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More than 100 Robe ROBIN 600E Spot and LEDWash moving lights were used to illuminate the Blue Room, one of five arenas at the 2011 I Love Techno (ILT) event – one of the biggest and most successful rave experiences in Europe – staged at the Flanders Expo, Ghent, Belgium. It was attended by a completely sold out audience of 35,000 ravers.
The event’s LD, video and production designer Thomas Boets of LD Productions specified the Robes, which were supplied by rental company L&L Stage Services of Herentals, Belgium.
Boets, who has been involved with the ILT for more than seven years, designed visuals for all areas across the whole event.
Seventy-six Robe ROBIN 600 Spots and 26 ROBIN 600 LEDWashes were used in the Blue Room, rigged onto to a series of trusses over the stage/DJ booth and on two box trusses – one inside the other – with curved edges that were flown above the audience. These two trusses had white fabric stretched between them, providing a projection canvas for the ROBIN 600 Spots.
The LEDWash 600s were used to produce color mixes and techno-tastic looks all around the room, which featured a high-energy molten mix of sounds from a line-up featuring Digitalism, Steve Aoki, Fake Blood, Cassius, Mumbai Science and others.
The lighting had to be dynamic and flexible, offering enough options to keep going for 12 hours of non-stop partying and dancing to the best of techno. Operator Tom van den Burg used a Chamsys MQ 100 console to cut his own magic visual mix.
The intense pace used all the features that the ROBIN 600 Spots and LEDWashes had to offer – color and shutter chases, zoom and iris shaping – to the delight of Boets himself, who was pleased with the results.
Boets chose the Robe fixtures for the ILT Blue Arena after using ROBIN 300E Spots in the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels for the recent album launch for Belgian house/soul band, Sweet Coffee.
He says, “I have seen the amount of Robe fixtures continually increasing in the Benelux region, and the new ROBIN Series units in particular tick so many boxes – they are small, super bright, lightweight and fast – all the attributes you need for the particular demands of dance event lighting.”
He also spec’d two Robe DigitalSpot 7000 DTs for Hall 5 to project onto a scenic version of the ‘I Love Techno 2011’ logo, which is constructed from a series of interlinked triangles.
He says he will be using Robe again, commenting that the LEDWash series, with three models now available in the 300, 600 and 1200 versions, has massive potential in multiple sectors.
The company says that the LEDWash 600 has been Robe’s most successful and best ever selling fixture since its launch a year ago.