Festivals, and especially clubs, are in a tricky situation in recent years, and 2024 is arguably the most challenging year after COVID and since the start of the war against Ukraine. Obvious reasons are inflation and less money in the pocket of festival goers/clubbers, less obvious ones include the lack of the usual generation takeover on the dancefloor due the COVID years, and lastly, there seems to be a transition in genres and trends where festivals and clubs need to adapt to.
In this article, we take the example of TIMES (The Independent Movement for Electronic Scenes), a recently launched large-scale EU cooperation project of 10 festivals, and try to understand their approach for paving the way of the future of electronic live music.
This article has been powered by MMN Mag, in collaboration with TIMES.
Author: Peter Bokor
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One personal motivation for this write-up is the struggle to understand current trends in the Budapest club scene, which can probably be extended to a more general and international context. A negative trend seems to be that it’s growingly difficul...
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