The most anticipated Electronic Dance Music festival in South-east Asia returned. Just like how we predicted, Ismaya Live succesfully fulfilled the thirst of Indonesian live music enthusiasts beyond their expectation. As had been promised by Ismaya Live, the cutting-edge promoter totally paid it all just in the incredible two days.

They say it’s always better to start with something that has a lighter kick. For starters, the sets were mostly monopolized with the local performers such as Trillions, W. W, and also Derrave. Right when the clocked ticked at 9 PM, the heat of the festival started to rise. At the Garudha Land (main stage), R3hab totally smashed it with a pumping set, just as we were in a EDM marathon, Oliver Heldens robbed the attention with his drop-dead futurisitc house music.  After crazy starters, the DJs who people had been waiting for came near to arrive and spinned the festival. It was an easy game to say how Skrillex’s live performance was different from his produced releases. The unique-looking DJ primed the expectation that drop people had been waiting for, to top everything off, it became much greater with the colaboration from Diplo.

The night was young when the dynamic Swedish duo, Axwell Ingrosso, asked to remember the glorious hits of Swedish House Mafia (SHM). It seemed like we were not allowed to take a rest from dancing, because the duo brought massive songs, “Something new”, “Sun is Shining”, and also “This time” to highlight the show. Garudha Land had shown its fang, then it was the other stage’s turn. This one word totally described one of the DJs who we rooted so much that night, because the set was MAY-JAH!.  Major Lazer nailed it big time by bringing the super party atmosphere out of each the festival goer. As the super combination was tearing down the night, the legendary trance artist, Armin Van Burren, was ready to close the night’s curtain with his top-notch sets.

 On the second day, some of the crowd was slightly disappointed with  a breaking news of DVBBS’ cancellation, yet that definitely was not the way how Ismaya Live ended their festival. The quick disappointment was replaced with a big cheer from Galantis’ set. Before seeing them live, there were a lot of question on how they would pull the night off. The highlight for the night was DJ Snake. His hits were agrresively played to boost the crowd, it was like a rocket concert with a grooving of dance music.

For the fans of progressive house music, Kaskade was definitely there for the music, his body crazily bobbing to the  beat during the entirety of unstoppable and never dull two-hour set. The set was simply keeping the mood nice steady with scaled-back progressive house, opting for satisfied grooves over audience freakouts.

Finally, the legendary act from Tiesto made his appearance to the main stage. As he put his hands to the ‘dancing music maker’ the music never stopped. It didn’t stop between songs. It barely stopped between sets. Each track seamlessly mixed into the next. And if the crowd needed a break, it was hard to tell. The crowd on the floor never stopped dancing, waving hands and cheering. With the awesome set played that night, the crowd was spoiled by his brilliant hits such as “Show me”, “The Only Way is Up”, and also “Lethal Industry”.

The DWP enthusiasts clearly knows all about non-stop dancing, from years to years, when we first saw the 1st installment of the festival to the curent one (until the cute adolescents start showing up with their massive party gears), the festival still has its fire to burn down the city with its signature concept. It was one of the more diverse crowds to bash in a electronic music festiva at JIEXpo Kemayoran. The venue which could carry a capacity more than 50.000 people gathered the party goers into one thing in comming, to live the nights to the fullest. The festival alone was like a mini celebration to close the year, but as we were amazed with the firework show, we just wished it was held during the NYE, because we could only imagine how the 2015 finale would turn up really great if it was packed with DWP and all the great things that happened in the amazing two days. (Text : Erlangga / Editor : A.Alonzo / Photo : Rukes.com)