Mayday, like the former

Love Parade The Love Parade (german: Loveparade) was a popular electronic dance music festival and technoparade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany. It was held annually in Berlin from 1989 to 2003 and in 2006, then from 2007 to 2010 in the Ruh ...

, is one of the oldest and most reputed

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electro ...

festivals in

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwee ...

, having its debut on 1991 and

Katowice Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popu ...

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, having its debut on 2000. Despite the name, Mayday festivals date oscillates between April and December (these being called Winter Mayday). Currently, the festival takes place only in around 30 April in

Dortmund Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the la ...

and 10 November in

. Mayday reflects and determines actual trends in techno music within present year. Each Mayday has a theme. Until 2013 it was composed by

Members of Mayday Members of Mayday was a German techno project by Klaus Jankuhn and WestBam. From 1991 until 2013 the Members of Mayday created the official hymn of the annual Mayday Rave, which at the time was Germany's largest indoor rave A rave (from t ...

, DJs WestBam and

Klaus Jankuhn Klaus Jankuhn (born 12 January 1965) is a German record producer and musician, considered a pioneer in the early German techno scene. He mostly worked for the artists of the rave label Low Spirit, producing artists such as WestBam, Marusha or DJ ...

.Westbam steigt bei der Mayday in Dortmund aus
derwesten.de, retrieved 5 February 2014 Since 1998 Mayday (Germany) is supported by eve&rave Münster e.V. with drug-information-desks. Although they were pioneers as leaders of techno music in Central Europe in their early days, in recent years Mayday has opened up to new sounds, from hardstyle to house, trance and EDM.

List of Mayday events

Attendance figures are estimated.

Gallery

File:Mayday 2009 dortmund halle 2.jpg, Mayday 2009 File:Mayday 2009 dortmund tom novy.jpg, Tom Novy at Mayday 2009 File:Mayday 2009 sven vaeth.jpg, Sven Väth at Mayday 2009

List of Mayday events

Gallery

See also

References

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