Drop over the Volga

What to do if you have already accustomed the audience to the most expensive DJs in Linap, the grand dimensions of the main scene and tons of sound and light? To improve in important details: this year on Alfa Future People , the largest event in the field of electronic music and technology in Russia, the camping zone was expanded (all the places were bought out all the same) and the marquet appeared for the first time where it was possible to buy designer accessories or, for example, a tiger costume. Those who wish could ride a carousel in the Burn Park. In addition, those who wanted to avoid traffic jams could get to the festival by helicopter, the rent of which cost from 25,000 to 30,000 rubles.

Unlike the previous festival, visitors to Alfa Future People were very lucky with the weather: the sky above the village of Bolshoi Kozino all three days remained virgin blue. The designers designed the optimistic mood (100 meters wide and 30 meters in height): the designers decided to beat the anniversary number V using the Victory sign, which showed those present either a robot or a person of the future. Somewhat alarming rumors that the current festival could be the last. At the beginning of the year, Alfa-Bank was left by the creator of Alfa Future People Viktor Shkipin, now heading the VTB marketing service. When asked about the possible closure of the festival, the successor of Shkipina Julia Doroshina gave an answer to the maximum streamlined form: “Rumors related to the festival go every year: and that we will move to Kazan and the fact that we will be completely closed. Everything in order to save the festival, our team and the Alfa Bank team will be done. ”

In the afternoon, visitors could have fun, overcoming an inflatable obstacle strip, testing a variety of gadgets or playing VR games in the PlayStation zone. The lecture hall talked about vital things: the cardiologist Alexei Utin taught the audience to do the right heart massage to the victim-in order not to go astray from the rhythm, he recommends to do this under some kind of average composition like “Stayin 'Alive” of the Bee Geees group. The artist Ivan Karpov erected in one of the tents a vertical agricultural facility with a basilic, celery and other herbs - he is sure that over time manufacturers will grow vegetables in this way in order to save horizontal space. And although his assumption is true rather for Japan than for endless Russia, this design looks still impressive.

-Everything in order to save the festival, our team and the Alfa Bank team will be done.

Toward evening, the stream of people from the side of the village began to grow, and the cries of "Valera!" - It is amazing how this meme from the distant 2010 is not tired of the festival public. "Where did you buy this crap to me?" - one girl was indignant, bouncing on the asphalt and trying in this way to ensure that her luminous sneaker earned. Others joked over a poster offering a hot shower and a hair dryer. Not far from the entrance, the “Mobile Bath”-a van, from which the song “Fain” of the Na-Na group and other hits of the initial accumulation of capital sounded attention, attracted attention to the entrance.

The innovation of this festival was the scene created by the Alfa Bank together with the application for creating and participating in the showcast castings and visually decorated with a Calligraph with a red-sized lamp-the beginning of the novice didzes, selected during the All-Russian casting, and in the evening, stars like a veteran dram-n-bass John B.

The greatest stylistic variety was pleased with the BASS scene, which is a huge luminous cube of metal structures: one day the veteran of the Russian Riva Vladimir Fonarev, a dolphin with the program of the last album and the gloomy master d'B Netsky , performed here.

The Miller Future Music scene, as in past years, was solved in a strictly minimalist manner, and the linap was appropriate-concentrated men playing mainly gloomy techno with an interspersed of Eisid House. Under the hard bit, the favorite of the European dance Party Plip Gorbachev chanted “Ivan, open the box!”, The Frankfurt technicium-veterans Atom & Tobias , and the resident Berghain Ben Klok, deliberately recreated the atmosphere of this famous Berlin Club on the dance floor.

The traditional “Make Some Noise” and the dissected pop hits in the scatter from Daft Punk to Leningrad sounded from the main dance floor. The Swedish DJ Alesso recalled during the set of his fellow countryman Avicii , who played at Alfa Future People in 2014, and this spring committed suicide, exhausted by stress from touring life and alcohol dependence. The “ EDM godfather” was a TITHETA through his own hits for the last 10 years, having finished his set by the transition version of “Adagio for strings” by Samuel Barber, because he introduced such a large audience to this composer, he must have forgiven a lot in the next world. The second day heedliner AFP - the character of the video game, philanthropist and eccentrik Steve Aoki did not swim in the hands of the public on an inflatable boat, as he sometimes does, but threw cakes into happy fans.

The most persistent remained on the third day to listen to the duet of Aigel and the cheerful neuromonah Theophanes with his balalaika, a bear and a “Russian drama”, this summer in demand on Openayers in the range from Alfa Future People to the “Invasion” and even the Film Pestance, where the project performed the song “ended summer". Summer, of course, will end - but before that, according to another hit of neuromonach, it is necessary to trample the field. God will give, until next year.