top5 future

Porter Robinson
Dubfire
Knife Party
Kill the Noize
Bollocks
what a fucking dust bowl great day tho...

From the lack to thread I thought the ITM Adelaide crew boycotted Future!

Anyway for me the highlights were:
The Wombats - I'm biased here though, for some reason in the last two months I've gone from knowing nothing about the Wombats to thinking they can do nothing wrong. The crowd was beserk and I got to the stage just as the lasers were cutting in during Techno Fan.
New Order - one of the main reasons i decided to go to Future this year. When the wombats finished all the kids left the adults stayed to play.
Die Antwoord - had never heard them before but a mate insisted they'd be good. Holy shit. Utterly bezerk and definate festival highlight when they launched into "Santa Claus you c**t" by Kevin Bloody Wilson in a full aussie accent. Half the crowd were in tears and the other half had no idea what they were on about.
Jamie Jones - good techno. Had me on my feet even early in the day.
Gareth Emery - I'm not really a trance fan but the PvD tent seemed to be banging out good tunes consistently all day and the djs were responding to the crowd and loving it too.

dust was awful, I think my throat is still stuffed from the dust and smoke - such still night everything just hung in the air and didn't dissipate.

vids I've seen of Aphex Twin were absolutely off the hook!

I was working almost all day in the artist compound (500m from the event site) so only saw bits and pieces.

Did a loop around the site at 7pm and another at 9pm - was generally surprised at the Paul Van Dyk tent being only 1/3 full, as was the Likes of You (but that surprised me less).

Thought the site and all stages were very big so lots of room, although mainstage seemed far smaller than the mammoth Stereosonic mainstage!

So so so many more people at The Likes Of You stage then other years, it was dead all day last year except for when Plastikman was on.

Aphex Twin was easily the highlight
Sven was fantastic as usual, that guy is the king of festivals

The Rapture, Dubfire and Jamie Jones were all impressive as I kinda expected anyways having seen them all several times.


Was a good day minus the freaking dust bowl of a venue, even the drink prices became tolerable when you know someone who is working the bar, I thought thats why every other festival swapped to tickets ;D

in no particular order

- die antwoord (who were insane - i too had never seen / heard of 'em before but they were incredible)
- azuria & III (i had never seen / heard of 'em before but they were incredible too. somehow managed to get a drumstick from them. easily the best dancers out there)
- aphex twin (absolute class)
- alex metric (highlight for me was when he dropped his sabotage remix at about 3pm in blazing sunshine, was nuts! probably my best ever musical experience)

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-Jamie Jones played a top set had me moving the whole time, loved it when he played his remix of Azari & III's hungry for the power.
-Was looking forward to see what Azari & III were like live they were top notch, really cool to see and the two singers did not stop moving they were dripping with sweat and agree they are very cool dancers, loved when they played reckless with you love.
-Oliver Hutemann was good he played a nice minimal set.
-Likes of You crowd was probably at its biggest point of the day during Die Antwoord took some time out during these guys and just watched they had a shitload of energy, pretty impressive.
-Braved the main stage for Fatboy Slim, was well worth it. The man knows how to get the crowd moving and was getting into it himself, played some alright remixes of some of his classics.
-Walked over to the DFA stage to have a quick suss before Aphex, James Murphy & Pat Mahoney were playing to a very scarce dancefloor, gave a thankyou to the crowd that was there dancing at the end.
-Aphex Twin was the obvious highlight absolutely blew my mind I've never witnessed a set like it. So much energy without being over the top, his head was down the entire time emersed in his work, suprised he gave two thumbs up as he walked off.
-Enjoyed the new venue, much more space, didn't line up for drinks and only lined up briefly for toilets, so a well organised event.

Not a single mention of skillrex

I was working in the artist compound on the day. Skrillex seemed cheery enough, said hi to everyone as he cruised around.

Dude is mega short though!