Biggest electronic music festival in Vietnam is aiming to rival the best in Asia
Epizode will take place on Phu Quoc island over 11 days later this month, featuring some of the world’s leading DJs. Dixon, Carl Cox, Richie Hawtin, Chris Liebing and Luciano are just some of the headline acts appearing
The event, which takes places over a ridiculous 11 days between December 31 and January 10, on Vietnam’s Phu Quoc island, is just about the most ambitious electronic music event Asia has ever seen.
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An event on that scale could be a recipe for disaster on the scale of the infamous Fyre festival that collapsed in the Bahamas earlier this year, but Epizode has the form to suggest that won’t be the case.
Not only did it also take place last year in the same location, but the team behind it have been putting on an even bigger and longer event since a quarter of a century ago: KaZantip, the gigantic electronic music extravaganza that took place annually in the Crimea in Ukraine between 1992 and 2013.
In fact, last year’s Epizode was even longer than this year’s, taking place over 14 days. Roustam Mirzoev, Epizode’s music director, who’s also a DJ and will perform at the event, says that the first Epizode was a bit rushed; it was only confirmed in October, making bookings tough, although it still managed to attract 5,000 revellers.
