Netherlands: Defqon 1 ’15 – Stages & Deejays

Defqon 1 is a premier music festival in Holland, gathering crowds of 200-300 thousand people about an hour east of Amsterdam. Originally launched as a niche festival dedicated to harder styles of dance music, it now brings together acts playing hardstyle, hard dance, hard trance, and hardcore, as well as freestyle and raw. Lost in all the names and types? Just enjoy the banging music of mostly over 150bpm variety. This year being the 15th anniversary brought back some of the 90s acts as well as the “who is who” in today’s hardstyle scene. Music was played by style variation on a dozen color-named stages – from hardest of the hard at Black to fringe electro freestyle at White and everything in between on Magenta/UV/Blue/Red/Brown/Gold/etc.