As we approached the end of Lost Lands 2023, on sunday evening, head-honcho Excision & Liquid Stranger were closing the festival in style. Before dropping their last tune, Liquid Stranger stepped on the booth and coined the festival as 'The Super Bowl of Dubstep'. I couldn't have said it any better. Lost Lands truly is a world on its own, and the leading USA Dubstep festival, with thousands of weekend attendees.
We received the honour to design the 2023 mainstage, as well as 2 epic show moments: The Opening of Excision's 2HR set on friday night, as well as the Closing Ceremony on sunday evening.
At the peak of the summer, we started crafting the two epic show moments for Lost Lands. Diving into the depths of bass music was a wonderful and insightful journey, we just realized once again how epic and bombastic this type of music is, and how good it works for show purposes.
While friday's show was really meant as a kickstarter to the weekend, sunday's Closing Ceremony had a different purpose: to guidE people towards the ending of the event in a beautiful and emotional closing moment. Both shows had their own dynamic and refinement. Friday's impact was great, as well as sunday's cinematic quality.
Favorite part in Excision show : Bass To the Dome, after his announcement.
Favorite part in Closing Ceremony : Goodbye, the encore of the show.
Lost Lands really stepped up its game by investing in this new mainstage design. As the audience entered the festival site on thursday, they received their first glimpse of the mainstage. The looks on their faces were priceless. Soon the stage went viral in the USA dance scene.
For us, the magic in the design process is to see an idea evolve, from inception of the idea all the way to the physical stage being build and topping it of with a massive pyrotechnical show. There is true strength in creating together, and I love how everyone involved -both client, as design team as well as production and show team- has put in their efforts to make it all happen. It was a true joy to see this beast-of-a-stage come to life.
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SHOW CREDITS
Show Creator & Show Director : Mark Rietveld (360 Show Design)
Show Director : Bart Straver (360 Show Design)
Stage Design : Pieter Truijen & PJOTR van kan (360 Show Design)
Light Design : Mark Rietveld, david hauss, jeff abel (lost lands)
light operator : Pascal Parent (Light-it)
Laser Design & programming : Jeroen Winnubst (sync)
content design : Michelle van mil (veemee visuals) & Matt Medwid (lost Lands)
pyro design & programming : mark rietveld & lucas gerritzen (pyro4)
pyro production : rocco vitale (Live Events)
Custom show music written & produced by :
Bart Revier & Jelle Neijs (3AM Audio)
Music curated by :
Jeff abel (Lost Lands), Jelle Neijs, Mark Rietveld, Luuk Bos (360 Show Design)
Thank you!
