{"id":8825,"date":"2017-10-23T15:08:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T13:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xceed.me\/blog\/?p=8825"},"modified":"2023-05-12T13:33:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T11:33:30","slug":"monegros-is-back-see-you-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xceed.me\/blog\/en\/monegros-is-back-see-you-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Monegros is back! See you there?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monegros Desert Festival<\/strong> returns!\u00a0The event had to be cancelled in 2015, but Monegros Desert festival was one of the leading electronic<\/strong> festivals in the world for two decades previously. It’s the festival that\u00a0Juan Arnau Ibarz y Florida<\/strong> started\u00a0in 1993 as an illegal party that would be held in the summer of ’94. This man, known as the “grandfather of Techno”, was also responsible for what we know today as Florida135<\/strong> and ElRow<\/strong> (originally, Row14). In fact, Monegros Desert Festival was thought of as a rave<\/strong> for the most hardcore party goers.<\/p>\n

In its humble beginnings, it was a party for about 200 people. It has now grown into a huge festival atended by over 40 thousand. The incredible growth was, in part, thanks to\u00a0Advanced Music (also responsible for S\u00f3nar) that began to collaborate in 1996 to bring together artists such as Carl Cox<\/strong><\/a>, Richie Hawtin<\/strong><\/a> or Laurent Garnier<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nYou understand just how big of a success this was, right? It wasn’t just people from around Aragon who attended this awesome festival. As an assistant from Barcelona, \u200b\u200bI got to meet people who came from all over, including Italy and Germany, just to enjoy this festival. Crazy. However, the problem of such rapid growth was the commercialisation of the event; it started out with the most authentic electronic music like scrhanz, hardtechno and darktechno and ended up hosting much more popular DJs and producers, like David Guetta<\/strong> or Steve Aoki<\/strong><\/a>, who are representatives of a more commercial genre.<\/p>\n

To give you an idea, these were the rhythms that dominated the Monegros of yesteryear:<\/p>\n