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The eye-popping design of the kineticFIELD stage at this year’s Electric Daisy Carnival was clearly inspired by the legendary Tomorrowland Main Stage. But, despite EDC’s multi-dimensional forest landscape and all-seeing animatronic owl, Tomorrowland is among a small handful of festivals that sets — and continually raises — the bar for top-notch stage production.

The theme of the festival dictates the design of the Main Stage each year, and 2012 marked the most spectacular execution to date; the “Book of Wisdom” theme, which centered on the idea of a magical library, translated into a Main Stage comprised of almost impossibly large books stacked atop one another. But the book’s spines also had interactive elements, and the centermost book opened and closed to reveal a video screen and a ghostly face etched into the pages. Tomorrowland’s Main Stage has come to represent a sensory overload of the highest order and, with the ever-rising production values of festivals worldwide, we’re counting on ID&T to bring it like never before. With this year’s theme being “The Arising of Life,” we can only imagine the twisted Garden of Eden scene they’ll deliver.