to map out a full days worth of music.
The fifth year was the Rip Van Hippy party.
Now I can simply attend a ridiculous festival with all of the actual artists and have a holiday. This is like a dream come true.
Sure I have to fly overseas, but I've lost a couple thousand throwing events locally, and this way I won't need to have responsibilities. lolololol
(although, if I can convince them to cut Xenomorph in half, I'd love to play a set there. just have no idea how to make that happen...)
EDIT: That's not actually true. It's a nice alternate reality but I'm really into the itinerary I've got going on for my vacation. What I was implying was that this is the first festival that I've really thought my sensibilities would match with. I guess I'm floating this into the universe for future alignment of realities...
=)