INTRODUCING THE FESTIVALS
The festivals are detailed below in alphabetical order (descriptions copied from the festivals’ pages or Wikipedia, and slightly edited to fit our layout).
If you need direct access:
1. Dekmantel Festival
2. Draaimolen Festival
3. Freedom Festival
4. Freerotation Festival
5. Electric Theater Festival
6. Komorebi Festival
7. La Nature Festival
8. La Vallée Électrique Festival
9. Labyrinth Festival
Dekmantel Festival
Amsterdam, Netherlds 🇳🇱
“Originals return. Legends debut. Newcomers arrive.” Dekmantel Festival has become synonymous with electronic music’s most adventurous realms. While timeless sounds remain central, its multidisciplinary programme fosters a cutting-edge vanguard, with immersive visual experiences and stage design.
[DATES | MAP]
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Draaimolen Festival
Tilburg, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Draaimolen is a non-profit festival based in Tilburg, focusing on creating the perfect symbiosis of music, art and nature. With a small, passionate team and a large community of music lovers, it offers an immersive experience, celebrating creativity over commercialism. Across 6 stages set in nature, it showcases emerging and established artists and encourages experimentation. [DATES | MAP]
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Freedom Festival by Medellinstyle
Medellin, Colombia 🇨🇴
Weaving has been a pacifying element and a balancer of forces in nature and in humans. It also helps improve people’s social participation. The act of weaving transcends time and needs. Colombian communities are valuing their traditions and aiming to show the world that the arts of weaving is a powerful emotion. [DATES | MAP]
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Freerotation Festival
Hay-on-Wye, England 🇬🇧
Freerotation is an intimate annual electronic music party held in Baskerville Hall, near Hay-on-Wye, which developed from a musician’s free-party collective in the early 2000s. It is also a networking event for the artists who are performing. The visitor must be invited by an existing member to join Freerotation and buy a ticket. This limitation is due to the already over-subscribed membership. Ethically, the festival is very concerned to protect the environment, through various dedicated endeavours. [DATES | MAP]
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Electric Theater Festival
Panicale, Italy 🇮🇹
In the heart of Umbria, within the medieval walls of Panicale, Electric Theater merges digital art, nature and history thanks to the energy of electronic music.
The unique sensory experience, where sounds and performances blend with the landscape, transcends time and evokes limitless emotions. [DATES | MAP]
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Komorebi Festival
Cuneo, Italy 🇮🇹
Nestled in the stunning natural beauty of the Italian Alps, Komorebi Electronic Music Festival offers an intimate and immersive experience. Within the historic walls of the Vinadio Fort, the festival blends the raw power of nature with cutting-edge electronic sounds, creating an atmosphere of connection and peace for the souls who will participate. [DATES | MAP]
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La Nature Festival
Liege, Belgium 🇧🇪
La Nature is a confidential and intimate festival nestled in the heart of the Ardennes, taking place around the summer solstice. The festival offers music, art installations, performances, talks and wellness workshops. Throughout a whole weekend, a cutting-edge and innovative musical programme is proposed, featuring artists dedicated to sound and offering distinct vision. [DATES | MAP]
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La Vallée Électrique Festival
Grignan, France 🇫🇷
Organised by Melifera since 2017, La Vallée Électrique gathers a close community. The festival takes place in a magnificent valley, with deep electronic music and beautiful visual installations. The event is defined as an utopian zone of research, creation and celebration. The festival aims to explore a harmonisation of three concepts: human, nature and technology. [DATES | MAP]
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Labyrinth Festival by Mindgames
Minakami, Japan 🇯🇵
“Music is this weird, wonderful thing beyond words. We believe it should be respected as such and treated with care.” Labyrinth’s music forms a 3-day ritual story; three cycles of rising, dancing, and falling. Hodaigi Campgrounds is a beautiful hidden gem in nature surrounded by mountains, under crimson leaves and bright October-night stars. [DATES | MAP]
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Les Chaos Ambiants Festival
Sommant, France 🇫🇷
The Pauza association presents Les Chaos Ambiants, a festival dedicated to the meeting between electronic music, visual arts and the heritage of Morvan. The venue is intimate, with a restricted format to ensure optimal listening comfort and space. A unique stage promotes emerging and established artists for 2 days and 2 nights in a natural setting, featuring artistic installations. The festival is “ecologically responsible.” [DATES | MAP]
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Mo:Dem Festival
[Mainly into psytrance, but inviting more and more deep techno artists too]
Primislje, Croatia 🇭🇷
“Mo:Dem politics is not about expanding its numbers but investing in the quality and content, striving forward, learning, self-improving and always pushing the boundaries of technical production.”
Behind Mo:Dem is Momento Demento, a collective rooted in Croatia and growing internationally. It promotes underground psychedelic sounds and cutting edge visual and experimental art. [DATES | MAP]
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Moment Festival
Tenkawa, Japan 🇯🇵
The festival’s goal is to let the attendee “feel the Moment” and take a break from reality. It takes place in the heart of the Omine mountains in Nara Prefecture. Tenkawa Village is known to locals as “the hidden kingdom of the sky.” In summer, visitors can enjoy the cool, clean air and water, and, on clear nights, a sky filled with stars. The festival site is nestled between lush, rising forests and gentle mountain slopes, a favorite spot for fireflies. [DATES | MAP]
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Monument Festival
Veggli, Norway 🇳🇴
Monument Festival is a four-day gathering in the mystical forest of Norway. The visitor is invited to celebrate real connection through music, food, art, and yoga, under the magical starry night. In the last edition, 50 countries were represented in Veggli, the small village with a big heart. It was the occasion to explore what happens when religion, skin color, and politics are set aside. The only thing left is compassion for fellow humans. [DATES | MAP]
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Mostra Festival [For SOUNDIT, also in Barcelona, click here]
Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸
“What we do with the heart conveys passion, purity, honesty and determination. A beating heart is synonymous with life, pulsing to a rhythm, a vibration, a measure of BPM.”
Mostra is an intimate festival of avant-garde and experimental electronic music which emerged as a counterpoint to Barcelona’s overcrowded, commercial and impersonal macro-festivals. [DATES | MAP]
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Nous’klaer Festival
Rotterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Nous’klaer Festival welcome its visitors at the unique location of BRUTUS in Rotterdam, a perfect spot to reflect the vibrance and creativity of the label’s home city and its artists.
Forthcoming releases are presented with live-show premieres, by well-established and/or new producers, DJs and multidisciplinary live-acts. [DATES | MAP]
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Ouroboros Festival
Cantal, France 🇫🇷
“What is a spiral, what are concentric circles? What is loving each other in the plural, what is finding oneself in the singular? All in the cauldron. Ice block and crowbar. The roots burn stronger than expected, it’s the return of acid nights under the scoured sky. On the ground, the machines hum, the flames soar high. The beast hasn’t stopped biting its own tail. The venom has the sweetness of grand evenings. Everything is in its place.” (Urlcst, 2024) [DATES | MAP]
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O.Z.O.R.A. Festival
[Mainly into psytrance, but inviting more and more deep techno artists too]
Igar, Hungary 🇭🇺
“O.Z.O.R.A. is an annual transformational and arts festival near the village of Ozora. It is considered one of the largest gatherings of trance and psychedelic music in the world, and according to Trax Magazine “the principal hub of psytrance culture in Europe”.
Attendees can listen to music and partake in activities including yoga sessions, art workshops, lectures and circus/theatre.” (Wikipedia). [DATES | MAP]
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Paral·lel Festival
Lleida, Spain 🇪🇸
Paral·lel Festival promotes differentiated musical paradigms, in an intimate environment, away from massification. Over three days, the program explores experimental, ambient, and techno music on one single stage. The corner stones of the organisation are creating an inspiring vibe, booking selected artists and ensuring the comfort of the attendees in the middle of nature, surrounded by the Paral·lel community. [DATES | MAP]
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Pe·rsona Festival by Positive Education
Bruailles, France 🇫🇷
Taking place in the south of Bourgogne at the Domaine des Éveils, Pe:rsona is the summer iteration of the Positive Education Festival. Deep disgressions of all kinds are wrapped in a continuous flow of chimerical atmosphere and free rhythms. With a beautiful estate as background and the forest as witnesses, the event comes as a liberating and meditative interlude, creating a time capsule to escape the urban tumult. [DATES | MAP]
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Positive Education Festival
Saint-Etienne, France 🇫🇷
Positive Education remains firmly anchored in an ideal of pleasure and inclusiveness, of discoveries and questioning through the medium of vibrant music.
Each edition is designed as a vast formal and artistic playground, as a reminder that music is listened to as much as it is experienced, in an immersive and collective way as well as in an intimate and interior way. [DATES | MAP]
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River Sound Festival
Karnave, Lithuania 🇱🇹
River Sound Festival is an intimate four-day festival with electronic music, workshops, stunning visuals, lightning shows and art-installations in the forest of Kernave, made to connect electronic music and art lovers. The festival provides techno, housey vibes, hypnotic, minimal, experimental and ambient sounds, surrounded by Neris river and beautiful nature. [DATES | MAP]
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Rural Festival
Fukushima, Japan 🇯🇵
In traditional Japanese philosophy, there is a vividly acute way to understand the phenomena of time and space called “Mujō.” It teaches us to appreciate these types of moments made of spontaneity and fleetingness. As such, during four days, the visitors are temporarily gathered to experience the transient power of Japan’s nature, electronic music, and sound system culture at Rural; a festival where the acoustic itself becomes a headlining act. [DATES | MAP]
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Sonoka Festival
St-Rémy-de-Blot, France 🇫🇷
“I am Sonoka, an entity of music and nature. My soul lives to the rhythm of sounds, my body rises from Earth.”
The retreat takes place around the ruins of a XV century medieval castle in Auvergne, in a bucolic atmosphere filled with beautiful energies and with the motto: “art above all”. Techno, dub techno and bass music with a high-flying artistic program are proposed by local, national and international artists. [DATES | MAP]
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Soria Gathering Festival by OMG Events
Lofoten, Norway 🇳🇴
Soria consists of several groups, branches and communities from Norway, organically emerging since 2016. Behind Soria is OMG Events, running various projects through collaborations between enthusiastic volunteers and professional service providers. The main event of the year is normally a five-day summer solstice gathering in the breathtaking Norwegian wilderness. [DATES | MAP]
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SOUNDIT Festival [For Mostra, also in Barcelona, click here]
Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸
The festival is born with the intention to create a space to discover, dance and feel. It covers 50 shades of techno, exploring new styles while never losing sight on the dancefloor.
5 stages, 2 days, 24 hours of music, and over 60 artists perform at Parc Nou in El Prat de Llobregat, surrounded by nature. [DATES | MAP]
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Third Eye Festival
Niedergörsdorf, Germany 🇩🇪
At the core of the festival is a deep reverence for the natural rhythm of the bodies. The journey begins with revitalising sound bath ceremonies followed by a seamless transition from ambient and experimental music into pulsating deep techno and techno. With a single main stage and the chill-out tent, there’s no need to dash between different areas, allowing everyone to stay immersed in the collective vibe. [DATES | MAP]
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Walking Life Festival
Crato, Portugal 🇵🇹
The festival is a year-round playground for creation and experimentation, sprouted from a common dream of friends to build a community in a sunny spot on the globe, plant ideas and harvest alternative ways of living, learning, loving. Walking Life is a non-profit association, a multidimensional community, with budding cultural, countercultural and agricultural initiatives. [DATES | MAP]
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