Road to Ultra music festival, one of the largest dance music festivals hit the road with 2 shows featuring Elation Professional lighting on its stages, supplied by Elation partner Star Dimensions India Pvt Ltd.
The event, which took place at the Mahalakshmi Racecourse, Mumbai on Sept 7 2017, marked Ultra’s first show in India. Star Dimensions handled lighting and trussing for the event and turned to 12 Elation Professional Platinum SBX hybrid moving heads and a Elation Professional Platinum Beam 5R beam effect moving lights for what Ashish Mehta, Director of Star Dimensions, described as an “out of the box” design. “We had the SBX fixtures on both a front bar and back bar truss, creating mesmerising effects on stage and towards the audience while the Platinum Beam 5Rs were used for nice mid-air gobo effects,” Ashish Mehta explained. “We rigged many 5R Beams across the stage and sound tower extension and their sharp narrow beam created a larger than life look.”
Star Dimensions regularly supply Elation Professional inventory to music events in India, including Justin Bieber, David Guetta, Sensation India, A State of Trance and many others performances in 2017. “We have used Elation [Professional lighting] products for years and find them to be very reliable,” Mehta stated. “They stand up well to the tough conditions we often experience here in India and they have a performance to value ratio that is hard to beat. Road to Ultra was a great opportunity for us as well as the EDM scene in India and Indian EDM lovers were naturally eager to immerse themselves in the experience.” Ashish Mehta and Star Dimensions also provided technical support for the show, along with Syam Gopinath, who executed the trussing and lighting plot.
Mehta thanks Percept Live’s technical head Yogesh Malhotra, who stated: “We’ve handled a lot of EDM events and DJ concerts in which Elation has been a part of the rider fixtures like the [Elation Professional] Platinum Beam 5R series, Platinum SBX and Elation LED Par lights, and we have found them to be outstanding products.”
