The following is an incomplete list of music festivals that feature electronic music, which encapsulates music featuring electronic instruments such as electric guitars and keyboards, as well as recent genres such as electronic dance music (EDM). Many of the festivals in this list take place in the United States and Europe, though every year thousands of electronic-focused music festivals are held throughout the world. This list generally excludes multi-genre festivals with only a partial focus on electronic music (Glastonbury, Summer Sonic Festival, and Big Day Out) and festivals that have added EDM stages in later years.[1][2]
A vital party of the history of electronic music, this festival paved the way to the concept of establishing small festivals to present new and experimental musicians. After World War I, a significant increase in new electronic instruments took place, becoming featured elements of the festival. In 1926, Jorg Mager invented an electronic instrument without a keyboard, called the Spharophon, among others, which was shown at the festival.
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu holds an annual trad and modern jazz festival in the ground of Beaulieu estate, in the New Forest. Attracts beats and jazz eccentrics, called 'ravers'.[3]
Mostly oriented around jazz and blues to start, this annual festival soon became a showcase for progressive rock as well, featuring groups such as the psychedelic rock group Cream.
It was organized and sponsored by the Italian record industry association, AFI, and by RAI, except for the editions between 1995 and 2000, in which the festival was organized and broadcast by Mediaset.
The Trips Festival on January 21–23, 1966 was the most attended and advertised of the early Acid Tests events, which were started in late 1965.[7] On Saturday January 22, the Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company came on stage, and 6,000 people arrived to imbibe punch spiked with LSD and to witness one of the first fully developed light shows of the era.[8]
An experimental international festival, a number of electroacoustic works were presented during its run, with artists such as Dave Tudor and John Cage performing in 1971.
The Isle of Wight Festival is a music festival which takes place annually on the Isle of Wight in England.[9] It was originally a counterculture event held from 1968 to 1970.[10][11] The 1970 event was by far the largest and most famous of these early festivals and the unexpectedly high attendance levels with estimates of over 600,000 led, in 1971, to Parliament passing the "Isle of Wight Act" preventing gatherings of more than 5,000 people on the island without a special license.
This historically and culturally notable festival is known to have served as a defining moment for baby boomers. Performers included Joe Cocker, Jimi Hendrix and Santana among many others, with genres such as acoustic music, folk music, and psychedelic rock. From August 15–18, Woodstock had an audience of over 400,000 young people.
A DJ played records for early arrivals starting Friday evening, and continued to do so between many of the sets until the end. The festival featured a line-up of the top American west coast and British bands of the day, including Santana, The Flock, Led Zeppelin (headlining act), Pink Floyd, etc.
The first World's Fair held in Japan, which featured a number of electronic music exhibits. The West German pavilion, designed by Fritz Bornemann, featured the world's first spherical concert hall.[12][13] Inside, the audience was surrounded by 50 loudspeaker groups at different "latitudes"[12] while classical music was played from multi-track tape.[14] Also in the course of the exhibition, often experimental performers gave concerts for over a million visitors.[15] Early Japanese computer music compositions include a piece by Kenjiro Ezaki presented during Osaka Expo '70. Since then, Japanese research in computer music has largely been carried out for commercial purposes in popular music, though some Japanese musicians used large computer systems such as the Fairlight in the 1970s[clarification needed].[16]
Hosted by the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges in France. Composers submit works which are assessed by an international jury.
A British free festival organised by some Londoncommune dwellers, notably Ubi Dwyer and Sid Rawle. The event was brutally suppressed by the police, which led to a public outcry about the tactics involved. In 1975, both Ubi Dwyer and Sid Rawle were imprisoned for attempting to promote a 1975 Windsor Festival.[17]
A yearly international conference for computer music researchers and composers. It is the annual conference of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA).
A festival encompassing some 60 shows, with over 200 artists on 13 stages within a week. The shows represent diverse genres, often experimental and electronic. The ever-growing public is composed primarily of young people (91% are under 35), and over 200,000 people attend the festival each year.
The rock festival was noteworthy because of the importance of the headliner bands that played, the timing in the evolution of new wave music, and from the size of the crowd.
Originally titled the "Varadero Spring Festival,"[18] the festival was renamed in 1998. It has featured electroacoustic musicians such as Julio Roloff. Juan Blanco created it with the purpose of presenting Cuban composer's electroacoustic and avant-garde works to an international audience, and to establish relationships with foreign composers and artists.[19] It is still held in various locations.[20] It was held in 1988 in Baltimore, Maryland, by Vivian Adelberg Rudow.[21][22]
Originally held at SO36 in Kreuzberg, the early years of Atonal fostered revolutionary and innovative musical acts such as Psychic TV, Einstürzende Neubauten, Test Dept, 808 State, and Die Haut, among many others.[23] Throughout the 1980s, Berlin Atonal was at the vanguard of the progressive electronic and experimental music and art scenes in Berlin. The festival closed in 1990. In 2013, Berlin Atonal was at a massive abandoned powerplant in Berlin-Mitte.[24]
Organised by the Artists-in-Berlin-Program of the DAAD, in cooperation with the Electronic Studio of the TU Berlin since 1982, the festival is dedicated to electro-acoustic music and sound art.[25]
A series of large dance parties held in Sydney, Australia that "formed a key element of an emerging subculture"[26] that was fashion-aware, gay-friendly, and that appreciated dance music and open, outrageous celebration. Forty Rat Parties were organized by the Recreational Arts Team between 1983 and 1992.
A week-long electronic music event, held every March in various clubs in Miami. It is aimed at professionals such as DJs, record label representatives and promoters. The event is also considered a mecca for clubbers, and it features the International Dance Music Awards.
Sponsored internationally by Technics and Ortofon, the event has grown over the years and the formats of its competitions have developed along with demand. Originally intended to be a DJ mixing battle, DJ Cheese introduced scratching in his routine in 1986, changing the course of future DMC battles.
One of the first White Parties held by the gay community as a circuit party, the first event promoted safe sex practices, and all attendees wore white. Sixteen hundred guests showed up that Sunday night, Dec. 1, 1985. Each paid $10, which went to support AIDS nonprofits. Now a week-long event, most of the parties are geared to gay men from all over the globe, but there are several events for lesbians and mixed crowds as well.
Annual festival is the largest gothic festival on this planet. Every year, hundreds of artists and bands from various genres perform at different venues throughout the city over a span of four days.
A nightclub at the heart of the house and rave scene of the late 1980s and early 90s that helped launch the career of Sasha and that featured regular appearances from Carl Cox, until it was eventually shut down by the Staffordshire Police.[27] The club's heyday was c.1990.
Energy
1988–1992
England
Energy raves organised by Quentin 'TinTin' Chambers and Jeremy Taylor set the standard for electronic music events, with high value production incorporating a film set designer and state-of-the-art sound and lighting. Energy's 'Live Dance Concept' in 1990 at London's Docklands Arena was the first true fusion of live dance acts and large production, featuring the likes of 808 State, Adamski, Snap and William Orbit.
Huge outdoor Sunrise raves organised by Tony Colston-Hayter and Paul Staines. Sunrise were instrumental in organising the Freedom to Party demonstrations and the free parties that followed alongside Genesis '88, Biology and Weekend World.
Genesis '88 was a party promotion crew founded during 1988 during the UK's discovery of acid house and illegal acid house parties. Genesis enjoyed a succession of events that saw attendances rise from 300 to 15,000 people. However, Genesis were targeted by the UK government and the criminal underworld after the media wrote of huge profits (£500,000) being made by such promoters. The Genesis organisers were kidnapped and extorted by gangsters for protection money, which happened to other promoters as well. This, coupled with the government's label of "Public Enemy No.1", helped bring about the end of illegal acid house parties.
One of the best known rave names on the UK rave scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The first event was held at a circus tent on 16 September 1989 at Jenkins Lane, Beckton in east London. This was Britain's first legal all-night rave.[28][29] DJs such as Carl Cox, Dave Angel, LTJ Bukem, Mr C, DJ Rap, John Digweed, Kevin "Reece" Saunderson, Slipmatt (where he and partner John "Lime" Fernandez would create SL2 during this event in 1989), Fabio and Grooverider started out at Raindance.
The Helter Skelter organization was founded in September 1989, in the midst of the Acid House party era, by David Pratley and his wife Penny. They were inspired by the early Acid Bungalow clubs such as "Codys" and "Lava", and the M25 motorway "Orbital" rave events such as the Sunrise. Helter Skelter's first event was an illegal outdoor rave in 1989.
A popular festival and parade that originated in Berlin in 1989, and spread throughout the world. The last Love Parade was held in the City of Duisburg on July 24, 2010. After a number of deaths at the concert, the annual rendition was cancelled.
International computer art festival in Sofia started as a festival for electronic music. One of the modern sections of the contest and festival part is still related to computer and electronic music.[30]
The world's largest gay-benefit dance festival, attracting thousands of tourists to Montreal every Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, which raises money for HIV/AIDS and the gay community. It is organized annually by the Bad Boy Club Montréal (also called the BBCM and Fondation BBCM). The various events attract up to 70,000 participants a year.
One of the oldest electronic music festivals in Germany, artists such as Yello, Spoon, Sven Väth, Moby and Marusha have performed.[31] Although they were pioneers as leaders of techno music in Central Europe in their early days, in recent years Mayday has opened up to new sounds, from hardstyle to house, trance and EDM. There have been editions in other countries like Poland, where it takes place every year, or Hungary.
A•DEvantgarde is a music festival held every 2 years. The A•DEvantgarde Festival was formed in the late 1980s by a passionate group of young German composers who wanted to break from the traditional Darmstadt school of serial composition.
Fantazia is a dance organization that first held six large raves in 1992.[32] Earlier, A Fantazia New Year event was held 1991–1992 at Westpoint Exhibition Centre with 10,000 people. These events were legal, and Fantazia's rave at Castle Donington was the largest outdoor rave to be held in the UK, with no fewer than 25,000 people. Fantazia raves increasingly featured characteristics of theme parks and mainstream celebrations.
Dubbed "The Dinah", the five-day festival is considered the largest lesbian event in the United States and the world. The first unofficial Dinah Shore Weekend took place in 1986 when women began to flock to Palm Springs in conjunction with a golf tournament, and has since grown to include a White Party.
The longest running and the largest electronic music festival in the former Soviet Union. Originally held in a reactor building on the Crimea Peninsula, the week-long event purports to be a "free music republic". In 2014, the festival took place outside of Crimea for the first time ever, in Anaklia, Georgia. In 2015, it was to be held on Cambodia but was cancelled by the local authorities.
An Australian outdoor dance music festival and electronic music events organisation. The outdoor events were generally held in forest environments around Victoria, Australia, with some events held in Queensland and overseas in New Caledonia. After the last remaining founder died in 2018, the event has ceased.
The most attended "technoparade" in Europe, attracting 900,000 in 2011. Inspired by the Berlin Love Parade, originally a demonstration of love, peace, freedom, generosity and tolerance with 2000 ravers dancing through Berlin behind two Lovemobiles.
An electronic music event taking place after the Street Parade in Zurich, Switzerland. It is considered the largest indoor event of its nature in the country. In 2010, around 14,000 people attended.
Thunderdome is a famous concept in hardcore techno and gabber music organized by the Dutch entertainment company ID&T. The first big event was The Final Exam, with more than 10,000 people in attendance on 20 June 1992. From 1992 to 2012 it operated Thunderdome as a festival. After the 2012 event, the party was brought back in 2017 for the 25th anniversary. There has been editions in other countries too.
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. An estimated 20,000–40,000[33] people gathered on Castlemorton Common to hold a free party that lasted a full week, the biggest of its kind since the Stonehenge Free Festival in the mid-1980s. Castlemorton hosted many of the large sound systems of the time such as Bedlam, Circus Warp, Spiral Tribe and the DiY Sound System, and bands such as Back To The Planet. A great deal of media interest surrounded the festival.[34] Concerns about the festival and the way in which it was policed inspired the legislation which developed into the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.[35] This wide-ranging Act effectively made illegal such outdoor parties that played music in England, which was defined in section 63(1)(b) to include "sounds wholly or predominantly characterized by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats".
One of the largest music and cultural festivals in Europe. It is held every August in northern Budapest, Hungary, on Óbudai-sziget ('Old Buda Island'), a leafy 108 hectares (270 acres) island on the Danube. More than 1,000 performances take place each year.
The Melbourne Underground Development (M.U.D.) crew started a series of warehouse/rave parties that continued for almost 10 years, with 21 of their own Every Picture Tells A Story parties in total, drawing thousands of people to each event.
First Tribal Gathering took place at Lower Pertwood Farm, Warminster, Wiltshire, England. 25,000 people attended to see acts as diverse as Laurent Garnier and Pete Tong.
An annual festival operated by Dutch company ID&T. As the first of its kind in the country when it was established, its organizers have billed the event as the oldest dance music festival in the Netherlands. There have been editions in other countries too, like Chile or the United States.
Time Warp is a techno music festival in Germany. The premiere was in 1994 in Ludwigshafen. Since 2000, Mannheim has been the permanent venue. Since 2005 also stopped over in European and American cities such as Vienna, Prague, Zurich, Turin, Milan, Buenos Aires and New York City.
An underground teknival held annually in July. The locations were usually announced a day before the event on Czech rave websites. With little or no organization at all, the festival attracted thousands of free tekno dancers from several European countries. It made an open invitation to all performers, soundsystems, and performers. Closed after a violent police response in 2006.
The event, widely popular in the area, is a tribute to the disco era and features live performances by 1970s-era musicians, along with dancers dressed in 1970s attire. The current event began as an annual occurrence in 1994, but it traces its history and name to a disco held in Buffalo in 1979, featuring The Trammps and Gloria Gaynor. That disco is marked in Guinness World Records as the largest disco in the history, with 13,000 people in attendance.
A three-day, three-night annual music festival, described officially as a festival of "Advanced Music and Multimedia Art". Lineup includes techno, house, electro, IDM, hip hop and various other experimental and avant garde types of music.
The Sonic Acts festival had its first edition in 1994. Over the years, it has established itself as a thematic festival with a strong focus on contemporary and historical developments at the intersections of art, technology, music and science taking place in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Known first as The Olympia Festival of Experimental Musics, in addition to unusual, experimental, and noise music, many festival performers use film, multimedia, and spoken word.
Annual summer dance music festival dubbed "the Woodstock of dance", catering only to pure dance and particularly trance. It has also featured artists in the electro, eurodance, hardstyle and experimental styles. The festival pushed its boundaries with several international editions, including in Miami, Ibiza, Malta and Israel.
It now features headliner DJs from all over the world and attracts over 15,000 attendees. Bal en Blanc usually has two separate rooms, one catering to house music and the other to trance music.
A large open-air electronic music festival, featuring DJs from Germany and the world, with the theme "open-air rave".
The first Nature One took place in 1995 on the grounds of Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. The following year, Nature One was relocated to the site of the former Pydna missile base, where it still takes place today.
Massive electronic music festival originally based on Alice in Wonderland. In its early years, Insomniac Events moved the event to different locations, with diverse musical genres.
An international techno event. It took place the first time in 1995 at the Vooruit in Ghent and attracted 700 people, and had since grown to be held at the Flanders Expo in the same city. Many spin-off versions of the festival have been held over the years across Europe. Between 2011 and 2013, the festival was also organized in Montpellier. In 2015, it was announced that the main festival would relocate to Montpellier, France, as crowds had shrunk. Former I Love Techno organiser Peter Decuypere partly blamed the shrinking crowds on the festival embracing genres like dubstep and electro house.
A one-night electronic music festival originally created as an after party for Lollapalooza, described as "an inter-planetary festival celebrating cosmic peace and sexuality". A traveling tour that visited cities such as Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Holmdel.
Annual technoparade in Munich, attracting up to 100,000 attendees. It was organized as a demonstration against excessive police controls and the Munich curfew.
Started in 1995, "10 Days Off" began as a 10-day-long Belgian celebration of techno music which has since grown to be a yearly club event. Several concert venues in the cities of Ghent, Belgium and Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Canada's longest running electronic music festival. Started and still run by Destiny Event Productions. Three-day summer all day, all night event is held across Southern Ontario, Canada.
Taking place annually in over 300 locations and 60 countries, every year, musicians, DJs, artists, and speakers convene at local Earthdance events to share inspiration and "dance for peace and the healing of our planet Earth."[36]
Annual five-day event organized by The Amsterdam Dance Event Foundation. Has daytime conferences at local universities and the electronic ADE Festival at night, with over 2,000 DJs.
Electric Daisy Carnival, commonly known as EDC, is the largest electronic dance music festival in North America. It is operated by Insomniac Events. In 2011, EDC moved its flagship festival to Las Vegas, Nevada. EDC events are held in other United States cities and abroad too.
ETD Pop is an annual electronic music festival held at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California, a suburb of San Francisco. It is hosted by the Berkeley-based event promoters Skills.
A biennial transformational festival in Portugal. The festival features musical performances and a broad variety of visual art exhibits. Boom Festival began as a psychedelic trance music festival. Nowadays, other genres like techno, house and world music are played too.
A large electronic music, art and lifestyle festival, mainly known for psytrance and minimal techno music, but also featuring other genres of electronic music and non-electronic music on the smaller stages, as well as art installations and workshops.
A technoparade which stemmed in reaction to the music restriction and commercialization of Love Parade, first named Hateparade. The most played styles of music are gabber, speedcore, techno, punk, and house.
First held at a wooden disco not far from the beach early 1980s, though not yet electronic in focus, the parties gained fame through word of mouth, and the event now draws a crowd of about 5,000–30,000 every full moon evening. The bars on the beach stay open and play music such as psychedelic trance, R&B, drum and bass, house, dance and reggae.
The Scandinavian Alternative Music Awards (SAMA) was a music festival and award ceremony for electronic music held each year in Gothenburg between 1998 and 2007.
was a British music festival which consisted mainly of dance music, both live acts and famous DJs. was one of the most popular British festivals of this genre. Run by Live Nation UK, it also had editions in Scotland.
A celebration of Copenhagen street life and international club culture. With an estimated 100,000 guests per day, it is one of the largest annual gatherings in Europe. Distortion is a mobile festival.
An annual three-day music festival held at the University of Bradford Union on the August bank holiday weekend, featuring alternative electronic music acts from genres including industrial, EBM, futurepop, synthpop and power noise.
Community-based summer solstice festival that ran annually in southern Ontario. The festival, organized by Sumkidz (now Suma), primarily featured electronic music as well as dance, workshops, art, and other forms of acoustic music.
Creamfields festival features DJs and live acts, and is held annually on the UK's August Bank Holiday weekend in England. The festival began in 1998 and is run by the Cream clubbing brand supporters. It's the UK's oldest and most prestigious electronic dance music festival. In addition to the main UK event, Creamfields also operates a number of international spin offs. Creamfields Buenos Aires was the first Creamfields festival to be organised outside the UK.
An event with the mission to forge connections between the composers, performers and lovers of avant garde classical music and the DJs, MCs, guitar-gods, troubadours and gourmets of experimental popular music to produce an annual international festival of electro-acoustic music.
A festival that was held on New Year's Eve as a collaboration between Go Ventures and Insomniac; the partners split in 2011, with Go organizing one more event on its own before the 2012–13 edition was abruptly cancelled due to venue issues.[38][39]
The largest and one of the longest-running electronic music events in Canada, held in July at a 500 acres (2.0km2) cattle ranch in the mountains. Since the beginning, it has been a family-run event and has never accepted corporate sponsorship.
An electronic and jam band music festival, hosted and centered around The Disco Biscuits at Montage Mountain in Scranton. The Disco Biscuits launched Camp Bisco in 1999 with the idea of combining sets by electronic DJs with improvisational rock bands.
It was originally dedicated to the Marseille hip hop scene, then expanded progressively to international hip-hop, then to electro, rock and, since 2008, to African music for one night. In 2012, more than 35,000 people attended in the festival.
Started in August 1999 as a joint effort between the promoters of the goth/industrial and deathrock clubs Absynthe and Release the Bats. It has become an annual three-day event.
A yearly, three-day underground music festival featuring industrial, power electronics, and alternative electronic performers who include both independent and signed bands, held in a bunker.
Now titled the CTM Festival, an annual music and visual arts event originally focused on electronic music, but has since evolved to cover a wide range of genres under the banner "festival for adventurous music and related visual arts".
A weekend-long international gathering of visual and musical art, it features a symbiosis of dance, open philosophies, performance art, and human (and spiritual) experiences.
Founded as a student movement fighting for democracy and freedom, it quickly grew into one of the largest mainstream annual music events in Europe. It is held every July in Novi Sad, Serbia in Petrovaradin fortress which is situated on the Danube river.
An international festival dedicated to electronic art as a multidisciplinary program of works, investigating and promoting contemporary audiovisual research.
A yearly festival focused on electronic music held in Rome, Italy. The first edition was in 2000. In addition to music, it also focuses on multimedia & video art.
New art forms festival devoted to "experimental electronic music, audio-visual spectrum, digital creativity, and transmedial art." As of 2005, events have been held in Montreal (where it started), Valparaiso, Mexico City, Barcelona, Toronto, New York City, São Paulo, and Berlin.[40]
A yearly event that focuses on independent electronic music and hip hop as part of the annual This Is Not Art Festival. It is usually composed of artist development workshops.
Electronic dance music showcase held each Memorial Day weekend, which has featured performances by musicians and DJs, and emphasized the progressive qualities of the culture surrounding electronic music. The city's support for the festival has been seen by many as the first high-profile acknowledgement and celebration of the city as the birthplace of techno music.
Annual hardstyle and hard dance event held since 2003 at the Gelredome, in Arnhem, Netherlands. Since 2003, each edition has had its own anthem to symbolize the theme of the event.
Dutch indoor dance event. Sensation events are held all around the world too. In 2000 and 2001 there were single events simply known as Sensation. Later, Sensation was expanded into two annual events known as Sensation White (focusing initially on trance and later on house) and Sensation Black (which focused on harder styles and more underground sound). Later, the names of both events changed to Sensation and BLACK, respectively. Attendees were required to wear all black or all white, depending on the event. BLACK is no longer celebrated.
Annual electronic music festival to "connect the diverse electronic music communities and spread peace". Now has a wide range of dance music, including live electronica, world beat, dubstep, breaks, electro, trance, house, techno, and drum & bass.
In April 2000, the first gathering was held at the Okefenokee Swamp. Genres vary from old-style retro to up-scale, modern contemporary electronic music. Locations can be difficult to get to. All of the music created at each gathering is live, unrehearsed, spontaneous and recorded in one take. The Ricochet Dream music label publishes and records the music created at the event.
A small, exclusive, annual ambient music festival held every September at a private retreat center in Willits, California. It was started by the Cloud Factory community, and ticket distribution is largely based on participation.
A festival that includes music and cultural events in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It started in 2001 as spin-off of Ghent, Belgium's Ten Days Off Festival.
Commonly known as Lumous, was the largest festival dedicated to the goth subculture in Finland and the northernmost Gothic festival in the world. It covers musical genres such as gothic rock, deathrock, industrial, EBM and neofolk.
Also known as NIME, is an international conference dedicated to scientific research on the development of new technologies for musical expression and artistic performance.
Annual event organized by the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association, which takes place in various cities and institutions throughout Greece. During these events, some of the latest electroacoustic works from Greece and abroad are showcased.
Founded by electronic musician Moby, who asserted that he was "in large part, inspired by the ethos of Lollapalooza", and wished to create a similarly "genuinely eclectic, interesting, alternative music festival". First called Area:One in 2001, and the sequel tour Area2, in 2002.
At the end of September each year, TodaysArts has a program at 20 indoor and outdoor venues in the center of the city, with over 200 artists from more than 25 countries. The first edition had 5,000 visitors.
The festival deals with subjects on the area of multimedia, art, music and technology. GOGBOT is a free entrance festival. It has around 20,000 visitors and is known for its controversial themes.
Acts perform in various clubs throughout the city of Utrecht. The festival was a joint venture by Cybercase, Tivoli (Utrecht), EKKO and Mojo until EKKO made the decision in 2009 to quit.
Held three times annually since 2003. Some of the acts performed during its last editions included John Digweed, Sasha, Hernán Cattáneo, and Satoshi Tomiie.
A music festival for two days in July. Originally, Lovebox was the name of a nightclub hosted by Groove Armada. It was a one-day festival on London's Clapham Common until 2004.
Annual music festival held in Netherlands. It has been editions in Australia and Chile too. Founded by Q-dance, it plays mostly hardstyle and related genres such as hardcore techno, hard house and hard trance.
Annual festival which tours the world. It was conceived and developed by the new music consortium Vox Novus. A continuous sixty-minute concert, it is a collection of 60 electro-acoustic or acousmatic works from 60 different composers or sound artists, each work 60 seconds or less.
The Ekkofestival, Ekkofest or Ekko-Bergen Electronic Music and Art Festival, is an annual fall music festival. The festival mainly focuses on electronic music and contemporary art, with a multitude of genres.
A regular electronic dance music event that takes place at various venues across the UK. Starting as a monthly club night in London, it has grown to include an annual three-day weekender at Camber Sands and Newquay, a boat party on the River Thames, and other events.
An electronic music festival. Featuring primarily aggrotech, electro-industrial and synthpop bands, it has also included other electronic dance music genres as well.
An "International Festival of Electronic Music Performance, Visual Art and New Media". It is held every September. In 2011 it was 5 days long. It also includes a free, all-ages 3 day conference.
Psychedelic trancefestival which has been held on an estate in Ozora every year since 2004.[43] The first party was called Solipse and took place during the Solar eclipse of August 11, 1999. Several spin-offs have been held in other cities such as Tokyo, Paris and São Paulo.
First held in New York City, the annual two to five-day electronic music festival was moved to Asheville, where Robert Arthur "Bob" Moog, the inventor of the Moog synthesizer and founding father of electronic music, was based.
Features dance music, as well as rock and pop. Its history includes international acts such as Kraftwerk, Röyksopp, Nick Cave, Sonic Youth, New Order, and Björk.
A yearly weekend underground music festival that features industrial, power electronics, alternative electronic musicians and DJs. In 2008, C.O.M.A. was essentially replaced by the Kinetik Festival, which ran until 2013. In 2014, Kinetik was replaced by Aftermath, held in Toronto and featuring many of the same bands that were originally intended to play at the seventh edition of Kinetik.
A three-day industrial and goth music festival. Started in October 2004, Eccentrik features various musical styles including deathrock, gothabilly, industrial, gothic rock, psychobilly, post-punk, synthpop and other related genres.[45]
More than 130 international artists have participated in the festival, including Armin van Buuren, David Guetta, Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk, etc. In 2008, the Ultramar Festival joined with Summer Dance Festival, another important festival of the city of Cartagena, to form UltraSummer Festival.
Formerly the Soundwave Series. Founded by Alan So from the ME'DI.ATE Art Group to explore "innovative sound experiences with diverse local and international artists and musicians". Held every two years for two months in San Francisco.
Formerly San Francisco LovEvolution and San Francisco LoveFest. It was a technoparade and festival that occurred annually and had its origins in Berlin's Love Parade.[46]
The largest electronic music festival held in the world, with over 400,000 attending in 2014. First organized by the original founders and ID&T. There have been three spin-off: TomorrowWorld, Tomorrow Brasil and Tomorrowland Winter. The first two are no longer held.
Two-day outdoor rock and electro music event near the city of Berlin, first organized in 2005. Since then, its audience has grown to about 20,000 visitors.
An annual electronica music festival. The name derives from the festival's location, an old paper factory (which was one of the largest in Europe) that functioned for 150 years before shutting down.
Wide-ranging program for a heterogeneous audience, albeit primarily fans of alternative, electronic music, and dark music. The number of visitors to the most recent event in 2009 was 13,000 per festival day.
Its main goal is to showcase electronic music outdoors, and promote various cultural activities for children and their families through visual art and several artistic workshops.
It was created in 2005 as a 3-day industrial and goth music international festival. Blacksun was meant to give American bands an opportunity to play closer to home than the larger goth festivals in Europe.
Djakarta Warehouse Project, or DWP, is a music festival held in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is the largest annual music festival for electronic dance music in Asia, and features world-famous artists.
Was an annual electronic music, art and lifestyle festival that included environmental speakers, forums, films, local bands, DJs and several workshops. One of the main goals of the festival was to raise awareness against Australian nuclearisation.
Large indoor trance music event[47] at the o2 Arena.[48] In March 2014, the festival was held for the first time in Slovakia too.[49] Later, the festival has taken place in Australia, Thailand, Germany and China too. Markus Schulz has frequently headlined.[50]
It is devoted to electronic music of all genres including electro, hip hop, IDM, techno, house music, reggae, drum and bass and dubstep, and incorporates both DJ sets and live shows.
A national music festival, music cruise and concert brand founded by Gary Richards in 2007. The event line-ups consist of alternative and electronic acts and emerging talents. The first HARD Music Festival was held on December 31, 2007, in Downtown Los Angeles, and featured Justice.
Also known as Heineken Balaton Sound (and as MasterCard Balaton Sound since 2013 for sponsorship reasons), it is one of Europe's largest open-air electronic music festivals.
An annual ten day and night electronic music festival, founded by Craig Pettigrew and Philip Pulitano. It is a global gathering of DJs, producers, partiers and industry professionals. BPM parties are hosted at multiple venues in the beach town Playa Del Carmen. In 2017, the festival was moved to Portugal.
Took place in November 2008 between two cities in the Middle East, twenty minutes off the coast of Abu Dhabi, UAE, and Forum de Beirut, Lebanon. The festival was proclaimed the first festival dedicated to dance music in the Middle East.[53][54]
A four-day multi-genre event, with a focus on electronic and jam band genres. It debuted in 2008 as Rothbury Festival, and the new event was not held in 2010. Electric Forest, which debuted in 2011, is co-produced by Insomniac Events and Madison House.
A one-day, annual summer music festival held in Toronto. The event focuses on electronic music and features DJs and groups from around the world as well as local Toronto artists.
An annual music festival with camping, Subsonic "has gradually embraced house, techno and other forms of dance music alongside its original staples: psytrance and dub".[52]
A four-day multi-genre event, with a focus on electronic music culture and installation art. The Big Bounce debuted in Belden, California, in 2009, with Bassnectar and Fort Knox Five headlining. Event producers formulated The Bounce, LLC in 2011, and created The Bounce Festival with Fresh Bakin'. The event remained in Belden until they expanded the event to a larger private Plumas County location in 2013.
Immersive annual five-day theatrical music festival that takes place near Winchester, Hampshire on the Matterley Estate in South Downs National Park. The festival has a long-running narrative at its core with live actors and themed stages.
International electronic dance music festival in Ukraine (Crimea, near Evpatoria). Featured genres are psytrance, goa, full on, suomi, progressive and break trance, but also ambient, dub, downtempo, IDM, electronica, experimental, and reggae.
A large annual EDM festival held in the summer at a beach resort in France. Recent lineups include Afrojack, Dirty South, and Dizzee Rascal.[56] 2013 saw 56,000 people attend over two days.[57]
An annual electronic music festival held over Labor Day weekend in New York City on Randall's Island. The festival represents all genres of electronic music, bringing top international DJs and live acts from multiple countries along with hometown acts to four stages. There are editions in other countries too.
The Echelon open air and indoor festival is an electro and house festival with up to 25,000 attendees, which takes place in August at the abandoned radome field of Bad Aibling Station, which was part of the global surveillance network Echelon.
The first Soundscape featured three stages of electronic music, expanding to five stages across four Hamilton central city nightclubs. The March 2011 Soundscape was the first to feature live music and international acts, which over 4,000 people attended.
Electronic dance festival organized by Insomniac Events, spanning one or two days. Locations throughout the west coast of the US. It is the sister festival of Nocturnal Wonderland. In 2017, the international debut of Beyond Wonderland took place in Mexico.
Electronic music festival taking place in summer at a lake not far from Munich, covering many electronic styles such as electro, minimal techno, techno, house and drum and bass, with 12,000 attendees in 2016.
An annual summer music festival which encompasses several different musical styles, mostly different variations of EDM, punk, rock, downtempo and metal music. It started in 2011 in the central Serbian city of Kragujevac.
On The Guardian's list of the best European festivals of 2011. The event features pool parties, art installations, and utilizes various local venues in addition to the concerts held in the arena.
Co-organized by Insomniac Events and fellow club promoter Giant. The event was first held for New Year's Eve in 2011, following the announcement that Insomniac had pulled out of co-organizing the New Year's Eve festival Together as One due to conflicts with its fellow organizer Go Ventures.
A New Orleans-based two-day music and arts festival, founded in 2012 by Winter Circle Productions and held annually at Mardi Gras World. BUKU's musical tastes have been a relatively even mix of electronic dance music, hip hop music, and indie rock featuring past performances by Ellie Goulding, Kid Cudi, and others.
The three-day festival was a project coordinated by the state government and various sponsors to attract international tourism, featuring artists such as Juno Reactor. Led to Porngate.
Often abbreviated as FMFA, it is an annual music festival featuring local and international artists held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. FMFA is a spinoff of Future Music Festival.
Weekend Festival hosts primarily electronic artists, with some other genres. The festival has been sold out every year in advance. 40,000–60,000 people attend every year.
Annual EDM festival held at The Gorge Amphitheatre on the Columbia River. Founded by USC Events and Live Nation Entertainment, 2012 attendance exceeded 20,000 people. The 2013 event saw performances by Kaskade and Tiesto. The festival ceased operations after 2019 due to a lawsuit between USC Events and Insomniac Events.
Annual electronic dance music festival curated by Ultra Music Festival. In 2016, the festival celebrated five years at the Olympic Stadium in Seoul, Korea.
An annual three-night, four-day electronic dance music festival held aboard a 4,000 capacity cruise ship, which leaves out of Port Miami in Miami, FL.[61] 2016 will mark the event's fifth year since its inception in 2012,[62]
The ninth Oxegen festival to take place since 2004, it was the first to focus on electronic music instead of rock music. Calvin Harris and David Guetta were among the featured artists.
Organized by ID&T Belgium, it is a spinoff of Tomorrowland. In its inaugural year, TomorrowWorld received a nomination for Best Music Event at the International Dance Music Awards.
Also known as Destination Ultra - Croatia Music Week, the event lasts seven days and takes place across Croatia. The main festival lasts three days and takes place at the Poljud Stadium in Split.
A Santiago, Chile-based version of the popular North American Ultra Music Festival in Miami. In 2016, the festival was a one-day event entitled Road to Ultra.
The festival first started in 2014 and lasted two days, but was extended to three days. It consisted of three stages: the Main Stage, Ultra Worldwide Stage, and Resistance Stage.
The festival has been part of the EXIT Adventure, representing an additional 3 days of EXIT Festival. The key stages include the Main stage with a 30,000 attendee capacity, Dance Paradise, Reggae Stage, Silent Dance, Latino Stage, Cinema, and Full.feel.CHILL Zone.[64]
An annual festival held over the last weekend of November at L'Aventure du Sucre, Beau Plan. Representing all genres of electronic music, it brings live acts from multiple countries along with local DJs. The event also features a music arena and entertainment village. Previous artists include Otto Knows, Riva Starr, Nick Warren, and Darin Epsilon.
Coincidance is a festival held in the jungles and beaches of the Caribbean. The 2014 lineup included Mihai Popoviciu, Climbers and Paul Johnson. The 2015 headliners were Fur Coat, Francesca Lombardo, DVS1, Jimpster, Crazy P, and Einmusik.[65]
A two-day music and arts festival which takes place at Chicagoland Skydiving Center. The event is a Wonderland themed event with many activities and attractions, including skydiving.[citation needed]
A three-day event that aims to promote different types of electronic music, art and culture with an ecological theme. There are interactive workshops and sports activities in the Alfeios River, such as kayaking, rafting, and hydrospeed.[citation needed]
An electronic music and technology festival on the coast of the Volga. Headliners have included Skillex, Atb, Avicii, Benny Benassi, Nero, Matisse & Sadko, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Martin Garrix, and Yellow Claw.[67]
Electronic music festival held at Pimlico Race Course, taking the place of Starscape Festival. The Moonrise concept was first publicly introduced in 2013, but organizers failed to obtain permits for the festival in time. Bassnectar headlined the festival the first three years, alongside Kaskade in 2014, Above & Beyond in 2015, and The Chainsmokers, Tiësto, and Zedd in 2016.
Aims to promote a culture of inclusivity and social and environmental responsibility in a family-oriented atmosphere. 5 zones set on 600 acres of deer farms include 4 music stages, a silent disco, a circus play zone, a market area and a glade with workshops on all subjects, healers, and yoga instructors.[citation needed]
Based in Belfast, AVA events have been held worldwide. The 2022 festival had c.16,000 attendees and featured artists such as Holly Lester and Bicep.[68]
The event has featured a number of notable international acts such as Armin van Buuren, Steve Aoki, Tiësto, Robin Schulz, and Hardwell. It had 25,000 attendees in 2015 and grew to 50,000 people in 2016. For the event in 2017, 80,000+ tickets were sold. Some people call the event the 'German Tomorrowland'.[weaselwords]
Themed after a futuristic fantasy land, the festival has been held in Sydney, Adaline, Perth, Kuala Lumpur, Safari, and Asia. It features both local acts and international artists at each location.
Introduced in 2015 as part of Ultra Music Festival's worldwide expansion. The festival lasts two days and takes place at the Potato Head Beach Club in Bali.
The event, hosted by Alda Events, takes place at three locations simultaneously. The artists are flown to every location by helicopter. Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Eindhoven are the Dutch Edition locations, while Den Bosch, Nijmegen, and The Hague are the Swedish Edition locations.
EDMANIA is an electronic dance music festival that started in the winter of 2015 as a one-day indoor festival. It gradually grew, leading to the addition of summer and winter editions, and in the summer of 2018, it became a two-days outdoor festival. The event has hosted Armin van Buuren, Axwell Λ Ingrosso, Timmy Trumpet and many others.
Produced by BangOnNYC! In 2017, it launched as a 3-day camping festival in Lakewood, PA. Returning every year, with a hiatus in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2022, the festival was relocated to the Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, PA. Considered a “transformational festival”, the festival is a mix of music, art, and performance.
A total of 74,000 people attended the first event, which featured ALB, Bob Sinclar, Sander van Doorn, Maurice West, Moguai, Vini Vici, W&W, Andrew Rayel, Technasia, Juicy M, Khomha, Cristian Varela, Ilario Alicante, and Marco Bailey.
Beatport is an American electronic music-oriented online music store owned by LiveStyle. The company is based in Denver, Los Angeles, and Berlin. Beatport is oriented primarily towards DJs, selling full songs as well as resources that can be used for remixes. It also operates a specialized music streaming service oriented towards DJs.
Electronic dance music (EDM) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals. It is generally produced for playback by DJs who create seamless selections of tracks, called a DJ mix, by segueing from one recording to another. EDM producers also perform their music live in a concert or festival setting in what is sometimes called a live PA. Since its inception EDM has expanded to include a wide range of subgenres.
Mysteryland is the leading electronic dance music festival in the Netherlands, organized by the Netherlands-based promoter ID&T. Being the first of its kind in the country when it was established, its organizers have billed the event as the oldest dance music festival in the Netherlands. It has most recently been held at Haarlemmermeerse Bos in Haarlemmermeer; an exhibition ground that hosted the 2002 edition of the Dutch gardening festival Floriade. It is traditionally held on the final weekend of August; the next date is August 25-27, 2023. Since 2015, the festival has changed from a one-day to a three-day event with camping. Each year, more than 100.000 visitors from over 100 nationalities are welcomed at Mysteryland.
Electric Daisy Carnival, commonly known as EDC, is an electronic dance music festival organized by promoter and distributor Insomniac. The annual flagship event, EDC Las Vegas, is held in May at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and is currently the largest electronic dance music festival in North America.
Don Pepijn Schipper, better known by his stage name Don Diablo, is a Dutch DJ, digital artist, record producer, musician and songwriter of electronic dance music. He is one of the pioneers of the future house genre and was ranked sixth in the Top 100 DJs – 2020 list by DJ Mag. He was also ranked number one Producer of the Year for 2018 by 1001Tracklists. In 2016, he was ranked the number one Future House Artist of the Year on Beatport.
Morten Breum, better known by his artist name Morten, is a Danish DJ and producer, together with David Guetta he developed and created the sound known as “future rave”.
Big Gigantic are an American instrumental electronic hip hop and jazz musical duo based in Boulder, Colorado.
Julio Roloff is a Cuban composer that has collaborated with the Laboratorio Nacional de Música Electroacústica (LNME) founded by composer Juan Blanco, where he created numerous electroacoustic pieces.
Owsla is an American record label and creative collective. It was founded by Skrillex, Tim Smith, Kathryn Frazier, and Clayton Blaha in 2011. Skrillex announced the label on August 17, 2011. The label's first release was Porter Robinson's Spitfire.
Gary Richards, known by his stage name Destructo, is an American music executive, concert promoter, and DJ. As of September 1, 2017, he is the President of LiveStyle, North America. Prior to joining LiveStyle, he was the founder and CEO of HARD Events, a concert brand that has put on popular music festivals since 2007, which was acquired in 2012 by Live Nation Entertainment. He has performed professionally as a DJ under the name Destructo for over 20 years, having toured worldwide. He is credited with being a leader in the Electronic music business in North America, and through his events, has helped bring artists like Deadmau5 and Justice into the mainstream. Richards is included on Rolling Stone's "50 Most Important People in EDM" list, Billboard's "EDM Power Players" lists from 2014–2017, and inthemix's list of the "50 Most Powerful People in EDM". As Destructo, he has released four EP's titled Technology, Higher, West Coast, and RENEGADE respectively.
Insomniac is an American electronic music event promoter and music distributor. Founded by Pasquale Rotella, it is the organizer of various music festivals, including its flagship electronic music festival Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) in Las Vegas.
Matisse & Sadko is a technical DJ and production duo from Sosnovy Bor, 80 kilometres from city of St. Petersburg, consisting of brothers Aleksandr and Yury Parkhomenko. They have been the forerunners in incorporating modern technology with the beats to inspire a technological revolution in the music industry and are best known for their collaborations with Dutch DJ Martin Garrix in tracks "Dragon", "Forever", "Break Through the Silence", "Together", "Mistaken", "Hold On", "Won't Let You Go" and "Good Morning", which were received positively by critics. They have started a new wave to combine electronic music with Artificial intelligence generated music using softwares like Audiocraft and Sounddraw.
The discography of American electronic music producer and DJ Illenium consists of five studio albums, four remix albums, four extended plays, thirty-six singles and eight music videos.
Sajeeb Saha, known professionally as Jai Wolf, is a Bangladeshi producer. He is best known for his singles, "Indian Summer", "Like It's Over", and "Starlight". He is currently signed to Mom + Pop Music.
EDM trap is a fusion genre of hip hop, rave music and EDM, that originated in the early 2010s on peaking popularity of big room house and trap music genres. It blends elements of trap, which is an offshoot of Southern hip hop, with elements of electronic dance music like build-ups, drops, sound designs, productions and breakdowns. As it was popularized, it increasingly began incorporating more pop elements.
Alexander Shapovalov, better known by his stage name Shapov, is a Russian record producer and DJ. He is also a former member of the electronic project Hard Rock Sofa, and in his solo career has most notably collaborated with Axwell and Armin van Buuren.
Daniel James "Danny" Howland, better known by his alias Svdden Death, is a Los Angeles DJ and producer from San Jose, California. He is known for his song "Sell Out", a collaboration with American multi-platinum artist Marshmello that peaked on Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs at the No. 36 position in early 2019. Howland makes high-energy music that falls into the genre of dubstep and riddim. Howland tours regularly in North America, and can be found on festival lineups all throughout festival season.
Austin Collins, better known as Au5, is an American electronic musician from New Jersey. Au5's music encompasses a range of electronic genres such as dubstep, house, trance, drum and bass, drumstep and ambient, and he is known for fusing the characteristics of trance and dubstep in his music. Au5 is best known for his releases on Canadian label Monstercat, some of which have received millions of views on YouTube.
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