Loud Luxury

Andrew Fedyk and Joe Depace — performing as Loud Luxury — formed their partnership at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, where a shared enthusiasm for electronic music led them to begin producing together during their undergraduate years. Their collaboration brought together complementary skill sets: Fedyk had developed production fluency through digital audio workstation sessions, approaching track construction through iterative listening rather than formal conservatory training, while Depace contributed a listener's sensibility shaped by hip-hop, dance, and pop before either had seriously pursued DJing or production professionally. The combination of a technically oriented producer and a cross-genre listener is a recurring origin story in dance music duos whose output functions across demographic lines — where one half builds and the other tests, the results tend to prioritize feeling over technical display. Their early Canadian club circuit performances established a regional following before Body arrived and rewrote their commercial trajectory entirely. The track released October 27, 2017 through Armada Music and All Around the World Productions, featuring vocalist Brando whose melodic delivery aligned precisely with what their production approach required. Body was constructed around a principle of emotional immediacy: the hook lodges within a single bar on first listen, the chord progression prioritizes feeling over harmonic complexity, and the production architecture leaves space for the vocal line to carry the emotional weight. This structural simplicity gave the track an unusual commercial lifespan — it accumulated over 1.5 billion global streams, achieved Diamond certification in Canada (the highest tier Music Canada awards, exceeding multi-platinum), and earned multi-platinum certifications across nine countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Austria, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, and New Zealand. Chart positions reflected the same global penetration: top five in Canada, Denmark, Ireland, and the United Kingdom; top ten in Australia, Austria, Germany, and New Zealand. The geographic distribution of that chart performance — rare for an electronic music track without a television or film placement driving discovery — demonstrated that the formula worked simultaneously in markets as culturally distinct as Scandinavia, the British Isles, and Australasia. At the 49th Juno Awards in 2019, they won Dance Recording of the Year for Body — Canada's primary music industry recognition in the category, formally acknowledging that their approach had defined the standard for the release cycle. The win completed the commercial case that streaming numbers had already established: Body was a deliberate construction that worked globally from inception, not a regional hit that crossed borders through accumulated playlist proximity. Subsequent releases demonstrated their capacity to sustain commercial presence across a full catalog rather than concentrating momentum on a single breakthrough. Love No More (featuring anders, released through Mad Decent) extended reach into audiences connected to Diplo's imprint. I'm Not Alright (featuring Bryce Vine) introduced a pop-rap vocal register into their productions. Nights Like This and further singles maintained dance radio presence through the period when most acts emerging from a single breakthrough track would experience audience dissipation. Each release confirmed what Body had demonstrated: their ability to craft melodic vocal dance productions that translate simultaneously across streaming, radio, and live club environments. On March 7, 2026, Love You for Life (featuring Emily Roberts) reached number one on Billboard's Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart in the United States — their first US Billboard number one and a confirmation, nearly a decade after Body, that their commercial trajectory remained active rather than consolidating into legacy-act status. The achievement distinguished them from dance acts whose careers plateau after a single breakthrough and placed them in the narrower category of artists who can sustain chart relevance across a multi-year catalog. Their Las Vegas presence in 2026 extends across more venues and more operators than almost any other DJ on the Strip. Where most tier-one artists hold exclusive residencies within a single operator's portfolio — Wynn Nightlife, Hakkasan Group, or TAO Group — Loud Luxury maintains concurrent bookings across multiple ecosystems: Wynn Nightlife's XS Nightclub and Encore Beach Club, Hakkasan Group's Hakkasan Nightclub at MGM Grand and OMNIA Nightclub at Caesars Palace, Jewel Nightclub at ARIA Resort, and Palm Tree Beach Club at MGM Grand. Multi-operator residency footprints of this breadth are uncommon because they require an artist whose commercial identity crosses the distinct brand demographics each venue targets. Wynn draws a premium upscale nightlife clientele who seek the property's design aesthetic alongside the music; Hakkasan draws the EDM festival-adjacent crowd for whom the sound system and production values are the primary draw; OMNIA at Caesars Palace draws the hotel-guest-accessible crowd benefiting from proximity to one of the Strip's largest hotel footprints; Jewel at ARIA serves the MGM premium resort demographic. XS Nightclub at Wynn Las Vegas — a 40,000-square-foot indoor/outdoor space finished in champagne gold, with the Funktion-One system that Roger Thomas specified at the 2008 opening — provides the acoustic environment where their melodic house productions translate with the most precision. The Funktion-One system's sub-bass reproduction and high-frequency imaging allow Body's production architecture to register with full physical impact in a way that smaller club systems cannot replicate. Their XS dates in 2026 include June 26 and July 5. Encore Beach Club — the 5-acre open-air amphitheater with a floating stage on the main pool — provides the dayclub context where the vocal-forward melodic house of their catalog reaches the Billboard-accessible mainstream audience that their streaming numbers confirm exists beyond the nightclub EDM core. Hakkasan Nightclub at MGM Grand provides the five-room nightclub complex context, drawing the international EDM festival audience for whom their commercial profile earns immediate recognition. The Memorial Day Weekend Friday booking at Hakkasan on May 22, 2026, is one of the highest-demand single dates in the Las Vegas nightlife calendar — a date when the city absorbs tens of thousands of visitors specifically for holiday weekend nightlife. OMNIA at Caesars Palace and Jewel at ARIA extend their Las Vegas geographic reach across the central Strip, enabling visitors at any major central-Strip hotel to encounter their performances within walking distance. For guests staying in the MGM Resorts ecosystem (MGM Grand, Bellagio, ARIA, Mandalay Bay, Park MGM), the Hakkasan and Jewel bookings provide Loud Luxury performances without the rideshare leg that Wynn's northern Strip location requires from central properties. Guest list through NoCoverVegas for Loud Luxury appearances at XS Nightclub, Encore Beach Club, Hakkasan, OMNIA, and Jewel provides complimentary entry for qualifying guests, with advance registration essential for Memorial Day Weekend, July 4 weekend, and other peak-demand dates when guest list fills quickly. Their cross-venue Las Vegas presence means that regardless of which Strip property a visitor is staying at, there is likely a Loud Luxury date accessible at a nearby venue. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loud_Luxury, loudluxury.com/vegas/, electronic.vegas/artist/loud-luxury/, billboard.com, axs.com Palm Tree Beach Club at MGM Grand provides their sixth and most dayclub-specific Las Vegas venue — the poolside format at MGM's complex draws a mainstream resort crowd whose familiarity with their streaming catalog translates directly into dayclub recognition without the prior nightclub audience development that EDM-specific venues require. Their presence across Palm Tree Beach Club alongside their Hakkasan and XS bookings demonstrates the practical commercial advantage of multi-operator residency breadth: a Las Vegas visitor who encounters their music through a Hakkasan night in one visit can find them at Palm Tree Beach Club on the next trip, or at XS on the weekend following a Jewel weeknight. The geographic and temporal distribution of their bookings converts individual song recognition into repeated venue attendance across multiple Las Vegas trips. For visitors to Las Vegas who want the most comprehensive exposure to their catalog across a single trip, the combination of a Hakkasan weeknight booking and an XS or EBC weekend date covers both the high-energy festival-adjacent nightclub format and the premium Wynn Nightlife production environment in the same Las Vegas visit. Their cross-operator multi-venue residency structure makes this combination possible in a way that artists holding exclusive single-operator agreements cannot offer. Guest list through NoCoverVegas for Loud Luxury across all their 2026 Las Vegas venues — XS Nightclub, Encore Beach Club, Hakkasan, OMNIA, Jewel, and Palm Tree Beach Club — provides complimentary entry for qualifying guests with advance registration, eliminating the $30-60 cover that these venues charge at the door. For Las Vegas visitors on a budget, their multi-operator Las Vegas presence creates an important practical advantage: guest list access through NoCoverVegas eliminates cover charges across all six of their Las Vegas venues. Their cross-Strip reach means visitors at any major hotel — whether staying at MGM properties (Hakkasan, Jewel, Palm Tree Beach Club), Caesars properties (OMNIA), or Wynn (XS, EBC) — can access a Loud Luxury performance at a venue within their own hotel ecosystem or an adjacent property. The $30-60 cover charge that these venues typically charge at the door across their six Las Vegas bookings represents a potential savings of $120-360 per couple across a multi-venue Las Vegas trip — a commercial benefit of guest list registration that becomes more significant the more venues and dates the visitor plans to attend across their stay.

Body (feat. Brando, 2017) accumulated over one billion global streams and earned Loud Luxury Juno Awards for Dance Recording of the Year — one of the most commercially durable dance tracks of its era with multi-platinum certifications across Canada, the US, and multiple European markets. On March 7, 2026, Love You for Life (with Emily Roberts) reached #1 on Billboard's Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart. Sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loud_Luxury, billboard.com At XS Nightclub, Loud Luxury performs on Fridays and Saturdays — confirmed Hakkasan MDW Friday May 22, 2026, commanding some of the venue's most in-demand time slots.

Loud Luxury currently performs at XS Nightclub and Encore Beach Club and Hakkasan and OMNIA Nightclub and Jewel Nightclub and Palm Tree Beach Club in Las Vegas, typically on Fridays and Saturdays — confirmed Hakkasan MDW Friday May 22, 2026. Their sets span Dance Pop / House, delivering a sound that has earned them one of the most dedicated followings in the Las Vegas residency circuit.

Loud Luxury's sound: Euphoric dance-pop house duo whose productions layer vocal-driven pop hooks over festival-calibrated drop architecture — Loud Luxury's Las Vegas sets translate the cross-demographic commercial appeal of their billion-stream catalog into a club format that works across the Strip's full nightlife spectrum, from EBC's afternoon pool crowd to OMNIA's late-night peak hours. At XS Nightclub, the professional sound systems and production infrastructure amplify every element of their performance — from the sub-bass to the high-end clarity.

Loud Luxury typically takes the stage on Fridays and Saturdays — confirmed Hakkasan MDW Friday May 22, 2026. Their sets run 60 to 90 minutes and deliver the full Vegas production experience with professional sound, lighting, and crowd energy that you cannot find anywhere else.

General admission cover charges for Loud Luxury shows are $30-60 — FREE with NoCoverVegas guest list. With NoCoverVegas, you skip the cover charge entirely and receive a free guest list entry from your hotel to the venue.

Loud Luxury's production model — dance pop house — is a specific subgenre positioning that operates at the intersection of festival EDM's accessibility and deep house's production sensibility. Their tracks are built around vocal hooks with sufficient pop clarity to generate commercial radio play alongside drop architectures calibrated for nightclub deployment: the track that works on mainstream dance radio during commuting hours is the same track that lands in a 1 AM Las Vegas nightclub set with enough floor response to justify its placement among heavier peak-time productions. This dual functionality requires production decisions that more underground-oriented DJs deliberately avoid — the vocal hooks, the accessible build structures, the mix of pop melody and house rhythm — but that Loud Luxury embrace as the defining characteristic of their commercial identity. The billion-stream result for Body is the commercial validation of that positioning: a house track with sufficient pop accessibility to accumulate streaming numbers associated with mainstream pop rather than dance music niche audiences.

Their live set structure at venues including XS Nightclub, Encore Beach Club, Hakkasan, OMNIA Nightclub, and Jewel Nightclub reflects this cross-demographic range. Unlike single-venue residency DJs who optimize their set for a specific room's demographic, Loud Luxury's multi-venue footprint means their set architecture must function across the different crowd compositions of each venue. Hakkasan's MGM Grand main room draws a crowd profile different from XS's Wynn guests, and OMNIA's Caesars-associated crowd differs from both. The Loud Luxury set that works across all three — contemporary dance pop house that deploys enough familiarity to bring in non-dedicated electronic music fans alongside the production quality to maintain credibility with experienced nightclub attendees — is a specific performance calibration that most DJs who hold residencies at only one venue per season have not needed to develop.

The Porter Robinson concert that inspired Fedyk and Depace's initial partnership — a performance where Robinson demonstrated that DJ electronic music could build genuine emotional connection with large audiences rather than simply generating physical response — is audible in the emotional register of their productions. Body's specific commercial achievement was not simply its streaming numbers but its emotional directness: a track structured to produce a feeling of expansive, uncomplicated optimism in listeners across demographic contexts, which is why it sustained its streaming performance for years after its initial release while technically more sophisticated dance tracks from the same period lost their audience faster. Love You for Life's March 2026 Billboard number one extends the same emotional arc into their current production chapter: a track built to make people feel good across the full range of contexts where people encounter music, from streaming platforms through festival stages to Las Vegas nightclub floors at 2 AM.