Creamfields Buenos Aires 2006

i love live music yet i almost never attend concerts... i am breaking with that tradition tomorrow to attend creamfields, one of the largest electronic music festivals in the world... my motivation for doing so, besides my love for electronic music, is that a good friend, who shares my passion, is visiting from macedonia, and we are treating ourselves to what should be a terrific event... it's being held at the costanera sur, a huge, park-like venue, with 7 stages and some of the best known names in electronic music from around the world... i'll take some pictures and post them... (i know, i know... i've promised some pics from my trip to salta which i haven't posted yet, but i'll get it done, i promise...)

Creamfields

Creamfields came up in Liverpool, UK, with the very thought of introducing an electronic music festival to enjoy of a whole day with best sets and live shows of the most outstanding international artists. For seven years, its location has been a huge space that used to be an airport. Taking place in August, on last summer weekend, it has strengthened itself as the “closing summer” festival.

Since its opening, in 1998, Creamfields has become the most important electronic music festival of the world.

Distributed among one Main Stage and 10 tents, the most outstanding DJ’s and groups have taken part of it: Chemical Brothers, Faithless, Basement Jaxx, Gorillaz, Fatboy Slim, Groove Armada, Moloko, Underworld, Outkast, Sasha, Jeff Mills and Paul Oakenfold are some of the vast list of artists.

Creamfields was the first festival that expanded its proposal throughout the globe: Argentina, Poland, Czech Republic, Ireland, Turkey, Spain and Russia have attracted between 15 and 50 thousand people each. This year, the city of Río de Janeiro, Brazil, will join to this extraordinary proposal.

Creamfields Buenos Aires

In the year 2001, Buenos Aires became the launching platform of the English festival for the whole Latin American Continent. With an incomparable success of five editions on its back, Creamfields has become the most wanted festival of the year.

2001
18 thousand people attended to the first edition of Creamfields Buenos Aires. The place was a property based in San Isidro, a beautiful residential area in the city suburbs. More than 30 international artists including Paul Oakenfold, Dave Seaman, Howie B, Justin Robertson, Layo & Bushwacka! and Way Out West, among many others, were part of the festival.

2002
For this second consecutive edition, the location chosen was a property of around 80.000 m2 located in Puerto Madero, a beautiful place alongside the river. The recreative areas were extended and optimized. Another tent was added -with a 7 thousand people capacity- and a wide chill out area, with river sight. 24 thousand people attended to this 16 hours festival and enjoyed of international artists such as Frankie Knuckles, Timo Maas, Satoshi Tomiie, Nick Warren, Sister Bliss (Faithless), Medicine 8, Pete Tong and Hernán Cattáneo and locals Zuker, Romina Cohn and Carlos Alfonsín, among others.

2003
Creamfields Buenos Aires 2003 reached a new record. With sold out tickets, more than 35 thousand people attended to the magnanimous festival. The incorporation of an area set for the most alternative sounds of electronic music gained a huge acceptance in this third Creamfields Buenos Aires edition. Layo & Bushwacka!, Sander Kleinenberg, Danny Howels, Junkie XL (live), Hernán Cattáneo, Audio Bullys, Babasónicos, Josh Wink, Scratch Perverts, DJ Marky, Catupecu Machu 5.1 and Infusion (live) were some of the prestigious artists that have taken part of the artistic proposal.

2004
Forth Creamfields Buenos Aires edition turned out into one of the biggest event of the year: more than 55.000 people attended, beating both previous editions and its global equivalents –including Liverpool’s original base–. With more than 13 hectares surrounded by trees alongside the river, the old “Ciudad Deportiva de La Boca”, located in Costanera Sur, was the perfect framework for this 16 hours festival. The line up consisted of more than 90 artists –locals and internationals– which included Groove Armada, Paul Oakenfold, Deep Dish, Erick Morillo, Darren Emerson, Hernán Cattáneo, Steve Lawler, Plump DJs y Dave Angel, among many others.

2005
Creamfields Buenos Aires hit a new record, beating once more its global equivalents. The 60.000 people that attended to the fifth edition of the most important electronic music festival of the world enjoyed of more than 100 artists among DJs, producers and groups, distributed through 10 different spaces –between tents and Main Stage.

The Prodigy, Audio Bullys, Infusion and local Zuker XP were the outstanding acts of the Main Stage, which was closed by Paul Oakenfold. Danny Howels, Hernán Cattáneo, 2 Many DJs, David Guetta, Kevin Saunderson, James Holden, DJ Vibe and Ivan Smagghe had also taken part of this extraordinary artistic proposal.

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