FEATURE: Nature One 2012: You. Are. Star, from 3 - 5 August with over 300 DJs on 23 stages

55,000 stars at NATURE ONE
18th NATURE ONE from 3 - 5 August with over 300 DJs on 23 stages

“You.Are.Star.” – the motto for a long weekend of partying on the Pydna missile base in Rhineland-Palatinate from 3 to 5 August to celebrate Germany’s largest festival for electronic music: NATURE ONE. Over 300 DJs and LiveActs will be playing on 23 stages, with the line-up including such names as Paul van Dyk, Sander van Doorn, Sven Väth, Hardwell and Dubfire. 55,000 visitors are expected for the 18th edition of the festival, which will actually be getting under way on the Thursday (2.8.) at the “MixeryOpening” in the CampingVillage.

The festivalgoers are the stars. This has been the overriding maxim at NATURE ONE for 18 years now, and a highly successful one as well, for the festival on the Pydna missile base has for a long time been by far the largest and most popular of its kind in Germany. “Instead of the crowd cheering guitar-plucking men on an oversized stage, it’s the dance floor that is the focal point of the NATURE ONE event,” says Oliver Vordemvenne of the event organising agency I-Motion. “Thanks to four, six or eight point surround sound and the lighting systems focussing on the dance floor as well, the visitors take centre stage at the party. And they’re not spectators – they’re ravers.”

And they want to party. To make sure they can do just that, the line-up of artists consists of out-and-out professionals of the electronic music scene: for example Paul van Dyk, Sander van Doorn and Hardwell on the “Open Air Floor”, the likes of Sven Väth and Dubfire in the “Century Circus”, Da Hool on the “Classic Terminal” and Moonbootica in the “House of House”. LiveActs such as Rank1, AKA AKA feat. Thalstroem, Terence Fixmer, Dapayk, Extrawelt and Laserkraft 3D are likewise going into action to treat the visitors to a unique weekend.

There are 23 floors at NATURE ONE, ranging from the huge “Open-Air-Floor” with space for ten thousand to the small club floor in one of the former missile bunkers for a couple of hundred people. The over 300 DJs cover the entire gamut of electronic music. From trance to techno through to house and hard core. The 19 club floors are operated by other organisers, clubs or labels from Germany and abroad. “It creates an incredible variety. Whether it’s the Tresor from Berlin, Thunderdome from Holland or the Airport from Würzburg – all of them bring their DJs and community with them. You just can’t get more scene, more underground,” says Vordemvenne.

The “CampingVillage” is equivalent in size to 130 football pitches and it’s where most of the 55,000 visitors “sleep” – well, perhaps a few of them. Amateur and budding DJs play non-stop from Thursday morning to Sunday evening on the hundreds of sound systems they have set up. The trend is in any case moving towards XXL partying, and as Vordemvenne says: “The day when most people arrive is now the Thursday. Many of them stay until Sunday evening, some until Monday.” The official kick-off for the long NatureOne- weekend is traditionally at the “MixeryOpening” in the CampingVillage on Thursday evening.

A phenomenal technical effort is called for to actually get an open-air event in this league up and running. Electric power, water, toilets, technical equipment, marquees and stages are installed by some 800 staff. A total of three kilometres of aluminium trussing, 800 moving lights, over 800 speakers with a total power output of one million watts, nearly 1,000 square metres of LED surfaces and 22 kilometres of cable are needed. And when everything is finally ready, they are in the limelight – the 55,000 stars at NATURE

OPEN AIR FLOOR

Friday, 03.08.2012
DJs:
Sander van Doorn (Eindhoven)
Ferry Corsten (Rotterdam)
Tocadisco (Köln)
Bingo Players (Enschede)
Sean Tyas (New York)
Ben Nicky (Bristol)

LiveActs:
Rank1 (Rotterdam)
Laserkraft 3D (Kaiserslautern/Mannheim)

Saturday, 04.08.2012
DJs:
Paul van Dyk (Berlin)
Markus Schulz (Florida)
Hardwell (Breda)
Marco V (Amsterdam)
W&W (Breda)
Nervo (Melbourne)
Dennis Sheperd (Berlin)
DJ Dag (Frankfurt)
Ruben de Ronde (Haarlem)

LiveActs:
Extrawelt (Hamburg)
Anthony Rother (Frankfurt)
Cyberpunkers (Mailand)
NatureOne Inc.

CENTURY CIRCUS
Friday, 03.08.2012
DJs:
Chris Liebing (Frankfurt)
Len Faki (Berlin)
Marcel Dettmann (Berlin)
Ben Klock (Berlin)
Frank Sonic (Ruhr-Area)

LiveActs:
Terence Fixmer (Brüssel)
Niereich (Graz)

Saturday, 04.08.2012
DJs:
Sven Väth (Frankfurt)
Dubfire (Washington)
Adam Beyer (Stockholm)
Felix Kröcher (Frankfurt)
Klaudia Gawlas (Passau)
Torsten Kanzler (Berlin)
Buchecha (São Paulo)
Kerstin Eden (Berlin)
Jon Asher (Münster)

LiveActs:
Vitalic (Paris)
BMG aka Brachiale Musikgestalter (Wiesbaden)

HOUSE OF HOUSE
Friday, 03.08.2012
DJs:
John Dahlbäck (Stockholm)
Ian Carey (Miami)
The Disco Boys (Hamburg)
Tom Novy (Zürich)
Falko Niestolik (Salzburg)
Housebeats Brothers (Westerwald)

LiveActs:
Aka Aka feat. Thalstroem (Berlin)
Nelski (London)

Saturday, 04.08.2012
DJs:
Moonbootica (Hamburg)
M.A.N.D.Y. (Berlin)
Dominik Eulberg (Bonn)
Butch (Mainz)
andhim (Berlin/Köln)
Adam Port (Berlin)
Pele (München)
Rafael Da Cruz (Köln)

LiveActs:
Dapayk (Berlin)

CLASSIC TERMINAL
Friday, 03.08.2012
DJs:
Dr. Motte (Berlin)
Da Hool (Ruhr-Area)
Andy Düx (Mainz)
Man at Arms (Gelsenkirchen)

LiveActs:
Hardfloor (Düsseldorf)
Mijk van Dijk (Berlin)

Saturday, 04.08.2012
DJs:
Talla 2XLC vs. Taucher (Frankfurt/Bischofsheim)
Tanith (Berlin)
Ulli Brenner (Frankfurt)
sunshine live DJ Team aka Charles McThorn,
Eric SSL & DJ Falk (Mannheim)

LiveActs:
Ravers Nature (Hof)
Jam (Jam & Spoon) (Frankfurt)
Pounding Grooves (London)

                                                          

The Clubfloor djs:

DASDING Plattenlegerzelt (Stuttgart)

Stephan Hinz, DGeorge, Raphael Dincsoy, Benjamin R., Philipp Ruhmhardt, Sandro Marques, Deerk Hollaender

Thunderdome (NL)
Evil Activities, Negative A, DaY-már, Re-Style, Kasparov, Bass D, Buzz Fuzz, Synapse & Sei2ure, Sandy Warez vs. Richie Gee, Obscurity vs. Rampage, The Raver vs. Cremator, J-Roon & Kosmix, Humanoise, Nick & Red Faction, Terminal & Vavaculo, Enthorine, MC Justice, MC Da Mouth of Madness

Tunnel Trance Force (Hamburg)
DJ Dean, the Xfactor, DJ Delude, A*S*Y*S, G-Style Brothers, Sam Punk, Dave Joy,
Benjamin R., DJ Louk, Deejane Kim, Franky B., DJ Slideout, DJ Texx, DJ Inside Visage, Chris Deelay, Patrick Bunton, FJ Project, DJane Sounic, Pacemaker, DJ Cyre, Jake Nicholls, DJ Da-Vi-Do, DJ Sven E, DJ Trust C, DJ Morten & Lulue, The Airwolf, DJ Energyzer, DJ Corehead, DJ P-Bass, DJ Nexxus, DJ JigSaw, DJ Maniac, Da Bomb

Abstract meets dancefield & Lehmann (Koblenz/Königswinter/Stuttgart)
Felix Kröcher, BMG -live-, Sven Wittekind, Eric Sneo, Klaudia Gawlas, Torsten Kanzler, A.Paul, Niereich -live-, Broombeck -live-, Arkus P. & Sutura, Electronmike, Raphael Dincsoy, Kerstin Eden, Elmar Strathe -live-, Rafael Da Cruz, Robin Hirte, Jens Bose

Tresor (Berlin)
Mad Max, Sub Dealers -live-, Ro, Herr Schneider, TAG, Erique 47, Emanuel Eisbrenner, Krenzlin, Hintergrundrauschen

Hardcore Gladiators (Bochum)
State Of Emergency, The Wishmaster, Mystery, Masters of Noise, Twilight Forces, THORAX -live-, Dalora, EBE Company, G-Style Brothers, Tensor & Re-Direction, The Pressurehead, DJ Paranoid vs. Evolution, Mecanical Animal, Ron, Kahlkopf HC, G4bby, Sonic-D, Distiller, MC AXYS, MC H

Airport - 29 years of rave (Würzburg)
Rex Kramer, Überschall, Danny Reebo & Mike More -live-, Deladope, Agent, DJ Sonic, Marc Alexa & Johannes Pazzo, Da Fou, Daniel R., Peaco, Jay Frog, Norman, Marc Miroir, Nykk

Hexenhouse meets iM1 (Kleve/Frankfurt)
Tocadisco, Laserkraft 3D (DJ-Set), Tiger & Dragon, Paul Pysik, Mick Zakon, Benuses, Tora vs. Xano, Marc Wall.E, Joe Kenobi, Prouder, JulieZ vs. Mike Maaß, Iggy Z., Rob L, Dan-G, DJ Falk, Patrick Patterson, Nico Rush vs. Alex2K, Pascal Wagner, Maze

HeavensGate meets Motion (Herne/Zürich)
Rank 1, Alex M.O.R.P.H., Woody van Eyden, Claudia Cazacu, CJ Stone, RAM vs. Mark Sixma, Chriss Ortega & Neil Moore, DIGITALmusikanten, Faruk Sabanci, Extravagance SL, Sun & Set, Butterfly, Davide Bomben & Era Vulgaris, Eric Preston, Bodo Kaiser, Tom Nightowl, Josephine de Paris, Madwave & Steve Sanders, Inspiration, John feat. Roodee, DJ Scream

Acid Wars & Fusion Club (Gelsenkirchen/Münster)
Man at Arms, Sorgenkint, Jon Asher, Michael Kruck, Arkus P. -live-, Viper XXL, O.B.I. vs. Julyukie, Pzylo, Queen of Vandalism, 2Junxion, Divouse AM, Lukash Andrego, AC i DC, Dave Ryder, Philipp Dengler, Hierro, Da Hunter, The Incredible Papst

Dirty Workz (Belgien)
Fenix, Dr Rude, Demoniak, Jones, Mode Seven, Dr Phunk, Def Toys, The Vision, In-Phase, Neroz, Sound Freakerz, Outlander,Inner Heat, Neilio, D-Liciouz.

Stammheim & Home @ MTW (Kassel/Offenbach a. M.)
Pierre, Marky, Norman, Peter Eilmes, Sercan, Alexander Aurel, Kia

Vogue Club - For Gays, Lesbians & Friends (Koblenz)
Jay Frog, Simoné, Desert & June, Fräggel, Dommy Dean, David Marquez, Sebastian Gnewkow, Ben Gala, Simon Phinixx, Philipp Kempnich

Forum & Supraton DJs, Beats & Brands (Trier/Hamburg)
Boogie Pimps, Ian Carey, John Dahlbäck, Durstlöscher -live-, Nelski, Marco Lys, Sergio Fernandez, Seamus Haji, Aga Heller, Robin Junker, Francesco Sanna, TT Hacky, Jerome, Dirk Federkeil, Spoony

USB - The Hardtechno Family (Frankfurt)
Arkus P. vs. O.B.I -live-, Greg Notill, Waldhaus -live-, The Brutal & Sadistic Show aka Stormtrooper vs. Minupren, Madhouse Brothers aka. Richie Gee & Sandy Warez, Mental Disorder, Sepromatiq, Jan Fleck -live-, Men vs. Maschine aka Mark Mayu & Marco Stylez, Giuseppe Castani, Gebrüder W, Stefan Senk, Pappenheimer, Psytekk, Hazett, Ryan Rustler

Elektroküche (Köln)
Felix Bernhardt, Jagger, Polyphone, John Porno, Christian Kliché, Rocky Di Fine, Courtis, dr.gonZo, Max Mayr, LadYsturbeD, Daniel Holl, Alex Breitling, Hanz Loop, M. Rausch, Michael Lehmkuhl, David Gundlach, Zoo TV

A-Disco.de & Interactive Events (Karlsdorf)
Nightmare Inc., Mental In-Jury, Aron Setha, Painless Noise, Doomjay Chris, Synthetic System, Hardbass Rockers, Porphyria, Venom, Mackx, D-Rockerz, Sounic, Incognito, Clockshock, Beyond Recovery, Miss(t)stück, DKJ Kyle, Devil2K

10 Years of Electronic Motion feat. Soundburg Radio (Salzburg)
Marco Bailey, A-Brothers, Steve Looney, Michael Strauss, Egostar -live-, Norman Bate, Villon, Supernaut, Chris Stohl, DJ Gu, Andreas Sachs, Jenny Delano, de freD

Non-Stop coach transfer to the festival site from Koblenz main station.

Tickets can be obtained at www.nature-one.de.