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electronic dance music
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festival in the Netherlands, organized by the Netherlands-based promoter ID&T
ID&T is a Dutch entertainment and medium Business, enterprise that was founded in the early 1990s. Their event Thunderdome (music festival), Thunderdome is named the oldest electronic festival in the Netherlands, with later events like Mysteryla ...
. Being the first of its kind in the country when it was established, its organizers have billed the event as the oldest dance music festival in the Netherlands. It has most recently been held at Haarlemmermeerse Bos in Haarlemmermeer
Haarlemmermeer () is a List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the west of the Netherlands, in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Holland. Haarlemmermeer is a polder, consisting of land reclaimed from water. The ...
; an exhibition ground that hosted the 2002 edition of the Dutch gardening festival Floriade.
It is traditionally held on the final weekend of August; the next date is August 25-27, 2023. Since 2015, the festival has changed from a one-day to a three-day event with camping. Each year, more than 100.000 visitors from over 100 nationalities are welcomed at Mysteryland.
In 2011, an international edition of Mysteryland was held in Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...
, the first to be held outside the Netherlands.
Mysteryland USA, the American version of Mysteryland, was first held on Memorial Day
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It i ...
weekend, May 2014, at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, the site of the notable Woodstock
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festival held in 1969. Headliners included Kaskade
Ryan Gary Raddon (born February 25, 1971), better known by his stage name Kaskade, is an American DJ, music producer and remixer. ''DJ Times'' voted Kaskade as "America's Best DJ" in 2011 and 2013. ''DJ Magazine, DJ Mag'' named Kaskade fifty-fi ...
, Moby
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, Steve Aoki
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, Dillon Francis
Dillon Hart Francis (born October 5, 1987), also known as DJ Hanzel, is an American electronic music producer and DJ. He played a key role in popularizing moombahton and later developed its heavier variants, moombahcore and EDM trap.
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, and Flosstradamus. Mysteryland USA 2017 was canceled.
Previous editions
See also
*List of electronic music festivals
The following is an incomplete list of music festivals that feature electronic music, which encapsulates music featuring electronic instruments such as electric guitars and keyboards, as well as recent genres such as electronic dance music (E ...
References
External links
Official site
{{Electronic music events Dance festivals in the Netherlands Music festivals in the Netherlands Electronic music festivals in Chile Electronic music festivals in the Netherlands Electronic music festivals in the United States 1993 establishments in the Netherlands Music festivals established in 1993