Celebrating the 650^th episode of A State of Trance, The Cadets will light up the horizon on March 15th, 2014, broadening it for all trance fans in Indonesia!

                In 2011, The Cadets first landed on our planet and brought the ASOT virus. In 2012, they called for back-up, and invaded our hearts with music. Last year, the cadets went on an expedition to bring the love for music to every corner of the earth.

Now, for the first time in Indonesia, and as the MAIN SHOW in Asia as it will go LIVE WORLDWIDE at live.astateoftrance.com, ISMAYA LIVE, DYANDRA ENTERTAINMENT, and SOUND RHYTHM proudly present to you A STATE OF TRANCE 650. The Cadets will light up the horizon on March 15th, 2014, at Eco Park Ancol Jakarta, broadening it for all trance fans in Indonesia. The incredible line-up, which will be revealed at a later stage, will definitely spread the trance sound, helping Jakarta to expand its world!

If you can’t be part of the show, you definitely need to experience the show through the live broadcast, wherever you want listen to it! Check out live.astateoftrance.com

Once again, it will be the ONLY show, the MAIN SHOW in South East Asia that will be broadcasted LIVE!

Ticket sales start on Saturday October 12^th, 2013. Tickets can be purchased ONLINE via www.ismaya.com/asot650  OR at our offline ticket-boxes such as: Pizza E Birra – Jakarta (Plaza Indonesia, Central Park, Gandaria City, Setiabudi); Pizza E Birra – Bandung (Paris Van Java); Kitchenette (Bali); Blowfish – Jakarta; Dragonfly – Jakarta.

Ticket Prices:

•             EARLY BIRD  : IDR 450.000 (max 8 tickets per transaction)

•             PRE-SALE       : IDR 500.000 (max 8 tickets per transaction)

•             NORMAL         : IDR 600.000 (max 8 tickets per transaction)

•             SPECIAL PACKAGE (#DWP13 & #ASOT650ID)       : IDR 900.000

Find more information about ASOT650 on www.astateoftrance.com

Payung Teduh, the local act who were chosen to be the starter for the international bands, were up on stage at 6.33PM. Heated on the crowd with their sweet melodic and of course, shady tempo. The atmosphere was pretty calm and very comforting when they performed their swinging set, even more the festival was filled by fifty people only at that time, which made Payung Teduh’s show became very intimate.

The local listeners had been soothed by the local act, it’s now the Radio Dept.’s turn. That night was the third time for them to be in Indonesia and their second time for Jakarta. The swedish’s pals transferred their traditional indie and dream-pop sounds through an electronic haze. The band performed the dreamy shoe-gazy to the crowd (with their shy yet solid acts). The songs blended together evethough there were some technical difficulties in the middle of their performance.

If you were at their show in Jakarta in 2011, last night was actually your perfect time (and maybe the band’s time) to pay some redemption after the lame experience of seeing them live (as if you remembered the event was poorly organized). All in all, the shoegaze listener would give them an “A” for last night.

From shoegaze to alternative dance! Delphic, the second international band highlited the crowd into some dancing scene. The band who released their second album, Collections, in January, seriously had some business to do in mixing all the crowd to stomp their feet and bust the moves. They also performed their mixing skills by playing some remixed intros over the songs. If you are not familiar of them, we are that you could easily get along (or even tap your foot) with the beats as the drummer , Dan Hadley, dropped some hook over and over again. Songs like “Doubt”, “Counterpoint”, and “Halcyion” were performed flawlessly. And yes ,they performed the energy which most of the bands on their genre would pretty much end up in showing just an “OK” show.

Here comes the king of the show, The Kooks! After experiencing a long wait and as we saw some people started yawning for getting a real sleepy for waiting them, the Kooks finally arrived on stage. Luke Pritchard cs’ appearance invited the big cheer from the crowd. The crowd erupted into screams as lead singer/guitarist Luke Prichard who showed up wearing a lurik clothes ( Indonesia’s traditional costume), jumped onto a higher stage, shaking his hips in Mick Jagger-like fashion.

They picked “Ooh La” from their debut album, Inside In Inside Out, as the first song. Luke totally performed a good communicative skills to the crowd and his pampered dance. For song “Seaside”, he did an acoustic solo and followed by a crowd’s choir to the song, it was a pretty smooth move. Hugh Harris’s vocal also strongly shone and balanced the performance. The singing along’s session still much happening for the rest of the songs, especially for “How’d Ya Like That”, “Sway”, “Shine On”, and “Do You Wanna”. After performing “Do You Wanna”, the encore’s typical shout out was cheered massively, the crowd seemed still hungry since the band had not performed their hit songs from their previous albums. After shouting for a couple of times, the band returned to the stage again then played the riff of “Junk Of the Heart”. The crowd went into a jiggling-machine and bobbing their heads to the song. Without having a time to catch a breathe, the band played their hit-maker song, “Naïve”, which was the icing of the show. The Kooks totally nailed the night and they surely knew how to make it “big” for “Road To Big Sound Festival”. Despite the fact of the not so crowded, Road To Big Sound Festival has given us something what the young listeners have been waiting for a long time. And remember, this is not over yet, since Big Sound Festival will be up in May 15th with the Temper Trap, Van She, Tegan & Sara and the legendary, Blur, to mark the history in your 2013’s concert list! See you ate Big Sound Festival 2013!