Melodic Madness in Amsterdam was built around the idea that euphoric hardstyle still has a place in a scene that has been moving harder and faster. Jay Reeve put together a lineup that made that argument pretty convincingly, and the crowd's reaction throughout the evening made it even more convincingly.

We covered two artists at the second edition: a multicam live set for Refuzion's full performance, intended for YouTube release, and photography for Adrenalize. Two different briefs, two different approaches, running simultaneously in the same room.

The multicam live set setup

Three angles. A Canon on a gimbal behind the booth. An iPhone positioned to look up at the artist from the booth level. A GoPro further back over the crowd for a wide reference shot. The most important variable across all three was sound: every angle needed to capture clean audio that could be synced with the Front of House recording in post.

That's the part people underestimate. A multicam live set without proper audio synchronisation is just multiple clips that don't cut together cleanly. The sound from the room is what makes the edit feel live rather than assembled.

Getting Adrenalize off the platform

Concert photography that only shows an artist from the waist up behind a DJ booth doesn't tell the full story. For Adrenalize, we focused on pulling out of the booth to show the scale of the production and the crowd around it. Close-ups establish the artist. The wider shots establish why the moment mattered.

Euphoric hardstyle is alive. The content from that evening agrees.