Austria Gets Big

Urban Art Forms, an Austrian festival that takes place at the beginning of August, will be the country’s biggest ever outdoor dance music event
Words: Terry Church

Austria will hold its biggest-ever outdoor dance music event from Friday 5th – 7th August at the world-famous Zipferzone Wiesen.

Clearly the country’s dance scene is burgeoning.

Wiesen is the country’s most prestigious music venue - a gigantic steel tent and an architectural masterpiece - and will form the perfect backdrop for the three-day Urban Art Forms festival.

Festival organiser Christian Lakatos said securing the Wiesen arena for the event was a real coup for the Austrian dance scene.

He said: "Wiesen is one of the most famous festival venues in Europe, and musicians from all over the world have played there.

"We’ve spent a lot of time and money on the venue, and it will have one of the best sound systems in the world, a huge laser and light show, and a beautiful camping arena."


Audiovisual
The UAF festival will also feature Europe’s biggest-ever video installation says Lakatos, with over 60 video and slide projectors planned for the event.
"When we started Urban Art Forms the club night we always had a lot of video walls and live visuals," said Lakatos.

"We feel they’re very important for the dance scene, as great music combined with spectacular visuals always enhances a dancing environment."

Urban Art Forms has only been running since 2004 as a breaks and drum & bass night, that started as an amalgamation of several local sound systems in the town of St. Pölten.

However, after a string of successful club events, UAF’s organisers decided to put on this festival to push its concept to the masses.

Meph13, a DJ and a partner of UAF explains their unique concept: "With UAF we mix up nu skool breaks and drum & bass with the best national and international DJs, and try to design events that are very exciting and unusual for this somewhat traditional country," he said.


Tradition
Although Austria is a small country, it’s always had a long tradition of dance music.

"About a decade ago techno was really popular here," says Lakatos.

"But over the years the whole scene has changed, as drum & bass and other styles of dance music have grown and developed.

"Currently, techno, d&b, goa and trance are all equally popular, and it’s because people are really open-minded here – they don’t just like one form of music.

"Every weekend international acts play at raves all over Austria, and there’s also a mushrooming web community, with local sites such as www.drumandbass.at, and www.technoboard.at attracting thousands of Austrian dance music fans every day.

"Compared to the number of people living in Austria, the dance music scene here is actually really huge!" he added.

The full line-up for Urban Art Forms festival is as follows:


5th August
DJ Hell
Miss Kittin
Tiefschwarz
Tok Tok (live)
Bajo Fondo Tangoclub
Electric Indigo
DJ Marky
Adam F
DJ Fresh
Bad Company
Matrix
Subfocus
Future Prophecies
Ill.Skillz
Aziz
Shroombab
Gollini
Crazy Sonic
Slack Hippy
Tunakan
Chris Rhythm
Eric Fischer
Foxy
Verse
Bench
Sinista

6th August
Roni Size
Dieselboy
Aprhodite
Ed Rush & Optical
Grooverider
Zinc
Pendulum
J.Majik
Mampi Swift
Noisia
Keaton
Body&Soul
Disaszt
Tempest
Haze & Plettartnkik
Dynamite
Gq
Messinian
Verse
Ic3
$Pyda
Sugars

7th August
Richard Dorfmesiter + Mc Sugar B
Kosheen
Kid Alex
Bauchklang
Megablast
Makossa
Sanscape
Konsorted
Linkmen
Subway Group
Parov Stelar
Lurgen Drimal & Scholl
Karl Mostl
Herb
Gachter



Tickets


Tickets are available from www.urbanartforms.at or www.clubtiket.at.

A single day pass costs EUR 35 (presale) or EUR 45 (box office).

A weekend pass is available for EUR 60 (presale) or EUR 75 (box office).

Camping is available and included in the price of a festival ticket.

For more info visit www.urbanartforms.at or www.wiesen.at

und i bin dabei!!!

*daugmaschosoinoarschoba*

party on!!!

entlich wieder mal a geile oben air seit der ersten obession!