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Ambassador Award 2023 - KUJU Studio from Kosovo for the "Best Art Production of the Year"

Research Shows: EXIT is Europe’s 2nd best value festival

UK platform Savoo conducted research to answer the question of which festivals offer the best value for money. Out of the 12 most popular European festivals, EXIT came in second place. According to research by Savoo, considering the headliners of this year’s EXIT Festival, including Wu-Tang Clan, The Prodigy, Skrillex, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Eric Prydz, and many others, as well as the prices of festival tickets compared to tickets for their individual concerts, EXIT offers visitors from abroad the opportunity to hear their favorite global stars at a discount of €350!  By comparing the prices of festival tickets with the biggest festival headliners’ average solo concert ticket prices, the British platform Savoo researched the most famous music festivals in the UK and Europe to find out how much visitors can save by visiting each of them.  EXIT took a high second place on the list of European festivals, with the most affordable ticket price in relation to the quality of the pro

Addressing the Impact of Digital Technologies on Youth Mental Health: Insights from Exit's Panel at TMRW Conference

The growing effects of the internet on young people, mental health concerns, and the increasing dependence on digital technologies were the main topics of Exit's "Life is Live" panel , which concluded this year's edition of the TMRW Conference. This panel also proposed strategies through which the IT sector and the music industry could join forces with social communities in a bid to solve acute problems.  The panel featured musician and expert in digital technology, one of the members of the legendary rock group Pink Floyd, Scott Pag e, adviser to the Minister of Tourism and Youth for youth policy Snežana Klašnja , UNICEF adviser in the program for the development of adolescents and young people Bojana Jevtović , and founder and director of the EXIT festival group Dušan Kovačević.  Experts in the field of mental health, law, youth development, and politics discussed the consequences of replacing real life with the virtual one, especially when it comes to young peop

Siso Festival - A new adventure in Albania

SISO Festival, coming to the Albanian Riviera this September, from the 14th until the 20th.  A diverse range of performances across various genres, from pulsating techno to groovy house to bass-heavy beats . The festival features a mix of international and local artists. Line up here! With an abundance of diverse activities on offer, attendees can enjoy a well-rounded holiday experience that includes thrilling options like jet skiing, water skiing, paragliding, and snorkeling, as well as more relaxing experiences like yoga classes, meditation sessions, and indulgent bottomless seafood lunches. The festival also boasts a unique stage created just for the event, a luxurious hilltop villa complete with a stunning pool and breathtaking panoramic views.  But perhaps the biggest draw of SISO Festival is its location. The Albanian Riviera offers unspoiled natural beauty that eclipses the well-trodden paths of Ibiza. With its pristine shores, crystal-clear turquoise waters, and laid-back atm

Karma Festival "The Wrathful Vision" - 26th - 29th MAY 2023, Marevc, Kosovo

  Karma is a crew who hosts electronic music parties & festivals in Switzerland and all over the world. The next edition of Karma Festival "The Wrathful Vision" will take place in Prishtinna, in Kosovo  from 26th until 29th May 2023.  4 nights full of music from 61 artists playing on 2 stages, including local artists such as Buda, Drenkas, Ezzb, Gent, Legoff, Uran B. , M.I.M , Pandaudio , Toton , Voyager. 🎶🖤🤩🤩 Check full lineup: More info 👉 Event  Stay tuned as you wanna play our game, win tickets and join us on this adventure!  See ya there!! 

Prizren: New edition of NGOM Fest from 13th to 16th July 2023

NGOM Fest, the electrifying music celebration that originated in Prizren, Kosovo, is a unique event that showcases the rich cultural heritage of the Balkan.  NGOM Fest is a four-day festival that celebrates music, culture, and community. It is an event that draws music lovers from all over the world to Prizren, where they can experience the different kind od music scene of Kosovo.  The festival's name comes from the Gheg Albanian dialect, where "Ngom" translates to "Listen to me," and "Fest" stands for "Festival." The aim of the festival is to not only showcased the best of Kosovo's music but also brought people from different ethnicities together.  The festival is a platform for up-and-coming bands and performers, giving them the opportunity to present their talents to a wider audience. The festival organizers believe in supporting local artists and creating a new outlook on Kosovo's music festivals.  The festival not only celebr

Glich Festival in Malta

The 6th edition of Glitch Festival is set to be an unforgettable experience for electronic music lovers. From August 13th to 16th 2023, the sun-soaked Mediterranean island of Malta will be the home of this four-day event.  With 7 stages to choose from, attendees can explore from roaring pool parties to intimate Boiler Room stages and even a hidden cave rave.  Kicking off on Sunday 13th with an explosive opening party at the Valletta bastions (a UNESCO world heritage site), the main festival will take place between 14-15th August at Gianpula Village against a backdrop of the ancient medieval city of Mdina.  And finally, the 16th brings the festival to an end with a boat party and a heartfelt closing party.  Glitch Festival 2023 is all about embracing the rhythm of summer and creating a journey of unforgettable experiences. With a carefully curated list of industry titans, master selectors, live acts & rising stars, this event is the perfect opportunity to immerse yourself in the el

WonderLight Festival Strikes ⚡🤩😍🎶💜💚

Wonder Light Festival is a new festival by Kuju Studio . The festival will take place on Kosovo Independence Day (FEB 16-17) at Prishtina's former brick factory. Location The factory will be filled with shocking lights & visuals by Kuju Studio and amazing music selected by: DJ Reas , George Adi , Air Bajko (LIVE), Pife ,  Liburn , Lekë , Eramah , Altin Boshnjaku for two nights in a row. Get ready to get THUNDERSTRUCK !!   ⚡🤩🤩

Regional artists at the Amsterdam Dance Event 2022

Amsterdam Dance Event opened its doors for the 27th edition . More than 1,000 events attract over 400,000 visitors to the Dutch capital by the end of the weekend.   Amsterdam is hosting more than 2,500 DJs, producers, promoters, and all other people from the world of electronic music for the next few days. Among them, there are several representatives of t he regional scene who will present our climate to a wider world audience. Popular party organizers BSH Events bring a touch of the Croatian scene to the Netherlands with a free twelve-hour afterparty. Ani, Aldo Morro, Bronski, Damir Pushkar, Elena Mikac, Gabi b2b Lovre, Pablo Panda, Marcel, Tom Bug, Toni Kostijal and many others will take over the BarFly in Amsterdam from 7am to 5pm this Friday. EXIT Festival organizes its showcase again at the spectacular Faralda Crane Hotel. Layla Benitez, Eli Brown, Ilija Djokovic, Human Rias, Ece Ekren, Mija and a surprise guest lead the partygoers through an intimate and intense dance. Dan

The Sunny Hill Festival will stay in Pristina

Awesome news! It blew my mind, indeed! 😍 Sunny Hill Music Festival will be held in Pristina from August 4 to 7, although the organizers previously announced that it will be moved to Tirana, and the reason is that they failed to get 17 hectares of land in the Kosovo capital for 99 years.... hmmm I can only say that the Sunny Hill fans are not interested in this at all, because it is only important for us to have cultural events in our city, especially after the years of the pandemic. The Sunny Hill Festival was held in Pristina for the first time in 2018, and then again in 2019. The 2020 edition was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Festival has hosted some of the world's biggest music names, including Miley Cyrus, Dua Lipa, Calvin Harris, Martin Garrix, Action Bronson and dozens of other artists.  This edition of the festival will be held in Germia Park. Due to space limitations in Germia Park, Sunny Hill Festival this year will have a limited capacity of partici

NGOM Fest 2022 at the Prizren Fortress

The eleventh edition of NGOM Fest will be held this year from July 14 to 17 at the medieval fortress just above the center of the city of Prizren in Kosovo.  NGOM (Albanian gheg dialect: listen to me) is a music festival that has been on the cultural menu of the city of Prizren in Kosovo since 2011 , which hosts bands and DJ's from Kosovo and the region.  In addition to promoting electronic music bands and DJ's, NGOM also promotes practical environmental activism.  During previous years, NGOM Fest was also focused on solving social and cultural issues, and awareness of citizens' problems that preoccupy young people and society as a whole. " NGOM Fest " is the first project of the non-governmental organization "N'GO". For now, only a few of the names that will perform at the festival are known. Some of them are the German-Bulgarian techno music producer Stephan Goldman , then there is the underground house artist from Berlin, Robert Dietz , the A

EXIT’s Camp Remains on the Most Beautiful Beach on the Danube

EXIT’ s camp, the most popular festival accommodation in Novi Sad, will be located on Strand, the most beautiful sandy beach on the Danube, from 5th to 12th July. Socializing with festival fans from all over the world, sleeping in the open air, swimming all day, and feeling that the festival never stops are just some of the experiences that make the camp a favorite place for thousands of EXIT fans from all over the world.  Exactly two weeks before the beginning of the festival, other accommodation capacities in Novi Sad and its surroundings are being filled at high speed. According to official data, there is only 18% capacity left, which will be filled before the festival begins, so all those interested should hurry. The tens of thousands of young people from all over the world confirm how legendary the days and nights on the Strand are. In addition to the standard offer consisting of indoor hot water showers, toilets, and various foods and beverages, a shop with camping equipment, a c

One of the world's biggest Drum and Bass festivals is coming to Albania

After two successful editions, the Drum and Bass music festival "Hospitality on the Beach", which was previously held in Tisno, Croatia in 2018 and 2019, this year the festival will be held on the Albanian turquoise riviera for 7 days and 6 nights, from June 1 to June 7, in Dhermi, Albania. Hospitality on the Beach Dhermia is a coastal village in the Albanian Riviera, located between the cities of Saranda and Vlora. It is the most beautiful place on the entire coast and a truly hidden gem. In addition to the crystalline sea, organic food and some of the best beaches in the Mediterranean, festival visitors can expect unique places for holidays, boats, various activities for body and soul, all accompanied by music by many artists of Drum & Bass. This festival has turned into a summer vacation ball for DNB genre lovers , where in 7 stages and parties with boats, they will have the opportunity to hear some of the best names in the DNB world: Shy Fx, Camo & Krooked, P M

Sunny Hill Festival from 4th until 7th August 2022

The Sunny Hill is a music festival in Kosovo, founded in 2018 by Dua Lipa, and her father, Dukagjin Lipa. This years festival will be held from 4 to 7 August at a new location in Brnjica , near Pristina.  In 2020 and 2021, it was not held due to the pandemic. The festival has in the past brought to Pristina world music stars such as Miley Cyrus, Calvin Harris, Martin Garrix as well as many local singers. In 2018 and 2019, the festival was held in Germia Park, in Prishtina, but due to the park’s limited capacity, it will have to change its location, near Prishtina, open air location called Brnjica.  Tickets for fans are already on sale for the price of 70 euros. Part of the festival’s profits will be donated to humanitarian causes for the Sunny Hill Foundation.  So far two names of performers are announced:  One of the most versatile British rappers of our time will light up the stage of Sunny Hill Festival 2022! Always taking on drill, garage & afrobeat in one masterful swoop, AJ

Kala Festival 2022, Dhermi, AL

Kala festival will take place between the 8th and 15th of June 2022 and it will take place in Dhërmi , a coastal village on the Albanian Riviera located between the cities of Sarandë and Vlorë . It is the most beautiful spot on the entire coastline and a true hidden gem.  The festival program is designed to allow for days to party, relax and explore the incredible surroundings. Besides the music events, we also offer a roster of fun-filled activities and wellbeing content, from yoga and beach massages to kayaking, snorkeling, paragliding, and day excursions to explore the natural wonders of the Albanian Riviera.  Here are some of the places you should visit:  • Gjipe: a secluded beach forest that is only accessible by boat and hosts cherry-picked resident DJs on rotation. This is not only one of the most incredible party locations you will ever dance at, but the perfect place to spend the day too. You can relax by the beach, dance in the forest or stroll along the canyon. • Grama

Berlin: The Love Parade returns in the heart of summer after a 16-year pause

 The last Love Parade in Berlin was held in 2006 with 1.2 million visitors , and the last Love Parade in general was held in 2010 in Duisburg with tragic consequences. Love Parade was a big, colorful celebration of electronic music and techno culture . Millions of people from all over the world gathered to dance on the streets of Berlin. Get involved and help with a donation to hold the Rave The Planet Parade on July 9, 2022. What remains, what will change? What remains the same is that the organizers are calling for demonstrations. Demonstrations are for the same values that brought the participants of the Love Parade to the streets: love, peace, friendship, solidarity, diversity, respect and of course music, music, music. There will be a parade through Berlin that presents a diverse variety of electronic music. What is changing is, for example, the name. The new parade is called "Rave The Planet Parade" . This takes over the original vision of the Love Parade, that one da

The Fourth Zagreb Festival of Light opened in front of the Croatian National Theater

 The festival was opened by Zagreb Mayor Tomislav Tomašević with messages of hope, togetherness and peace. HNK is among 31 locations where light attractions will be shown until March 20, reports Index. During the opening of the Festival, the facades of the Croatian National Theater and the Museum of Arts and Crafts and the School of Applied Arts and Design, both of which are being renovated after the 2020 earthquake, were illuminated by nature, and the nearby Mimara Museum by 3D mapping technology. At the same time, the installed installations were turned on at all other locations, which was followed by a multitude of gathered citizens and tourists, who, according to Mayor Tomašević, are more and more in Zagreb. "I am very glad that this project exists, for which, thanks to TZGZ and partners, they have done an amazing job. This event is slowly becoming one of the brands of the city of Zagreb and we can be proud of that," said Tomasevic. He also said that "it is important

EPIZODE ANNOUNCES DATES AND LOCATION FOR ITS SECOND EDITION IN ALBANIA

 After last year’s groundbreaking debut edition in Albania, the worldwide festival sensation - EPIZODE will be back on the blissful beach of Shengjin, from the 15th till 19th of September 2022!  The second Albanian and sixt global edition will bring four nights and five days of the premier music selection, spectacular stage design and well-known, captivating atmosphere.  The 24hr program will feature the biggest international electronic music headliners alongside the best regional talents. They will be performing at impressive stages that will be designed by the iconic art collectives.  The immersive experience will be enriched with relaxing daytime activities, all wrapped in the other-worldly sunrises and sunsets.  “We are happy to be back in beautiful Albania! As always, we will continue bringing the biggest global artists, while supporting the regional music and art scenes. This edition will bring even more amazing artists from all over the Balkans . We’re looking forward to five

No Sleep festival in April 2022.

No Sleep Festival  is set to have a grand celebration of its European title in Belgrade in the spring!   After a two-year break, No Sleep, still officially the Best New European Festival, is coming back to Belgrade with two editions in 2022.  In addition to the regular date in November, there will be an additional celebratory edition on 8th and 9th April 2022.  The location remains the Port of Belgrade, but this time, it is the new, even more enormous, and more spectacular Matrez hangar, whose brutalist architecture will take your breath away at first sight!  After a four-year break, we’ll see the return of Nina Kraviz , whose performance at this year’s EXIT was, in the opinion of many, one of the best in the world in the entire year! Her record label is working overtime, and the techno-trance anthem “Lolytrance,” signed by Antigone, is considered by many to be the track of the year! While we wait for the new single and the upcoming album, we can “meet” Nina in the super-popular game

RWXVI x DEnacht E02 – A night that will be long remembered

Since it’s raise, the Berlin Wall was a political and cultural barrier. The fall of the wall was the start of many great artists and clubs like Ostgut Ton's Berghain, E-Werk, and Tresor which made Berlin's techno scene very impactful and inspiring.  To celebrate the 30th Anniversay of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Hapësira organized RWXVI x DEnacht E02 in collaboration with the German Embassy in Prishtina, in love and honor of Germany, its electronic music scene, and Ambassador Held without whose support “Rilindja Warehouse” would have been taken from Hapësira, leaving us the electronic music community without our favorite venue where so many unforgettable memories were made. Before the event, we were listening to Tobias - Like A Drug [Ostgut Ton]  & Answer Code Request's Boiler Room Berlin DJ Set, to warm up for the party. As always, we went to Rilindja Warehouse before the doors were open to avoid the queue so we could be inside from start to end, to listen to the perf