Mysteryland Returns This Summer with Biggest Edition

Mysteryland is the world’s longest-running electronic music festival and will make its long-awaited return to Haarlemmermeer. The festival is returning for its biggest edition ever from August 26-28, 2022. 

The legendary three-day Dutch festival will showcase over 300 artists across 22 stages with internationally renowned hosting partners. Covering the full spectrum of elements of electronic music from house, to techno, trance, and hardstyle. The iconic stages range from sprawling outdoor dance floors to massive, atmospheric tents beaming with laser shows and inimitable sounds hosted by both the most sought-after names worldwide and exceptional local talent. 

Milan Raven, managing director of ID&T Events: “We can’t wait to finally welcome our fans back into the world of Mysteryland. This year, our programmers and creatives have had a longer time to create, so even more love and attention has been put into the immersive world that our visitors step into in August. We will return bigger and better than ever before and we are looking forward to a mesmerizing conclusion to the Dutch festival season at Mysteryland.”

After a two-year hiatus, Mysteryland is set to return with more potential than ever with state-of-the-art production. Festival-goers will be immersed in a new world of festival lifestyles. The grounds will be filled with hidden places and special creations. From spiritual ceremonies and reviving massages, to dipping into the hot tubs or kicking back in a traditional pub, Mysteryland offers so much more than your average festival. 

If there’s any way to return to festival season in Europe then go to a Dutch festival. They know how to treat every guest like royalty. The DJs play to their fullest potential, the high-quality food is delicious every time. The crowds are pleasant and fun with nobody trying to mess with you or steal just to have fun. Mysteryland is the festival to experience it all as a traveling festival-goer. Over 100,000 visitors from over 100 different countries flock to experience the legendary festival each year.

Mysteryland will also include camping, so festivals goers can take in the full experience. The camping plaza is fully equipped with modern facilities, a food court, chill areas, and much more. With an entertaining program all weekend long, an extra festival day on Friday, and an afterparty on Saturday exclusively for campers, the camping experience is packed with extra entertainment. After two years in the making, Mysteryland is set to be the highlight of the festival season.

Mysteryalnd 

August 26-28, 2022

Het Floriadeterrein

Haarlemmermeer, The Netherlands

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Queen of Hardstyle Takes Over Forbidden Kingdom [Event Review]

After one year and three months, the world as we know it is finally going back to our normal lives. Festival season is finally back, and clubs are re-opening once again. The weekend of June 11th & 12th it was DJ Lady Faith’s first festival performance in over a year at Insomniac Events Forbidden Kingdom in Orlando, FL. The dubstep festival brought over 25,000k bass-heads to one location the Sunset Cove Amphitheater. Originally started in 2018 at Sunset Cove Park in Boca Raton, FL until Pasquale Rotella and his brilliant Insomniac Events team took over. Sprawling across three stages New Kingdom Stage, Village Stage, and Forbidden Stage including a smaller Dragon stage.

America’s favorite Hardstyle DJ Lady Faith was a top headliner on this year’s ballot, paving the way for more female artists to headline massive festivals. “It makes me so happy seeing other female artists on the lineup with me, I would like to see more though”. Lady Faith says on the way to the festival, we were talking to REDRUM and how it is a lot harder for female artists to gain the respect and acknowledgment they actually deserve. “It’s always a pleasure meeting other DJs” - she adds. 

Photo Credit: Josiah McDonald @josiah.mc

Making her way to the Village Stage, the crowd is amped up for some Hardstyle. Amplifying the crowd immediately by playing her remix of the legendary hit Satisfaction by Benny Benassi. There was a huge crowd at her performance, everyone was dancing and jumping to the heavy beat the entire set. “It’s a beautiful site to see to finally be back at a festival with all of you!” Lady Faith says in the microphone. You can feel the vibes everywhere from the stage to the back of the crowd, with so many smiling faces. Heat lightning flashing in the sky, people dancing in the puddles to Hardstyle. Playing her newest songs Summer cover of the 80s anthem Cruel Summer, and a remix of Brittney Spears’ Baby One More Time. 

Photo Credit: Josiah McDonald @josiah.mc

The crowd bouncing to all the Hardstyle beats such as PLUR, We The People, Supernova. Lady Faith interacting with the crowd saying this is one of the best crowds and best experiences she had at a music festival. Fists pumping with an intensity of fury to heavy-hitting beats, the crowd moving and dancing to I like to Move it. Closing out her set with her new track, Speak My Mind but not without a group photo with the crowd keeping the incredible experience forever. 

Photo Credit: Josiah McDonald @josiah.mc

After her set, I asked Lady Faith how did she feel being able to perform again at festivals she replies with a huge smile on her face, “I love what I do, making music and performing is my drug I don’t need anything else. Seeing everyone’s smiling faces I can’t believe how happy I am”. 

The second day, multiple people came up and said Lady Faith was their favorite set, they couldn’t stop dancing. “Hearing that is the true cherry on top,” she said with satisfaction. Lady Faith has new music and new projects in the near future, stay connected to all social and music platforms. 

Photo Credit: Josiah McDonald @josiah.mc

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An Interview with Hardstyle American Duo - NonToxic

Chris Steele and Ruben Avila, otherwise known as NONToxic is an American Hardstyle duo known for their innovative and exhilarating sound. Beginning in early 2015, NonToxic has achieved more in the American hard dance scene in such a short period of time that a vast majority of up and coming artists. What started out as a couple of small time DJs has quickly evolved into a duo sharing the stage with some of the biggest names in hardstyle. They first discovered Hardstyle at a young age which led them to become NONToxic. 

[Ruben]: “I first discovered Hardstyle at a very young age. It was a sound that had always stuck with me throughout any other genre. I remember going to house parties, and a buddy of mine would always DJ old school Hardstyle (aka Showtek, early Zatox, Headhunterz etc, etc) and from there, I immediately fell in love with the sound of Hardstyle. I became a Hardstyle DJ after many years of being a House DJ and one day decided to give my good buddy Chris here a call and asked him to work on a tune with me. Originally, it was supposed to be house, but we both felt it needed a little more energy. Thus from that came our first tune as NONTOXIC 'Rythmic', and after seeing how the reaction was when we first played that track live, I knew from there I wanted to be a Hardstyle artist. Ok Chris, your turn…”

[Chris]: “I was introduced to Hardstyle by a track made by Blutonium Boy called "Make it Loud," and I fell in love with the sound right away. I also started in a different genre before that just like Ruben did, but I actually started out with Drum n' Bass. Artists such as High Contrast, Metrik and, Duo Infernale were big inspirations to me because of the melodies they created in Liquid DnB. After a while of DnB, I was shown the ways of house music. The first time I played an all house set is when I knew that the world of 4 to the floor was for me, especially Minimal House and Tech. While we were working on our first track "Rythmic" originally as a house tune, I was booked on a small underground event by myself. I had some hardstyle tracks that I messed around with but never played live before. That night, I started to experiment and take the tempo from 128 to 150 and continue the set into hardstyle. The people were feeling it, the vibe was amazing. After that night, I was so inspired to take it even further. All of this happened at the same we were trying to find ourselves as Nontoxic. Since then, Hardstyle has really been more and more a part of my life.”

The support for NONToxic has soared since Hard Dance Nation signed their original track 'Fable' in January of 2016. Plus a few remixes under their belt such as Mako’s smash hit ‘Smoked Filled Room’, “We got a lot of inspiration from Aerolite's & Keiji's collaboration remix of the same song and wanted to give it a shot ourselves. The original tune had a great vibe to it, and we have never done a remix before so it gave us a good challenge.”  

As well as collaborations with huge artist such as Aerolite with ‘Fragments’. “We all three loved "Atmozfears & Energyzed- Fabrik Of Creation" and wanted to make a tune that had a similar style within it. We have a big thing for orchestral music and to incorporate that sound into a song was something we had to do. We learned a lot from the production of that song that it has now helped develop the sound we use today.”  More collaborations will emerge in the near future, “A new collaboration is in the works as of now with yet again Aerolite. The songs name is ‘Apophis’ and has a bit of a darker side to it. The release date is unknown at this moment, but hopefully, it should be out the week of or following Project Z.” 

Hey guys! Nontoxic and I made this track and we decided to give it away for free once their Facebook fanpage hits 2,400 likes and mine hits 1,000 likes. Thanks everyone who has supported us so far DOWNLOAD: https://mega.nz/#!xtoTmQrR!LO1vlcbBGaKe5kDCbE3CNKwc9aTr2C1O_ju2pzVzuJ0 -Aerolite ---Social Media--- Facebook: www.facebook.com/wearenontoxic www.facebook.com/AeroliteDJ Instagram: @wearenontoxic @AeroliteDj Twitter: @wearenontoxic @AeroliteDj

Their dream collaboration consists of huge Hardstyle artists, dreams do come true! “This is a bit of a loaded question that deserves a loaded answer. We love the sound of Atmozfears, Noisecontrollers, Sub Zero Project, and Crisis Era. Being able to work with any or all of these artists would be an honor and a dream come true. These artists are some of our biggest inspirations and to have a chance to work with them is a blessing.”

They now receive tremendous support from companies such as Basscon, Insomniac Events, Rave Nation, EDM Junkies, Plur Eventz, and Fresh ENT. Being booked at venues all over California such as, Exchange LA, Create Night Club, Avalon Hollywood, Florentine Gardens, DNA San Francisco, Rainbow Ballroom, The Belasco Theatre, and NOS Event Center, NonToxic continues to take America by storm playing events alongside of artists such as Coone, DJ Stephanie, Zatox, Code Black, Gammer, Wasted Penguinz, Noisecontrollers, Angerfist, Wildstylez, Lady Faith, DJ Isaac, Audiofreq, and Crisis Era. “We couldn't be more thankful for what these events have done for us over the last year and a half. We have gotten to share the stage with our inspirations and it’s a dream come true. Insomniac treats their artists respectfully and equally, whether they are a headlining act or an opening act. It really has changed our world as artists coming from the underground scene.”

Day in and day out NONToxic shares their passion for music with the hard dance community in hopes of being an inspiration to other artists, while being inspired by other producers that share similar interests. NONToxic strides to make Hardstyle more recognizable in the US just how big how popular it is in Europe. “Bringing Hardstyle to more local and high-end clubs outside of mainstream festivals. We feel that venues allowing Hardstyle as the main sound for more nights will help branch out the genre that much more.”

“We absolutely believe Hardstyle is getting more recognizable, especially in the Los Angeles area. We see a lot of up and coming talent including ourselves playing more mainstream events. It also helps that more developed artists who are not in the Hardstyle genre are starting to incorporate this sound into their live sets.”

NONToxic believes Hardstyle will grow bigger and more popular,  "Well Hardstyle has and forever will hold its main spot in the European electronic dance music scene. For here in the US, we feel it will rise in the ranks of house, trap, dubstep and more over the next couple years. Hardstyle has really made its impact hard enough in the US already, that there is nowhere to go but up for the genre.”

The duo regularly plays tracks by some of the biggest names in the hardstyle industry to show their appreciation and love for their peers, while continuing to strive towards bettering their production to create the new sounds of tomorrow, and to drive their momentum even further. As well as huge MainStage artists that are starting to experiment with Hardstyle like Armin van Buuren and Hardwell. “We think it's awesome! Having such bigger names play Hardstyle helped open people’s minds to the sound itself. We feel that without the help of these artists, Hardstyle wouldn't be where it is in the US today.” NONToxic continues to create more new music for their dedicated hardstyle fans as the weeks and months roll by. Be sure to listen to the duo's newest mix. 

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