Nos Divertimos en Future Music Festival Asia 2013

The popular Future Music Festival, which annually held in Australia once again greet the tropical humid temperatures of Malaysia. It’s one of Asian festival enthustiastic can not figure out unless they’re heading on the day. Kinda strange that on our way from Kuala Lumpur around 3PM, the heat was unbearably hot but not long after a big heavy rain bashed everyone even before the festival started. Lucky the sun came up again as the crowd filled inside the venue, and for a moment we’ve thought they must’ve import some Indonesian ‘pawang’ for that!

After the night of trance or so called ASOT 600th, which been fullfiled by the trance master Armin Van Buuren and a world-scale stage and eight globally renowned DJ acts to conceive one epic night of adrenaline-pumping trance party, the party continues to the day two of the festival with even bigger stages from Flamingo Stage, Warrior’s Dance Arena, the Gnome Stage to the Red Bull Hangar, where crowd can choose depends on their interest choice of genres.

Maybe it was The Temper Trap’s first ever performance in Malaysia, but Dougy and his mates succeed satisfying the crowd like it was their several times of performance. Not to mention the long wait for those fanboys we spotted among the crowds! After Temper Trap still at the same stage we catch the energetic performance from Rita Ora. Despite of the technical problems, we all have to admit tha she has nailed it with her contagious energy through the crowd.

Some people asked if we did interview some acts, well sorry to disappointed you, but apperently we just as disturbed as every indie online media can get with a regular pass, that’s also why the only pictures taken were just some shitty shots and not a chance to ask anyone about their music like we used to do. But hey! looking at the bright side, we can enjoy the fest like the real crowd with mates all over the world! And thats what we did when PSY came with his dozen dancers heating up the stage. Although we had no idea what he sang about or when he introduce the crowd with his new catchy song, yet we still dance and jump when he said so. How can we say no to the creator of Gangam Style?

In the other stage, Naughty by Nature, Idiotape, Zeds Dead, Kill The Noise, and not to mention that Indonesia can also be proud of their ‘famous’ DJ, Angger Dimas amused the crowd with their thumping sets. Ok, back to the Flamingo stage, after FUN and awesome performance from Malaysian very own band, They Will Kill Us All, we can say that by the end of the day, apparently the stage were meant to be for Bloc Party. With the amusing lightning stage and kick ass setlist, all those sacrifice being in the middle of drunken crowds and numb legs for standing hours and hours, everything just disappear when Kele, Russell, Gordon and the sexy Matt, yes I said it, cause he’s a hell of sexy drummer with only his pants on, hit the stage and everyone went crazy as hell, from moshing, surf crowd to only God knows what happened on the centre of the crowd. Well, we can’t see much from each stages but we managed to minggle at Warrior Dance stage before we went back, as The Prodigy killed everyone with sweet memories of how dance music supposed to be.

If we wanted to learn from Malaysia, it is okay to win the hearts of music lovers through good quality of festival by having relationship with other countries, and it is even more than okay if the government help to endorse such event, as it can be such a big income for our country. Hopefully, in the upcoming years we can see even more great music festivals around South East Asia! Neverless, we had fun that day and hasta el próximo año peopleee!!