Since we started our travel blog, we started to spend most of our money, effort and time on travel. Obviously. But we’re also a lifestyle blog and we, especially me, quite often forget that. We’re also into music, fitness, food, drinks and other lifestyle things. So when we heard about an EDM concert coming to a beach in Thailand, we couldn’t miss on the opportunity. Not only do we have a love for music, it also gave us a reason to go to the beach. Travel and music! Why not, right? So we approached the management at WARP Music Festival and got ourselves two tickets to cover the event.

After a short drive from Bangkok we reached Jomtien beach, which is a bit further South from the notorious Pattaya. Jomtien is a slightly less touristy and quieter counterpart of Pattaya. Ironic since a massive, loud music festival was about to take place here!

Anyways, here’s how our experience went at the WARP Music Festival.

30 hours, 6 parties!

WARP Music Festival is apparently Thailand’s first beach dance party but they didn’t just stop there at one massive party. No. They had organized 6 different parties across a span of 30 hours!

• The pre party on the day before the festival itself
• The pool party in the afternoon
• Boat party for VVIP members
• Music Festival with two stages
• Two different after parties

We only went to the pool party and the music festival itself, which was more than enough to be honest.

Pool party

The Setup

While we were at the pool party, which was being held at the Saisawan beach resort, we could see the festival area being set up right next to us. The event was in a few hours and it didn’t seem like the space was going to be ready but surprisingly, it did!

As we entered through a futurstic green gate and some security (right side of the picture), we passed some merchandise stalls on the left. We bought some glow sticks and stickers so we could be more “part” of the event. Straight up front was the techno stage. On the right, food and drink stalls spread across the area. On the far right was the main stage.

The Crowd

We couldn’t believe it but the area actually fit everyone pretty well and it did not feel clausterphobic or tight as we thought it would be. It looked as if there were at most 3,000 people at a time but upon investigation, we found out that over 7,000-8,000 people had attended the event! That is a massive turn out – even more than last year.

Most of the ravers and party go-ers were Thais, many from Bangkok and other parts of Thailand. There were quite a bit of foreigners too but they were mostly found at the techno stage. We could also see a lot of models, actors and celebrities at the event too.

Check out the Instagram pics and the event scenes at #WarpMusicFestival or #warp2016.

The Music

The music was simply fantastic – hard, heart thumping and fist bumping! It was a good mix between pure techno, hard trance, generic EDM hits, some trap and even hiphop. The festival had a pretty good lineup of international DJs such as Matisse & Sadko, Lookas, Valentino Khan, Morgan Page and the headliner, Marshmello.

The show stealer (for us at least) was Lookas who we had never heard of before. He was unique in that he didn’t play the same type of music every other DJ was playing. He had the crowd up on their feet and getting down low & dirty with his surreal trap mixes. We hadn’t danced like this in years!

Valentino Khan was also pretty great as well as Morgan Page. Marshmello, however, was a bit of a disappointment or it could have been that we were quite tried from dancing so much earlier and were ready to go home. We actually ended up leaving early and not finishing his set. We’re sure he picked up at the end after we left.

Everything Else

Overall, it was an amazing event that was organized quite well. Music was great, food and drinks line were moving fast, toilet situation was good as we never had to wait longer than a minute and everyone was civil. We met some interesting and fun people and even made new friends, which is definitely a bonus. It’s one of the reasons we travel as well so it’s good that we can get the same opportunity at lifestyle events as well.

We are left wondering why we stopped going to concerts and music festivals. Maybe it is one of those, ‘you miss it when it’s gone’ type of thing.

Till the next one then.