The last two weeks Tomorrowland was the main event in the village of Boom in Belgium. Electronic music lovers from all over the world unite at this tremendous amount of stages to witness their favorite artists while hanging around with people from alle kinds of countries and cultures. One big happy family I would call it.
Although the general music in the electronic setting is not entirely my flavour (it is way too melodic and vocally with not that many stages actually making live music as you can see when the visuals are totally in sync, which means it was all though out beforehand....but that is a different story), I had the oppertunity to visit this festival a couple of years back and I must say.....
You truly go for the experience, because that surely is the deal. It is a really good experience!
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Everything there is just entirely well thought about. The routes of walking between the 13 stages (Im not sure how many there are now, but back then there were literally 13 stages), even in the walking paths there are visuals engraved in the wooden paths. The lighting, how everything is taken care of at the camp sites.
The whole package is just really nice to experience in general. Ow yeah....there is also music...That is what people tend to forget, that in general this festival started because of the music.
The most characteristic icon of Tomorrowland is always the mainstage which is located in a bit of a dome because of the hills laid around it. And it is because of this that from nearly everywhere you have a fantastic view of the stage which this year was turned into a sort of like Disneyland setting. And yeah, it is a bit over the top....
But hey...Waving around with flags for 4 days is maybe also a bit over the top right?
Here is a video of the closing set by DJ Tiesto, who has been one of the reaccurring artists passing by every year. As you can see in the video...Damn this is a production, and not a small one.
Speaking of artists coming back again and again to play. The experience in the year that I there it went a bit too far I thought. It felt like the house DJs Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike (did they actually ever do anything besides playing Tomorrowland) and also Steve Aoki were playing at like 4 stages every day. And not with new song every time but just doing nearly the same thing over and over.
Okay this is actually one of the Steve Aoki song that I do like but throwing a pie in someones face every shows 4 times a day. I guess I have a different perception about how a show should go, it wasn't about the music anymore.
And that is a bit about the theme throughout the whole festival from what I experienced. I remember having a blast at the campsight meeting some people from England and Brazil who I still am in touch with through other socials, so that fact is absolutely awesome. I remember the vibe in total was great and we all made some memories not to ever forget again.
I was watching some of the streams over the weekend from the techno tent. And what could all hear throughout was that the music and the production was big and thick which is good to see.
Just look at this big big set from Joseph Capriati from last year. That dude knows what he is doing.
But what I also hear was just just a tremendous crowd going 'heeeeeeej-hoooooooo' throughout the whole sets of the artists, and that is the moment that you realize it aint about the music anymore.
It is about the experience and people meeting out and uniting and that is what Tommorowland is all about. Is that a bad thing?
Not at all....I would say go and experience this at least once because it is totally worth it. But for the music?? Maybe head to something smaller.
