Trance Energy

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Trance Energy
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Trance Energy Utrecht 2002
Genre Electronic dance music, trance
Location(s)the Netherlands
Years active1999-2018
Founded by ID&T
Website Official site

Energy (formerly known as Trance Energy) was a Dutch trance event featuring trance music DJs from around the world. It was organized by ID&T and was held since 1999 in various venues in the Netherlands.

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History

The event was founded in 1999. Traditionally, there was a "small" edition and a big edition each year. In 2002, the small edition failed to sell out its 20,000-person ticket capacity (only 15,000 tickets were sold) and thereafter, Trance Energy was only held once annually, at the Jaarbeurs convention center in Utrecht, where it has been sold out each year up to 2009. The festival gained "cult" status among trance fans. In 2010, it failed to sell out by slight margins since it was organized on Easter week end and this was problematic for some foreign visitors (especially from Poland).

In 2011, ID&T changed the concept and renamed the festival to "Energy the network", opening the festival to other genres from Trance only. The change was announced in September 2010, and labelled as a simple "name change". This change caused controversy and was very negatively greeted on internet forums. Meanwhile, one ID&T competitor launched a Trance only festival in the Netherlands. As a result, attendance declined steadily with edition 2011 and 2012 being not sold out by large margins. (Only half of 2012 tickets were sold). In 2013, the event was moved to the Ziggo Dome, a smaller venue in Amsterdam and still it failed to sell out. There has been no announcement of a 2014 edition up to this date. Yet ID&T has not announced cancellation of the event like they usually do.

While audience in the first years was mostly Dutch, there were subsequently many international visitors, mainly from the European Union but sometimes from other areas around the world. This is due to the festival earning worldwide fame thanks to bootlegs of DJ mixes and some official videos of former editions. At the 2010 edition, it has been quoted by ID&T that more than 40% of the audience was not Dutch.

In 2017, ID&T announced the return of Trance Energy.[ citation needed ]

Description of the Event

Above & Beyond performing during Trance Energy in 2010. Above & Beyond at Trance Energy 2010.jpg
Above & Beyond performing during Trance Energy in 2010.

Past 2003 editions of Trance Energy usually focus on three stages located in different halls of the Jaarbeurs convention center and connected by corridors :

Since 2007, a fourth stage has been added, the "Hard Stage" featuring harder derivatives of Trance Music. In 2009, students of the Utrecht School for the Arts were asked to design the entrance of the festival. They created a multi-disciplinary entrance, where interactivity, game-elements, video, fashion and music came together.

Trance Energy toured Australia in 2009. The tour attracted controversy after police shut down the Melbourne leg early due to 26 overdoses. [1]

History of editions

Here is the list of Trance Energy editions :

EditionDateVenueAnthem
130-4-1999Beursgebouw Eindhoven
230-10-1999Statenhal The Hague
3 (Energy 2000)31-12-1999Beursgebouw Eindhoven
429-4-2000Beursgebouw Eindhoven
530-9-2000Thialf Heerenveen Svenson & Gielen - The Beauty of Silence
617-2-2001Jaarbeurs Utrecht Push - Strange World
720-10-2001Thialf HeerenveenSvenson & Gielen - Twisted
816-2-2002Jaarbeurs Utrecht Svenson & Gielen - We Know What You Did
921-9-2002Thialf Heerenveen Svenson & Gielen - Answer The Question
1015-2-2003Jaarbeurs Utrecht Cygnus X - Positron
1131-1-2004Jaarbeurs Utrecht Svenson - Sunlight Theory
1212-2-2005Jaarbeurs Utrecht Rank 1 - Beats@Rank-1 Dotcom
1311-2-2006Jaarbeurs Utrecht Marcel Woods - Advanced
143-3-2007Jaarbeurs Utrecht Joop - The Future
1523-2-2008Jaarbeurs Utrecht Ernesto vs Bastian - Thrill
167-3-2009Jaarbeurs Utrecht Rank 1 - L.E.D. There Be Light
173-4-2010Jaarbeurs Utrecht Sander van Doorn - Renegade
18 (Energy)19-2-2011Jaarbeurs Utrecht Jochen Miller - Classified
19 (Energy)3-3-2012Jaarbeurs Utrecht Hardwell - Cobra
20 (Energy)2-3-2013Ziggodome Amsterdam Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano, Jaz Von D - Firefaces

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References

  1. Russell, Mark (12 April 2009). "Police decided not to patrol overdose rave". The Age. Retrieved 11 August 2011.