Future Music Festival Asia 2013: Smack My Piñata Up!

By Alif Omar Mahfix  •  13 Feb 2013 in Features

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Regreso al Futuro: Looking at the Future, Amigos!
Maldita nostalgia, enough about reminiscing the past, JUICE is looking forward to the future. Future Music Festival Asia 2013, spanning 2 days, is looking to make its predecessor obsolete.

Future Music Festival Asia 2013 Pres. ‘A State of Trance 600: The Expedition World Tour’
Date Friday 15 March ‘13
Venue Sepang International Circuit

This one is for the trance heads. FMFA, and the Malaysian fans campaigning for the show all this while, managed to rope in Armin van Buuren’s celebration of his 600th radio show to the festival, making it 1 of only 11 events globally (and the only one to be held in Southeast Asia). Loco!

With an estimated 25 million people across 26 countries worldwide set to tune in to Armin’s live event at Sepang this March, he naturally handpicked only the best the current EDM global scene has to offer. And we agree, the lineup is looking mucho grande.

Armin van Buuren
Does he really need any introduction? The 5-time fan voted #1 DJ in the world himself is spinning and curating the whole thing. www.arminvanbuuren.com

W&W
Fellow Dutch Willem van Hanegem and Wardt van der Harst, together W&W (much easier to say out loud, eh?), has been cosigned by great trance names such as Armin himself, Tiësto and Sander van Doorn. In fact, like Armin, the duo’s got their own radio show, Mainstage. www.wandwmusic.com

Aly & Fila
Breaking misconceptions about the very strict Arab Republic of Egypt, this Egyptian duo made up of Aly Amr Fathalah and Fadi Wassef Naguib is showing the world that EDM is goddamn everywhere. Like Armin and W&W, they have a radio show called Future Sound of Egypt. Must be a trance thing. www.alyandfila.com

Super8 & Tab
Formerly individual trance DJ-producers, Finnish lads Miika Eloranta (Super8) and Tab (Janne Mansnerus) didn’t team up until 2005. www.super8andtab.com

Cosmic Gate
Returning to FMFA for the second time are German legends Cosmic Gate, whom arguably gave the best EDM set at the first FMFA. Over the recent years, the duo has moved away from the harder edge trance to a more subtle yet still energetic sound. www.cosmic-gate.de

Ben Gold
Rising young gun of trance, Ben Gold is most known for his Ben collaboration remix with Trinotal, ‘Slave’. His productions have been played by DJs as far reaching as established names Armin van Buuren to Sander Van Doorn to Paul van Dyk to Marco V. www.bengoldonline.com