Titled “Music is the answer,” Ultra Music Festival’s 2024 aftermovie captures the exhilarating feelings evoked by the longrunning festival.
Ultra Music Festival is one of the few organizers who still invest in proper video recaps of its flagship events. Its latest is “Music is the answer,” the official aftermovie for Ultra Miami 2024. Stopping short of portraying the freak rainstorm that overshadowed the first night of the festival, the video comprises a montage of this year’s event set to highly engaging music.
UK DJ and producer Aaron Hibell scored the aftermovie. As his and Alex Wann‘s recent collaboration, “Set Me Free,” sets a larger-than-life tone, footage of ravers excitedly approaching the festival gates calls to mind memories of similar anticipation.
“I would say this is not just a music festival,” declares an anonymous voiceover before the upbeat syncopations of “Disconnect” by Chase & Status featuring Becky Hill come in. “The people are dressed up, it’s the vibe, it’s the atmosphere, it’s Miami, it’s the backdrop, it’s the sun, it’s the way the Mainstage is designed right by the water…”
From there, each track of the score (most of which are credited to Hibell himself) seems to represent a different flavor of the Ultra experience. “Another Dimension” hints at the recent hard techno phenomenon, “FK’s Resistance Edit” of “A state of emergency” marks a segue into heritage and big room techno, and “Bad Boy” by Nicky Romero and Third Party ignites the big room energy popular at festivals a decade ago.
“Music is the answer” ends with footage of fireworks, along with shots of attendee faces nearly as luminous as the very spectacle they’re witnessing. Soundtracking this happy ending is Aaron Hibell and Final Kid‘s “Encore,” featuring an anthemic vocal of the video’s namesake.
Final Kid is the studio responsible for the Ultra Music Festival 2024 aftermovie. The Amsterdam firm has masterminded aftermovies for Ultra’s various offshoot events, as well as for festivals like Parookaville and artists like Kygo, Goldfish, and Fedde Le Grand.
