10 Days Off was an
electronic music
Electronic music is a Music genre, genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or electronics, circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromech ...
festival held in
Ghent, Belgium
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. It began in 1995 as a 10-day-long Belgian celebration of techno music and grew to be a yearly club event until 2014. In 2001, the
Amsterdam
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-based spin-off music and arts festival called
05 Days Off had its inaugural edition.
[Joel Weickgenant]
Plenty of Spinning, but More Than Just the D.J.
July 15, 2009 Globespotters, New York Times
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See also
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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 guitar and keyboards, as well as recent genres such as electronic dance music (E ...
References
External links
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Music festivals established in 1995
Culture of Ghent
Events in Ghent
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