Attendance 100,000+ Dates 23 Jun – 25 Jun 2017 | Capacity outdoors | |
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Genre Electronic music, big room house (hardstyle version), Electro house, hard dance, hardstyle, hardcore techno, hard house and hard trance Years active 2003-present(NL)2009-present(AU)2015-2016(CL) Similar Qlimax, Q‑BASE, Dominator, Mysteryland, Decibel Outdoor Profiles | ||
Defqon.1 Weekend Festival is an annual music festival held in the Netherlands, Australia, and Chile. It was founded in 2003 by festival organizer Q-dance. The festival plays mostly hardstyle and related genres such as hardcore techno, hard house and hard trance. The 2017 Defqon.1 theme is speculated to be "Rewritten History"
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Many prominent hardstyle artists perform there annually. Acts perform across up to seven stages in Australia and 14 stages in the Netherlands. In 2015, Q-dance debuted a new stage to Defqon.1 Festival Australia, the Green stage. Unlike its parent festival in Netherlands, this was the first time that a psychedelic trance stage was introduced to the Festival. It features well established psychedelic trance artists such as Ranji, Coming Soon!!! and Skazi. Defqon.1 Festival not only invites well-established artists to come and perform, it also invites various up and coming artists to perform on a smaller scale stage namely the Up & Coming stage in the Netherlands and the Talent stage in Australia.
The festival was previously held in mid-June on Almeerderstrand in Almere. Since 2011 it is hosted on the event site next to Walibi Holland in Biddinghuizen. Since 2009 the event has also been hosted in Sydney in mid-September, at the Sydney International Regatta Centre. Until 2011 (2014 for the Australian edition) the festival ran for 12 hours, from 11:00 am to 11:00 pm, and ended with a firework display. Since 2012, the festival is extended to three days. Since 2015, the Australian edition is extended to two days. Each edition also has an anthem, an official song that is played in conjunction with the festival. The festival also streams its videos live on Beatport for people all around the world to tune into.
On the Dutch event the audience has grown to 65,000 with tickets sometimes selling out in less than an hour. In 2013, the Sydney event attracted 18,000 attendees. The same event saw the death of a male, around 20 drug overdoses and more than 80 arrested on drugs charges.
Festival history
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