DGTL India 2025 took place over two weekends in Bengaluru and Mumbai, creating a crossover experience of sound, sustainability, and art. Staying true to the festival’s theme, DGTL returned with three signature stages Modular, Generator and Gain each with its own unique sound and vibe. Bengaluru’s hills in the open air felt completely different from Mumbai’s raw industrial spaces, but the music connected both cities through feeling.

Bengaluru: A Musical Odyssey in the Hills

Located at the JW Marriott Prestige Golfshire, DGTL Bengaluru 2025 was a seemingly immersive experience, a music festival swaddled in fog, sound and light. The outdoor setting created a feeling of both intimacy and infinity. The Modular stage was the main attraction, a cinematic environment where rhythm collided with nature, glowing into the hills as night overtook the day. It wasn’t just a show, it was a flow warm, melodic, and purely immersive. 

Meanwhile, Gain and Generator by Budweiser brought definitively sharper contrasts. Gain started playful and groovy during the day and flowed down into more serious dark sounds once the sun set. Generator, its namesake, pushed deeper, raw and energizing, extracting industrial beats and hypnotic techno across both nights. Bengaluru’s event set the course for the whole DGTL India tour – soulful, emotive, and strongly connected with the environment.

Mumbai: Concrete, Chaos, and Pure Euphoria

One week later, DGTL found itself in a revamped version of the Bengaluru experience at NESCO Center in Mumbai having traded rolling hills for steel beams and plain concrete walls. The Modular stage reformatted the industrial space into a high-voltage visual flare, lights flashing, bass thundering, and a sea of people moving as one. It was heavier, darker, and louder than Bengaluru, the good kind of energy that only Mumbai delivers.

Gain and Generator kept the audience bouncing through waves of groove and intensity. One moment you were lost in beautiful, lush melodies, and the next moment you found yourself in an eruption of unrelenting pounding underground techno that weaved through the audience and space. The Mumbai experience was the true opposite of the Bengaluru meditative experience: chaotic, euphoric, and light with the pulse of the city.

Artists Who Defined DGTL India 2025

Both cities showcased an extraordinary blend of international and local talent, contributing their own color to the evolving story of DGTL. Modular by 100 Pipers included stellar sets from Aayna, Masalo (Live), Echonomist, Anfisa Letyago, Yotto, Dosem, Natascha Polké (Live), and David Löhlein. The Gain stage had depth and flair with Santana, David Phimister b2b Zeeqar, GNDHI (Hybrid), Axl Stace, 8Kays, Mita Gami, Priaa, Kampai, Sickflip, Kibo, Baawra b2b Mogasu, Bullzeye b2b Sequ3l, Disco Juice, Starboy Nation, Sindhi Curry, and Floyd Lavine. Over at Generator by Budweiser, the underground experienced energy through Oddible, Audio Units, Callush, Ellen Allien, ProfaNytty, Ana Lilia, BudX Uncovered, Dreamstates, G.S.T., Helena Hauff, and Héctor Oaks, a combination of depth in hypnotism and expertise in chaos. Together, they created something unique rather than just a series of events that felt both local and global, international exclusives mixed with India’s deepest and most exciting underground acts.

Two Cities, One Vision

From the calm hills of Bengaluru to the busy streets of Mumbai, DGTL India 2025 demonstrated that it is still one of the most progressive electronic festivals in the country. Each edition showed DGTL’s emphasis on sustainability, design, and sound thinking. Whether dancing under the stars or inside an array of lights and steel, one thing was constant: DGTL is about not only the music but also the community, the emotions, and the collective energy that surrounds the beat.

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