UVA Festival: Spain’s boutique disco and house haven
Intimate vibes at a converted 15th century monastery
Chris Stanford & Dax J - Synchronize
Trus'me, Main Stage
While the Friday night closed out with disco, the Saturday night took no prisoners. With a line-up of Matthis Meyer, Greg Beato, Andrea and Trus'me on the Main Stage, it was heavy techno for much of the night and there was a huge roar of approval when Trus'me dropped this roller from Chris Stanford and Dax J. With it's pounding kick drum, steady drone and metallic percussion it shouldn't have worked in that environment. But it did, and everyone loved it.
Despite there officially being a line-up for Sunday, no-one plays (apparently there was an accident involving the head of production so health and safety restricts them). Instead it's everyone around the pool with the bar still open and some tunes playing off a phone through a PA. It makes sense for the festival to finish this way. It's been a heady and casual affair with 500 friends and everyone's pretty happy to just hang out and chat shit in the sun. Or in our case get roped into a discussion about politics with a rather inebriated German. What a weekend.
Louis Anderson-Rich is Mixmag's Digital Intern. Follow him on Twitter
