Skrillex is on a speedboat flying through the Biscayne Bay. He's on his way to commit mass murder at Ultra Music Festival where he will kill beats and cause a massive dubstep bloodbath.

For now, he's just another cracker tourist on the water in Miami. But soon, his massive legion of bass worshiping followers will be slamming their heart rates right along to his music.

Here's a new behind-the-scenes video of what else went down when Skrillex was in Miami -- plus an extremely detailed breakdown.
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​See the "Top Ten Dance Moves at Coachella 2012 in Animated GIF!"

Have you ever stripped down to your underwear or less, hit a municipal park, gotten drunk and drugged, and done the Sweaty Uhntz-Uhntz at 169 BPMs while 163,000 people watched?

Nah, beat freak. We ain't talking about public sex. Just dancing at Ultra Music Festival.

Over the weekend, we here at Crossfade witnessed all kinds of sick, dirty, funny, weird, embarrassing, stupid, and sexy ass-shaking techniques.

Check the cut for animated GIFs of Ultra 2012's top ten dance moves.
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​Appearing with electro-house meatball Avicii at Ultra Music Festival may be providing Madonna with a buzz boost on par with Betty White's reinvention as a party-rockin' hornball grams.

First, the entire world seemed to shit its collective pants at the mere sight of Lady MDNA onstage at Ultra. We even managed to stretch the story to three separate blog posts. There's no question: Madge's Ultra Music Festival cameo will be 2012's number-one moment in rave blogging.

But then, the plot thickened when DJ-producer-curmudgeon extraordinaire, Deadmau5, told the Material Mom to "fuck off, you fucking idiot" while delivering one of his signature rants about the purity of EDM. The Mau5 was particularly distressed about Madonna's shout-out to "Molly," a common synonym for popular party drug MDMA.

But now Madonna has issued her own hilarious response in the form of a picture addressed to "lovemau5" and posted to her Twitter. Check it out after the jump.
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Photo by Ian Witlen

Confetti, smoke machines, champagne, birthday cakes, an inflatable raft, and crowd surfing.

It isn't surprising to find all this stuff at one of Steve Aoki's performances. He's known for hyping the crowd up with his crazy stunts. But Aoki dialed it up to 11 for his set at Ultra Music Festival on Sunday afternoon.
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​Woah, wait a minute. What happened this weekend?

We thought we were in Miami. But as soon as we crossed over Biscayne Boulevard we found ourselves in the middle of EDM insanity.

We were surrounded by thousands of colorful, crazy-eyed people-creatures. Some of them had furry ears and tails, some of them had furry legs, and some of them had totally lost their faces.

When we woke up this morning, we found pictures of these strange characters all over our phone. But who were these people? Let's take a closer look at seven of Ultra Music Festival's most fascinating characters.
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​Ultra Music Festival's MC introduced David Guetta as "the man that means more to electric dance music than anyone in the United States."

Hmm, of all time? Definitely not. At the moment? You could make a strong argument for that.

Is he the DJ currently making the most money off of it in the US? Yeah, definitely. And at Ultra last night, he proved why.
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All photos by Jacob Katel

​Magnetic Man is a collabo between three dubstep dudes from the UK -- DJs Benga, Skream, and Artwork -- who met at a record store in the '90s and have been raging ever since.

They're all big-name DJs and producers in their own right. As Magnetic Man, though, Benga, Skream, and Artwork have a major-label record deal, and they're touring the world. But prior to Ultra Music Festival 2012, they'd only played together in the U.S. once before, at Coachella.

Their show at Ultra's Live Stage featured a special guest MC who was pure fire. He was a hell of a hype man. Here are 15 photos from Magnetic Man's set.
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M83's not-so-triumphant moment at Ultra 2012.

​Read Crossfade's recap of M83's two-song set at Ultra 2012.

Ultra Music Festival is over. But we're still wondering about one thing: Will M83 be returning to Miami to make up for a ridiculously shortened Ultra set marred by technical difficulties?

Well, in a contrite statement that we just received from the band's label management, Anthony Gonzalez and crew address that question without making any concrete commitments.
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All photos by Jacob Katel

​We missed Afrobeta's opening-night set at Ultra Music Festival. But the Miami duo also played an action-packed closeout to Ultra on Sunday. And we caught it all on camera.

The party animals were out in full force and the band's Cuci Amador and Tony Smurphio were in strong shape. They played electro, and dubstep originals, and covered Devo's "Whip It," Nirvana's "Nevermind," and did a remix of the Looney Tunes theme song.
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Photo by Ian Witlen

​Read Crossfade's post about Madonna's Ultra Music Festival 2012 and watch the full six-minute and 52-second clip of Madonna's Ultra appearance.

UPDATE See Madonna's response to the Mau5. It's a cartoon of her wearing Mau5keteer ears.

Uh-oh, Deadmau5 is pissed off again.

The last time he unleashed his fury on Ultra Music Festival was in a 12-minute YouTube rant, slamming the electronic fest for ticket prices and exclusivity contracts.

But now he's angry at the Queen of Pop, Madonna, for referencing Ecstasy (AKA Molly) during her intro of Avicii at Ultra Music Festival.

Early this morning on his Facebook wall, Deadmau5 wrote, "very classy there madonna. 'HUR DUR HAS ANYONE SEEN MOLLY???' 

"such a great message for the young music lovers at ultra. quite the f'n philanthropist. but hey, at least yer HIP AND TRENDY! fucking cant smack my head hard enough right now."
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