Norbergfestival is held in Norberg

Norberg

Norberg is a locality and the seat of Norberg Municipality in Västmanland County, Sweden with 4,634 inhabitants in 2005. Most known is the Norbergfestival which is Scandinavias biggest electronic music festival, organized in an old iron mine.- References :...

, Västmanland

Västmanland

' is a historical Swedish province, or landskap, in middle Sweden. It borders Södermanland, Närke, Värmland, Dalarna and Uppland.The name comes from "West men", referring to the people west of Uppland, the core province of early Sweden.- Administration :...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

. It is a festival for electronic and experimental music in Scandinavia. The festival started in 1999 by Michael Østerz Christiansen and Dag Celsing. The event attracts people in different ages and most visitors come from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, UK and Germany.

There are 5 stages on the festival, Mimer with a staggering reverb of 7 seconds, concrete and steel structures are the raw surroundings. KraftWerk is the old powerplant, where the clubbing and dance atmosphere is intense. 8-bit room for low-
resolution madness and broken beats. Camp-303, the official underground stage and party 24/7, and the newest offspring, Bi-naural for the future sounds of Scandinavia.

Norbergfestival is held in and around an abandoned mining area. The main concert building, Mimerlaven, was once a pithead frame for the extraction of iron ore. The structure was erected in 1957, Hematite and magnetite from the pits around Norberg were brought into Mimer, crushed and then further processed. The mining business was discontinued in the 1980s.

Every year between 60 and 90 artists perform at Norbergfestival. Music styles span from Avantgarde, EAM

EAM

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 and Drone

Drone music

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 via Electronica

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, 8-bit

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 and Acid

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 to Breakcore

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, Detroit Techno

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 and Dubstep

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. During the years artist like Pole

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, Pamelia Kurstin

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, Luke Vibert

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, Kid606

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, Fennesz, B12

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, Vladislav Delay

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, Milanese

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, Pan Sonic

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, Monolake

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, Bong-Ra

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, Skream

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, Biosphere

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, DJ Food

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, The Skull Defekts, Andreas Tilliander

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and many more have performed at the festival.