5 Days Off is an innercity festival for electronic music and media art. The annual festival in Amsterdam provides the latest electronic music in a variety of venues and offers a program showcasing the latest developments in media art. 5 Days Off is to Amsterdam what c/o Pop is to Cologne. mehr
Amsterdam Dance Event (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
The Amsterdam Dance Event is Europe's leading electronic and dance music conference as well as the worlds biggest club festival, initiated by Buma Cultuur. With a proven track record over the past 12 years, ADE attracts music industry professionals and clubbers from around the globe. mehr
Audiodigitale (Dortmund, Germany)
Das Festival „Audiodigitale“ möchte sich eben jenen Musiker und Videokünstlern verschreiben die an der Grenze zwischen Experiment und Popkultur agieren. mehr
Berlin Festival (Berlin, Germany)
Berlin definitely needs no wall. What Berlin needs is a festival. mehr
Bureau Export (Berlin, Germany)
Since 15 years, bureauexport helps the French music industry develop its artists internationally, in both pop and classical music. bureauexport offers a wide range of services revolving around two fundamental orientations, drawn up in collaboration with professionals of the export industry: consulting services and financial aid. mehr
By:Larm (Oslo, Norway)
by:Larm consists of two parts: a festival and a conference. The conference is a meeting place for the Norwegian and foreign music industries. A series of lectures, seminars and debates are held during the day. mehr
c.sides festival (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Since 2005, c.sides has been bringing together exciting innovative electronic music and arts, social/political critique and a great party...! c.sides has established a wide platform of production including an independent label, bookings and international collaboration in a addition to its biennial festival in Israel. mehr
Calvi On The Rocks (Corsica, France)
The Calvi On The Rocks Festival tries mixing electronic and pop music with traditional tunes like the famous corsican polyphonies. Surrounded by the beautiful corsican landscape and amazing weather, you have the unique chance to listen to live and DJ acts while chilling in the sun and enjoing the flair of Calvi, a small and beautiful town in the north-west of Corsica. mehr
Cultural Contact Point (Bonn, Germany)
Cultural Contact Point Germany (CCP) is the national Contact Point and helpdesk for the European Union’s funding programme for culture in Germany. At present this is the Programme CULTURE (2007-2013). mehr
Distortion (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Distortion is Copenhagen's streetlife & nightlife festival. Founded in 1998, Distortion is a leading force within Copenhagen's party, street, fashion and music culture. From Pig in Italy to Colette in Paris or Vice in London, they are known as one of the hardest festivals in Europe for big-city trends. mehr
Ein Abend in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
»Ein Abend in Amsterdam« is a mini-festival in the Dutch capital which focuses on contemporary German pop music. For the second edition in 2008 a cross-section of some of the most interesting artists under the black, red & golden banner came to Amsterdam`s Club Paradiso ... mehr
Ekko (Bergen, Norway)
The Ekko festival is an art and music festival in Bergen that mainly focuses on electronic music and contemporary art. The festival has since the start back in 2003, made a strong impression on both in Norway and in Europe and is considered an important participant in the Scandinavian electronic music scene. mehr
Electronic Beats (European Capitals)
Electronic Beats is an international music and community program devoted to connecting urban trendsetters and furthering individuality. Founded by T-Mobile, the sold-out Electronic Beats Live Events attract people across Europe . The Electronic Beats media, including the Electronic Beats magazine, the award-winning website, and the popular Slices DVD connects the community to the latest happenings in global culture, lifestyle and music. mehr
Electron (Geneva, Switzerland)
In a few years, the Electron Festival has become a major musical event on the Swiss calendar. What’s more, it is now seen as a reference on the European electronic music landscape. Proof of this came with the incredible success of the sixth edition, in April 2009. mehr
Full Pull is an organization for electronic/experimental music, art and associated projects. Based in Malmö, Sweden, Full Pull arranges an annual festival in collaboration with numerous partners in the field of music and art in the Öresund region. mehr
G! Festival (Göta, Faroe Islands)
In the heart of the North Atlantic, midway between Iceland, Norway and Scotland lie the Faroe Islands, home to the annual G! Festival. Situated in the picturesque seaside village of Göta, G! Festival has redefined the whole musical landscape of the Faroe Islands with its international scale and visionary scope. mehr
Global Groove (New Dehli, India)
Global Groove is an electronic music festival scheduled in India in December 2009. This recent initiative is in collaboration with the Goethe Institute. The objective is to create a global electronic music festival in India that reaches out to the entire universe of urban clubbers through a mix of outdoor and club events. mehr
Goethe Institut China (Beijing, China)
The Goethe Institute is a cultural organization of the German Republic (Federation) engaged in activities of cultural exchange on a global scale. The Beijing office of the Goethe Institute was established in 1988. mehr
Hanoi Sound Stuff (Hanoi, Vietnam)
Hanoi Sound Stuff- Hanoi international music and culture festival is the first truly international music and culture in Hanoi and Vietnam, with participation of artists from Vietnam and all over the world coming to Hanoi under the support of international institution and embassies. mehr
Iceland Airwaves (Reykjavík, Iceland)
Iceland Airwaves is 5 day festival that takes place in different venues in downtown Reykjavík. The capacity of the festival is 4000-5000 people. 150-180 bands and artists performe at Iceland Airwaves. mehr
ICIC – CATALAN INSTITUTE FOR THE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES (Barcelona, Spain / Berlin, Germany)
The Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals, ICIC (Catalan Institute for the Cultural Industries) is a public institution, attached to the Catalan Government’s Department of Culture, charged with promoting and fostering the development of the Catalan cultural industry. mehr
Initiative Musik (Berlin, Germany)
The Initiative Musik gGmbH is a funding agency set up by the German federal government to promote the music industry in Germany. It is supported by the German Collecting Society for Performance Rights (GVL) and the German Music Council. mehr
Insomnia Festival (Tromsø, Norway)
The Insomnia Festival has its base in Tromsø as the city was Norway's capitol of house and techno when the genre emerged. The local artists found their influences in music created outside Norway's borders, and got international contacts along the way. mehr
Juicy Beats (Dortmund, Germany)
Juicy Beats feiert dieses Jahr die wilde 13! Juicy Beats 13 bedeutet Electronic- und Independent Music-Vielfalt an einem Tag und in einer Nacht auf dem phantastischen Gelände des Dortmunder Westfalenparks. mehr
Kvitnu Fest (Kiev, Ukranie)
Kvitnu Fest started in 2007 with an idea to have a new point for creating weird and bizarre music events in Ukraine. Each new festival is planned to have it's own message and form. Time and place of new appearance can vary. mehr
Gran Teatro La Fenice (Vemice, Italy)
Teatro La Fenice ("The Phoenix") is an opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of the most famous theatres in Europe, the site of many famous operatic premieres. mehr
Leipzig (Pop Up (Leipzig, Germany)
Leipzig (Pop Up is an annual music trade fair for the independent music scene. Our definition of ‘independent’ is creative working in the various fields of music and pop culture and thus putting the music first and not the money. mehr
Les Nuits Sonores (Lyon, France)
Nuits Sonores is a festival entirely dedicated to electronic music and innovating cultures. It has welcomed 250 artists, 1000 professionnals and 67 000 festival-goers in 2009 (7th edition). mehr
Lethargy (Zurich, Switzerland)
The Lethargy Festival will once again take place on the same weekend of the Zurich street-parade. Founded in 1994 as the non-commercial counterpart to the street-parade hype, Lethargy will run for its 16th time in the Rote-Fabric on the shores of the lake of Zurich. mehr
Melt! (Gräfenhainichen, Germany)
The idea behind Melt! festival is so simple - and so unique. Melt! is an open air festival like no other in Germany. No other event mixes guitars, beatboxes, and vinyl grooves so perfectly; mehr
MIGZ (Moscow, Russia)
MIGZ – International Festival of Contemporary Music and Media Art will take place for the second time in Moscow on 26th June 2009. MIGZ is a cultural event of a new type that unites fun and knowledge building and offers its participants a flexible platform for development and creativity. mehr
Moers Festival (Moers, Germany)
After its premiere in 1972, moers festival soon became one of the most important major events in the current improvised music scene. The 'International Whitsun Festival of Improvised Music in Moers' has always stood for the courage to break out in new directions and has thus guaranteed a host of exciting musical discoveries. mehr
MoTA Spring Festival Pomladi (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
MoTA Festival pomladi (MoTA Spring Festival) is an international, multimedia, social and educational event which brings to Ljubljana a mix of urban artistic practices based on a program searching for novelties in the field of electronic music, audiovisual performances and experimental digital creation. mehr
Music Export Denmark (Copenhagen, Denmark)
MXD was founded in January 2004 as a joint initiative of Denmark’s Radio, The Roskilde Festival/ the Venue Foundation, and ROSA – The Danish Rock Council to create a more effective exposure of Danish music abroad. mehr
Music Export Finland (Finland)
The Music Export Finland export group, established in 2002 and funded by thirteen visionary Finnish companies and organisations, will broaden its organisation and actions from export group to an association. mehr
Music Export Norway (Oslo, Norway)
Music Export Norway A/S is an organization established in 2000 by the Norwegian music industry. We provide access to information on Norwegian artists and companies. In addition, we assist the Norwegian music industry by organizing international trade show participations and presentations designed to increase the worldwide awareness of Norwegian music. mehr
Mutek Canada (Montréal/Canada)
MUTEK is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the development and dissemination of digital creativity in sound, music, and audio-visual art. Its mandate is to provide a platform for the most original and visionary artists currently working in their fields, with the intent of providing an outlet of initiation and discovery for the audiences it seeks to develop. mehr
Mutek Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)
MUTEK_MX is a yearly festival and promotion platform dedicated to electronic music and digital culture in Mexico. Ever since its inception in November 2003, it has distinguished itself as a unique event of its kind in Latin America. The core of the festival is comprised of several concerts and live performances presented in a variety of locations in the heart of the city. mehr
Numusic Festival (Stavanger, Norway)
Established in 2000, the NUMUSIC FESTIVAL has, over the past ten years, distinguished itself as one of euope's leading club based festivals dedicated to new and adventurous music. mehr
Open Source (Düsseldorf, Germany)
"Until today, the Rhineland, Cologne and Duesseldorf, together with the academy of arts, have remained center of electronical music, as is consistently and insistently demonstrated by the annual music festival Open Source." // FAZ / 6th September 2008 mehr
POP Montreal International Music Festiva (Montreal, Canada)
POP Montréal International Music Festival is an annual not-for-profit curated cultural event that supports independence in arts by presenting emerging, innovative and celebrated artistic talents from Quebec, Canada and abroad on an international platform. mehr
Red Bull Music Academy (London, UK)
After setting up its acoustically treated studio walls in cities such as Berlin, New York, Sao Paulo, Cape Town, Melbourne, and Barcelona, for the next edition, we'll plant our stakes in one of the most beloved creative metropolises to ever exist: London. It caters to musicians, djs and recording artists, while delivering a platform to the hottest local talent in art and design. mehr
Reeperbahn Festival (Hamburg, Germany)
The Reeperbahn Festival is a Club-Festival unique all over Europe. On the last weekend of every September dozens of new international bands meet an enthusiastic audience in Germany's music metropolis Hamburg. mehr
ROOTS & ROUTES (Cologne, Germany)
ROOTS&ROUTES is a European non-profit project for the advancement of young music, dance and media talents. ROOTS&ROUTES started in the Netherlands in 2001 when Rotterdam was the European cultural capital; mehr
ROSA - The Danish Rock Council (Denmark)
Established in 1981, ROSA – The Danish Rock Council, is a music focused political umbrella organisation for a number of music societies and organisations. mehr
SKIF (St. Petersburg, Russia)
SKIF, Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival, is a multidisciplinary international festival of modern arts, taking place each year since 1998 in St. Petersburg, Russia. mehr
S.O.M.A. (Cologne, Germany)
The S.O.M.A – Festival is a collective of artists, authors, promoters and different people with the same vision to create a unique and cool festival without big corporate sponsors. Our common aim was to build up a underground-festival for dance- and worldmusic in connection with the variety scene. mehr
Spot Festival (Aarhus, Demnark)
The ambition of the SPOT festival is to create a promotion platform for the Danish and Nordic music. The festival’s repertoire is dictated chiefly by the will to support new bands and artists that are of a quality to succeed internationally. mehr
springfestival (Graz, Austria)
Austria’s biggest festival for electronic art and music turns Graz into the place to experience vivid pop-culture from the 12th May: springten dedicates five days and four nights to the art of DJing and clubculture. mehr
Summerstage (Cologne, Germany)
Ten years "Funkhaus Europa Summerstage"! The Musicfestival of intercultural broadcaster "WDR Funkhaus Europa" celebrates on Sunday, 23 August 2009 his tenth birthday! "Big up Germany!" is the this year’s motto of the big festival which will be celebrated in the cologne's location "Tanzbrunnen". mehr
Swiss Music Export (Switzerland)
Since 2003, SME has been promoting Swiss artists and bands producing anything that can be construed as “pop” music and trying to make it outside Switzerland. mehr
South By Southwest (SXSW) (Austin/Texas, USA)
The music festival showcases hundreds of acts from around the globe on more than eighty stages in downtown Austin. During the day, conference registrants do business in the SXSW trade show, or watch provocative panel discussions which feature hundreds of speakers of international stature. mehr
Tallinn Music Week (Tallinn, Estonia)
Tallinn music week is a brand new music industry networking and show-case festival happening in Tallinn for the second time, on 25-27 March 2010. mehr
The Great Escape (Brighton, UK)
In just four years, The Great Escape has established itself both as the leading event in Europe for showcasing new talent from around the world, and as one of the most exciting events on the festival and convention calendar. mehr
Time Warp (Mannheim, Germany)
Since 1994, Time Warp has been bringing top national and international electronic music acts to the Rhein-Neckar region of Germany at the beginning of every spring. mehr
Traffic Torino Free Festival (Torino, Italy)
Traffic is one of the most famous and esteemed free music festival in Italy. It is based in Turin (North Italy) and since his first 2004’s edition, it has been able to collect a lot of successes. mehr
Wiener Festwochen/Into the City/Asian Village (Vienna, Austria)
For two days and two nights, the young Asian art and music scene from Indonesia, China, Russia, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Germany and Austria will occupy the creative quarter around the Semper Depot (the studio building of the Academy of Fine Arts) with electronic music, advanced pop and visual arts. mehr
Wilsonic is an international music festival, held annually in Bratislava, Slovakia. The festival is a spectacular celebration of today’s forward-thinking music, connecting the best elements of music fused within the atmosphere of a concert, a club and a party. mehr
WOMEX (Sevilla / Spain)
WOMEX is the most important international professional market of world music of every kind. This international fair brings together professionals from the worlds of folk, roots, ethnic and traditional music and also includes concerts, conferences and documentary films. mehr
Wordless Music (New York, USA)
The Wordless Music series is devoted to the idea that the sound worlds of classical and contemporary instrumental music – in genres such as indie rock and electronica – share more in common than conventional thinking might suggest. mehr
Worldtronics (Berlin, Germany)
Es geht Worldtronics um Aktivitäten in weniger bekannten, aber umso agileren Szenen: Entwicklungen in Gegenden, die einem nicht sofort einfallen, wenn von elektronischer Musik die Rede ist, die aber dafür umso interessantere Stil-Begegnungen garantieren. mehr
