6 posts tagged with "Electronic Music"

It is July, which means somewhere in a field outside Boom, Belgium, the wristbands are already gone. They sold out in an hour. The flights sold out slower, but they sold out too. And for every person standing in front of a mainstage this summer, there are thousands more at home, refreshing a livestream, watching a festival happen to other people through a flat rectangle on a laptop.

That gap, between the field and the couch, is the story of every summer. The biggest electronic festivals on the planet run June through September. Most fans will never stand in front of those stages. Not because they do not want to, but because a ticket, a flight, and a hotel add up to a month of rent. This is the summer the rest of us stopped settling for shaky phone clips filmed from the parking lot.

We built VPORT because there had to be a better answer than the livestream. Spatial video on Apple Vision Pro is closing the distance between the flat replay and the lived moment. Not all the way. Not yet. But far enough that the question stops being "should I watch from home" and becomes "how should I watch from home." That is a better question, and it finally has real answers.

If you are a DJ or a producer in 2026, your link in bio is probably a Linktree page that has not been touched since 2022. A purple gradient. A SoundCloud link that opens in a webview. A Spotify link that opens in a different webview. A booking email that someone copies into their Mail app, types one sentence, then forgets to send. The page works. It also looks like the page worked five years ago, because it did.

We built VPORT for artists who deserve better than that. On July 1, 2026, the VPORT Artist Portal goes live to the public. It is free. It has no ads. It does not upsell you to a Pro tier to remove a watermark from your own URL. We are building it because the link in bio is the most under-served piece of an artist's marketing stack, and because we want to be the company that gets it right.

Tickets sold out in under an hour. The waitlist is deeper than the lineup. If you are reading this, you either did not get tickets to Tomorrowland 2026, or you did and you are already planning how to be in two places at once. Both are valid. Both have the same question: how do you experience the biggest electronic music festival on the planet when you cannot physically stand on every stage at the same time?

The answer used to be the livestream. A flat rectangle. A fixed camera angle chosen by someone who is not you. A YouTube chat scrolling faster than you can read. It was better than nothing. It was not remotely close to being there.

The answer is changing. Spatial video on Apple Vision Pro is closing the gap between the flat replay and the lived experience. Not all the way. Not yet. But enough that the question is no longer "should I watch from home" but "how should I watch from home." That is a different question. A better one. One with real answers.

Coachella 2026 starts Friday. The lineup dropped weeks ago. The Reddit threads have been debating it since. Flight prices to Palm Springs are obscene. And somewhere between the schedule conflicts and the sunscreen math, the real question is the same one it always is: which sets will actually matter six months from now?

Not which ones will trend on Sunday. Which ones will still be worth stepping inside — in full 360-degree spatial video — long after the polo fields go quiet. That is the question we care about. That is the question this platform exists to answer.

There is a reason the first immersive music content that truly works — the stuff that makes people stop talking about the technology and start talking about the music — is almost always melodic techno. Not because the genre is better than anything else. Because the genre was accidentally engineered, over two decades of evolution in dark rooms and open-air temples, to do exactly what spatial video needs music to do. Hold you in place. Build slowly. Reward the peripheral. Make the room as important as the sound.

2025 was the year of the long set. The two-hour headline slot. The sunrise marathon. The three-hour back-to-back that nobody on the livestream wanted to end. Across desert main stages and crumbling Mediterranean amphitheaters and fog-choked Berlin basements, electronic music stretched out, breathed deeper, and reminded everyone why people still fly halfway around the world just to stand in a field.

But standing in that field was the problem. You could only be in one place. One timezone. One crowd. The rest lived on your phone as a cropped, compressed, vertically-filmed souvenir that captured maybe five percent of what it actually felt like.

We spent the year watching differently. We spent it thinking about which of these sets — these specific nights — would be transformed most completely by professional spatial video. Not just documented. Transformed. The kind of 360° capture where you turn your head and suddenly the whole room makes sense: the lights, the bodies, the geometry of sound bouncing off walls. The kind of presence we have been building toward since we launched VPORT on VisionOS.

This is our list. Ten sets. Ten arguments for why the best music of 2025 deserves a second life in immersive video.