Whether they’re topping charts or selling our arenas, having our homegrown Australian musos kill it on the world stage is becoming so commonplace you’d swear we were home to some of the world’s most talented musicians or something.

Oh, wait, we are. If you need any further proof of that fact just take a look at Anna Lunoe, the Sydney-bred DJ and producer who just made history as the first ever solo female act to play the main stage of Electric Daisy Carnival.

Electric Daisy Carnival, or EDC, is one of the world’s biggest electronic music festivals, bringing tens of thousands of punters from around the world to the desert outside of Las Vegas, Nevada to party with the world’s biggest DJs.

Electronic music has copped flak in the past for being a major boy’s club, routinely leaving female DJs off countdowns of the industry’s top talent, and whilst there’s still a long way to go, Lunoe will now go down in EDC and EDM history.

Taking to her official Facebook page, Lunoe remarked on the importance of her set even before she realised the true impact it would be making, sharing a photo of herself DJing at a festival in Australia back in 2010.

“This is a really old pic of me DJing at a fest back in Aus in maybe 2010? Back then I never even considered that one day I’d make it to the USA and play big festivals. It wasn’t even an option,” Lunoe wrote.

“Tonight I play the biggest stage in America. Whenever I’m faced with a new challenge I gotta remind myself how far I’ve exceeded any possible expectation I had. Never ever underestimate what you are capable of.”

“Last night I became first girl to play main stage in 20 yrs of ‪#‎edclv‬ (solo that is, shout out Krewella for doing it in 2014),” she later wrote. “Ten years of non stop grindin. Seeing this photo makes me wanna cry. Thank you everyone who helped me do this. We just went down in history.”

Lunoe isn’t the only example of Australian talent on the Electric Daisy Carnival 2016 lineup, with Alison Wonderland, What So Not, Hermitude, and Knife Party all making the bill for the three-day festival.

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