Dance Your Nights Out at #DWP2014

Yes. This is it. Finally, the wait is over…

“Indonesia, are you ready to partaaaaaaay?”

DOPE! Let’s all give a massive round of applause to Ismaya Live for this humongous success of Djakarta Warehouse Project 2014. The sixth edition of Indonesia’s biggest Electronic Dance Music (EDM) festival was expanded to two days, December 12th&13th2014. Yes! Two freakin days! That means we had doubled the experience, doubled the dancing, and doubled the fun! Ismaya Live have finally found their new bigger, comfortable, and most importantly mud-free ‘playground’ to all party goers to dance all night long which is slated held at JIExpoKemayoran, Central Jakarta. But not to worry, although the venue is far from the downtown, the organizer has provided shuttle buses between Gandaria City and Kota Kasablanka in South Jakarta, Grand Indonesia in Central Jakarta, all the way to the venue.

When we finally arrived at the venue on day one, we were surprised by how organized the ticket and security check on the main gate, compared to the last year’s event. Everything went smoothly and no one hastily entered the gate. As we walked through the venue, the outdoor food town, stands, and the drink parlours of Ismaya Group such as Bubble Tea and Pizza e Birra were found along the way. Everything was placed perfectly with nice lamps decoration above the food arena.

Not far from here, finally we could see the spacious Garudha Land main stage, which was the only outdoor stage on the venue, and the other two indoors that located on the wing side of the mainstage that is Mixmax Asia Stage and Cosmic Stage. Continuing to the other stages, we were surprised that there was a bigger indoor food town located right before the Cosmic Stage which has various different menu than the other one such as Kitchenette, Djournal Coffee, Sushi Groove and Tokyo Belly.

Surprisingly, by 7 pm, people had started to fill up the three dance floors to watch the early performers, such as Midnight Quickie and Crème de la Crème.

After it’s done, finally the long awaited line up from day one, Showtek took over the Garudha Land stage, followed by the massive performance by the youngest DJ from all line up in DWP14, Martin Garrix who hypnotized all audiences to dance with his killer set. (And yes, his performance was the highlight of the night indeed).
The performance was then followed by former member of Swedish House Mafia, Steve Angello. He brought a full set of the best tracks, including his new hits collaboration with Dougy Temper Trap, ‘Wasted Love’.

The party hadn’t ended yet. Somewhere around 3am, Skrillex succeeded to make all of the ravers to dance and scream out loud with his famous dubstep and trap smash ups set which pretty much summed up the whole first day of rave night-out.

DWP14 featured Life In Color experience for the first time in South East Asia, hence, We knew that day two would become even bigger and more crowded than the first one. Cosmic Station stage turned out to be the home for ‘Life in Color’ stage where audiences sprayed by non-toxic paint throughout the show while dancing to live sets.

Life in Color stage was immediately generated loud screams from the audiences as the paint party started when Matthew Koma and Adventure Club respectively spinned through the night and heated up the floor.

Going back the Garudha Land main stage, the legendary Above & Beyond had already sucked up the crowd to join their spectacular performance. Not only playing their best set-list, they also spoiled everyone by saying “This is Indonesia, this is heaven” on the large LED screen on each side of the stage. Then, performance continued by Nicky Romero’s heart-pumping set followed with the non-stop laser beams and festive eye-candy fireworks up above the electric sky.

On the Neon Jungle stage, Rasmus Faber, Bondax, Peking Duk, and our local DJ Hogi Wirjono stepped up their performances that too rad to be missed. And on the Life in Color stage, DVBBS closed the paint party and somewhat succeeded to pump up the atmosphere by heating up the crowd with their hit set including ‘Tsunami’.

This wasn’t his first or second, or maybe his third time, Steve Aoki’s appearances here in Jakarta. To be completely honest, We weren’t very satisfied with his performance at the beginning.

But after 15 minutes of heating up himself, Aoki burned the night out with his attractive mash up songs and hits such as ‘Turbulence’ and made an exciting collaboration with Laidback Luke and Lil Jon. Not enough with that, he decided to do crazy stunt by jumped into a rubber boat and throwing a big mount of cake to the crowd.

Those memorable DWP14’s taglines such as “Eat. Sleep. Dwp. Repeat!” was actually applied in real life caused of the two-day extravaganza show we all had. For the magnificent laser shot and lighting, world-class international headliners, spectacular non-stop fireworks, and amazing paint party, We’re sure that Ismaya Live have succeeded on getting maximum satisfaction and love from all of us. Thank you for those two magical nights to end the year! See you on Djakarta Warehouse Project 2015! WE JUST CAN’T HARDLY WAIT!

(Text : Tari Agenanda / Photos : RUKES, Nareend, Mellowed High, & Gilang Bimar)