My Lost Lands 2025 Experience: Dinosaurs, Bass, and Dehydration

Lost Lands 2025 was my first trip to the land of dinosaurs, bass drops, and people who can survive three days on nothing but vibes. We arrived with the confidence of rave veterans. I quickly realized it was hot, super dusty, very crowded, and the lines for water and everything else were super long. This caused me to start stressing out a bit, but once I heard that WUB WUB all that disappeared though and the stress dissolved.

All of my highlights for Lost Lands 2025.

1. I don’t know what Excision put in this year’s speaker stack but I’m 90% sure my organs shifted. At one point the bass hit so hard that my eyeballs wobbled. The whole experience was over the top. Lasers, fireworks, flame jets, glowing drones that made images of dinosaurs in the night sky. It was all very unreal.
2. All of the sets were unreal. Excision, Woolie, Level Up, Calcium, Crank Dat, GorillaT, LSDream+Clozee, Rezz, Sippy, Tape B, Zingara, Reaper, Ghengar, Infekt, Eliminate, and so many others. Melodic dubstep flowing into heavy riddim, surprise guests, and every drop sounding like Godzilla wrecking havoc.
3. My wife and I handed out little gifts again, ducks, dinosaurs, and kandi bracelets my mother had made herself. Everyone seemed to love this.
4. We met some cool people and I got to do my first “official” kandi exchange.
5. Getting to see my boy Subtronics b2b w/ Excision, also Subtronics walking out on the stage with the chair and sitting down during Woolie’s set was great.

Here are all the bad things about Lost Lands after our initial trip. 

1. I’m still finding dust in places I didn’t know had surfaces. My shoes and clothes came home a different color. My nose, eyes, and lungs have seen and felt things they shouldn’t have. 
2. The bathroom situation was also pretty bad, even in the VIP area where they had flushable toilets. 
3. There’s also way too many amazing artists and not enough time to see them all with scheduling conflicts and travel/relax time between sets. You obviously have to pick and choose what you are and aren’t willing to miss. 
4. Hydration was hard to manage with the lines for water being massive, almost dangerously so.
5. The crowds were so dense it was hard to move and even breathe at certain times. Mostly when trying to move about the festival grounds to and from sets. 

We drove home exhausted, destroyed, grimy, and dehydrated. Yet I was still satisfied somehow.