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David Guetta, Kaskade, Steve Angello talk to MTV News about why they couldn’t get enough of the Brit’s VMA-nominated ‘Rolling in the Deep.’ By Akshay Bhansali Adele Photo: Paul Bergen/ Redferns Now in its seventh year, the Tomorrowland Festival kicked off again in Boom, Belgium, this past weekend, and MTV News was there for the entire spectacle. The dance music event started small but over the years it has ballooned into one of the most popular electronic dance music fests in existence. The Tomorrowland of 2011 had a fairy-tale theme and was made up of 14 colorfully dressed stages, which included set pieces like enormous replicas of mushrooms and trees; two of the stages were even dominated by an oversize skull and a sun. TL accommodated 30,000 campers on its “Dreamville” grounds, bringing the total draw for the weekend to upwards of 180,000, a figure that beat out Miami’s Ultra Music Festival. (And what American festival can claim a Church of Love, where couples are encouraged to get some … quality time ?) But perhaps what set this colossal European festival apart from the others this year was the sheer awesomeness of the talent flown in for it. Blockbuster dance music brands like David Guetta , Swedish House Mafia and Ti