See Parookaville’s transformation into Germany’s largest competition over time
by: Sami Weisband
Jul 21, 2022
Stationed at Germany’s Weeze Airport close to the Dutch border, Parookaville Music Competition takes on an entire lifetime of its personal, staged as a wholly unbiased metropolis of its personal, designed for a particular form of revelry. With a heavy-hitting lineup every passing 12 months, this 12 months’s expertise roster comes full with some dance music’s most in-demand performers, a few of which embrace Oliver Heldens, KSHMR, Tiësto, Amelie Lens, Kayzo, Dom Dolla, and lots of extra. Since Parookaville’s inception in 2015, the competition has undergone some main upgrades, and because the occasion’s 2022 run kicks off, working July 22 – July 24, Dancing Astronaut is wanting again to make clear the competition’s meteoric come up. Make a journey down reminiscence lane as Germany’s largest music competition will get underway.
Dance music’s collision with the mainstream within the mid-to-late-2000 actually was a second in time. DJs took no prisoners, churning out chart toppers that had golf equipment packed, pop stars pining to trip the burgeoning EDM wave, and finally set the stage for at present’s multi-billion greenback enterprise. In 2014, tracks like Alesso‘s “Heroes (we could possibly be),” Armin van Buuren‘s “Save My Night time,” and Steve Aoki‘s “Boneless,” have been dropping left and proper, which, ought to come as a shock to none, helped land them headlining slots on Parookaville’s debut lineup the next 12 months. Internet hosting 80 selectors throughout seven levels, the competition comfortably housed round 40,000 attendees, affectionately known as Residents.
Come 2016, Parookaville added greater than 50 performing DJs culminating in 150 whole acts throughout an additional three levels, plus double the quantity of ticket-holders. This new lineup welcomed again Steve Aoki, whereas including main star energy from the likes of Tiësto, Axwell Λ Ingrosso, and Afrojack, to call just a few.
By the next 12 months, the lineup continued to boast the largest names within the business, upping the ante in 2017 with one other crop of top-name performers because the competition continued to scale. By Parookaville’s third run, the occasion was bringing in David Guetta, DJ Snake, Robin Schulz, after all Mr. Aoki, together with greater than 200 of their friends. This checklist of gamers unsurprisingly grew, whereas the competition itself grew to accommodate almost 180,000 Residents in attendance, corresponding to the scale of Extremely’s flagship Miami occasion. The occasion’s matchless 10-stage design continued to make Parookaville some of the distinctive occasions on the earth.
Whereas the competition’s hyper-growth part leveled out by 2018 and organizers determined to keep up an identical dimension and construction to the prior 12 months’s occasion, the competition poured sources into reserving some of the high-powered lineups of the 12 months. Teaming up with greater than 50 further DJs together with Martin Garrix, ZEDD, and Solomun, Parookaville continued to deepen its roots as one in all western Europe’s most sought-after occasions, whereas sustaining the identical scale and stage of high quality Residents had gladly returned for 3 years working.
As dance music continues to dominate the charts world wide, the competition’s most up-to-date affair pre-pandemic was its largest celebration but—touchdown at 210,000 Residents, greater than 300 performers, and extra headlining acts than ever earlier than. Inclusive of earlier lineups, in 2019 Parookaville supplied Alesso, Armin van Buuren, Steve Aoki, DJ Snake, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Robin Schulz, together with new headliners like NERVO, The Chainsmokers, Alan Walker, and lots of extra.
For its first 12 months again in three years, Parookaville is slated to have greater than 300+ acts promised for the 2022 version, together with Afrojack, KSHMR, and an unique back-to-back set from Yellow Claw and Brennan Coronary heart. And to not neglect Krewella, Nicky Romero, WHIPPED CREAM, and lots of, many extra to take the large 10+ stage occasion. With a powerful monitor file for progress and scalability over the past seven years, the premier German dance affair, now the nation’s largest music competition, is claimed to be some of the incredible occasions of the summer time. We’re thrilled to search out out.
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