The 23rd edition of NATURE ONE is being staged on the Pydna missile base in the Hunsrück hills near Kastellaun from 4 to 6 August. More than 60,000 visitors are expected to converge on Germany’s most time-honoured festival for electronic music. Over 350 DJs and live acts will be playing on 23 stages under the motto “we call it home”. The line-up will feature such stars of the scene as “Above & Beyond”, “Sven Väth”, “Paul van Dyk”, “Netsky” and “Ferry Corsten”. The official kick-off is on the Thursday (3 Aug.) at the “Mixery-Opening” in the “Camping Village”.
“I feel at home here. For me NATURE ONE is more than the most beautiful festival in this world”, enthuses the Frankfurt-based Felix Kröcher, who has been deejaying at NATURE ONE for many years now – first of all just as a visitor, for quite some time now as a celebrated star himself on the stage. Most of the Nature One fans share the feeling with him of being at home. “‘we call it home’ sums up the spirit at NATURE ONE perfectly: you feel happy and at ease and among friends straight away”, are the comments of many visitors in the festival’s social media about this year’s motto.
To make the most of the festival weekend, the majority of the fans arrive at the 100-hectare expanses of the “Camping Village” as early as the Thursday. For four full days and three full nights they declare “NatureOne Land” their home. With tents, paddling pools and monster sound systems. Thousands of hobby DJs deliver the music around the clock for hundreds of private dance floors. Partying everywhere with friends and total strangers. “What counts here is kind-hearted togetherness; peaceful and tolerant”, as it says on the festival’s home page.
The “MixeryOpening” on the Thursday (3 Aug.) at 8pm is traditionally the official kick-off. The warm-up party on the campsite with the DJs from the radio partner DASDING has for many years signalled the start of NATURE ONE. Things then really take off on the festival site on the Friday evening with music and dancing on four main and 19 club floors in and on missile bunkers, in marquees and under the starry skies. The entire gamut of electronic music is showcased, ranging from trance to techno, house, hardcore and goa to drum’n’bass.
The “OpenAirFloor” boasts the largest area with space for over 10,000. Headliners on stage include the British-Finnish trance combo “Above & Beyond”. The DJ trio have enjoyed worldwide success with their remixes of well-known songs for over 15 years now and last guested at NATURE ONE back in 2007. Appearing for the first time is the Belgian drum’n’bass superstar “Netsky”, who made it to no. 1 of the Belgian album charts with his last studio album. Following his explosive Nature One debut last year, the Hamburg-based “Neelix” has again been signed up. “Paul van Dyk” and “Ferry Corsten” have played at Pydna missile base quite a few times already and are rightly ranked among the stars of the festival.
The second-largest floor, “Century Circus”, is housed in a huge 10-masted marquee. Techno titans such as “Sven Väth”, “Ben Klock”, “Len Faki” and “Joseph Capriati” are the top acts. Joining the company of “Moonbootica” and “Wankelmut” at the decks in the “House of House” for the first time is DJ “Worakls” from France. A trained pianist, he integrates not one but several musical instruments into his live sets. Delivering tracks from the rave annals in the “Classic Terminal” are acts such as “Tom Novy”, “Mark’ Oh” and “Dune”.
In addition to the four main floors, event organisers, labels and club operators from Germany, Belgium, Austria, Luxembourg, Switzerland and the Netherlands will also be presenting their sounds and artists on 19 “club floors”. Among them are “Masters of Hardcore”, the “Butan Club” from Wuppertal, the hard-style label “Dirty Workz” and the long-popular gay-lesbian floor presented by Koblenz’s “Vogue Club”.
The festival weekend will be aired live by the radio partners DASDING and sunshine live and also online via video streams on the Nature One home page and Facebook.
Tickets available from nature-one.de and all the regular ticket outlets.
Non-stop coach transfer to the festival site from Koblenz main station.
Live broadcasts: on the radio stations DASDING and sunshine live and on the festival’s own online sites.