[1][2] Future Music Festival Asia was inaugurated in 2012, and has been headlined by notable acts such as The Temper Trap, Chemical Brothers, Flo Rida, The Prodigy, Psy and Fun.

[4] Future Music Festival Asia returned in 2013 with a two-day festival which featured prominent trance DJ Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance 600 on Day One, followed by a second day of local and international live music acts.

[6] Reception towards the festival have been largely positive, but there have been numerous complains about the venue's traffic problems and the lack of public transportation.

Mines Resort City was initially announced as the venue, but it had been changed to the car park of the Bukit Jalil National Stadium.

[12] More than a year later, it was confirmed via post-mortem results issued two months after the incident showed that the cause of deaths were due to heatstroke, with drugs playing a negligible role.