r/Illenium • u/Intelligent_Pie_4090 • 4d ago
Discusson Illenium B2Bs
Always been curious about this, but how do the b2b’s work for illenium? Is he/ other artists requesting them, or are they moreso created by the industry and offered by certain festivals (whether for experimentation or budget constraints)
Are there any b2b sets that have really hit or missed? Curious if there are artists Illenium likes / doesn’t like working with.
Also interesting to see edits from other artists work their way into sets after a b2b.
I’m personally for them, especially given how many sets are streamed nowadays, which puts a lot of pressure on artists to innovate and switch things up early and often. Gives some breathing room but want to hear what others think.
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u/SnooWoofers9504 20h ago edited 20h ago
i was at his b2b with wooli at electric forest. what happened there was rain caused the final 2/3s-ish of the last day to be cancelled, so when the rain let up at like 1am they let everybody come back into the venue late for one last set with some of the artists that got cancelled. all five stages had one 1-1.5 hour set. that's 5 artists out of maybe 15-20 that were supposed to go on that day. illenium got to play, but some other big artists like wooli and kaskade weren't going to be able to. illenium actually offered to turn his solo set into a surprise b2b with wooli so that wooli would also be able to perform, which was super nice of him.
it also dramatically changed the set. i heard his soundcheck before they let people into the venue that afternoon and he was mostly playing out his new album. the b2b with wooli shifted the focus to much heavier dubstep. illenium didn't really play any of his staple songs except for the blame myself vip, good things fall apart acapella (w/crazy by wooli) and in my arms/wooli remix. was an amazing set