As the house of the world’s main digital music summit, ADE, and a longstanding seedbed of rave tradition, Amsterdam isn’t any stranger to daring concepts. However closing a serious freeway for a rave? Even for one of many cultural capitals of dance music, it is an bold endeavor.
On June twenty first, Audio Obscura will rework a piece of the Netherlands’ A10 Zuid motorway right into a one-day-only rave venue, welcoming 5,000 followers to have a good time Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary. The landmark occasion is a part of the broader Competition op de Ring, a 17-kilometer spectacle that may see the A10 closed to visitors and repurposed for a celebration of Dutch artwork, tradition and music.
Recognized for curating occasions in unconventional venues just like the Rijksmuseum bicycle passage and Concertgebouw, Audio Obscura is without doubt one of the metropolis’s foremost champions of its globally revered digital music scene. The crew is now taking up the stretch of freeway close to the RAI Metro Station, promising 9 hours of adrenaline-fueled DJ units from a slew of artists nonetheless to be introduced.
CUPRA, the occasion’s lead accomplice, has helped make the freeway rave free to attend. Followers can register by way of the Audio Obscura website for an opportunity to attain a ticket once they formally drop at 10am CEST on Might twenty first.
Take a look at the occasion’s trailer under.