Time to get packing! Our BPM DJs are here to make sure you’ve got all the essential items for the ten days of paradise you’re about to experience.
Also, what’s the most unusual item on your favorite BPM artist’s rider? Find out below!
Josh Wink (Mobilee #LetGo)
Essential Items: Your passport, baby powder and a ponytail holder.
Most Unusual Item on My Rider: It’s not unusual for me, but vegan and organic drinks (cold pressed juices) and snacks.
D’Julz (tINI & THE GANG / Music Is 4 Lovers)
Essential Items: A tequila shots survival kit.
Most Unusual Item on My Rider: A good warm up DJ!
Lee Curtiss (Visionquest / Smoke N’ Mirrors)
Essential Items: Extra sandles, you’re going to lose at least one, and end up barefoot going home from a party. Sunblock, all the pale people I know end up fried like doughnuts. Acapulco shirts. A tape recorder for special music – Jefferson Airplane “White Rabbit.”
Most Unusual Item on My Rider: I always ask for room 112, where the players dwell. No one seems to get it.
Mark Farina (I’m A House Gangster)
Essential Items: Good portable speakers, which I never travel without, because you never know where you’re going to need tunes. Swimsuit. Flip flops. And of course, all the new music you can bring.
Most Unusual Item on My Rider: Derrick Carter riding a horse! It was very hard to achieve and it has only happened once in the entire history of the world. Very rare.
Ryan Crosson (Visionquest / Luciano & Friends)
Essential Items: Sunscreen. My nose lights up like Rudolph if I don’t take care of it.
Most Unusual Item on My Rider: I don’t have anything unusual. I think putting shit on your rider you don’t need is crass and arrogant. You’re already getting paid to play music you love. Don’t be an asshole, there are enough around already.
Art Department (No. 19 Music – Social Experiment Mexico / Ya’ah Mull II)
Essential Items: I like to bring Bill Patrick wherever I go…he’s good times and makes me feel like I don’t complain too much.
Most Unusual Item on My Rider: I still have lemonade on there from when Kenny use to sing on our first tour six years ago. I’m always impressed when a promoter bothers to actually read it and I’ve got it in the booth. Never touch the stuff.
Matthias Tanzmann (15 Years of Moon Harbour / The BPM Festival Presents…)
Essential Items: Sunglasses and swim shorts.
Most Unusual Item on My Rider: My rider is pretty standard. No rubber boats or super rare drinks
andhim (Superfriends / All Gone Pete Tong)
Essential Items: Never forget your massage oils and scented candles!
Most Unusual Item on Our Rider: Hot sauce.
DJ Sneak (I’m A House Gangster)
Essential Items: Sunglasses, sandals and music!
Most Unusual Item on My Rider: Bipolar chocolate bear claws, Brazilian octopus incense, and Siberian goat milk salad!
Stacey Pullen (No. 19 Music – Social Experiment Mexico / The BPM Festival Official Closing Party)
Essential Items: Hand sanitizer.
Most Unusual Item on My Rider: If it’s not in my rider then I must already have it.
Andrea Oliva (ANTS / All Gone Pete Tong)
Essential Items: Hopefully a lot of sun cream, good music and good vibes.
Most Unusual Item on My Rider: Smokes – to avoid asking everybody for a cigarette.
Lee Burridge (All Day I Dream)
Essential Items: A strong constitution. A broad taste in music. The person you love the most to share it with.
Most Unusual Item on My Rider: I’m trying to get to a point where I don’t have a rider. There’s way too much unnecessary decadence in them. I used to have a sparkle pony and two unicorns listed a while back.
Ramiro Lopez (Suara)
Essential Items: Sunglasses, sun cream, mosquito repellent and a swimsuit.
Most Unusual Item on My Rider: Nothing very unusual. I think the most weird thing is ask for sparkling water instead of still water.
Nicole Moudaber (Last Night On Earth / The BPM Festival Official Closing Party)
Essential Items: Obviously my 30SPF sunscreen, lots of oil, and lots of lotion because that’s what I’m going to be working on when I’m in Playa.
Most Unusual Item on My Rider: Normally I don’t act like a prima donna on my rider although I am a prima donna in my private time. I respect the promoters a lot, especially since I was a promoter in the past, and I’m not Lady Gaga so I keep it real.
Chus & Ceballos (Stereo Productions / Toolroom Live)
Essential Items: Antacid to kill chilly pain, extra pair of sunglasses (you will lose them for sure), tank tops and big smiles.
Most Unusual Item on Our Rider: Not crazy shit to be honest, the most extravagant thing on our rider probably is a bottle of Rose Champagne Veuve Clicquot Brut and bananas so not a big deal, we are very easy going with that.
Coyu (Suara / Luciano & Friends)
Essential Items: Good vibes!
Most Unusual Item on My Rider: I’m not very picky with riders, I just ask for easy things like pink unicorns and flying pigs.
Cassy (Paradise / Do Not Sit On The Furniture)
Essential Items: Sunscreen, swimsuits, shorts and flip flops, and a DJ nanny.
Most Unusual Item on My Rider: Rooibos tea.
Acid Mondays (RUMORS)
Essential Items: Penny farthing, a pencil case and an open mind.
Most Unusual Item on Our Rider: Raw food bars and coconuts.
