Austria's biggest festival for clubculture

The springfestival is the biggest festival for clubculture in Austria and it’s neighbouring countries. It started in 2001 as springone – festival for electronic art and music and has considerably increased since then.
In 2007, springseven took place in 14 venues all over the city with more than 250 artists playing for almost 20.000 people, making it one of the most important events for DJ- and clubculture in Central Europe.

The springfestival covers all musical genres from Drum’n’Bass to Dubstep, Electro and Techno to House, Ambient, Hip Hop, Downtempo, Dub, Breakbeat, Reggae and Ragga and beyond and emphasises on live performances as well as label specials (such as Chew The Fat!, K7, Metalheadz, Ed Banger, Kitsune, Kompakt, Compost etc.) and exclusive performances (such as Carl Craig’s live performance last year).

Another important part of the springfestival is the daytime program such as the Red Bull Music Academy Sessions, Workshops (such as Dubplate cutting, producing, Final Scratch and of course the Video Production and Visuals Workshops in coop with the University for Applied Sciences), book presentations and readings (i.e. with Bill Brewster and Hans Nieswand), a video exhibition in the local museum for contemporary art, symposiums etc.
Austria’s national alternative radio, FM4, moves to Graz during the festival to broadcast live from here all week to Austria and parts of Germany, Slovenia and Croatia as official festival radio.

The springfestival promo tour (8 dates in 2007) takes place 3 weeks before the festival reaching about 10.000 people in other parts of Austria as well as Slovenia, Croatia and Italy.

In August, the springfestival hosted one of the major clubnights at the c/o pop festival in Cologne, Germany as well as a room in their festival centre.

In 2008, springeight will one again feature numerous outstanding performances by extraordinary artists, a live opening concert, a video production workshop that already starts in november and various debut premieres and special performances that have been put together just for this event...

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