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List of electronic music festivals
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The following is an incomplete list of music festivals that feature electronic music, which encapsulates music featuring electronic instruments such as electric guitar 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, Riddim me live in fort Lauderdale Florida, Summer Sonic Festival, and Big Day Out) and festivals that have added EDM stages in later years.^[1][2] However, fusion festivals may be listed under individual subtopics of Category:Electronic music festivals by country.

Since the early 1900s there have been music festivals that featured electronic instruments, as electronic sounds were used in experimental music such as electroacoustic and tape music. The use of live electronic music greatly expanded in the 1950s, along with the use of electric guitar and bass. With the advent of new technologies in the 1960s, electronic genres such as electronic rock, electronic jazz, disco, computer music, synthpop, psychedelic rock and ambient music followed, with large free festivals showcasing the sounds into the 1970s. There has been a significant change in the capabilities of amplifiers, sequencers, and mixing synthesizers since 1980, as well as computers and digital audio workstations. This has given electronic musicians and DJs the ability to mix elaborate and complicated music in forms such as techno, electronica, trap, trance, house, and industrial, all of which have large festivals, raves, technoparades, algoraves, doofs, or teknivals in their sole dedication.

Related lists, categories, and media[edit]

List	Category	Media
List of electronic music festivals	Electronic music festivals Electronic music festivals by country Electronic music festivals by type	Electronic music festivals Electronic music festivals by region Electronic music festivals by type
List of music festivals	Music festivals	Music festivals
List of electroacoustic festivals	Electroacoustic music festivals	Electroacoustic music festivals
List of historic rock festivals	Rock festivals	Rock festivals
List of free festivals	Free festivals	Free festivals
List of circuit parties	Circuit parties	Circuit parties
List of industrial music festivals	Industrial music festivals	Industrial music festivals
List of gothic festivals	Goth festivals	Gothic festivals
List of hip hop music festivals	Hip hop festivals	Hip hop festivals
List of raves	Rave	Rave
List of EDM festivals
List of technoparades	Technoparade	Technoparades
List of free parties	Free parties	Free party
List of squat parties
List of teknivals	Teknivals	Teknivals
List of trance festivals	Trance festivals	Trance music
List of doofs	Doofs	Doof
List of algoraves	Algorave	Algorave

Festivals by debut year[edit]

1800s–1950s: Electroacoustics[edit]

See list of historic jazz festivals for a more comprehensive list of early jazz and blues festivals in the 1950s and 1960s.

Name	Yrs		Locale	Notes
Early Folk and Classical Music Festivals	1800s–1920s	(many)	Worldwide	A number of festivals for classical music and folk music in the late 1800s and early 1900s periodically featured electronic instruments and electroacoustic improvisation, though they were not necessarily a regular feature. Some of these festivals included Leeds Festival (1858–1985) in England, the folk festival Þjóðhátíð (1874–present) in Iceland, and Glastonbury (1914–25) in England.
Donaueschingen Festival	1921– present		Donaueschingen, Germany	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.
Beaulieu Jazz Festival	1956–1961		Hampshire, England	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]
ONCE Festival of New Music	1958– 1969		Ann Arbor, Michigan	ONCE Group was responsible for hosting. During the years the festival was active, a number of avant-garde composers’ works were performed, including Pauline Oliveros, David Behrman, Roger Reynolds, Gene Tyranny, and Philip Krumm. The compositions and the performances served as a laboratory for new approaches in both acoustic and electronic music.
Pro Musica Nova	1958– 2001		Bremen, Germany	Was a biennial festival for contemporary music sponsored by Radio Bremen from 1958 to 2001. It was founded by Hans Otte. Pro Musica Nova introduced the public to the music of experimental composers including Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Conlon Nancarrow and Hans-Joachim Hespos. Otte also commissioned many new works for the festival.[4]

1960s: Rock and pop festivals[edit]

See list of historic rock festivals for a more comprehensive list of early rock/pop festivals, detailing live psychedelic rock, electronic rock and nu jazz in the 1960s and 1970s, all of which feature electronic elements.

Name	Year		Location	Notes
National Jazz and Blues Festival	1961– 1980s		United Kingdom	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.
Reading and Leeds Festivals	1961– present		United Kingdom	The line-up settled into a pattern of progressive rock, blues and hard rock during the early and mid 1970s[5] then became the first music festival to embrace punk rock and new wave in the late 1970s, when The Jam, Sham 69, The Stranglers and Penetration were among the headline acts.[6] Currently known for its rock focus, it also hosts major EDM stages for DJs.
Un disco per l'estate	1964- 2003		Italy	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.
Trips Festival	1966		San Francisco, California	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]
Shiraz Arts Festival	1967– 1977		Shiraz and Persepolis, Iran	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.
Summer of Love	1967– 1968		North America	The Summer of Love from 1967 to 1968 was an important aspect of the counterculture movement of the 1960s, which was closely tied with alternative music and free rock festivals featuring genres such as psychedelic rock. The development of better electronic speaker equipment allowed for massive concerts to attract hundreds of thousands of attendees. Started with the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival in Marin County, California, the other significant shows in California included the Monterey Pop Festival, the San Francisco Pop Festival, the Los Angeles Pop Festival, Newport Pop Festival, and Northern California Folk Rock Festival I and II. Notable shows not in California included the Miami Pop Festival I and II in Florida, and the Isle of Wight Festival in England. By 1969, similar festivals were appearing all over the world, bringing alternative music to increasingly mainstream audiences.
Isle of Wight Festival	1968-70, 2002 present		Seaclose Park, Isle of Wight, England	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.
Woodstock Music & Art Fair	1969		White Lake, New York	This historically and culturally notable festival as 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, progressive rock, and psychedelic rock. August 15–18, audience of over 400,000 young people.

1970s: Computer music[edit]

Name	Year		Location	Notes	Picture
Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music	1970		Shepton Mallet, Somerset	A DJ played records for early arrivers from the 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.
Expo '70	1970		Osaka, Japan	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 company in the 1970s.[16]
Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Festival	1972–present		Bourges, France	Hosted by the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, France. Composers submit works which are assessed by an international jury.
Windsor Free Festival	1972-'74		Windsor Great Park, England	A British Free Festival organised by some London commune 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]
The Chicago White Party	1974–2010		Chicago, Illinois	One of the first White Party parties was held August 8, 1974, hosted by Chicago business owner Chuck Renslow to celebrate his birthday and thank his patrons. It was then held for the next 36 years until 2010. The largest party was held in 1986 at Navy pier with 5000 participants.[18]
International Computer Music Conference	1974– present	(many)	Various	a yearly international conference for computer music researchers and composers. It is the annual conference of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA).
Printemps de Bourges	1977– present		Bourges, France	The festival encompasses some 60 shows, with over 200 artists on 13 stages within a week; these 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.
First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival	1978-?		Philadelphia	The 2½-hour concert featured more than 30 musical compositions performed on ten computer music synthesizers.[19] One of the earliest commercial computer music albums came from the First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival, held August 25, 1978, as part of the Personal Computing '78 show. The First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival recordings were published by Creative Computing in 1979.[20]
Ars Electronica Festival	1979– present		Austria	The annual Ars Electronica festival is an annual gathering of artists, scientists and technologists, intended as "a setting for experimentation, evaluation and reinvention".

1980s: Birth of techno[edit]

Name	Year		Locale	Notes	Picture
Heatwave	1980		Bowmanville, Ontario	The rock festival was noteworthy because of the importance of the headliner bands that played and the timing in the evolution of new wave music, and from the size of the crowd.
International Electroacoustic Music Festival	1981– present		Varadero, Cuba, United States	Originally titled the "Varadero Spring Festival,"[21] it 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.[22] It is still held in various locations,[23] held in 1988 in Baltimore, Maryland by Vivian Adelberg Rudow.[24][25]
Berlin Atonal	1982-'90, 2013– present		Berlin, Germany	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, Die Haut among many others.[26] 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.[27]
Inventionen Festival	1982– present		Berlin, Germany	Organised by the Artists-in-Berlin-Program of the DAAD in co-operation with the Electronic Studio of the TU Berlin since 1982, the festival is dedicated to electro-acoustic music and sound art.[28]
Rat Parties	1983– 1992		Sydney, Australia	a series of large dance parties held in Sydney, Australia that "formed a key element of an emerging subculture"[29] that was fashion-aware, gay-friendly, appreciated dance music and open, outrageous celebration. Forty Rat Parties were organized by the Recreational Arts Team between 1983 and 1992.
Winter Music Conference	1985– present		Miami Beach, Florida	Weeklong 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.
DMC World DJ Championships	1985– present		Thessaloniki, Greece	Sponsored internationally by Technics and Ortofon, 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.
Miami White Party	1985– present		Miami, Florida	One of the first White Party's held by the gay community as a circuit party, the first event promoted safe sex practices, and all attendees wore white. Sixteen hundred guests, asked to wear white, showed up that Sunday night, Dec. 1, 1985. Each paid $10, which went to support AIDS nonprofits. Now a weekl 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.
SEAMUS National Conference	1985– present		United States	Put on by the American branch of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States since 1985. In 1987, the society began giving the SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award to acknowledge people who have made significant contributions to electro-acoustic music. The award is presented at the SEAMUS National Conference, held annually.
Wave-Gotik-Treffen	1987– present		Leipzig, Germany	Annual festival is the largest gothic festival on this planet. Every year hundreds of artists and band from various genres perform at different venues throughout the city over a span of four days.
Shelley's Laserdome	late 1980s		Staffordshire, England	a night club at the heart of the house and rave scene of the late 1980s and early 90s too, helping to launch the career of Sasha and featuring regular appearances from Carl Cox, until it was eventually shut down by Staffordshire Police.[30] The club's heyday was circa 1990.
Sunrise	1988		England	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	1988–1992		England	Genesis'88 was a party promotion crew founded during 1988 during the U.K'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.
Raindance	1989–present		Britain	one of the best known rave names on the 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.[31][32] DJ's 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.
Helter Skelter	1989		England	The Helter Skelter organization was founded in September 1989 - in the midst of the Acid House party era - by David Pratley & 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.
Love Parade	1989–2010		Germany/ International	Was a popular festival and parade that originated in 1989 in Berlin, Germany, 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.
Real Bad	1989–present		United States	the name of a fundraising party held annually in San Francisco, California immediately following the Folsom Street Fair.

1990s: Genre proliferation[edit]

1990–1994[edit]

Name	Yr		Location	Notes	Picture
Black and Blue Festival	1991– present		Montreal	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 (aka BBCM and Fondation BBCM). The various events attract up to 70,000 participants as at 2010.
Mayday Music Festival	1991– present		Germany	One of the oldest electronic music festivals in Germany, artists such as Yello, Spoon, Sven Väth, Moby and Marusha have performed.[33]
A*Devantgarde	1991– present		Munich, Germany	A•DEvantgarde is a new 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 or Darmstadt School of serial composition
Fantazia	1991–1993, 1997		England	Fantazia is a dance organization that first held six large raves in 1992.[34] Earlier, A Fantazia New Year event was held 1991/ 92 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.
Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend	1991– present		Palm Springs, California	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.
Kazantip	1992– present		Crimea	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 weeklong event purports to be free music republic.
VuuV Festival	1992– present		Germany	formerly known as 'VooV Experience is an annual music festival with about 10,000 to 20,000 visitors. It is one of the oldest rave parties in Germany. From a small party with about 100 people it is now one of the biggest rave parties in Europe. After several moves, was VuuV's place since 2001 in Putlitz. In 2007 they moved back to Antaro.[35]
Earthcore	1992– 2017		Australia	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.
Street Parade	1992– present		Zurich, Switzerland	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.
Energy	1992–2013		Zurich, Switzerland	a techno-music event (see rave) 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.
Monegros Desert Festival	1992– present		Spain	Large EDM festival held in mid July, some 40,000 people to its electronic music performances annually. Formerly called the "Groove Parade" after being founded in 1992, it is held in a windowless graffiti filled hall called Flarida, with an area of some 3,000 square metres (32,000 sq ft).
Thunderdome	1992–2012		Netherlands	Operated by ID&T, a Dutch entertainment enterprise whose 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.
Castlemorton Common Festival	1992		Malvern, England	Weeklong free tekno informal concert organized by An estimated 20,000-40,000[36] 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.[37] 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.[38] 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."
Sziget Festival	1993– present		Budapest, Hungary	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-hectare (266-acre) island on the Danube. More than 1,000 performances take place each year.
Seoul International Computer Music Festival	1993– present		Seoul, South Korea	Important computer music festival in Asia.[39]
Every Picture Tells A Story	1993–2013		Melbourne	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.
Tribal Gathering	1993–2006		England	EDM - First Tribal Gathering took place at Lower Pertwood Farm, Warminster, Wiltshire, England. 25,000 people attended to see acts such as diverse as Laurent Garnier and Pete Tong.
Mysteryland	1993– present		Netherlands, Chile	An annual festival operated by Dutch company 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.
CzechTek	1994–2006		Czech Republic	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.
Time Warp Festival	1994– present		Mannheim, Germany	Time Warp is an annual electronic music festivals in Germany since 1994 that mostly takes place in Mannheim, but since 2005 also stopped over in European and American cities such as Vienna, Prague, Zurich, Turin, Milan, Buenos Aires and New York City.
Whitby Goth Weekend	1994– present		Whitby, North Yorkshire	Twice-yearl goth festival with genres such as EBM and industrial
World's Largest Disco	1994– present		Buffalo, New York	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.
Sónar	1994– present		Barcelona, Spain	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.
Sonic Acts	1994– present		Netherlands	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, the Netherlands.

1995–1997[edit]

Name	Year		Location	Notes	Picture
Olympia Experimental Music Festival	1995– present		Olympia, Washington	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.
Connect Music Festival	1995– present		Saskatchewan, Canada	Connect Festival has grown into a large grassroots electronica and alternative culture festival.
Connect Music Festival	2007-2008		Argyll, Scotland
Dance Valley	1995– present		Spaarnwoude, Netherlands	Annual dance music festival dubbed "The Woodstock of Dance" held in the summer, catering only to pure dance and particularly trance. It has also featured artists in the Electro, Eurodance, Hardstyle and Experimental styles.
Bal en Blanc	1995– present		Montreal, Quebec, Canada	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.
Nature One Festival	1995– present		Germany	A large open-air techno festival, featuring DJs from Germany and the world, with the theme "open-air rave."
Nocturnal Wonderland	1995– present		Various	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.
I Love Techno	1995– present		Gent, Belgium	An international techno event. It took place the first time in 1995 at the Vooruit in Ghent and attracted 700 people, and has since grown to be held at the Flanders Expo in the same city.
Enit Festival	1995		United States	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 and visited cities such as Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Holmdel.
Union Move	1995– 2001		Munich, Germany	Annual technoparade in Munich, attracting up to 100,000 attendees. It was organized as a demonstration against excessive police controls and the Munich curfew.
Generation Move	1995– 2007		Hamburg, Kiel, Germany	Annual technoparade in Hamburg, attracting tens of thousands of attendees.
Rave & Cruise	1995– unknown		Mediterranean Sea	Annual rave cruises of one or two weeks length aboard cruise ships which were organized by Munich's Partysan crew.[40]
Ten Days Off	1995– present		Ghent, Belgium, Amsterdam	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, The Netherlands.
World Electronic Music Festival	1995–'08, 2011– present		Ontario	Canada's longest running electronic music festival. Started and still run by Destiny Event Productions. 3-Day summer all day, all night event is held across Southern Ontario, Canada.
Reincarnation Parade	1995– 2006		Hanover, Germany	Large annual technoparade and subsequent rave in Hanover, Germany.
Astropolis	1995–present		Brest, France	Large annual electronic music festival, usually taking place in July or August
Earthdance	1996– present	(many)	Worldwide	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 ideas to "build a world culture of peace."
Amsterdam Dance Event	1996– present		Amsterdam	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 DJ's.
Garden of Memory	1996– present		Oakland, California	Columbarium walk-through at Chapel of the Chimes on the summer solstice.[41] It features over 40 musicians performing on unique instruments, or compositions designed for the event, often electronically processed.[42]
Electric Daisy Carnival	1997– present	(many)	Various	Operated by Insomniac Events, several renditions in different locales are held throughout the year, attracting hundreds of thousands of people.
Lake Parade	1997– present		Geneva, Switzerland	A large technoparade which is organised every year. Every year there are up to 20 Lovemobiles.
Melt! Festival	1997– present		Gräfenhainichen, Germany	One of the biggest open-air electronic music festivals in Germany. The festival takes place in Ferropolis open-air museum. 2 in Resident Advisor's Top 10 festivals for July 2013
ETD Pop	1997– present		San Francisco, California	ETD Pop is an annual electronic music festival held at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California, U.S., a suburb of San Francisco. It is hosted by the Berkeley-based event promoters Skills.
Boom Festival	1997– present		Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal	A biennial transformational festival in Portugal. The festival features music performances and a broad variety of visual art exhibits.
Aquasella	1997– present		Spain	Large EDM festival held in Spain.
SonneMond Sterne	1997– present		Saalburg-Ebersdorf, Thüringen	An open-air festival featuring electronic dance music. The first festival was in 1997 with 2,500 people. The 15th festival in 2011 reached 35,000.
Rainbow Serpent Festival	1997– present		Victoria, Australia	A large electronic music, art and lifestyle festival, mainly known for Psychedelic trance and Minimal Techno music, but also features other genres of electronic music and non electronic music in the smaller stages. Also art installations, workshops, etc.
Energy '97	1997		Northamptonshire	Helter Skelter team to organize - Energy '97 - The Carnival of Dance. The Energy '97 festival took place at Turweston Aerodrome in Northamptonshire (now the site of the Gatecrasher Summer Sound System festivals). The festival sold out, attracting 18,000 revelers in all. With 10 large marquees featuring genres of dance music ranging from Drum and Bass, to Techno, to House Music, to Hardcore.
Fuckparade	1997– present		Berlin	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.
Monster Massive	1997– 2011		Los Angeles, California	A yearly electronic music rave held near Halloween and founded by Go Ventures, with many of the attendees dress in costume.
Audiotistic	1997- '03, 2009- '11		Southern California	Annual festival known for sporting a diverse assortment of genres, ranging from rap and hip hop to electronic genres drum & bass and dubstep.
Full Moon Party	1998– present		Ko Pha Ngan, Thailand	First held at a wooden disco not far from the beach early 1980s though note electronic in focus, the parties much later 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.

1998–1999[edit]

Name	Year		Location	Notes	Picture
Scandinavian Alternative Music Awards	1998– 2007		Gothenburg, Sweden	Scandinavian Alternative Music Awards (SAMA), was a music festival and award ceremony for electronic music held each year in Gothenburg between 1998 and 2007.
Summadayze	1998– present		Australia, New Zealand	The 2006 event in Melbourne saw 23,000 tickets sellout for a 15-hour event.[43]
Homelands	1990s?- 2005?		Scotland and Britain	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.
Copenhagen Distortion	1998– present		Copenhagen, Denmark	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.
Infest Festival	1998– present		University of Bradford Union	An annual three day music festival n the August bank holiday weekend, featuring alternative electronic music acts from genres including industrial, EBM, futurepop, synthpop and power noise.
Ultra Music Festival	1998– present		Miami, Florida	An outdoor electronic music event held annually in March founded by Russell Faibisch and Alex Omes. Takes place across seven different stages, features top DJs, artists, and live acts. Focuses on all genres—electro, techno, trap, deep house, drum and bass, tech house, progressive house, dubstep, trance, etc.
Sunwaves	1998– present		Romania	Kristal Glam Club is a club in Bucharest, Romania.[44][45] Sunrise & Kristal Club are organizers electronic music festival Sunwaves. In 2014, it is the 16 edition of electronic music festival Sunwaves.
OM Festival	1998– 2013		Ontario	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 Dance Music Festival	1998– present		England	The Creamfields Dance Music 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.
Hradhouse Festival	1998– present		Boskovice, Czech Republic	Annual festival of electronic dance music that takes place in Boskovice, Czech Republic, that reinforces the region's importance as a major center for dance music.
PlanetLove	1998-'03, 2005 – present		Northern Ireland	An annual Northern Irish electronic music festival which was held since 1998 - with a skipped year in 2004.
Music For People & Thingamajigs Festival	1998– present		Bay Area, California	The three-day festival, it promotes experimental music that incorporates made/found instruments and alternate tuning systems and hands-on discovery. They feature artists who design their own musical instruments in a festival of workshops, music making, and performances.[46]
Scattered	1998– present		Sydney, Australia	Founded in 1998 as a small 150 person event, it has grown over time to large-scale rave which hosts major happy hardcore, gabber and hard trance DJ's.
New West Electro-Acoustic Music Organization (NWEAMO)	1998– present		Portland, Oregon	Mission is 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 – produces an annual international festival of electro-acoustic music.
Together as One	1998– 2011		Los Angeles	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.[47][48]
Shambhala Music Festival	1998– present		Nelson, British Columbia	The largest and one of the longest running electronic music events in Canada, held in August at a 500-acre (2.0 km2) cattle ranch in the mountains. Since the beginning, it has been a family-run event and has never accepted corporate sponsorship.
Global Dance Festival	1999– present		Colorado	Annual EDM festival with major acts such as Steve Aoki, held in various cities in Colorado.
Camp Bisco	1999– present		Scranton, PA	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.
Elektra Festival	1999– present		Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Presented every year in May by ACREQ (Association pour la Création et la Recherche Électroacoustiques du Québec - The Association for the Creation and Research of Electroaccoustics of Quebec. Elektra’s mission has since been to present artists and works that combine the latest in electronic music and visual creations derived from new technologies.
Marsatac	1999– present		Marseille, France	It was originally dedicated to the Marseille's hip hop scene, then has expanded progressively to international hip-hop scene, to electro, rock and, since 2008, to African music for one night. In 2012, more than 35,000 people participated in the festival
Bats Day in the Fun Park	1999– present		Anaheim, California	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	Play media
Tinnitus	1999– 2009		Stockholm, Sweden	An annual alternative music festival focusing on the subgenres of alternative electronic music such as Industrial, EBM, Synthpop and Futurepop.
Maschinenfest	1999– present		Aachen, Germany	A yearly, three-day underground music festival featuring industrial, power electronics, and other alternative electronic performers who include both independent and signed bands, held in a bunker.
CTM Festival (formerly Club Transmediale)	1999– present		Berlin	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."
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival	1999– present		San Francisco	Mission is to provide a public forum for composers and sound artists working with electronic-based technologies in the Bay Area. Designed as an annual multi-day event consisting of concerts, installations and discussions.[49]
Eclipse Festival	1999– present		Quebec	Aweekend-long international gathering of visual and musical art, it features a symbiosis of dance, open philosophies, performance art, human (and spiritual) experiences.
Trance Energy	1999– present		Netherlands	Founded by ID&T as a large trance event.
Norbergfestival	1999– present		Norberg, Sweden	Held in Sweden.

2000s: Growth of commercial raves[edit]

2000–2002[edit]

Name	Year		Location	Notes	Picture
EXIT	2000– present		Novi Sad, Serbia	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.
ZoukOut	2000– present		Singapore	One of Asia's biggest music dance festivals, it is organised by Zouk Singapore. DJs that have performed at ZoukOut include Paul Van Dyk, 2ManyDJS, Masters at Work, Gilles Peterson, Richie Hawtin, etc.
Unyazi Electronic Music Festival	2000– present		South Africa	NewMusicSA also runs the Unyazi Electronic Music Festival, which alternates with the New Music Indaba on an annual basis.
Netmage	2000– present		Bologna, Italy	An international festival dedicated to electronic art as a multidisciplinary program of works, investigating and promoting contemporary audiovisual research.
Dissonanze	2000– present		Rome, Italy	a yearly festival focused on electronic music held in Rome, Italy. The first edition was in 2000. Besides music it also focuses on multimedia & video art.
Snowbombing	2000– present	(many)	Europe	Held in Scandinavian locations at ski resorts.
MUTEK	2000– present	(many)	International	New art forms festival devoted to "experimental electronic music, audio-visual spectrum, digital creativity, and transmedial art." As of 2005, events held in Montreal (where it started), Valparaiso, Mexico City, Barcelona, Toronto, New York City, São Paulo, and Berlin.[50]
Sound Summit	2000– present		Australia	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, etc.
Detroit Electronic Music Festival	2000– present		Detroit, Michigan	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.
Qlimax	2000– present		Arnhem	Annual Dance Event, held at the Gelredome, in Arnhem, Netherlands. Since 2003 each edition has had its own anthem to symbolize the theme of the event.
Sensation	2000– present	(many)	Amsterdam Arena, International	Dutch indoor dance-even now been divided into two versions. Sensation Black concentrates more on darker music, such as Hardstyle and Hardcore, while Sensation Sensation White is typically a house and trance event. Attendees are required to wear all black or white, depending on the event.
How Weird Street Faire	2000– present		San Francisco, California	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, Drum & Bass, etc.
Ricochet Gathering	2000– present		Various	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.
Lightning in a Bottle	2000– present		Central Coast of California	A transformational festival presented by The Do LaB.
Chillits	2000– present		Willits, California	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.
Electronic Music Midwest	2000– present		Kansas City, Kansas	A festival of new electro-acoustic music, was created as the result of a group formed in 2002 between Kansas City Kansas Community College (KCKCC), Lewis University, and the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Overall it has as featured over 300 new electro-acoustic compositions.
Universo Paralello	2000– present		Bahia, Brazil	This festival is one that celebrates electronica, trance, and psychedelic music, it is one of the most prominent festivals which have “trance” as one of its main themes, held at the beach of Praia de Pratigi in Bahia. There are 7 days of music and 8 days of camping.
Electrofringe	2001–'11		Newcastle	A part of This Is Not Art, involves various installations and hands-on workshops.
Five Days Off	2001– present		Amsterdam	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.
Creamfields BA	2001–present		Buenos Aires	Creamfields BA was the first Creamfields festival to be organised outside of Cream's hometown of Liverpool, quickly growing larger than other Creamfields events in Latin America with almost 70,000 people attending its sixth edition.
Global Gathering	2001– present	(many)	Various	The festival is held annually organized by the Godskitchen brand, held in locations such as the UK and Russia.
Lumous Gothic Festival	2001– present		Finland	commonly known as Lumous) is the largest festival dedicated to the goth subculture in Finland and the northernmost Gothic festival in the world. covering musical genres such as gothic rock, deathrock, industrial, EBM and neofolk
Nation	2001–present		Singapore	Gay parties held in Singapore
Electroclash Festival	2001–2004		New York City	Electroclash came to media attention in 2001, when the Electroclash Festival was held in New York.[51] The Electroclash Festival was held again with live tours across the US and Europe. Other notable artists who performed at the festivals and subsequent tours include: Scissor Sisters, ADULT., Fischerspooner, Mignon, Miss Kittin & The Hacker, Mount Sims, Tiga and Spalding Rockwell.[52]
Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts	2001– present		Minneapolis, Minnesota	An electronic music festival founded by Douglas Geers, a weekend of lectures, performances, master classes, and multimedia installations on the latest in electronic and electroacoustic music and art. Mostly free and open to the public.[53]
Vision Parade	2002– 2006		Bremen, Germany	Annual technoparade in Bremen, attracting tens of thousands of attendees.
New Interfaces for Musical Expression	2002– present	(many)	Various	Also known as NIME, is an international conference dedicated to scientific research on the development of new technologies for musical expression and artistic performance.
Electroacoustic Music Days	2002–present		Greece	By the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association, annual event which takes place in various cities and institutions throughout Greece. During these event, some of the latest electroacoustic works from Greece and abroad are showcased.
Insomnia Festival	2002– present		Tromsø, Norway	Alongside the Numusic festival in Stavanger and Ekkofestival in Bergen, it is the largest festival for electronic music in Norway.
Xtra Bass	2002– present		United Kingdom	A free week-long drum and bass tour of the UK hosted by the BBC's digital radio station BBC Radio 1Xtra. The tour covers 7 cities in 7 days
Les Siestes Electroniques	2002– present		Toulouse	Summer festival dedicated to emerging artists from the field of music & digital culture.
Area Festival	2001-'02	(many)	North America	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.
Cybersonica	2002– present		London	Annual multimedia festival for electronic music, sound, art and technology, first supported by the Arts Council England and other sponsors. Invites sonic and digital artists to submit new pieces for commissioning.

2003–2004[edit]

Name	Year		Location	Notes	Picture
Nuits Sonores	2003– present		Lyon, France	Electronic music festival. It usually occurs in May of each year during five days since 2003
TodaysArt	2003– present		The Hague, Netherlands	At the end of September each year, TodaysArts has a program at 20 venues (in- and outdoor) in the center of the city with over 200 artists from more than 25 countries. The first edition had 5,000 visitors.
Planet Pop Festival	2003– present		Brazil	Annual festival of dance music performed by the Building Records label, which has involved dance music artists of international radio stations in Brazil each year.
GOGBOT	2003– present		Enschede, Netherlands	The festival deals with subjects on the area of multimedia, art, music and technology. GOGBOT is a free entrance festival. It counts around 20,000 visitors. GOGBOT is known for its controversial themes.
Summer Darkness	2003– present		Utrecht, Netherlands	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.
Inox Festival	2003– present		Toulouse, France	Annual electronic music festival has hosted DJ’s such as Joachim Garraud, Avicii, etc.
Moonpark	2003–present		Buenos Aires, Argentina	held three times annually since 2003. Some of the acts performed during its last editions included John Digweed, Sasha, Hernán Cattáneo, Satoshi Tomiie, etc.
Drop Dead Festival	2003– present	(many)	United States, Europe	An electro, post-punk, synthpunk, and experimental multiple-day festival, and the largest DIY festival for "art-damaged" music.
Lovebox Festival	2003– present		Victoria Park, London	A music festival for two days in July. Originally, Lovebox was the name of a nightclub hosted by Groove Armada. Was a one-day festival on London's Clapham Common until 2004.
Defqon.1 Festival	2003– present	(many)	Netherlands and Australia	Annual music festival held in the Netherlands, Australia and Chile. Founded by Q-dance, it plays mostly hardstyle and related genres such as hardcore techno, hard house and hard trance.
Piknic Électronik	2003– present		Montreal, Barcelona	Annual festival held in Montreal, with artists such as Wolfgang Gartner headlining.
Unsound Festival	2003– present	(many)	Krakow, Poland	dealing with evolving and mutating forms of music, as well as related visual arts.
Ruhr-in-Love	2003– present		Oberhausen	Family festival of the electronic music scene, floors are presented by clubs, event organizers, record labels, booking agencies, radio stations, magazines, etc.
60x60	2003– present	(many)	International	Annual festival which tours the world, was conceived and developed by the new music consortium Vox Novus. a continuous sixty-minute concert, is a collection of 60 electro-acoustic or acousmatic works from 60 different composers-sound artists, each work 60 seconds or less.
Ekkofestival	2003– present		Bergen, Norway	The Ekkofestival, Ekkofest or Ekko -Bergen Electronic Music and Art Festival, is an annual fall music festival. The festival mainly focus on presenting electronic music and contemporary art, with a multitude of genres.
Pirate Station	2003– present		Russia	Known to be the largest and most popular Drum and Bass event in the world, takes place annually in Russia.
Winterworld	2003– present		Germany	Founded in Germany as an EDM event, with three main floors with different electronic music styles and an international line-up.
Bang Face	2003– present		United Kingdom	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, etc.
Reverence	2003–2009		Madison, Wisconsin	An electronic music festival. Featuring primarily aggrotech, electro-industrial and synthpop bands, it has also included other electronic dance music genres as well.
The Labyrinth Festival	2003?– present		Niigata prefecture	Electronic music festival held annually in the mountains. Attendance is limited, and 95% of the festival tickets can only be purchased in Japan. Acts include both techno and experimental.
Amore Festival	2004–present		Italy	Today Amore Festival has become a three-day event that attracts over 20,000 people from Italy and Europe with its main event happening on 31 December at Fiera di Roma.
Konemetsä	2004–2009		Finland	Konemetsä - Open Air Forest Festival has music is played continuously 24 hours / day.
Decibel Festival	2004– present		Seattle, Washington	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.
O.Z.O.R.A.	2004–present		Ozora, Hungary	psychedelic trance festival which has been held on an estate in Ozora every year since 2004.[54] The first party was called Solipse and took place during the Solar eclipse of August 11, 1999.
Wild in the Country	2004– present		Staffordshire, England	Gigwise.com describes Wild in the Country as "the ideal festival for lovers of electronic music."[55] and notes that the festival is part of a Renaissance tradition of holding gigs in picturesque settings like Allerton Castle and Shugborough Hall. The last festival was at Knebworth Park starting on 30 June 2007 with Underworld, Hot Chip and Sasha and Digweed.
Systo Palty	2004– present		Russia	Open-air annual art and music festival featuring trance music.
Moogfest	2004–2008, 2010– present		Asheville, North Carolina	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.
Output Festival	2004–present		Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Dutch tri-annual music festival which focuses on experimental, contemporary electroacoustic music related to the electric guitar.
Urban Art Forms Festival	2004– present		Austria	One of Austria's largest electronic music festivals[56] held in July,[57] with a focus on visuals as well as music.[58] The festival has featured drum and bass, among other genres.[59]
Electric Picnic	2004–present		Stradbally, Ireland	Features dance music, as well as rock and pop. Its history includes international acts such as Kraftwerk, Röyksopp, Nick Cave, Sonic Youth, New Order, Björk, etc.
C.O.M.A.	2004– present		Montreal, Quebec, Canada	A yearly weekend underground music festival that features industrial, power electronics other 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.
Eccentrik	2004– present		Raleigh, North Carolina	A 3-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.[60]
UltraMar Festival	2004-'09, 2013		Cartagena, Colombia	More than 130 international artists have participated in the festival, among whom are 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.
Soundwave Festival	2004– present		San Francisco	Formerly the Soundwave Series, founded Alan So from the ME'DI.ATE Art Group to explore "innovative sound experiences with diverse local and international artists and musicians." H held every two years for two months in San Francisco.
LovEvolution	2004- '09, 2011		Bay Area, California	Formerly San Francisco LovEvolution and San Francisco LoveFest, was a technoparade and festival that occurred annually and had its origins in Berlin's Love Parade.[61]
The Glade	2004– present		England	An electronic dance music festival that originally began as a stage at Glastonbury Festival.

2005–2006[edit]

Name	Year		Location	Notes	Picture
Tomorrowland	2005– present		Boom, Belgium	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.
Bent Festival	~2007- 2011?		United States	Festival dedicated to circuit bending,[62] held annually in the cities of New York City, Los Angeles, Minneapolis.[63]
Berlin Festival	2005– present		Berlin, Germany	two-day outdoor rock/ electro music event which is located near the city of Berlin, first organized in 2005, since then, its audience has grown to about 20,000 visitors.
Hartera	2005– present		Rijeka, Croatia	annual electronica music festival. The name derives from the festivals location, an old paper factory (which was one of the largest in Europe) that functioned for 150 years before shutting down.
Amphi Festival	2005– present		Germany	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.
Pitchfork Music Festival	2005 – present		Chicago, Illinois	annual summer music festival focuses primarily on artists and bands from alternative rock, rap & hip-hop, electronica, and dance music.
Dominator	2005 – present		Eersel, Netherlands	EDM festival that takes place at the E3-strand in Eersel, Netherlands, put on by Q-Dance.
New Years Revolutions	2005– present		Cape Town, South Africa	he Sound Squad is an events company based in Cape Town, South Africa, which focuses on outdoor events, primarily the New Years Revolutions festivals.
Aires Libres	2005 – present		Marseille, France	main goal is to showcase electronic music outdoor, and promote various cultural activities for children and their families through visual art and several artistic workshops
Blacksun Festival	2005 – 2007		New Haven, Connecticut	Was created in 2005 is a 3-day industrial and goth music international festival. Because larger goth festivals take place in Europe, the festival gives American bands a closer opportunity to play.
Distorted Music Festival	2005		Melbourne, Australia	One year EDM festival that featured underground/mainstream electronic artists, with the genres of breakcore, IDM, noise, industrial, power noise, and glitch.
Electro-music Festival	2005– present		Huguenot, New York	The annual electro-music festival, known as the "Woodstock of electronic music," bills itself as "the world's premiere event for experimental electronic music". The gathering features three days of electronic music concerts, seminars, workshops, demonstrations, jam sessions, video art, a laptop battle, and a swap-meet.
Punktfestivalen	2005 – present		Kristiansand, Norway	The annual autumn music festival primarily focusing on live remixing, live sampling and live electronics involving local and international artists.
Djakarta Warehouse Project	2006– present		Jakarta	Djakarta Warehouse Project or DWP is a music festival held in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is the largest annual music festival of Electronic Dance Music (EDM) in Asia, which feature world-famous EDM artists.
Isotopia Festival	2006– 2008		Australia	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.
Transmission	2006– present		Czech Republic, Slovakia	Europe's largest indoor trance music event,[citation needed] based in Prague[64] at the o2 Arena.[65] In March 2014, the festival was held for the first time in Slovakia.[66]Markus Schulz has frequently headlined.[67]
Life Festival	2006– present		Ireland	Mixes traditional instruments with electronic dance music groups.
Les Ardentes	2006– present		Belgium	multi-day electro-rock music festival which yearly takes place in Liège, in early July.
Sonic Bloom	2006– present		Colorado	EDM festival in Colorado.
Beat-Herder	2006– present		Lancashire, England	an annual summer music festival. The festival covers several musical genres including breakbeat, dub, reggae, dubstep, techno, house, drum & bass, folk, dance-punk and psychedelic rock. The event also sees regular appearances from novelty musicians such as the Lancashire Hotpots and William Fairey Acid Brass.[68]
Blip Festival	2006=2007	(4)	New York City, Denmark, AUS, Tokyo	Chiptune festival
Le Guess Who?	2006– present		Utrecht, Netherlands	Annual electronic music festival with over fifteen venues.[69]
South American Music Conference	2006– present		Buenos Aires	It is one of the most important music festivals of South America, with the performances of globally recognized artists.
Future Music Festival	2006– present		Australia	An annual music festival featuring Australian and international artists held in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth
Indoctrination Festival	2006		Chicago, Illinois	In Chicago in 2006, took place over the course of three days featuring performances in the genres of IDM, breakcore, industrial, and power noise.
Bloc Festival	2006– present		England	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.
Southeast Electronic Music Festival	2006– present		Carrboro, North Carolina	A festival of DJ/techno/dance music is held every year since 2006 in Chapel Hill/Carrboro, North Carolina by the non-profit Signal Foundation. In conjunction with the University of North Carolina Department of Music, sessions on music composition, production, etc. are held on the UNC campus.[70]

2007–2009[edit]

Name	Year		Location	Notes	Picture
Refresh Festival	2007– present		Kotor, Montenegro	Annual music festival held in Maximus discothèque. It started in 2007 and usually has 2 stages (a DJ and a Hip Hop stage), but the 2008 edition included a 3rd, open-air stage for live performances by Ex-Yu bands.
Wintercase	?		Italy
Seoul World DJ Festival	2007– present		Seoul, South Korea	Music festival initiated as the main program of Hi-Seoul Festival in 2007 at the Nanji Campground on the Han River
Open Air Field	2007– present		Luxembourg	EDM event. he first edition of the event took place in July 2007 under the name Feldparty. Every year the line-up containce a lot of DJ´s, such as DJ Pikay
Secondfest	2007	–	Internet	A music festival in the Second Life virtual world, with artists such as Simian Mobile Disco, Digitalism, and The Knife.
Creamfields Perú	2007– present		Peru	Rendition of Creamfields.
Luminosity	2007– present		Amsterdam, Netherlands	With the slogan "Spreading The Love Of Trance Music", the Luminosity festival is considered to be a 100% Trance by some followers, and it's organized by a foundation named Luminosity Events. In 2013, the event keeps the tradition, with a beach festival plenty of trance music stars, and as they say: "Luminosity Events is a non profit foundation run by volunteers who have a big heart for Trance music."
HARD	2007– present		United States	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, etc.
Loop Live	2007– present		Bulgaria	Free music event and always includes a host of new and popular artists. The festival is televised usually a week afterwards on City TV.
SYNDICATE	2007– present		Germany	The largest German festival for all harder styles of electronic music. Hardcore, hardtechno, hardstyle and techno are showcased on 4 floors.
Balaton Sound	2007– present		Hungary	Also known as Heineken Balaton Sound (since 2013 as MasterCard Balaton Sound for sponsorship reasons) is one of Europe's largest open-air electronic music festivals
Sunburn Festival	2007– present		Goa, India	Large annual EDM festival. First took place in December 2007 at the Candolim Beach in Goa, India.
Stereosonic	2007– present		Australia	first festival tour was held in Australia in November/December. The headliners included Armin Van Buuren, Booka Shade, Fedde Le Grande and Trentemoller.
Igloofest	2007– present		Montreal, Quebec, Canada	An annual outdoor festival held over the course of 3 or 4 weekends in January and February.
The BPM Festival	2008– present		Playa del Carmen, Mexico	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.
Coma Dance Festival	2008		Dubai, United Arab Emirates	took place in November 2008 between two cities in the Middle East, twenty minutes of the coast of Abu Dhabi- UAE and Forum de Beirut-Lebanon. The festival were proclaimed the first festival dedicated to dance music in the Middle East.[71][72]
Outlook Festival	2008– present		Pula, Croatia	musical event hosting all kinds of bass music, such as Dubstep, reggae, hip-hop, ragga, Drum and Bass, Garage, House, techno.
International Music Summit	2008– present		Ibiza, Spain	3-day electronic dance music (EDM) conference, seen as a direct competitor to Miami's Winter Music Conference.
Electric Forest Festival	2008– present		Rothbury, Michigan	A four-day multi-genre event, with a focus on electronic and jam band genres. As Rothbury Festival it debuted in 2008, and the new event was not held in 2010. Electric Forest, which debuted in 2011, is co-produced by Insomniac Events and Madison House.
Time Festival	2008– present		Toronto, Ontario	one day, annual summer music festival held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The event focuses on electronic music and features DJ's and groups from around the world as well as local Toronto artists.
Strawberry Fields	2008– present		Melbourne, Australia	, dance music in an outback setting, it "has gradually expanded from its psytrance roots to offer attendees richly diverse lineups."[69]
Ultra Brasil	2008, 2010-2011, 2016		Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Electronic dance music festival curated by the team behind Ultra Music Festival, debuted in 2008 in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, Brasil. In 2016, the festival will return to Rio de Janeiro, Brasil at Quinta da Boa Vista. Confirmed artists so far include Carl Cox and Martin Garrix
Subsonic Music Festival	2008– present		Monkerai, Australia	Annual music festival with camping setting. Wrote Resident Advisor, "Subsonic has gradually embraced house, techno and other forms of dance music alongside its original staples: psytrance and dub."[69]
The Bounce Festival	2009– present		Plumas County, California	A four-day multi-genre event, with a focus on Electronic Music Culture and Installation Art. The Big Bounce debuted in Belden, CA in 2009 with headliners Bassnectar and Fort Knox Five. 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.
Warriors Dance Festival	2009–present		Japan, United Kingdom, Serbia	A one-day electronic music festival curated by The Prodigy.[73]
Wave Sound	2009–present
TOXICATOR	2009– present		Germany	TOXICATOR is the first event for all harder styles in South-West Germany, first held in Mannheim, Germany.
SkyGravity Festival	2009?		Ukraine	International electronic dance music festival in Ukraine (Crimea, near Evpatoria). Featuring music genres are psytrance, goa, full on, suomi, progressive and break trance, but also ambient, dub, downtempo, idm, electronica, experimental, and reggae.
INTRO Beijing	2009–13, 2015		Beijing, China	First large electronic music festival held in China. Cancelled in 2014 over venue problems.[74]
Volt Festival	2009– present		Uppsala, Sweden	Annual one day electronic music festival in the Uppsala Konsert & Kongress concert hall.[75]
Electrobeach Music Festival	2009– present		Port-Barcarès, France	Large annual EDM festival in a held in the summer at a beach resort in France. Recent lineups include Afrojack, Dirty South, and Dizzee Rascal.[76] 2013 saw 56,000 people over two days.[77]
Electric Zoo Festival	2009– present		Randall's Island, New York City, Mexico	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.
Lights all Night	2009– present		Dallas, TX	A 2-day annual electronic music festival held during New Year's Eve, December 31 – January 1 from 5 pm to 2 am, in Dallas, TX. The festival is held in the largest column-free exhibit hall of its kind in the United States.
Echelon	2009– present		Bad Aibling, Germany	The Echelon Open Air & 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.
Berlin Beats & Boats	2009– present		Berlin, Germany	Annual boat parade and technoparade in Berlin on the river Spree involving up to 14 swimming dancefloors and 3000 participants.[78]

2010s: Recent events[edit]

2010–2012[edit]

Name	Year		Location	Notes	Picture
Amber Beach Festival	2010– present		Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia	First festival was held in Yantarny on 23–25 July 2010. It was headlined by Vopli Vidoplyasova, Dieselboy, etc.
In Blu Rooms	2011		Lahore, Pakistan	The first ever electro music festival in the history of Pakistan organized by Full Circle corporate marketing featured by DJ sydney blu all the way from Canada. In this event over 5000 people attended
Djakarta Warehouse Project	2010– present		Jakarta, Indonesia	The first EDM festival in Indonesia and claimed to be the one of the Asia's biggest electronic dance music festivals, it is organised by Ismaya Live. This festival was held every December. DJs that have performed at DWP include Calvin Harris, Alesso, David Guetta, Tiësto, R3hab, Axwell Λ Ingrosso, Zedd, Galantis, Major Lazer, etc.
Soundscape	2010– present		Hamilton, New Zealand	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 4000 people attended.
Escapade Music Festival	2010– present		Ottawa, Ontario, Canada	Started as a club night with Deadmau5 headlining it and a few hundred attendees. In 2011, featured 3 major headliners, growing in 2012.
Creamfields Australia	2010– present		Australia	Operated by OneLove, this event branched off from Creamfields in the UK.
We Are One	2010– present		Berlin, Germany	Electronic Dance Music event, with the presence of trance music DJs like Paul van Dyk, Armin van Buuren and many others. "We are One" is a Paul van Dyk's brand.
Manitoba Electronic Music Exhibition	2010– present		Manitoba	MEME" is a yearly electronic music and digital arts festival started in 2010 in Winnipeg,
Beyond Wonderland	2010– present		United States	Electronic dance festival organized by Insomniac Events, spanning one or two days. Locations throughout the west coast of the US.
New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival	2010– present		New York City	Festival held in New York City on an annual basis.[79]
Dionysian Revival Festival	2010– present		New Hampshire	Hosted by Nokturnal Aktivities Productions twice a summer over 3 days, creating a "Dionysian lifestyle." Dj's playing EDM styles consisting of house, balkan house, swing house, trip-hop, drum and bass, trance, and techno.[citation needed]
Utopia Island	2010– present		Moosburg, Germany	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 or Drum and Bass, with 12.000 attendees in 2016.
Miami Music Week	2011– present		Miami, Florida	Week of electronic music events in the city.
Barbarella Music Festival	2011– present		Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	The EDM festival has had the stage presence such as: Afrojack, Chris Lake, Empire of the Sun, etc.
Sun City Music Festival	2011– present		El Paso, Texas	Held around Labor Day by SMG Events and Disco Donnie Presents in El Paso, Texas, featuring various electronic music artists.[80] held at Ascarate Park. The event, by Disco Donnie Presents & SMG Events, hosts three stages.[81]
Arsenal Fest	2011– present		Kragujevac, Serbia	Annual summer music festival which encompass several different musical styles, mostly different variations of EDM, punk, rock, downtempo and metal music. It started in 2011 in central Serbian city of Kragujevac.
SonicMania Festival	2011– present		Japan	Held as a "warm-up" for the rock-oriented Summer Sonic Festival held in Japan in August, Sonicmania has had artists such as Kraftwerk.
Resistanz	2011– present		Sheffield, United Kingdom	Large industrial music festival held in Britain.
Summer Sound	2011– present		Helsinki, Finland	Biggest indoor/outdoor trance music event in Scandinavia. First year performers included stars like Chicane, Above & Beyond, Roger Sanchez and Judge Jules.[82]
Electronic Family	2011– present		Amsterdam, Netherlands	A Trance only festival. Third time in the Amsterdamse Bos, Amsterdam. Organized by ALDA Events.
Hideout Festival	2011– present		Zrce, Croatia	On The Guardian's list of the best European festivals of 2011, event features pool parties, art installations, and also utilizes various local venues in addition to the concerts held in the arena.
Identity Festival	2011– present		United States	Features popular electronic-music artists. The festival tours various North American cities.
White Wonderland	2011– present		Anaheim, California	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.
Mega Electronic Festival	2011		San Juan, Puerto Rico	Started by SBS Entertainment on March 19, 2011. The 12-hour electronic music festival featured international DJ line up: Adam Freeland, Benny Benassi, etc.
Escape From Wonderland	2011– present		California	Held around Halloween by Insomniac Events in Southern California, featuring artists; Afrojack, Benny Benassi, Cedric Gervais, Crizzly, etc. Also titled Escape All Hallows Eve in 2014.
DEFINE	2011	(many)	Europe	DEFINE is a festival for electronic music with workshops, playzones, concerts and parties. Alsion in Sønderborg (Denmark) and Kulturwerkstatt Kühlhaus in Flensburg (Germany) were the venues in 2011.[83]
Summerburst Festival	2011–Present		Stockholm Gothenburg Sweden	Summerburst is an annual electronic dance music (EDM) festival that takes place in the cities of Stockholm and Gothenburg in Sweden. It was first started in 2011[84] in Stockholm, and was also conducted in the city of Gothenburg from 2012 onwards[85][86] The festival is held for two days in both the cities, on different dates. Until 2015, SPG Event Live conducted this festival, but in the same year, the festival rights were sold to Live Nation[87] SPG Event organized the Summerburst electronic dance music festival in Stockholm and Gothenburg. The festival was first held in 2011.
Sunset Music Festival	2012– present		Tampa, Florida	Annual EDM music festival.
Rewire Festival	2012– present		The Hague, Netherlands	Annual festival with two-day progream, with artists such as Lee Gamble and Kode9.[69]
What The Festival	2012– present		Oregon	Annual EDM music festival
Lucidity	2012– present		Southern California	There were three main stages and numerous subsidiary stages featuring bands, spoken word artists, exotic dancers and DJ's.
Veld Music Festival	2012– present		Canada	Veld is Canada's biggest Electronic Music Festival. [1] The inaugural event took place on August 4 and 5, 2012.
BUKU Music + Art Project	2012– present		New Orleans, Louisiana	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, etc.
BAALS Music Festival	2012– present		Fort Wayne, Indiana	Beyond trance and techno and house, the festival has a focus on jam band music.
Wavefront Music Festival	2012– present		Chicago, Illinois	Annual EDM music festival held on the beach in July.
Spring Zouk	2012		Karnataka, India	The 3day festival was a project coordinated by the state government and various sponsors to attract international tourism. Led to Porngate. Artist such as Juno Reactor.
Future Music Festival Asia	2012– present		Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Often abbreviated as FMFA, is an annual music festival featuring local and international artists held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, spinoff of Future Music Festival.
Spring Awakening	2012– present		Chicago, Illinois	annual musical festival for Progressive house, Electro house, Techno, etc.
Ultra Buenos Aires	2012-2015		Buenos Aires, Argentina	Curated by the Ultra Music Festival team.
Weekend Festival	2012– present		Helsinki, Finland	Weekend Festival artists are mostly EDM, with some other genres. The festival has been sold out every year in advance. 40,000-60,000 people in every year.
Paradiso Festival	2012– present		George, Washington	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, Tiesto, etc.
Ultra Korea	2012–present		Seoul, Korea	Annual electronic dance music festival curated by Ultra Music Festival. In 2016, the festival celebrated five years at the Olympic Stadium in Seoul, Korea.
Electro Beach	2012– present		Puerto Vallarta, Mexico	A spring break EDM concert series in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, started in 2012. The concert series features DJs such as Avicii, Tiesto, Calvin Harris, Steve Aoki, Chuckie and more.[88]
Life Dance	2012– present		Cebu City, Philippines	A Celebration for the country's largest festival Sinulog held every January with international DJs and more.[88]
Electronic Summer	2012– present		Gothenburg, Sweden	An annual synthesizer and electronic music festival held in the end of August/beginning of September month at Brewhouse in Gothenburg, Sweden. <http://www.electronicsummer.se//>
Holy Ship!	2012– present		Miami, The Bahamas	an annual three-night, four-day electronic dance music festival held aboard a 4,000 capacity cruise ship, which leaves out of PortMiami in Miami, FL.[89] 2016 will mark the event’s fifth year since its inception in 2012,[90]
Resolution (festival)	2012– present		Seattle, Washington	Two-night festival held annually on New Year's Eve.[91]