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Looking to expand the festival calender a little more in 2014, anyone got any recommendations for smaller/'boutique' festivals with an electronic music leaning?

Thinking stuff like;

ClubToClub (Italy)
Echo (Croatia)
Dekmantel (Amsterdam)
etc

Preferably multi day events so can make a bit of a holiday out of it.

Lockdown Amsterdam, I think it was just a 1 day thing this year but maybe it'll expand...

http://lockdownfestival.nl/

beacons was really good when i went last year. heard good things about this year too

chekov wrote:beacons was really good when i went last year. heard good things about this year too

http://www.greetingsfrombeacons.com/ ?

wub wrote:

chekov wrote:beacons was really good when i went last year. heard good things about this year too

http://www.greetingsfrombeacons.com/ ?

that's the one!

how big is the Life festival in Dublin? been meaning fly over there some year, figured it's somewhat small because seeing as its relatively new.

not strictly electronic but beacons festival looks good.
also mint festival.

wub wrote:

chekov wrote:beacons was really good when i went last year. heard good things about this year too

http://www.greetingsfrombeacons.com/ ?

Went this year was really fun

wub wrote:Looking to expand the festival calender a little more in 2014
Dekmantel (Amsterdam)

That's not a certainty yet I think.
Into the Woods in my hometown is good as well. Although both will probably require some luck when trying
to buy tickets. They are like 4000 visitors max.

Very few multi day events that take place on one terrain and are that small.

VIA in Pittsburgh is technically a festival and they always bring in some fantastic artists

decibel fest in seattle.

http://dbfestival.com/dbx/lineup

I was just about to post Decibel Fest. If you ever make it over to Seattle it happens every September. Multiple venues around the city but most of them are in walking distance on Capitol Hill.

DUDE... the lineup for Decibel this year looked really interesting - great variety. (MKS, I know you were front & center for Moby's set. )

Srsly tho - Juan Atkins and JG Thirlwell in the same festival?! Plus Lorn, Evian Christ, Lusine, Vessel, Beacon...

alphacat wrote:MKS, I know you were front & center for Moby's set.

If I went this year I probably would have been. Have you seen the size of his drum machine collection?

Beacons definitely, shame it stops mad early but we had some batty tesco speakers outing tunes all night anyway.

sorry but not sorry if you were camping up the top end, kept playing this on the regular http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiHAA09JitU

i didnt go this year but all my mates said gottwood was really good and it seemed to have a good lineup aswell, definetly on that next year.

I was gonna go to beacons and i know a few people who went but they said it wasnt that great and that there wasnt really anywhere to hang out or anything to do apart from listening to music. Personally at a festival I dont wanna spend my entire time chasing a lineup, its all about having nice places to hang out aswell as good music. that said the lineup did look really good

Free rotation is the one as far as quality music and small friendly vibe goes, but obviously getting a ticket is the hard part. My local one is nozstock and its always really good, might be cos most of my mates from home are always there tho. Got a fair amount of electronic music there, lots of dnb usually and tribe of frog do a stage catering for the crusty psy types. generally just a good vibe and nice people with lots of fun things around the place