By: Anand Harsh

The anticipation grows day by day.

As we head towards Labor Day Weekend, thoughts of Imagine Festival are running through the minds of dance music fans in the southeast. With a monster lineup boasting the likes of bass music supergroup DESTROID (Excision + Downlink + KJ SAWKA), Adventure Club, Beats Antique, Rusko, Shpongle (Simon Posford DJ Set), Emancipator Ensemble, Seven Lions, Fedde LeGrand, Minnesota, Wick-it The Instigator, Phutureprimitive, and so many more, it's hard to think of much else as we wile away the days until August 30th and 31st at Historic Old Fourth Ward Park & Masquerade Music Park at 695 North Avenue NE in Atlanta, GA.

But every good party deserves a pre-party, and that's exactly what festival promoters IRIS Presents are giving hungry fans this weekend. The powerful weekly esp101[learn to believe] fills the lineup with acts headed out to Imagine the following weekend like headliner SnellVillain, Loud Cloud, dj ra, sy-co, Ralph & Louie, and all the IRIS favorites.

It's the warm-up to the blowout event, so make sure you come ready to dance out all your pent up energy, and get ready to re-charge before Labor Day.

Visit irispresents.com for tickets, and make sure you stay locked on imaginefestival.com to get all the information you need for the hottest festival in Atlanta. This is the big one, folks.