Sunday's Best: Highlights From Creamfields Day 3

U.K. dance music festival Creamfields closed out the 2015 edition Sunday in style. And Yahoo Live was there to catch some of the biggest names in EDM as they put the festival into the history books, with some very memorable performances. To wrap up 2015, we captured just the A-list names, from iconic to current stars.

Superstar DJ Steve Aoki has established himself as one of the premiere showmen in dance music and, as expected, he brought his A-game to Creamfields. As a superb pulsating techno beat permeates the grounds, Aoki threw multiple cakes backwards into crowd to “cake face” the audience. It was everything Aoki fans wanted.

Dutch DJ Afrojack was also pumped for his performance, playing the warm electro grooves of his own “Never Break Your Heart,” a song punctuated by soulful female vocals before it turned into a full dancefloor anthem. With the explosive hook, the crowd didn’t need any help getting excited, but Afrojack still played his own hype man, dedicating the song to the audience and asking, “Can you feel it?”

One of the most exciting new acts on the scene, Duke Dumont announced himself this year with a standout set at Coachella. That was clearly no fluke, as evidences by how he led the Creamfields crowd through a masterful mix of eclectic beats, from techno to tribal, all generating the same result, keeping the audience enraptured.

Speaking of not being a fluke, longtime superstar Fatboy Slim was the unquestioned highlight of EDC Las Vegas and obviously in contention for the same title at Creamfields. The man behind “Praise You” had the tent ready to explode at any moment as everyone danced and screamed along to “I Want Your Body.”

Dutch DJ Tiesto can always count on a massive, animated throng of fans, especially at a festival like Creamfields. So he wisely teamed with collaborator Don Diablo to film the music video for “Chemicals” during his set. After they asked the crowd to “go extra hard tonight” to the melodic, midtempo dance tune, the fans delivered with their hands up as they sang along to the chorus repeatedly for a moment that is being immortalized in a Tiesto video.

Australian sisters Nervo stopped by Yahoo HQ backstage to chat right after their set. It was so fresh that Miriam joked about being “still sweaty.” But it was worth it as she said, “It was insane, it was awesome,” in reference to their set. “This was by far the best Creamfields.” Maybe that was because they had some old friends in the audience, as they told a tale of some Brit fans telling them repeatedly in the last month at shows, “We’re coming to Creamfields.” And sure enough the band spotted them thanks to a sign that read, “Remember me from Vegas.”

One of the most influential DJs of the electronic scene is German DJ Paul Van Dyk, who filled in Yahoo on his experiences at Creamfields over the years. He got the best of both worlds, meeting up with colleagues and friends backstage, but when he came out to play, he did so for “one of the best audiences in the world.”

Steve Aoki did a quick chat with Yahoo before he was late to his set on the main stage. Once he did get to the stage, he debuted a new song. It may sound nerve-wracking to premiere a track for a huge festival audience, but Aoki called it “an experiment. You get feedback.”