Chattahoochee Hills Dreamville SEPTEMBER 26TH 2013 THE GATHERING PEOPLE OF TOMORROWWORLD, YOU WILL BE PART OF HISTORY! You are invited to write the second chapter, and continue our fairy tale… Open up the Book of Wisdom! Hello, friends. Welcome to our second home. Here, we gether, will tell. Over the next four days, not a single one vibe. Yet every podium has its own style, each DJ his fans, shall re-open the Book of Wisdom. You will be part of a of you will be able to witness all the magic that Tomor- and so together, we will be there for every single mem- new, unique chapter, the first one told from the Chatta- rowWorld contains, yet each and every one of you will orable moment. By our combined experience, the next hoochee hillside. What was once local, now goes global; see, hear, taste and feel so much that it’ll be all you can chapter in the Book of Wisdom shall be written. Land becomes World. None of that, however, is of very do not to burst. Some of you will stick to the MainStage, much importance – what matters is the story that we, to- loyal to the end, while others roam freely and take in the Now go out and enjoy. Our story begins. ARE you READY FOR THE GATHERING? DREAMVILLE GATHERS, AND NOW OUR TALE BEGINS. IT SHALL NOT END UNTIL THE MUSIC STOPS. TOMORROWWORLD, GET READY FOR US! Dreamville, city of grass fields & can- be celebrated. For that purpose, the end’s first dancing steps. Yves V and vas roofs, has housed Tomorrowland’s Gathering will be held. Starting out Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike will join citizens since time immemorial. You in the early afternoon, it will be the a genre-bending host of better and are more than welcome to see it arise place where you can meet your fellow lesser known DJs on stage, making in the foothills of our second home as campers, spend your Thursday night for a magical start to our weekend! well, and of course, your arrival must and, of course, rock out the week- Read more about the Gathering on page 17 To all party people Today’s highlights Today’s highlights ATTENTION! YESTERDAY IS HISTORY 12:30 AM| DIMITRI VEGAS You’ve just arrived in the land of fairy tales, NINE YEARS OF TOMORROWLAND & LIKE MIKE / wondrous creatures and utter madness. PAGE 4,5 & 6 YVES V Make sure you enjoy the upcoming 4 days to the fullest. Love, rave, dance and be happy! THURSDAY SEPT. 26TH 2013 THURSDAY SEPT. 26TH 2013 FEEL THAT BEAT RISING UP HEAR THAT BEAT, TURN IT UP BABY MOVING THAT’s whaT’s UP David Guetta In its journey to Chattahoochee, the the tales of Tomorrow. We’d like to say second chapter, your origins won’t mat- Book of Wisdom has travelled over 5,500 hello, and welcome, to all those who made ter anymore. They shouldn’t be forgotten, miles, traversing the mainland of two con- the trip from Japan, Australia, South but they’re less important than the sense tinents and the ocean between them alike. Africa, and the dozens of other coun- of unity that our festival will bring. We’re The distance took more than two months tries to grace us with the presence of all here now, ready for a weekend of mad- HELLO WORLD to span, yet everything arrived intact and their inhabitants. We hope your travels ness, far away from the normal world and THE MAGIC OF TOMORROWWORLD in time. The keepers of the Book, howev- were pleasant. Surely, you’ll be able to completely carefree. So fly your flags, fly er, aren’t the only ones to have travelled. make some new, international friends, for them high, and mingle with the ones wear- STEMS FROM ACROSS THE AtlANTIC, From all over the world, revelers flock to during the days to come, all of us will be ing different colors whenever you can. AND AttRACTS MANY PATRONS FROM our second home for a weekend of mad- part of the same sovereignty: Tomorrow- That is how you say hello to the world! ness. Over 50 nationalities are known to World. And as we unite into one nation of HALFWAY ACROSS THE GLOBE. be present, which means almost a quarter bookworms, all of us will become equal. of the world’s countries will get to hear In the creation of the Book of Wisdom’s INTERNATIONAL Two lucky birds from each country have been invited to the international meetup at the mainstage VIP. Come show your support, fly your MEETING flags, and make friends too! Everyone’s invited at the mainstage, Saturday 4pm. Bring flags, national symbols, and bodypaint! SATURDAY, 4PM • HIGHLIGHTS• TOMOROWWORLD TODAY Dreamville Page: 9 Festival Floorplan Page: 14 The Gathering Page: 17 The-Reporters © 2013 ID&T BVBA Information from this publication may only be quoted with the acknowl- Afroki Page: 21 Editor in chief: Maaike van der Linden edgement of ID&T North America as the source. No rights may be derived from the information Design: Bram Schinkel in this publication. Looking ahead, we only see days full of N Photo editor: Tom Dieleman O H Editors: Ole Thijs, PJ Symons, Erin Gabriel & Pim Dijkgraaf. sunshine, blue skies and the immense Photographers: Heidie Duteweert, Joey Timmer, Rutger Geerling, Kevin Verkruijssen, energy provided by you! Alex van Oostrum, Philippe Roelants, Philippe Wuyts & Sil Vanderbruggen. Saw something awesome? Got a good story or a pretty picture? COLOP Print: Walton Press, Atlanta Drop us a line at [email protected]! 4 2 3 THURSDAY SEPT. 26TH 2013 THURSDAY SEPT. 26TH 2013 THE FAIRYTALE’s FIRST NINE CHAPTERS TOMORROWLAND’s sIZE BEING WHAT IT IS NOW, IT’s hard TO IMAGINE THAT JUST 10,000 PEOPLE AtteNDED THE FIRST EDITION IN 2005. 2013 WAS ONly THE FESTIVAL’s 9TH INCARNATION, BUT WHAT GROWTH WE HAVE SEEn – TML GREW FROM 10,000 TO 180,000 VISITORS AND HAS BEEN WINNING BEST FESTIVAL AWARDS FOR YEARS IN A ROW. •2008• The above-mentioned successes meant the time was right to pack our bags for the next step: TomorrowWorld! The wisdom of Tomorrowland needs to be spread throughout the world, everybody should be taught which way is right, and so the worshiped Land was expanded into a whole World. But before we begin, let’s consider the history of Tomorrow for a bit. When ID&T announced the first Tomorrowland in 2005, their vision was already clear. “At Tomorrowland it’s not only about the music. The decoration is at least as important for this festival,” ID&T promised back then. Once the décor was set, eight stages were filled with dozens of dance acts from all around the world, some of whom have never stopped enjoying the magic. Coone is the prime example, having played every edition so far. Nobody knew what to expect from the first one, even though it was based on the Dutch festival Mysteryland. Well, now we know what they meant by “not only about the music”. The second edition in 2006 pulled 15,000 people; ID&T added a campsite with an exclusive stage for all campers to enjoy. But the madness really broke loose in year three. With more than 50,000 people and a second festival day it finally started to look like nowadays’ Tomorrowland. The amount of visitors and length of the festival remained the same in 2008, but it was the first edition with more than 100 DJs performing. From 2008 on, it was clear that De Schorre, Boom, Belgium, had birthed something truly extraordinary. A few more stages were added in 2009, including the ‘I love the 90’s’-stage where famous artists like Push and Scooter performed. The most special act at the mainstage of that year’s edition was probably Moby. With over •2009• 90,000 visitors the crowd almost doubled that single year. Apart from the extra stages, a lot of other novelties were added to the festival, including an actual skipiste. The sixth edition took place on the 24th and 25th of July 2010 and was the first to sell out more than a month before the festival started. With 120,000 attendees and twenty-five thousand people on the campsite the festival became larger by a third again, calling for the now-familiar rotating hosting-partner schedule to give everyone what they wanted. 2011’s Tomorrowland added another full festival day. Headliners included Swedish House Mafia, Tiësto and 2 Many DJs. One year later, the eighty thousand tickets for Belgian visitors sold out in one day. The global ticket reserve, counting 100,000 pieces, took a couple seconds to deplete. This was also the first year the festival was broadcasted live on YouTube, making for an extremely impressive production that we wager most of you have watched. For this year’s Tomorrowland, ID&T reserved 90,000 tickets for Belgium’s inhabitants, which sold out in just over twelve minutes. Despite the problems caused by passing thunderstorms – mainly on Saturday – yet another wonderful festival was had. And it had one unique feature: many of the patrons knew the end wasn’t really the end, because they’d be doing it all over again in Chattahoochee, two months later! Now that we find ourselves here, the objective is to recreate the Belgian chemistry. Prepare yourself for a breath-taking weekend and have your mind ready to be blown. •2010• •2011• 4 5 THURSDAY SEPT. 26TH 2013 THURSDAY SEPT. 26TH 2013 CHARGE YOUR PHONE At TomorrowWorld, neither you nor your phone needs to run out of batter- ies! For you we’ve got a variety of food stands, but for your phone we’ve got •2005• •2006• •2007• the PWRBOX mobile phone charging unit.