Inox Park 3 @ Iles des Impressionistes - Chatou 08/09/12

On this beautiful end of summer day, at 11AM, we travelled a few kilometres out of Paris to Chatou, where the third edition of Inox Park took place. Set on the Impressionists island in the middle of the Seine river, over twenty electronic artists performed on three themed stages. The first stage (yellow stage) was more commercial music (Laidback Luke, Armin Van Buuren...) and I avoided it successfully. The second (green stage) was more minimal music and I managed to see parts of the two performances by Popof and Dubfire, the second being excellent live (great old-school music).

But most importantly, I spent most of my time close to the blue stage, where the more trash artists were. Here's my appreciation of all these lives.

Alesia: A discovery for me, this Parisian band is very talented and lays some very impressive beats with great sound originality and exhilarating drops.

Borgore: I only knew a few songs from this artists, and wasn't surprised to discover a great set with crazy remixes. As one person pointed out with his cardboard sign during the show, it provoked a "Borgasm".

Zedd: I awaited this concert eagerly as I have been following his work for some time. Under Skrillex's label OWLSA (Owned With Large Stuffed Animals) this talented artist proved himself both a great composer and a great performer. His music was mad, and I went bonkers when he played "Shave It", as well s his version of Skrillex's "Breakin' a Sweat".

Steve Aoki: His popularity is already enormous, and he is widely considered as one of the craziest artists on stage. However I was soon bored by his music, which doesn't really strike me as very interesting. He has the merit of being a great crowd warmer.

"POOL BREAK!": Since Aoki wasn't amazing to our taste, we popped off to the "Pool Party", where you basically play and dance around in a knee-high pool while listening to a DJ. It was a great way of freshening up.

Cyberpunkers: Still drenched from the pool, I managed to catch a brief glimpse of Cyberpunkers. This electro duo with their famous paintball masks played "I Needed to Go" and "Fuck the System" as their last two songs and were simply amazing, although their live performance doesn't go much beyond playing their tracks without much alteration (opinion only based on two songs beware).

Flux Pavilion: And then came the God of the night, Flux Pavilion. This fantastic Dubstep producer and DJ has made himself known through great tracks ("Line in Wax" for instance) as well as an uncountable number of massive remixes. Unfortunately - and I was prepared for this - the line-up list said "DJ Set" next to it, meaning a simplistic set with the best songs not very mixed. But apart from this detail, the show was great.

Joachim Garraud: After his concert on the yellow stage, Joachim Garraud came to the blue stage to present the premiere of his 3-D show! During the day we were given 3-D masks (blue/red) in the shape of JG's galaxian logo. I was intrigued since it was the first 3-D concert in the world (or so they said), even though I don't appreciated his music. The concept was nice but deceiving (like most 3-D images to be fair). There were only cubic or circly forms moving around looking 3-D-ish, but nothing exciting. And expectedly the music was sh*te.

To end on a good note we saw Dubfire and were pleased again. Overall this thirteen hour festival was great, especially for its relatively low price (42€).

 Inox: 12AM