Nightfall plunges the surrounding colonial-era building into crumbling gloom, but in the generator-lit tents, Ibrahim cheerfully greets colleagues as he gets ready for his shift.
I began my trip 40km south of Jodphur at Mihirgarh ("the sun's fortress"), a new boutique hotel with nine individually decorated rooms and a neighbouring camp comprising seven large, well-lit tents.
The lantern-lit tents come equipped with a lounge that is bigger than most hotel rooms, ensuite toilets and showers (with ever-so-rare piped-in hot water), and goose-down duvets and fake-fur blankets spread across a hand-carved oak king-size bed.
For three days, 55,000 people raved in massive, strobe-lit tents and demon-faced cathedrals to a non-stop barrage of screeching synths and jackhammer breaks, with the energy levels of a hundred thousand Club-Mates.
You work the matsutake trade and you're an entrepreneur, he said as he sorted and weighed mushrooms in his lamp-lit tent on a recent evening.
We woke up at six this morning to a suspiciously dimly-lit tent.
The first person I met when I walked from the shuttle van through the darkness to softly-lit tent teeming with artists attending a pre-festival retreat was Gareth Higgins, executive director of the Wild Goose.
Inside the ramparts, the troops live in roomy, well-lit, airconditioned tents.
Three days of gentle cycling along leafy country lanes are interspersed with two nights' posh camping (hot showers, toilets, ready-assembled lantern-lit bell tents and hot water bottles) at Sedlescombe and Carr Taylor vineyards.
