Head Trip Was a One-Time-Only Festival. Apple Music Made Sure the World Saw It

“The venue is a bit like something has landed in the middle of the desert, and from that is going to come the best electronic music ever, and so you can come with us into the portal.” So says Romain Pissenem on the second day of Head Trip, the one-time-only dance music festival happening on the Coachella grounds in Indio, Calif.

Pissenem and his company High Scream designed the festival’s stage, which, with its oblong shape and lattice of truss behind it, has a spaceship vibe that’s amplified by the dozen or so oblong video projectors that create a circle around the field and the 90,000-strong crowd that’s about to gather here.

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10), when the first day of the festival ended early due to lightning and the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel hitting the region.

The weather event not only ended Head Trip early, but also cut short the festival livestream by Apple Music that was being broadcast for free on the platform.

It was, in total, a major bummer.

But the situation has ramped up anticipation for Sunday night (Oct.

11), as Saturday night’s headliner Calvin Harris — who couldn’t play his show due to the fest ending early — joined a Sunday bill that now features DJ Harvey, Peggy Gou , Kettama b2b Dom Dolla , Skrillex and Swedish House Mafia .

It’s a lineup that reads like The Avengers of EDM.

Crowds will soon be swarming the field to see these shows in a space that Pissenem and his team designed to be a container where every attendee can feel like they’re in the heart of the rave.

“When you save much money to go to see something and sometimes have the worst seat at the end of the venue,” says Pissenem, “I always think of those people, because my family had a modest income so that could’ve been me when I was a kid.

I design so that anywhere you are, you can see and enjoy the show.

For me, that’s a very personal, important thing.” Countless others will have a different but similarly excellent view of the show on Apple Music, with Head Trip being the platform’s biggest dance music offering since its Club Live launched in May with a broadcast from EDC Las Vegas.

Head Trip is the first full festival video livestream in the platform’s history, in any genre.