Music : Club Classics, House, Hard Dance and Techno
This is a daytime event (e.g. starts late morning or early afternoon - see below for times).
Thursday 30th July 2009 To Monday 3rd August 2009
Almost 60,000 Campers/Clubbers, 4 Days of Electronic Dance Music
The magical power of NATURE ONE seizes your heart, spreads through your entire body and fires your mind. An invisible force unites everyone with the same feeling – the feeling of freedom, music and love. The innate and unshakable feeling of the techno generation.
The Nature One is a large open air Electronic Music festival, featuring many renowned Djs from Germany and all over the world. In significance it's not as big as Mayday nor as old, having started 3 years later than Mayday festival. However Attendance has surpassed the Mayday, even when one takes into account that the Mayday only lasts one evening, while the Nature One has 2 main evenings with additional smaller events from Thursday till Sunday.
Unlike Love Parade, Nature One costs an admission of approximately 60 Euros (2006). But unlike the love parade, the only real damage to nature occurs by the trampling of the grass on the bunker hills and the fields used for camping (the crops have always been harvested by the time the festival starts).
As special attraction there is a Fireworks display on Saturday evening.
The festival lasts for one extended weekend each year always at the first weekend of August.
In 2004 the festival had an attendance of approx. 53,000, with over 40,000 using the nearby fields for camping the whole weekend (officially allowed and organized by the Nature One staff).
The camping ground has always been the second festival, with many hobby-DJs and some commercially organized trucks, loaded with generators and fuel, the equipment rivaling small clubs in turntables, speakers sometimes even lighting. Some people who are either non willing or unable to pay for admission to the festival area use this fact to have a cheaper alternative festival weekend.
The festival itself is structured into a few "main floors" called Open Air Floor and Century Circus each for a few thousand, Groovalistic Garden, and a few smaller areas, sometimes manned by techno club crews for a few hundred. The whole thing is located at a US Missile base called "Pydna", now decommissioned which has all necessary infrastructure and space for this kind of festival, a total of 100,000 sq meters (without camping, which takes up more than 1 km²).