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Disco Donnie Presents (DDP) is an electronic dance music event production company, founded by 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 Latin America. Annually, DDP is responsible for organizing and promoting nearly 1,000 club events across the U.S. ranging from Portland, Philadelphia, Houston, Tampa, New Orleans, Dallas, and St. Louis to name only a few; plus major festivals such as Ubbi Dubbi, Sunset Music Festival, Freaky Deaky, Sun City Music Festival, The Day After, and Ultimate Music Experience. 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. History James "Disco Donnie" Estopinal, Jr. first began hosting dance music parties in New Orleans in 1994 after graduating from Louisiana State University.Louisiana State University. Donnie threw parties under many different company aliases such as Moon Patrol and Freebass Society before eventually settling on Disco Productions, the precursor to Disco Donnie Presents. Disco Productions and Freebass Society 1995-2007 Disco Donnie organized many parties under different company monikers including Disco Productions, Moon Patrol, and Freebass Society before eventually landing on Disco Donnie Presents. State Palace Theater 1995 Donnie scores his first legitimate venue, New Orleans’ historic State Palace Theater. Initial Expansion 1997 Donnie expands into throwing raves in Houston, Austin, Atlanta, Louisiana and Mississippi in both legit and underground venues including an abandoned movie theater, a six-story warehouse (rent: $1,000), the Austin Music Hall and others. Featured talent includes Frankie Bones, Paul Oakenfold, the Crystal Method, Keoki, Clint Mansell (Pop Will Eat Itself, film composer for Requiem for a Dream & Black Swan), LTJ Bukem, Derrick Carter, Freaky Chakra, Single Cell Orchestra and SS and many others. Crack House Statute 1998 In the Fall of 2000, Estopinal became the first rave promoter ever indicted under the federal "crack house" statute, an archaic provision of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 which stipulated that anyone who owned, leased, or rented a property "for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing or using any controlled substance" could be criminally prosecuted. " This law allowed the Justice Department to prosecute property owners of venues where "rave parties" were thrown, and the promoters who threw them.[4] The legislation was authored by then U.S. Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, who by the early 2000s had become an enthusiastic proponent of using the crack-era law against rave promoters like Estopinal. The State Palace Theatre was eventually fined $100,000 in 2001 and allowed to stay open as long as they banned drug paraphernalia like glow sticks and pacifiers. EDC 1999 Disco Donnie partners with Pasquale Rotella's Insomniac on Nocturnal Wonderland in Los Angeles and then later on Electric Daisy Carnival. So many people show up that the riot police use tear gas to break up the crowd outside the gates. At the end of the night, 8,000 people got in, with another 15,000 hoping to get access. "Operation Rave Review" January 2000 Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) begins "Operation Rave Review" targeting the owners of the State Palace Theater in New Orleans and a certain event producer there, specifically, Donnie and his raves. DEA surveillance on Donnie continues for eight months. DEA Raid August 2000 DEA raids the State Palace Theater and office under the theory that the venue and/or Donnie are smuggling drugs inside the sound equipment and selling them from backstage using runners with VIP credentials. Agents search, and even up the speakers but only bust a bartender in possession of a single marijuana cigarette. After a long fruitless search, the Feds left and Donnie opened his show for business that night. Crack House Law Prosecution 2001 January 2001 - Federal prosecutors charge Donnie under the Crack House Law seeking to put him in prison for 20 years and hundreds of thousands in fines. Donnie is also threatened with being charged with a CCE (continuing criminal enterprise). Donnie keeps throwing parties anyway, despite the occasional shut down by the cops, and then starts a weekly at House of Blues, New Orleans. Donnie and the manager of the State Palace Theater enter "not guilty" pleas and seek a dismissal. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) takes the case. Donnie becomes an unlikely civil rights hero in the dance music community. March 2001 - Donnie emerges victorious and the drug-free bass bins boom again at his first surveillance-free rave at the State Palace Theater. Later in 2001 - Donnie moves to Ohio and expands into producing shows in Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Nashville, and Memphis. Another Ohio promoter does not have the money to pay DJ Paul van Dyk, so Donnie loans him $5,000. Instead of paying Paul, the promoter robs Donnie and skips town. Donnie quickly becomes the most-trusted top promoter in Columbus. The RAVE Act 2003 Congress passes the RAVE Act, or the longer version—Reducing Americans Vulnerability to Ecstasy. Senator Joe Biden pushed this legislation. Insomniac Events 2008-2012 After years of collaborations in California, Donnie partnered with Pasquale Rotella, CEO of Insomniac Events, setting their sights on strategically developing the Insomniac brand throughout the US. Including bringing EDC to Dallas, Orlando, Puerto Rico, New York, and Las Vegas, and also bringing Nocturnal Wonderland to Austin, Beyond Wonderland to Seattle, and co-founding Electric Forest in Michigan. SFX 2012 After strategizing how to roll up electronic music companies to make them stronger, Donnie puts together a pitch deck and gets it to Bob Sillerman, the man who created Live Nation. Donnie's deck later forms the basis for SFX's roll up strategy. Sillerman's first acquisition was Disco Donnie Presents. With Donnie's guidance and relationships, SFX picks up Electric Zoo, ID&T, React, Beatport, Flavorus and many more. Robert F. X. Sillerman In 2013 - Afrojack rings the bell at NASDAQ to celebrate Sillerman making SFX a publicly traded company. DDP goes international 2014 Disco Donnie Presents expands into international markets and produces shows in Canada, Mexico, Panama, and Dominican Republic. Including club shows, and international festivals such as The Day Aft.... Discover the Dr Bob Rotella popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Dr Bob Rotella books.

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