Ferreck Dawn, Claptone, Dimitri from Paris, and Tom & Collins

With a pair of huge screen behind him, a light show to match, and standing at the helm of his sound, Claptone, who sports a long-nosed venetian mask, launches into a progressive house set that has the audience in the palm of his hand ready for a dance and a boogie. He launches in to “Sundream” which is a Claptone remix, winning over his crowd, who from start to finish are dancing, throwing some of their best shapes on the dance floor. The aesthetics combined make everything all that much more of an experience this evening with the audience completely invested in Claptone’s hour-long set. There are moments of utter melody, where there are three instruments playing beautiful melodies at the same time, making such a fantastic sound, and then with the audience completely drawn in, Claptone launches into the largest drop that elevates the calibre of the atmosphere from a 6 to a 10. “Wrong” closes the set in a lot of style, with a very inspired audience leaving the venue this evening.

Dimitri from Paris is one of those DJ’s that just knows exactly what he is doing, adding to the list of French EDM such as Daft Punk and M83. He takes a lot of songs from the 80s and makes them his own, keeping audiences as large as 20,000 going. The atmosphere this evening is utterly euphoric with everyone in this vicinity dancing throughout the set. Over the years in the course of his extremely successful career to date, he has built such a name for himself making remixes of some extremely well known songs most notably a version of the Prince hit, “I Wanna Be Your Lover” which is slightly faster than the original and led by a club sounding piano, washed in reverb. It’s when the beat kicks in that everyone goes from almost quite static dancing at about a six out of ten to a twenty out of ten. It’s no wonder why I am amongst 20,000 people all here to see Dimitri from Paris.