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Love System Festival a new entry to the Croatian festival season!

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News reaches us that the already fantastic Croatian festival season – which features a whole host of events up and down the Croatian coast from late May to mid September – will have a new entry this year…the Love System Festival!

Love System (30th May – 2nd June 2013) will be taking place at something of a familiar location – the pretty little village of Petrcane, which is about 10km north of Zadar on the coast of North Dalmatia. However, Love System will be taking place in the never-used-before Punta Radman wood, which will see a maze of bars, stages and chill-out areas laid out in amongst the trees of the intimate site. Best of all, the main stage will be set floating on the Adriatic Sea itself, offering up a unique way of partying the night away on the Croatian coast…not to mention taking it easy in the sun in the daytime.

Much of the line-up has already been announced, with acts such as Shonky, Bicep, Mario Basanov, Finnebassen, Jay Shepheard, Ben Pearce and Midland all featuring on the bill. There is, however, many more still to be revealed – be sure to keep a close eye on the Festival’s Facebook page for all the latest announcements.

Love System Festival, Petrcane, Croatia

A festival in Croatia wouldn’t be a proper festival in Croatia without the boat parties! Love System will have their boats setting sail twice a day, with the bespoke parties hosted by some of the most esteemed labels and party brands in the UK – names such as Jaunt, Underground, Kumasi and Bad Apple.

Although it’s officially a four-day event, there’s also a pre-party the day before the Festival starts on Wednesday 29th June, as well as the chillout day on Monday 3rd June.

Tickets are being limited to just 800 in number to make it a unique event…and are being snapped up quick! Early bird tickets have already sold out, but there’s still opportunity to buy some in the second wave of ticket releases – they currently cost £79 and can be bought online.

Love System looks to be shaping up to be a true connoisseur’s festival – with the beautiful and intimate setting, branded after parties, the opportunity to stay in luxury accommodation (just minutes from the site – but camping is also possible) and variety of travel packages available, it’s sure to be a great Croatian festival experience!

We’ve got our own little guide on the Love System Festival – check it out for advice on travelling to the festival, as well as more detailed info about the event: Festivals in Croatia 2013 – Love System Festival.

Otherwise, full details on the event can be found on the official Love System Festival website.

Love System Festival
Petrcane (near Zadar), Dalmatia
30th May – 2nd June 2013

Echo Festival

Echo Festival’s new home…and their line-up announcement!

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Echo Festival

Last year, we covered the exciting news that Croatia was to be home to a brand new festival. That festival was the Echo Festival, an underground electronic music event taking place in the early part of the season on the Adriatic shores.

After a very successful first year, Echo Festival returns bigger and bolder in 2013…in a brand new home! This year, the festival will be taking place from 6th to 9th June in Kanegra, close to the very pretty town of Umag in Istria, the most northern part of the Croatian coast. Located very close to Istria’s main airport in Pula, and just over the border from both Slovenia and Italy, Echo Festival is easier to reach than ever. The new site is also home to over two hundred festival-managed apartments, meaning over one thousand festival-goers will be able to stay right in the thick of the action…although in enough seclusion so that they can get some recovery time after each hedonistic night!

The Echo Art Network is new for this year, which allows a platform of artists come together to showcase their work, adding to the dynamism and interactivity of the festival – something evidenced in how the festival organisers developed Echo’s woodland area last year.

Fred P

South London Ordnance

Locked Groove

Delano Smith

The fast wave of acts have already been announced, and it’s already looking to be a truly stellar line-up this year. Nick Höppner, one of the backbones of today’s house and techno underground and famous for his monthly residences at the inimitable Berghain/Panoramabar, is one of the top names on the bill. Delano Smith, an early protegee of Motown’s first DJ, Ken Collier, and who began DJing in the late 70s will be bringing his magic to Echo for a unique set. From Bucharest there’s Pedro aka Petra Inspirescu, a pivotal figure in modern electronic music, who’ll be bringing his usual kind of DJ set – one that’s renowned for being as sonically baffling as it’s irresistibly groovy. Fred P, under his Black Jazz Consortium name, and Christopher Rau will be representing the deep house contingent. From the UK, Space Dimension Controller will have a live performance at Echo, fresh off the back of his forthcoming astral album Welcome to Mikrosektor-50. One of Time Out’s ‘DJ Stars of 2013’, South London Ordnance, will treat guests with driving techno sounds.

These names are just the tip of the iceberg – others on the bill include Locked Grove, October, Outboxx, Marcus Intalex, Youandewan, dBridge, Lenzman, Kasra and Stray. There’s also even more acts due to be announced in the next few weeks – watch Echo Festival‘s Facebook page for all of the latest announcements.

We’ve set up our own little guide to the Echo Festival which may well help you in reaching the Festival site and travelling on afterwards – check it out: Festivals in Croatia 2013 – Echo Festival.

Tickets for the Echo Festival cost £65 (plus booking fee).

More information can be found on the Echo Festival website, and on their Twitter page – but don’t forget to also check them out on Soundcloud.

Echo Festival
Kanegra, Istria
6th – 9th June 2013

Echo Festival (22nd-24th June in Makarska) releases its line-up!

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We know that we whet the appetites of many of you party animals out there with our previous post on the brand-new-for-2012 Echo Festival that’s taking place in Makarska on the weekend of 22nd to 24th June – and we’re sure that many of you have already got your ticket orders in.

But here’s more good news – Echo Festival have announced their line-up! Names on the bill include Koreless (Live), Pariah, Midland – who are all appearing on the Simply Stage – and Inxec, Droog and Cozzy D., who will be on the DJ & Sound Stage as well as many, many more – plus further names that are to be announced in due course.

Echo Festival Flyer Line Up

There will also be showcases and daily beach parties from the likes of Krankbrother, Creche, Moody Disco, Simply Vinyl and more.

Oh, and – as if this wasn’t enough good news – there are still tickets available for £35 for the weekend (which is truly mind-bogglingly good value) for only a short time more, so do make sure you and your friends snap them up soon.

For full line-up details (as announced so far) and other information on the festival and to purchase tickets, please go to www.echofestival.com.

A new festival for 2012 – Echo Festival, Makarska 22nd-24th June

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Echo Festival

Fantastic news for all those revellers looking to party it up on the Croatian coast this summer – a brand new festival has joined the very extensive list of festivals taking place in the country this year. The Echo Festival is the latest addition to the Croatian festival line-up, taking place in the beautiful town of Makarska on the weekend of 22nd to 24th June 2012.

This intimate and friendly festival is perfect for those who love their dance and electronic music and want to enjoy it on Croatia’s wonderful coastline. As anyone who has been to Makarska can attest, the Festival will have a fantastic location (as well as being easy to reach from the nearest airport in Split) in one of the most beautiful spots on the Adriatic coastline, with plenty to enjoy in the town and nearby . The actual Festival site itself is a short walk from the centre of Makarska, on a bay with a private pebble beach that will boast two sound systems – the main beachside stage (so you can actually dance it up on the beach or even in the sea!) and in the licensed bar which has a fully shaded dancefloor.

The music programme will run from 12pm to 5am (that’s 17 solid hours!) with a mix of funk, disco, soul and reggae plus the best of UK bass, garage and deep house well into the night. Acts that have already been confirmed on the line-up include Cozzy D, Alexis Raphael, Lee Brinx and Max Chapman, with many more to be announced.

Echo FestivalBetter still, Echo Festival are offering a truly superb early-bird ticket offer – only £35 for the three day-event! Be sure to take advantage of this great deal and snap up your tickets very soon.

To book tickets, and for more details on the Festival, take a look at echofestival.com or www.facebook.com/echocroatia.

Festivals in Croatia - Tisno

A new venue for Croatia’s festivals (well, some of them)

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Anyone thinking about attending one of Croatia’s (many) great festivals may have seen the announcement not so long ago the site used in the village of Petrcane – home to The Garden Festival, Electric Elephant, Soundwave, Suncebeat and Stop Making Sense – was a no go for 2012. Concerns from the owners of the site, the Hotel Pinija, on how the festivals impacted guests staying at the hotel meant a new venue had to be found for these festivals for next year.

These concerns by the site owners were perhaps not entirely justified, but that’s not an issue I’m going to discuss here! I did read a number of articles in the Croatian press, however, about the negative impact (i.e. loss of tourist revenue) that losing these festivals from the Zadar region would have. (So it’s good to see they haven’t moved that far – read on below.)

Festivals in Croatia - Tisno
Tisno – you could be here next year!

Today, many of these festivals announced a new venue for 2012 – in the village of Tisno, which is roughly halfway between the town of Zadar and the city of Split. My immediate thought is that this will mean a significant number of additional travel options for partygoers attending any of these festivals, as there are many, many flights from the UK (and from elsewhere in Europe) to Split. (Of course, attendees in previous years could also have flown to Split too – but this just makes things a little easier!)

This news on the change of venue is “hot off the presses”, so I’d advise taking a close look at the festivals’ websites and Facebook pages (and Twitter too) for additional information as and when they release it.

Check out the latest news from the following sites – more is surely still to come very soon.

  • The Garden Festival (4th – 11th July): The Garden Tisno Facebook group
  • Soundwave (20th – 23rd July): their Facebook group should have news today!
  • SunceBeat (27th – 29th July): updated website
  • Stop Making Sense (2nd – 6th August) updated website

There’s also some news from Electric Elephant (12th – 16th July) via their Twitter feed.

And for some early travel planning check out the following pages from Visit Croatia:

Alternatively, check out what other festivals are taking place in the country in our Festivals in Croatia section – more information being added all the time!

Other than that – start thinking about partying it up in the summer of 2012. It’s going to be a good one!