Robe MegaPointe Beats for Love

	Photo: Jakub Zatloukal

Czech rental company High Lite Touring supplied 50 Robe MegaPointe moving lights for the main Love Stage at the 2025 Beats for Love festival, currently the largest electronic dance music festival in central Europe, staged annually at Ostrava in the Czech Republic at the stunning former Dolni Vitkovice steelworks.

This year's event saw a diverse lineup creating energy in this unique setting, steeped in cool industrial atmosphere.

The Love Stage design was a tightly co-ordinated collab between the festival's creative team and High Lite Touring, with a lighting design by Vaclav Olsar from High Lite Touring. Decor and multiple LED screens were integrated into the visual environment, providing a centerpiece for the event. When it came to lighting, there was some input from visiting artists, but Vaclav was largely left to imagine the lighting scheme himself, creating a design that would cover the vast set and work well for everyone playing across the four days.

The 50 MegaPointes were rigged around the set, positioned in between the various decor elements, and were chosen for their brightness and wide range of features which enabled sharp, piercing beams to subtle prism and gobo effects to striking aerial moments.

At Beats for Love, they stood out clearly among around 450 other lights on the rig, plus all the LED screens.

MegaPointes are well-suited for rave / EDM / electronic shows because of their speed, durability, and all the dynamic effects. This is one of the most demanding genres of lighting in terms of operation and taking a toll on fixtures. "MegaPointes are an ideal balance between compact dimensions and powerful visual effects, and a perfect tool for large-format festivals like this," comments Olsar, adding that a major task for him in designing the main stage was that it needed to embrace the requirements of multiple international artists.

"There is serious pressure to ensure that we have a versatile rig that measures up to the best international standards," notes Olsar.

This 2025 lineup included some of the greats of the genre, including Axwell -- well known as one third of the Swedish House Mafia -- who was playing Beats for Love for the first time, and other electronic artists like Armin van Buuren and Belgian duo Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike also making their debut appearance at the festival. Timmy Trumpet thrilled music fans with some spontaneous live trumpet improv and drum and bass aficionados tuned in to an incendiary set by Sub Focus, who were one of many highlights in that genre.

High Lite Touring, who are based in Ostrava, Czechia's third city and industrial heartland, have been supplying lights to Beats for Love since 2016.

The company has a lot of Robe in its inventory, mainly MegaPointes, BMFL WashBeams, and RoboSpot systems.

The Beats for Love stage construction took nine days to complete and involved nearly 100 people, with the show running handled by 44 specialists from all technical disciplines -- technicians, audio engineers, lighting designers, media server operators, laser operators, audio, video, and lighting technicians, stage managers, operators for special effects and pyrotechnics, and stage crew.