To be honest, I'm not a big fan of electronic dance music. I prefer musics like funk, jazz, rock, or disco from the 70s and 80s. Nowadays I only like few of the electronic groups, such as Clean Bandit (they combine the dance music with classic instrument like violin & cello!), LION BABE, and this one, Disclosure!

I was disappointed when I couldn't watch Clean Bandit live in Jakarta. They came to Jakarta last December 2015. Too bad at that time I couldn't afford the ticket (geez, the ticket for concert nowadays is getting more expensive!), but when I heard Disclosure would come to Jakarta for the second time, I had no doubt about it!

After working on some projects, finally I could buy myself a ticket to watch Disclosure. It also became a refreshment for me in the middle of working on my thesis. Well I heard about the announcement since last April. I thought it was the part of April Fool's joke since I knew it on April 1st. Even people on the internet also didn't believe it. I checked on Disclosure's official website, there's no schedule in Jakarta; mostly in US and other cities on May. Anyway, I saw there's pretty big gap between their gigs on last April to middle May. Hmm, I guessed they could be playing in my city among the dates.

Not so long after that, I read a comment on Disclosure's Instagram telling fans to check out their blog post. There it was, the official announcement of them coming to Jakarta! I was so excited. I wouldn't miss any chance to watch my favorite musicians.

They only played on DJ set, they didn't do the exact full performance. At first I was like, "Huh? Okay..." but I didn't mind! It's a rare occasion that they can play in Jakarta. I also know they'll play in Bali next August, but Jakarta is much closer. Of course I really want to see their real live performance like what I see on Youtube. Seeing Howard & Guy Lawrence playing on full set is amazing! It would be much greater if Sam Smith, Lorde, Gregory Porter, LION BABE, and Brendan Reilly perform with them, LOL.

The day was coming!

I watched Disclosure with my friend Petek, since she also liked them. We went from Bandung to Jakarta on May 4th, which was the date of the event. I thought it was okay if we went at 3 pm to Jakarta with estimated arrival time at 6 pm. Guess what? I was totally wrong. On 5 and 6 May there were two public holidays, which provided us 2 extra days for weekend; our weekend started from Wednesday night! Since we went to Jakarta after work hours, the traffic jam was insane! We arrived at 8 pm on Tanjung Priok Bus Station as the result. Then we took Gojek to go to Ecovention at Ancol, North Jakarta.

This event was held by DGTL_LVE. Besides Disclosure as the main guest star, there were also other famous DJs like Tchami from France, Dipha Barus and Bima G from Indonesia. Too bad I haven't heard their songs, except Tchami. I only listened to one of his song, so I couldn't review their performance since I didn't know much about them. Sorry!

The first performance was Bima G, followed by Dipha Barus then Tchami. I could say Tchami was awesome, even though I didn't really know his music. Many people cheered when he came and played for the next 1,5 hours.


HERE THEY ARE!

I was soooo excited seeing them in real life. I was lucky enough to stand really close to the DJ booth because I could see the performers better or at least I could breath properly here. When I saw what was going on behind me, wow it was so freaking crowded! All the audiences tried to be closer to the stage, and of course we only had small space to move there. They began their performance with their famous "When A Fire Starts to Burn", and the crowd instantly danced!

They played some songs that possibly not included in their albums but I recognized one, it was "Jump Hi" by LION BABE. I was so happy since LION BABE also a great electronic music group. After that, they played "Voices" and "F For You"! Yeah!! They remixed both of songs and they were so goooood.

After few songs, I noticed the very specific voice of Gregory Porter... They were starting to play "Holding On"!! It was SO GREAT! They played the original song, which was all I hoped that night because I could sing along! "Holding On" is one of my favorite songs in their latest album, Caracal.


Other songs were coming, they kept making the crowd dancing through the night. I remembered that Disclosure started to play at 1.30 am. It was so late but it didn't matter, though. Then they played more songs like "White Noise" and "Magnets". For the last song, the played "Latch"!!


Did they just end the night? Nope! After people chanted "We want more!", they didn't hesitate to play one more song. As the encore, "You & Me" was played by the Lawrence brothers. The special thing was, they played the remix version of You & Me by Flume. That version was totally dope. You can listen to the song here.

Overall I was so happy to watch Disclosure even though they only played on DJ set. The sound was amazing, the visualizations on every songs they played were super cool, and of course their performance were totally incredible. I hoped they could play Omen and January that night, but well they didn't. Maybe next time? I really wish I can watch them one more time, especially when they do live performance.

By the way, thank you to DGTL_LVE for bringing Disclosure to Jakarta!