Djakarta Warehouse Project: Rave Party in Downtown Jakarta

Djakarta Warehouse Project (DWP) 2012 successfully scored Jakarta on December 7^th 2012. Brought some big names to town like Avicii, Calvin Harris, and Paul Van Dyk really prove that DWP 2012 really is the biggest dance music festival in Indonesia. With a very unique and interesting concept by putting three major stages at Istora Senayan Jakarta, really gave us another experience in enjoying an EDM (Electronic Dance Music) festival. In a cooperate with Djarum Super MLD, Ismaya Live brought this year’s festival with “Escape, Celebrate, Dance” for the theme. When we entered the venue, we were welcomed by a big square covered with an LCD on each side of it.

At the Surya MLD, Angger Dimas, one of the local heroes who has done some work with noted DJ such as Tiesto and Steve Aoki, was on board to give some warming up tunes before Calvin Harris hopped in.

Right at 1 AM, the world’s EDM star finally on board, “Hello,Jakarta! This is me Calvin Harris…” opened Calvin Harris before he played his set. 15 minutes after he opened the set, rain started pouring, we thought the crowd would be dashing out since Surya MLD stage was an outdoor venue, but we stand corrected, the crowd kept dancing like rain was the last thing they had to worry on that marvelous night. Calvin Harris played his tracks like Awooga, You Used to Hold Me, Flashback, and also his featuring track with Rihanna, We Found Love.

The closure for the night was Avicii, it was really fun to catch Avicii for the second time in 2012. In April, Avicii shook Jakarta at Fairgrounds, as what we experience from his previous visit to Jakarta, we know this time at DWP, the craziness will be two-fold. Avicii got on deck at 2.30 AM. Obviously, people had to wait longer to bust some moves for his Levels, because Avicii put it as the final shot. When Levels’ intro blasted the stereo, the crowd did a massive choir along with “Oh, sometimes I get a good feeling, yeah I get a feeling that I never, never, never, never had before, no no I get a good feeling, yeah” and the situation got more radical when the confetti shot to crowd in a splash of a magnificent lighting.

Djakarta Warehouse Project 2012 is a serious competitor for Singapore’s Zouk Out, despite of the very strategic location in Jakarta, DWP keep bringing the greater dimension every year. The another thing is, DWP is different with the typical of rave party which used to be held in town. Usually, rave party is located in the northern side of Jakarta, Ancol. But DWP held it at the downtown side of Jakarta which makes it more accessible.

We did the same thing as the festival told us to do “Escape, Celebrate, Dance”. Magnificent lighting, amazing crowd, head-spinning sets, three major stages, laser shot, world-class EDM artists, a cannon of confetti, and the best executor was THE RAIN! Djakarta Warehouse Project 2012 gave it all more than you have asked. See you in Djakarta Warehouse Project 2013!  (Alcander Alonzo)