TuneLab
Tomorrowland Belgium 2017
Steve Angello
Searching for the full tracklist of Steve Angello's Tomorrowland Belgium 2017 set is a rite of passage for anyone who still gets chills from a well-deployed piano riff. This is peak-era progressive house nostalgia, delivered with the grandeur it demands. The mainstage at Tomorrowland, bathed in golden hour light, feels like a cathedral built for these kinds of anthems. With an average BPM of 130.4 and a key center often in 5B, the energy profile is overwhelmingly mid-focused (0.68 avg), built for soaring vocals and melodic crescendos rather than subterranean bass.
The mixing is broad and cinematic, allowing tracks like 'Rejoice' to breathe and swell, using harmonic transitions between 5B, 6A, and 10B to build emotional arcs. The low-end energy (0.21 avg) provides a steady pulse, while the high-end (0.11 avg) is used sparingly for climactic cymbal crashes and synth leads. This is a set designed for collective singing, not solitary head-nodding. The crate digging here is less about obscurity and more about iconic selection: the opener '40oz of Holy Water' sets a gritty, soulful tone that quickly gives way to Angello's own 'Rejoice', a track that defines the progressive house sermon.
'GODS' by S & A, AN21 & Sebjak is a collaboration that still hits with big-room force, and Kryder's 'Romani' featuring Angello offers a darker, more driving interlude. Rikfell's 'In the Night' provides a dose of hands-in-the-air euphoria, and DJ KARLSSON's 'Follow Me' is a lesser-known gem that fits the anthemic mold perfectly. The journey is textbook and effective: it kicks off with the raw energy of '40oz of Holy Water', builds to the peak moment of 'Rejoice' with its T.D. Jakes vocal, and closes with the timeless rave call of Faithless's 'Insomnia', leaving the field in a state of shared, exhausted bliss.