Electric State Passport turns festival season into something you can keep

LOS ANGELES — August 7, 2026 — Electric State today detailed the current release of Electric State Passport, a free app for iOS, Android and the web that combines electronic music event discovery with a permanent, personal record of every show its users attend.

Most event apps stop at a list of things happening near you. Electric State Passport starts there — a location-aware feed pulling from Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, Resident Advisor and community submissions within a 75-mile radius — and then does the part nobody else does. It tells you whether a given festival is actually for you, and it remembers that you went.

Lineup DNA: a percentage instead of a poster

The app's signature feature, Lineup DNA, scores any festival in the catalog against the artists a user follows and returns a single number — this festival is 87% your taste. Matched artists are grouped by day, so someone comparing two weekends can see not just whether they'd like a lineup, but which day is worth the ticket. Scores are shareable as a generated card.

Users can seed their profile by hand or import the artists they already follow on Spotify in one tap. The import is one-shot by design: Electric State requests the data, uses it, and discards the token rather than holding a standing connection to anyone's streaming account.

Set times, transcribed from the source

Festival pages now carry full per-stage set-time schedules — day tabs, stage columns, and a live NOW badge marking whatever is playing at that moment. Schedules are transcribed directly from official set-time graphics as promoters release them, typically two to seven days out.

The result handles what a screenshot in your camera roll cannot. After-midnight sets are stored as absolute times rather than filed under the previous night's column. Back-to-back sets are represented correctly as one set with two artists. Closing sets with no listed end time are marked until close rather than given an invented one.

In the pilot rollout across Splash House Weekend 1 and Weekend 2, the process captured 76 sets across seven stages — and surfaced artists who had never appeared on the festival's own published lineup graphic. Openers routinely go missing from the poster; they don't go missing from the schedule.

The passport itself

Checking in at a show stamps a user's passport, awards XP, and moves them through levels — Newcomer, Scene Regular, Underground Local, Electric State Native — with badges for the kind of history the scene actually values: warehouse check-ins, house-music streaks, bass sets.

The passport becomes a running record of a user's years out, not a browsing history.

Live events unlock a Live Mode on the event page: a real-time count of how many other users are on site, and an ephemeral chat visible only to people who have actually checked in. The chat disappears when the event closes.

The Scene Index

Electric State also publishes The Scene Index, built from its own catalog — 62 upcoming festivals in the forward catalog naming 1,861 distinct artists between them, drawn from 82 festival editions indexed to date. The index ranks the most-booked artists of the season, the most-stacked lineups, the busiest venues and the most frequent back-to-back pairings, and is updated monthly as the catalog grows.

Its unit of record is the booking — a specific artist, at a specific festival, on a specific day — rather than the event, which is what makes it answerable: how many festivals is this artist playing, whose bills do they share, which markets have they already worked.

"I built this because I kept losing the receipts," said Casey Olayos, who built Electric State Passport. "You go to a hundred shows over ten years and all you have is a camera roll and a shoebox of wristbands. The lineup drops and you're squinting at a poster of 200 names trying to figure out if it's worth $400. Passport answers both — here's the eleven artists on this lineup you actually care about, and here's every show you've ever been to."

Availability

Electric State Passport is free on the App Store, on Google Play, and on the web at electricstate.app. There is no paid tier.

About Electric State

Electric State is EDM radio and media, rooted in rave culture since 1990 and founded by Joseph Villa. Based in Los Angeles, it publishes two apps — Electric State Passport and Bounce — and licenses The Scene Index, a structured dataset of festival bookings.

Media contact: casey@electricstate.app

Assets available on request: app screenshots (Discover, Lineup DNA, Passport, Set Times), logo files in SVG and PNG for light and dark backgrounds, founder headshot.