“I always change it up a lot on a set to set basis but these two weekends are little bit different because I actually heard that they were telling a lot of bands to play the same set list because they wanted people going both weekends to get the same experience. I’m not doing that, I’m changing it up quite a bit, like I threw in different stuff, I re-worked some of these edits that I’ve done, it’s a pretty different set but I also want people to get the same experience as they got the first weekend. Like it’s a whole different group of people so I don’t want to change it too much and I learned a lot about the crowd last weekend… I learned which tracks are good, Anaconda for example, a track of mine, this track always goes off but it’s just a little bit too chill for Coachella, so I took that out. I made adjustments based on reactions last week to just fine tune it and make it perfect.”
On the diversity of the acts that Coachella hosts, Wolfgang had this to say: “I love the eclectic festivals; I call them rock festivals, but the festivals that have all different types of music. I don’t want to say that they’re better crowds then Ultra or EDC or anything, but there’s something about them where they’re more open minded and not quite as zombied out on drugs as at some of the EDM festivals. The best festivals I’ve played, Sasquatch, Outside Lands, ummm what was the one in Ottawa … Bluesfest, Osheaga in Montreal, Jazzfest. Those were the best shows I played all last year, and those were all very eclectic festivals. The crowd response is just insane, it’s on a whole different level from EDM festivals. I like it because the crowd response is better, and I’m able to play more of my signature sound, which is the whole Illmerica, Love & War, the whole kind of rock influenced harder edge stuff, that’s what people want to hear from me at these types of festivals and I like to be able to play that. A lot of other venues, like I play in Vegas a lot these days, it’s not what they want to hear, they want to hear more prog, more of the well known stuff and the anthems … they want to hear Swedish House Mafia but I don’t necessarily play it … so I love Coachella because I can just go hard and play what’s my sound and that’s what they want to hear and the reaction is just more energetic then pretty much any other festival.”
We thank Mr. Gartner as we take off to get a good spot for his set before we head on to the next legendary act of the night. With an even larger crowd capacity, the Outdoor Stage showed us the reuniting of Jurassic 5, an act that hasn’t performed together in 6 years. Comprised of four rappers and two DJs, the group put on a show to please, much on par with C2C earlier that day in terms of scratching skills, but exceeding them in showmanship. As the rappers disappear to rest their voices halfway through the show, DJ Cut Chemist and DJ Nu-Mark took centre stage to perform a DJ scratch battle. Using entertaining props such as a vinyl guitar (picture a guitar with a vinyl scratch pad instead of strings) and a wirelessly connected CDJ 2000 hanging from Cut Chemist’s neck which he furiously scratched away at. To finish off their battle, the two take turns scratching a massive 10ft diameter ‘J5’ vinyl which provokes a massive applause and approval from the gazing crowd.
After sticking around for a few more sing-alongs, we head back to Sahara for some Bassnectar. Catching a quick glimpse of the acid-like visuals and feeling the full power of the structure’s earth-shaking bass, we then head off to Yuma once more to wind down and catch some classic Cadenza music from label-boss Luciano before calling it a night.
DAY 2
A little bit slower to rise on Saturday, we eventually make it to the grounds just in time for Bingo Players at Sahara. Their stage decoration includes massive boom boxes and conical speakers which were spread out all around them as they play banger after banger. The crowd cheers as they hear the intro to Rattle and everyone immediately jumps up and down in unison. From the front of the structure to the back, everyone was loving the Dutch duo known as the Bingo Players.
We steal ourselves away to Major Lazer playing simultaneously at the Mojave Tent and Diplo is already rolling around on the crowd in his massive hamster ball. As if the ‘Happy 4-20’ banner trailing behind the airplane
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in the sky wasn’t enough to let us know what day it was, the MC reminded us over the microphone more than once, as did our sense of smell. This was by far the most packed we’d seen Mojave all weekend with the crowd bleeding out a few hundred feet past the back of the tent. They ordered the crowd to stand still while they make their very own Harlem Shake video and mashed up classics such as Pon De Floor and Jump Around (which went OFF) with reggae vocals; setting the perfect mood for the 20th day of April. 2 Chainz would also come out for a brief cameo fresh off his show earlier in the day to rap over Major Lazer’s Bubble Butt. Diplo would tease Get Free early in the set before finally playing the Andy C remix at the end.
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