Trembling bass, mesmerizing lights, crowds of people, immense energy, sweat dripping, and tunes blasting from all angels. This is what is experienced at most insane concerts and music festivals. This is something that I missed during my time in Southeast Asia. I was of course on cloud nine with every new place I went and experienced, the new foods, the different people. I really had no room to complain, but my itch for an awesome show was getting more and more intense as time went on.
It had been a bit more than a year and half since I had been on the road and over a year and half that I had not seen a concert. I was needing a show in my life and I was willing to do whatever it took to get it in my life. Some might say I am crazy, but I literally planned a vacation around a music concert I found. Let’s go back and see how this came about…
I was looking for a concert somewhere in Southeast Asia, I really didn’t care where. My friend was coming to visit me during the month of December back in 2012 and we were going to travel around Indonesia for one month. I found an electronic music concert in Jakarta. This was not on the itinerary, in fact, the island of Java was not on the list at all for this trip. I had planned and roughly mapped out our route around Indonesia already, but when I found this concert, those plans hit the fan.
I completely scraped my plans and started over just to fit in this concert. Yes, that’s how badly I wanted to go to a concert. I rerouted our holiday plans and made it so that we were flying into Jakarta the night before the concert and then flying out the next day after the concert. You might be asking who is crazy enough to buy plane tickets to fly into a city JUST for a concert? Well, that’s me and I couldn’t have been any happier with the decision.
The concert was one of the most spectacular shows I had even been to. The Jakarta skyline was a magnificent backdrop to the three stages that were set up in the center of this megalopolis; it only added to the awesomeness. The concert was featuring some huge names such as: Avicii, Markus Shulz, Gesaffelstein, Paul Van Dyk, Porter Robinson, Knife Party, and Nina Kravitz along with plenty of other great local and international DJ’s.
Each stage was completely decked out with the most incredible light systems. As the DJ’s took their spot on stage the lights would dance around with the music providing a entertaining and spectacular show to go along with their sweet tunes.
As my friend and I jumped up and down with the music, yelled the words to the songs we knew, and sweated every ounce of liquid out of our systems, we knew it was the best decision ever to make it to this show. It’s the single best show I have been to till this day and going out of our way to make it here was totally worth it. Call me crazy, but for the love of god, don’t deprive me of my music.
If you want to checkout the concert I went to, go to the ISMAYA website . I went to the DJakarta Warehouse Party, they have one every year along with other amazing concerts and parties. Don’t miss it if you’re around…
