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- All the Torchi of Russia gathered in one place! - Not without admiration is pronounced by one girl when the endless field of the festival with the camping and standing at a great design is ahead of the main scene.

- We are not Torchi, we are athletes! - corrects her pumped up young man.

True, rather on his side. The main thing that is surprising on Alfa Future People , the largest electronic music festival in Russia is how adequate its audience is: there are very few people who are aggressive or in an altered state. The second good news - now it makes sense to come to the festival and for those who do not really complain of mass electronic music (it is EDM ). The number of scenes compared to last year increased from two to six, in total there are more than a hundred DJs and musicians in Linap. “If you are a Russian DJ and you are not here, work further,” says Viktor Shkipin, marketing director of Alfa-Bank, at a press conference. Among the names in Linap - and Sanchez and Trapeznikov, familiar from the pages of the old "Ptyuchi". And the popular Easy Changes techno-Duet in Europe with the favorite of Moscow modes Mujuice , and the masters of the Bobina and Feel boxing trance-the composition is more than representative. According to Shkipin, in the future the festival can stretch to two pairs of weekends. ALFA FUTURE PEOPLE is generally about record numbers: 1 megavatts of sound, Wi - FI zone covering the space of 30 football fields (and 1.8 terabyte of downloaded information), 25 thousand burgers eaten, millions of paid fees. “We brought here about 200 tons of gravel - it’s so, just for you to represent the scale of what is happening,” says Shkipin. We represent.

Compared to other mouths, this is the best!

The whole life of a large Kozino sat (stress on the last syllable is a constant occasion for jokes) for the duration of the festival is also transferred to the field. Locals are sitting at their houses and peering into a crowd of arriving fans of dance music. On faces - an expression of painful thoughtfulness. There is no single attitude to the festival here: some complain that because of it "the bus goes or does not go." Others come with the children to look from a safe distance to the main stage, the facade of which is decorated with a giant head - in her mouth is a DJ cabin. “The music, of course, is heard,” says a woman of about fifty, “but if the windows and doors closed, then it’s normal.” And so everything is aside, everything is decent. I have not heard about incidents. What is there to be dissatisfied with? ” Here, spontaneous trading of raspberries and other berries from its own garden, barbecue and shawarma is being conducted. 150 rubles are asked for shower, housing prices depend on the conscience of the lessor (as a rule, not very well). The large Kozino is a large and relatively prosperous village: there is their own furniture production, many go to work in Nizhny Novgorod and Sormovo, one of the centers of Russian military shipbuilding. At the field itself is the main local attraction - the temple of Mikhail Archangel at the beginning of the 19th century. I would like to know how the clergy sensitive to loud music is looking at what is happening, but the door is closed, around the fence and police officers.

In addition to the official camping zone, there is also unofficial - right in the clean field. From open trunk, the sounds of Edm are reported - the arrivals have their own disco, some of them, it seems, are not going to go to the festival. An old foreign car is striking in the eyes, glued with the names of the stars from Linap - Steve Angello , Netsky and others; She leaves the territory closer to eleven in the evening. The gaze every now and then clings to ordinary guys with five -liter bottles of “Zhigulevsky” or their own boomboxes, from which is a surprise! - The same Edm rumbles. Everyone’s mood is benevolent, the sun goes beyond the horizon, the bit is becoming louder and more important. Mujuice plays on the stage of Live & Bass - they promised a program from the tracks of the early album “Cool Cool Death” and the sensational song plate “Downloading” . But Roman Litvinov plays a more suitable Eisid House to the occasion-and breaks the applause with his hit “Dirty” . Following him is the live performance of the British DJ project Damian Lazarus The Ancient Moons . Two black vocalists in African robes sing ecstatic soul over a house bita-you feel like at a visiting party of the Paradi's Paradas' Paragian Club at the beginning of the zero.

Meanwhile, it becomes completely dark - and very cold. A former participant in Swedish House Mafia , Steve Angello, arises in the mouth of a giant head on the main stage. "Mike himself noooois!" -A synthesis batch of the immortal hit of the EURYTHMICS group is rushing from the scene spitting out fiery flashes. Time to take a break.

The next morning, in the lobby of the hotel I see young people in black T -shirts, impenetrable dark glasses and with equally impenetrable faces - these are DJs. DJs are serious people talking on serious topics. The revitalization is caused only by the bike about the protagonist of the festival of this year, the sociopathic Canadian D Eadmau5 , who refused to live in Nizhny Novgorod and generally wanted to bring with him to the Kangaroo hotel. It was not possible to find out about the kangaroo - it is only known for certain that in the DJ cabin I had to specially cut out two “pockets” for the ears of the mouse head in which the EDM star performs. The DJ riders, according to Shkipin, generally pleased with their ingenuity: someone needed towels certainly black, someone-two pairs of underwear, someone-a fresh Playboy issue.

Having tried to knock out the bit on a giant drama machine (the principle is the same as the legendary MPC sampler, but you need to stomp your feet on the padam), I go to listen to the official anthem of Alfa Future People , written by DJ Smash , a trance fighter starting with the guitar party in the spirit of the U2 . “Now I would like to write the anthem of Russia,” says Smash at a press conference, “but I'm afraid the country is not yet ready for the dance hymn.”

- How do you like the scene? - asks him a journalist from Cheboksary.

- Great! Have you ever been to a person in your mouth? I was! - answers Smash .

- Well, compared to others? - The journalist does not let up.

- Compared to other mouths, this is the best!

In the 3D zone, meanwhile, a master class on three-dimensional printing takes place, here you can scan yourself in full growth for relatively small three thousand rubles. ALFA FUTURE PEOPLE is a festival of not only music, but also technologies, so the most persistent in the morning set off at the presentation of the alcohol for iPhone, a “smart” basketball and other gadgets. Those who can’t get to the festival by noon simply play new games using the Oculus Rift 2 helmet or explore the world of augmented reality.

It is already difficult to imagine the Russian rave without Israeli Infected Mushroom -and although they are at the festival for the second time, an extraordinary revival begins in the press show with their arrival. “It doesn’t matter in which city of Russia you play - everything always goes well,” says Amit Duvdevani. If we take into account that one of the concerts of the group was torn by the FSKN, such words cannot but arouse respect. I ask about the sensational festival "Crimefest" in Sevastopol, where Infected Mushroom will play in the company "Aria", "Black Obelisk" and "Alice". The groups “25/17”, Distemper and “cockroaches” - but not the Israelis have already abandoned it. “We are not a political group, if we are ensured by security, then we play anywhere,” says Duvdevani. - There are too many different things about this festival, so we have not yet decided completely, whether we will play there. But so far everything is in force. "

Meanwhile, Deadmau5 enters the stage - without famous ears you will not recognize him immediately. On that day, I counted three people with mouse heads on the festival field - everyone honestly received his 15 minutes of fame and a bunch of pictures on Instagram. The Canadian gives out a rather gloomy and uncompromising set by the standards of the main scene-he still puts on his helmet, but for only five minutes. “Our people have not grown to Deadmau5 ,” one of the fans lays down, “such a drop is powerful, and everyone stands like pillars. Still, there is music for Openayra, and this is for home. ” I'm trying to imagine how I turn on Deadmau5 at home - it turns out not very.

It’s not easy to get through the crowd at the main scene - in just three days the festival was visited by 40,000 people. On the stage of Live & Bass , the Germans Booka Shade play charming house - at the end of the set, the electronic version of the I Wonmet Back Download suddenly sounds Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers . The performance of the classics of electronic music, Underworld, does not cause the excitement in those present, but collects the most pleasant audience. Most of the people here are thirty - those who went to love the main dance floor, quickly disappear, without waiting for the drop. For their music, this site lacks scale, so the concert is not crazy, but kind and some kind of nostalgic. But the Great Group is a great group, and when Karl Hyde sangs “You Bring Light in” and at this very time twilight parted and the dawn begins - you feel pure and unknown happiness. Hyde disappears in puffs of smoke, takes heroic poses, acts, an exemplary set list (only hits) ends “Born Slippy” -the words of too much. “The old raver, do not be sad, Underworld will still return - and on the dances suddenly that girl will smile at you” - how the group “SV Khutor” sang. Here - returned.

Above the field finally dawn, fog swirls over the grass. A person with a naked torso, on which Alfa Future Pekle , is bred in front of me, is wandering to the exit; Air temperature is about 8 degrees Celsius. "Mike himself noooois!" - Once again rushing from the main scene. The drop is catching up with you, even when you have already left the village and stuck to the railway station - and after two days of dancing I want to make silence as soon as possible.