La musique est une histoire sans fin

As there were not so many French people at Sunrise festival, I’ll write this post in English…
As a music background Sasha’s Intro and Swedish House Mafia anthem @ Sunrise Festival


Let’s start with Sunrise Festival, which has gained momentum in the electronic music community lately, being seen as the Nordic/polish Ibiza/Kazantip, even if it takes place close to the Baltic sea in Kolobrzeg. Don’t expect this comparison this year, at least on the weather level as sun was lacking most of the week-end (except maybe for last 2 hours of Sunday after on the beach). 2 main nights (Friday and Saturday), after on Sunday, and “awards event” on Sunday evening. 2 stages were offered to the foreign raver that I was. Without even looking at the line-up, I figured out someone my age would prefer the analog one to the digital one. In the end, I spent less than 1 hour on the digital stage, and probably more than 20 on the analog one I was amazed by 3 things at Sunrise. First one is the level of professionalism of the festival, some of our french festivals could be well inspired to attend this festival, as it’s well organized for everything (sound, lights, stage architecture and size, drinks, food, toilets, 3-day passes … etc). Digital “Trance” stage was huge, and located on a parking lot, whereas analog stage was in an amphitheater. Second thing is the ambiance. As someone from Brittany, I expected Polish people to be fond of alcohol like us, but actually there were a lot less of people drunk at the festival, which is great… and everyone seemed happy, without being high. Third thing is of course the number of good-looking women in this country, you never know where to look at, there are always handsome girls around. I even tweeted that I thought I was in Paradise when 4 charming red hair women were surrounding me Very few of them spoke English (or French) unfortunately

Friday line-up was made of too many Djs that were similar, all of them but one (Joris Voorn) played the Swedish House Mafia track (You have to understand this track is massive when played in a amphitheater) for example. By the way, all tracklistings are available here. Joris Voorn is really the DJ I appreciated the most on the first nights as the other DJs (Dirty South, Funkagenda, Dada Life) were too electro-house for me. Joris offered a good selection, good technique, and sounds we wouldn’t hear for the whole night. I was surprised to see that the amphitheater was the most crowded when Joachim Garraud, a customer of mine (with iPhone app), was performing. I was expecting more from Laidback Luke, especially when he started to mix The Bells by Jeff Mills, but was quite disappointed when he (tried to) mix it with Major Lazer. Technically, he wasn’t so good, real mixes where rare, he just tried to place a maximum of its own juice. Probably one of those producers who are better in a studio than on stage in a DJ set. Rain accompanied us for the 2 last hours with the sun rise
I was eager to attend the Saturday night as I had appreciated Pete Tong 30 months before in London and had never seen Sasha, Hardwell was a good candidate also. Pete Tong was quite good, offering a better, more subtle selection than most DJs, and for sure more diversified. Good moment, even if most of Polish people didn’t appreciate. Many people came back to see Sasha, but his intro by Sasha let almost everyone still as he started very smoothly with no beat where most DJs at the festival we just using massive kicks and long breaks to get the people dancing… But surely, he got people to move to his hypnotic set. Only for his set, I think that Sunrise was worth attending as I felt as I was in a rave like I haven’t felt for years (and surely not at a Caribou live set 2 weeks after such as a ignorant Inrockuptibles journalist). Many other stars (ATFC, Hardwell) performed but no other really grabbed my interest. I didn’t see at all Armin van Buuren, as even if I wanted to see the “phenomenon”, I knew I could see him again one week later at Nature One in Germany. Rain also was the last guest for this second night

The third night is actually a day and night as you can attend the after party on the beach (beginning 2 hours after the end of the second night, so that’s really difficult not to get some sleep before), and the awards event. If you are not Polish, you can avoid Sunday evening event as there’s a lot of talking – including during the DJ sets, which are again a bit too electro-house/trancey for me. That made me go to bed before the end, although I attended the whole 2 first nights. I only see the 2 latest hours of the after party and there were the best ones for weather as this was the only time we really had sunshine. A good moment to have a look around to beautiful women as well

I will attend for sure again, as I both enjoy the ambiance, the numerous views :p and some of the DJ sets. I just hope next year they will have more techno (or real house ?) and less electro-house (I guess that Trance is too popular right there to get rid of it… anyway, I don’t mind if we have a good line-up on Analog Stage). With Nuits Sonores festival in Lyon, these are so far the festivals I like the most so far (still haven’t attended Sonar). I guess that with such videos and photos, that shouldn’t be too difficult to bring some friends from France.

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