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When We Happily Got Lost in Wonderland

svanapaper — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 09:34:12 +0000

A big event that held the Jakarta invasion is long gone, but the euphoria is not forgotten. promoters managed to create an event with a very good dance music, this year’s theme invasion lost in wonderland and managed to make us who come in the carnival world. By presenting a line of famous dance music artists such as shonky, zito, san holo, party favor, droeloe, alan walker and also someone known as “mozart” in trance genre, he is Andrew rayel and the most influenced DJ in this year, number 1 dj in the world, he is martin garrix!.this event succeeded in drowning the partygoers into the world of very interesting carnival.

This year’s, invasion has 2 stages with different themes, namely the underworld and the main stage of euphoria. The underworld world fills electro dance music in the chill-out genres, tech house, deep house and French house, and this fits with the concept that the underworld carries. But there is something different from this year’s, underworld stage beneath which is outdoors.with the outdoor atmosphere and techno music and french house, the atmosphere is so really excited. Show us your darkness here. And this stage started with local artist and international artist: steven, mayo x kana, ridwan x shawn, DNSW x sixteen, SEB ZITO, Shonky

Starting from the opening bysteven and he start shaking the underworld stage, the partygoers began to heat up because steven brought a goodsetlistand thatsetlist invites us to dance casually. aftersteven, there mayo x kana and x shawnridwan. Local artists familiar to the party goers, they play good house music. Next, there is DNSW x Sixtee. they playing back to back (b2b), they present a cool house music. The audience began to heat up and dance After DNSW x Sixteen, there is a waiting international dj, yes they are sebzito. Playing a very good house music,sebzito successfully invite party goers dance on the underworld stage. And last under the stage there is shonky, real name Olivier ducreux. Dj who plays the Japanese home and has an album titled “time zero” is successfully made the bottom stage of the calm core. Partygoers jumping when hear the music played by shonky. Thanks shonky, amazing set.

Next is the base of the euphoric stage, starting with local artists such as X2 squad, 3kings, roycoc x david beat and also myrne already shake the main stage by 7 pm, until finally droeloe turn to invite party goers to dance on the main stage. At exactly 19:25,droeloe plays the set with its tremendous trap genre.

Now it’s time for alan walker, On stage, Alan brought Hymn’s song for Weekend popularized by Coldplay and Shape of You owned by Ed Sheeran. Alan appeared high in his typical costume, a black hoodie hoodie and jacket with W on his back. Alan also played his song, processed Alone, The Spectre, and Tired. Wrong, he again brought faded, which also became the opening song.

After alan walker, partygoers are invited to dance by the heated trap music, yes they are party favor and san holo. Starting from a party favor, party goers endlessly prancing and getting crazy by the set played by a favor party, madness trap!

San holo also did not want to miss, playing the flagship song like “light”, “we rise” and also “still looking”, he joined heating the party goers to prance. Good, nice vibe, san holo!

Well the time we’ve been waiting for finally arrived, the most sought after dj in this year, the young man who managed to become dj number 1 world and also dj which became the top beatport no 1 the youngest. Everything, let’s welcome martinGarrix (MartijnGerard Garritsen). Dj who renowned song titled “animal” under of spininn records.he playing a very extraordinary set.the atmosphere is getting broken, thanks to the played setlists.he plays some of his flagship songs like “afraid to be lonely” and also “in the name of love”. Party cast was swept away in the pounding music presented by him. The atmosphere is getting ruptured, party goers jiggle and the place gets fuller as party goers want to see martin closely and share a more lively feel that euphoria. You guys who not come this event are guaranteed will regret! An amazing night with martin garrix!

And lastly, this is the ultimate weapon of the Jakarta invasion this year, he is Andrew “Mozart” Rayel. Yaps, Andrew is known by the family trance as a piano-based trance producer. His name skyrocketed because some of his songs are the mainstay of armin van buuren during the asot tour, such as “musa”, “zeus”, “sacramentum”,“aeon revenge” and also “550senta”. Now is the time for invasion 2017 to feel the thrill of trance music that Andrew rayel provides. Andrew brought some of his flagship songs such as “one in a million”, “light house”, “eiforya”, “my reflection”, “ephiphany” and also “never let me go”. started with the thump of #psytrance music entitled “chakra” Andrew immediately party goers with a fast bpm and make the atmosphere become #PSYCHE. The boom of bass music and trance elements of character and the that beat per minute is getting tighter, making the atmosphere very trance. Andrew also play some tech trance songs and also uplifting trance. Amazing set by Andrew rayel! Unforgettable moment.

Tiga: More than just an ordinary Montreal DJ/producer

Dorothy T. — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:36:55 +0000

Tiga James Sontag is a man with fingers in many EDM pies. Inspired by the rave culture in Goa, India, he was exposed to in his earlier years, Tiga was influential in establishing the underground EDM club scene in his native Montreal. After running an also influential record store, he now manages other DJs and producers, hosts a show on BBC Radio 6 called “My Name is Tiga” and his own career as a DJ/producer is stronger than ever. Oh, and heś also a one-time film star. SVANAPAPER got the chance to sit down with the pie-poking man himself for a quick chat before his memorable set at Unknown Festival a while back.

Known for his unique sound that combines camp electro with an almost bleak techno streak, and of course the matching 80s metrosexual aesthetic, Tiga is a quiet and polite individual in person. In a career spanning two decades, Tiga has worked with many and varied DJs and producers, and thats where our conversation starts. Tiga pauses for a moment and says thoughtfully, “well I think they’re always friends, or at least they become friends”. Unlike many successful producers, Tiga sees collaboration as an opportunity for greater fame or fortune. Instead, he picks collaborators from who he gets a positive vibe, a sense of potential friendship working well as a professional and personal team. Key to this is whether their respective styles complement each other, something Tiga has found with long term collaborator, Jesper Dahlback. “We’ve worked together so long were like a married couple – he knows what I want, I know what he wants”.

Despite such a loyal, long term partnership, Tiga stresses that he doesn’t like to work with the same people too much, but is always looking for new inspirations “…that get me excited, bring back that feeling of being a little kid”. Keeping up with the latest sounds and artists pushing the boundaries of electronic music is normal fare when running your own underground record label (Tiga’s Turbo Recordings has released music from the likes of Boys Noize, Gesaffelstein, ZZT and Brodinski) but this sounds a bit like a throwaway line, so I press him for specifics. What is getting him excited right now, his current inspiration? “It’s a puzzle I’m trying to solve, how to make big dancey electro that doesn’t sound obnoxious, and infuse it with a bit of techno.”

Tiga’s certainly on the way to achieving that with his latest single ‘Let’s Go Dancing’. It’s a collaboration between himself and Matthew Dear aka Audion, who also helped out on ‘Plush’, the 2012 single from his eponymous ‘Tiga Non Stop’ Mix CD. Reminiscent of Kraftwerk’s Autobahn, ‘Dancing’ overlays Tiga’s quintessential deadpan lyric delivery with an analogue synth and techno-pop soundscape. Not that punters needed any encouragement to dance during his uniquely slick set, Tiga spun ‘Let’s Go Dancing’ a couple of times during his slot at Unknown.

Performing on the Pool Stage at the inaugural Unknown Festival in Rovinj, Croatia, Tiga was an interesting choice by the organisers, whose previous individual endeavours include Field Day, The Warehouse Project and Hideout Festival. Tiga didnt fit neatly either of the UK-centric or party-pop leanings of the lineup, but was all about the music itself. With a panel at this years Amsterdam Dance Event discussing the negative effects of the commercialisation of dance music, and a discography prioritising quality and experimentation over quantity, Tiga is a DJś DJ and in it for the long haul. [Beka]

You can catch Tiga in Australia this November:

Fri 22nd – The Imperial, Sydney
Sat 23rd (Day) – Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne
Sat 23rd (Night) – The Met, Brisbane
Sun 24th – Strawberry Fields Festival, Melbourne

Steve Aoki Returns With A Big Jump and Massive Cakes

Dorothy T. — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:03:35 +0000

This probably wasn’t the first or second time apperances for this grammy nominated Dj in Jakarta, but surely this time was Steve Aoki’s first epicness act during his time here, which also as a part of Lippo Mall Kemang’s launching events for their new place called Avenue Of The Stars.

When we went to the place around 10 pm, we were welcomed by a nice party atmosphere, and cool lightning as well as visual effects from the stage, as Dj Dipha and Dj Mahesa Utara playing their house – electro – rock alternative mash ups songs. The crowd which mostly range of adolescent to young executive, couldn’t ask for more even random midweek dance party. As we have been expected before, Aoki has succeed burning the dance floor that night with his attractive skills of mixing songs, and hits such as “Wake Up Call”, ”No Beef”, “Earthquakey People”, “Warp 1.9″, even “Come With Me” a collaboration song with Rivers Cuomo, and of course the song everyone knew “Pursuit of Happiness” his collaboration with Kid Cudi, which also the soundtrack of Project X.

Apperently the show won’t stop until the Dj said so. Not enough twisting our body and heads, Aoki decided to do crazy stunt by doing free jump to the crowd from the stage, and after some songs, he LITERALLY “caked” the crowd by throwing a big sponge cake to the crowd, not once but couple times! As the time goes by and the crowd went wild, Aoki started to freshen up the crowd with champagne. Not long after playing his songs, which some of them were collaboration with Indonesian DJ Angger Dimas, Aoki ended the party with couple encores and tired happy faces from the crowd which we believed didn’t realised that they really have to go to campus or working in several hours! Again, Urbanite Asia has proven themselves to be one of the best party maker in Indonesia.

Photos by Emonemomen

Playground 5th Is Back this 5/5/5

svanapaper — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:40:00 +0000

Named as one of Indonesia’s most accounted Music Festivals, It all started out in 2006 to accommodate the over crowding at the infamous Embassy Club in Senayan Area in Jakarta, Embassy Playground Festival was carefully designed as an exciting multi-genre music festival. The first inception already saw nearly 6.000 people through the gates, and had reached an average of 15,000 through its last 3. Now in its 5^th year, Playground teams up with Dimensions, to present you Dimensions Playground Festival that will see the festival at two major cities in Indonesia, both Jakarta and Bali.

As to maintain the variety of line-ups, this year’s Dimensions Playground covers a broad spectrum of musical genres in our three widespread arena Embassy Stage, Wonderbar Forest Soundsystem and The Silent Concert area plus visual enhancements for multi-sensorial festival experience. We are giving you a bit of everything this year. Whatever you have in mind, we’re genre bending here, we’re crossing boundaries of a carefully crafted boutique music festival to cater all you music heads.

Let’s kick off with GORILLAZ SOUND SYSTEM that presents to audience the heart and brain of Gorillaz multimedia set, Gorillaz Sound System will give their performance for both cities Jakarta and Bali in the main area. And as we breakthrough boundaries of dancing in our Embassy Playground 2008 with The Silent Disco, we tailor-made ourselves the experience of ‘no noise’ concert plus many added improvements this year with our very own THE SILENT CONCERT area which will feature 2 DJs and 1 Band in 3 different stage right in front of you at any given time, which allows audience to choose from 3 selectable channels of the music they can choose from the headphones which will be given in the area. We have custom made 1.000 pieces of high-quality wireless headphones to wow the audiences just for this, and the Switch headphones are owned by Urbanite Asia.

A specialized visual mapping of urban cityscape is also one of our highlights for this area, where you will witness fantastic video mapping delivered at the Silent Concert stage in conjunction with Kompas Urbana. Some of the artists confirmed to perform in the area are ALEXA and AGRIKULTURE who will be playing very inspiring different sets than ones you see anywhere else for the first time, tailored specifically for Dimensions Playground Market. They will be joined by the likes of Anton Wirjono, Winky, DJ Cream, Innoceroze, Akira a.k.a. Astronaughty, Winky, Dipha (Live Set), DJ Cream, Bone, Jerome, Tosynth, Crip, Downey & Sixteen for the Silent Concert area.

Our own WONDERBAR FOREST SOUNDSYSTEM will see different varieties of line-ups which also includes numerous different excitements as we design the venue carefully to match our psychedelic forest concept, where DJ’s like Anton Wirjono, Jakarta Techno Militia team, Danny Howells, Marc Roberts and Tosynth will also be joined by live band acts from SAINT ETIENNE who will perform a very special sunset performance, SIR DANDY and the nation’s most aspiring rock and roll act, BRNDLS also known as The Brandals.

To add to the exciting line-up is KELIS will headline our EMBASSY MAIN STAGE alongside GORILLAZ SOUND SYSTEM and with our own local heroes, Downey & Crip as the sound of DOMAIN and of course, Mahesa Utara who will close the set at our main area. Let’s not stop there!, with our most massive production to date, we’ve specially invited over Modular Recordings ‘golden darlings’, VAN SHE for an exclusive full band set for the first time ever in Indonesia!

A little bit of everything from our local heroes! Bali sees an even bigger local names such as Yoga Yin, Kasymin, Dion, Putra Collins, Alex Joy, Robotrocks, Gary Bemore, Anastasia, Robotrocks, Electrofux, Mikey Moran, James Hendrik, Eric Larson, Kent Kryptonite, Adit Putra, Stan, Schizo and the very special performance from the guy who introduced tech house to the world, JAMES ZABIELA, GEORGE FITZGERALD and MARC ROBERTS who is known as the founder of Snowbombing Music Festival in Austria. This multi faceted music festival will showcase more musical genre for your dancing aura at the ever-gleaming beauty of Garuda Wisnu Kencana Complex on the 9^th of May 2012 with 2 massive areas that are specially designed with LED Lights, Visual Mappings, Laser Graffiti and so much more.

As Indonesia’s forefront boutique music festival, our brand has established a name of its own that presented different kind of experience of going to music festivals. We’ve designed our own true playground arena that will feature Ferris wheel, Seesaw, Merry-Go-Round, Laser Graffiti, Swing Tire and so much more. Apart from that, take part also in our very own exclusive Hammer fall and Bull Riding game from our proud brew sponsor STARK BEER garden area where we will design it to the full comfort of our festivalgoers. And if you are an avid Whiskey fan, we have a very special Jack Daniels lounge that is served by their finest mixologists to cater to your drinking desire. We will also have a special signing booth tent from Kompas Urbana, where you will have the chance of taking photos and getting signatures from your favorite DIMENSIONS PLAYGROUND artists. And if those are not enough, we will also cater to your resting need where you can pamper yourself in our specialized F&B/Pampering area where you will find Viro Booth (our official mineral water), Smirnoff Booth and Area Living Room where you can rest and relax.

For it’s 5^th inception, Dimensions Playground will be on the Saturday, 5^th of May 2012 starting at 5pm, that’s right (5/5/5/5/5) at Tennis Park Senayan in Jakarta, and Bali at the Garuda Wisnu Kencana (GWK) on 9^th of May 2012.

Your early-bird tickets are now available at Portico Senayan City Jakarta and Brewers Denpasar and Legian starting at Rp. 360.000 or online at www.embassyplayground.com/dimensions , you can also buy on the spot for Rp. 420.000.

For live info feed, follow our twitter accounts @Playground_5th, @UrbaniteAsia & @embassytheclub or join our facebook page www.facebook.com/playgroundfestival