Imagine Music Festival – An Aquatic Fairytale [Event Review]

This previous weekend was the fifth anniversary of the Imagine Music Festival. Imagine takes place on the Atlanta Motor Speedway and welcomed over 35,000 pageant goers for 4 days of tenting, workshops, and a killer lineup together with acts like Kaskade, Armin van Buuren, ZedsDead and extra. Imagine Music Festival was additionally my first ever pageant and it could not have gone extra easily.

Day 1 – Friday (12th Planet, The Glitch Mob, Armin van Buuren)

Getting into the campgrounds and establishing camp was fast and straightforward and a good way to start out the weekend. I took off with some new associates to stroll across the grounds, see some distributors and naturally, get my first peek on the Imagine signal. I bought my first pashmina to save lots of me from the solar and at last grew to become a full pageant goer. My group and I had been wanting to lastly get contained in the speedway so we received prepared and headed into day considered one of Imagine.

Friday night time was crammed with units from Zaxx, Riot Ten, 12th Planet, The Glitch Mob, Galantis and Armin van Buuren – and that was simply the primary stage. With 4 levels all through the entire pageant, there was a relentless number of music taking part in in every single place you went. Throughout the speedway, there have been artwork installations that added to the texture of the pageant completely. From a large LED pyramid to murals on the primary road, artwork was in every single place in each kind. If you had been hungry or thirsty, there have been loads of distributors to cease by and refuel at.

Zaxx and 12th Planet introduced the home down and is the place I spent most of my night time and vitality. While recouping subsequent to the pool, I watched The Glitch Mob's killer set and graphics and went again into the motion for Galantis.

Below you will discover some clips from Galantis and Armin van Buuren.

(Thank you Whitman Bransford for the video.)

Day 2 – Saturday (Ekali, Liquid Stranger, Bassnectar, Zhu)

Saturday day was spent conserving vitality as a result of I noticed simply how a lot I wanted to totally rage in a while within the night time. I walked across the campgrounds, grabbed scrumptious meals from distributors, took a free bathe – a lifesaver truthfully – and loved the environment. Around the place the distributors had been native DJ's retaining the vitality excessive. It was wonderful to see everybody dancing and having an excellent time in any respect hours of the day.

Saturday night time I stage hopped like no different. I went backwards and forwards from Oceania to Amazonia seeing acts like Leah Culver, Ekali, Liquid Stranger, Adventure Club, Bassnectar, and Zhu. Ekali is considered one of my favourite DJs and it was such a deal with to lastly see him dwell on the Amazonia stage. Sets like Liquid Stranger and Adventure Club had been newer to me, however the publicity to new artists was appreciated and I am now endlessly obsessed. Last however positively not least for me was the Bassnectar set. I do not assume I've ever skilled something like that and am already trying ahead to seeing him once more. Saturday was bought out due to Bassnectar and you might inform as a result of the entire area was completely packed and full of excellent vibes.

Find clips from Bassnectar, Adventure Club and Liquid Stranger beneath!

(Adventure Club video by Stoyan Stamatov.)

(Thank you @lilmanderssss on Twitter for the video!)

Day three – Sunday (Getter, RL Grime, ZedsDead, Kaskade)

Sunday was once I found that nobody actually sleeps at festivals. Music was taking part in by means of the campgrounds in any respect hours and it was truthfully wonderful. After mainstage reveals, some DJs would present up on the Silent Disco for shock units as early/late at 5:30 am. It was superior having fixed vitality all through the week and is what actually saved me going.

Sunday night time my world was modified with the lineup of Getter, RL Grime, and ZedsDead. I used to be on the center rail for all of those units, so I received the complete basshead expertise. The manufacturing of the levels and units had been out of this world and extremely spectacular. Imagine made certain to maintain headbangers on the rail hydrated and funky with free water bottles and walked by with followers. It was nice to see a pageant maintaining a tally of their ravers and ensuring we had been all protected and hydrated.

After tons of bass, we ended the night time with Kaskade's lovely, sparkly dancing set. Kaskade was the proper technique to finish an ideal weekend with limitless quantities of confetti, bouncing seashore balls, and fireworks.

Clips from Kaskade and ZedsDead beneath!

Overall, Imagine Music Festival was the proper technique to get into the pageant scene. For me, all the things went easily and fantastically. The individuals, the music, safety was prime notch and solely getting higher and higher yearly from what I heard. Imagine actually knocked it out of the park this 12 months with the lineup and general operation of the pageant. I could not give them extra props for placing on such an excellent time. Here's to Imagine 2019!