Nature One
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Nature One is one of the largest European open air Electronic music
Electronic music
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festivals, featuring many renowned DJs from Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and all over the world. In significance it is not as big as Mayday
Mayday (music)
Mayday, like the former Love Parade, is one of the oldest and most reputed electronic music festivals in Germany, having its debut on 1991. Despite the name, Mayday festivals date oscilates between 30 April and December...
nor as old, having started 3 years later than the Mayday festival. However attendance has surpassed the Mayday, even when one takes into account that the Mayday only lasts one evening, while the Nature One has 2 main evenings with additional smaller events from Thursday till Sunday.
Unlike Love Parade
Love Parade
The Love Parade was a popular electronic dance music festival and parade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany. It was held in Germany annually between 1989 and 2003 in Berlin, and then from 2006 to 2010 in the Ruhr region...
, Nature One costs an admission of approximately 70 Euros (2010). But unlike the love parade, the only real damage to nature occurs by the trampling of the grass on the bunker hills and the fields used for camping (the crops have always been harvested by the time the festival starts).
As a special attraction there is a fireworks
Fireworks
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display on Saturday evening.
The festival lasts for one long weekend each year always on the first weekend of August.
In 2004 the festival had an attendance of roughly 53,000, with over 40,000 using the nearby fields for camping over the weekend (officially allowed and organized by the Nature One staff).
The camping ground has always been the second festival, with many hobby DJs and some commercially organized trucks, loaded with generators and fuel, the equipment rivaling small clubs in turntables
Phonograph
The phonograph record player, or gramophone is a device introduced in 1877 that has had continued common use for reproducing sound recordings, although when first developed, the phonograph was used to both record and reproduce sounds...
, loudspeaker
Loudspeaker
A loudspeaker is an electroacoustic transducer that produces sound in response to an electrical audio signal input. Non-electrical loudspeakers were developed as accessories to telephone systems, but electronic amplification by vacuum tube made loudspeakers more generally useful...
s and sometimes even lighting
Stage lighting
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. Some people who are either unwilling or unable to pay for admission to the festival area use this fact to have a cheaper alternative festival weekend.
The festival itself is structured into a few "main floors" called Open Air Floor and Century Circus each for a few thousand, Groovalistic Garden, and a few smaller areas, sometimes manned by techno club crews for a few hundred. The whole thing is located at a US missile base called "Pydna", now decommissioned, which has all necessary infrastructure and space for this kind of festival, a total of 100 000 m² (without camping, which takes up more than 1 km²).
Past and future Nature One
- 1995 Motto: "Open Air Rave", the first Nature One at the Hahn US Airbase, 38 DJs and live acts, attendance: 13,000
- 1996 Motto: "Open Air 96", Nature One moves to Pydna missile base, DJs and live acts: 40, attendance: 15,000
- 1997 Motto: "The Festival". First camping grounds, 6,000 campers turn Nature One into a true "festival". 70 DJs and live acts, attendance: 20,000+
- 1998 Motto: "Festival 98", 7 techno/house clubs move to Pydna for a weekend. DJs and live acts: 125, attendance: 25,000 / 10,000+ campers
- 1999 Motto: "Festival 99" 11 clubs at Nature One. DJs and live acts: 178, attendance: 30,000 / 18,000 campers
- 2000 Motto: "Sound of Love" 16 clubs build up their floors at Nature One, the festival extends to a warm-up party on Thursday, first Nature One with rain, which surprisingly did not dampen the mood much. DJs and live acts: 211, attendance: 36,000
- 2001 Motto: "Super Natural". Attendance: 40,000
- 2002 Motto: "Summer Sound System". Attendance: 45,000 visitors / 35,000 campers
- 2003 Motto: "Alive & Kickin'". Attendance: 50,000 / almost 40,000 campers
- 2004 Motto: "The Golden 10". Attendance: 53,000 / 40,000+ campers
- 2005 Motto: "Mission to future" Attendance 48,000
- 2006 Motto: "Live your passion" Attendance 45,000
- 2007 Motto: "Das dreizehnte Land" Attendance 50,000
- 2008 Motto: "Wake Up In Yellow" (Attendance 58,000)
- 2009 Motto: "Smile is the answer" (Attendance 61,000)
- 2010 Motto: "The Flag Keeps Flying" (Attendance 55,000)
- 2011 Motto: "Go Wild - Freak Out" (Attendance 54,000)