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DWP lineup brings party to town
On the move: Diplo of music group Major Lazer crowd surfs inside a bubble at the two-day Djakarta Warehouse Project electronic dance music festival in Central Jakarta
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On the move: Diplo of music group Major Lazer crowd surfs inside a bubble at the two-day Djakarta Warehouse Project electronic dance music festival in Central Jakarta.(JP/nbl) (JP/nbl)
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span class="caption">On the move: Diplo of music group Major Lazer crowd surfs inside a bubble at the two-day Djakarta Warehouse Project electronic dance music festival in Central Jakarta.(JP/nbl)
The biggest-ever Djakarta Warehouse Project (DWP) provided an extravagant electronic dance music experience to tens of thousands of revelers at a two-day festival at PRJ Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, from dawn to dusk.
The excitement peaked close to midnight on the first day, when famed DJs Skrillex and Diplo grouped under Jack à took command of the Garudha main stage, marking the first Asian performance of their collaborative project.
The duo amped up the crowd with their singles ' 'To Ã' and 'Take à There', and remixes of Calvin Harris' 'How Deep Is Your Love' and Beyonce's RnB single '7/11'. Skrillex also belted out his own famed single, 'Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites'.
Skrillex and Diplo talked to the audience, while dancing along and inviting the sea of revelers to clap their hands and even to do jumping jacks. In the middle of the gig, they waved large Indonesian and Jack à flags.
'You know we love you,' Diplo told the crowd.
The much-awaited performance reached a satisfying finale an hour past midnight with 'Where Are à Now', a hit featuring pop star Justin Bieber that earned Jack à a Grammy nomination.
Hours after the show, Skrillex tweeted: 'Biggest crowd we've ever played for in Asia thank à Jakarta', with an image of them waving their hands to the crowd from behind the turntables.
Diplo played the mega hit 'Lean On' both in the gigs of Jack à and Major Lazer, in which he collaborated with Jillionaire and Walshy Fire.
Major Lazer started its debut performance in Indonesia in the wee hours of Saturday at the special stage of Mad Decent label, which highlighted artists of the Los Angeles-based record label spearheaded by Diplo.
'I want everybody to take off your shirt. Throw you shirt in the air!' Jillionaire said, creating an interesting scene of numerous shirts flying above the crowd.
At the same time, Grammy-nominated trance DJ Armin van Buuren amped up a larger crowd at the Garudha outdoor stage with his intoxicating trance remixes.
Sequences of fireworks lit up the sky as Armin was completing his performance at 4 a.m. on Saturday.
DJ Snake, Tiesto and Kaskade headlined the second day.
The partygoers started filling up the three floors that hosted the DWP at around 5 p.m. on Friday, largely undisrupted by a protest staged by some 50 people claiming to represent the Islamic Youth Movement of Greater Jakarta meters away from the entrance gate, demanding the festival be canceled since it was not in line with cultural and religious principles.
Paramedics were also busy treating sick revelers, who mainly showed alcohol-poisoning symptoms.
The DWP expected to welcome 70,000 partygoers, including significant numbers from overseas, such as from Malaysia and Singapore.
Among them were Chiaki Yamada and her 22 friends who came all the way from Japan. 'We are having a four-day vacation in Jakarta and will spend two days at DWP. The lineup is great. I love Jack Ã, Armin Van Buuren and Tiesto,' the 27-year-old said.
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