ULTRA Japan - the festival that's all the rage with the dance music fans from around the world - is returning to Odaiba.
The massive urban electronic dance music festival that drew 90,000 fans over the three days of September 19th, 20th, and 21st in 2015 is all set to be held again in 2016.
The 2015 lineup featured a number of superstars, from reigning kings of the Dance Music scene, David Guetta, Armin Van Burren, Skrillex, Afrojack, Alesso, and Nicky Romero - in his very first visit to Japan - to Techno mainstars like Sasha, John Digweed, Nic Fanciulli, and James Zabiela.
Next year's festival will take place on September 17th, 18th, and 19th, 2016 and dwarf the scale of the the 2nd year event.
About ULTRA WORLDWIDE?
ULTRA WORLDWIDE? is the global edition of the World’s Premier Electronic Music event, ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL.
The ULTRA brand was founded in 1997 by Executive Producer, President & CEO Russell Faibisch, and began producing electronic music events in South Florida, which led to the inaugural Ultra Music Festival in 1999 on the sands of Miami Beach.
The internationally renowned festival, which has taken place every March since its inception, celebrated its seventeenth anniversary from March 27-29, 2015 by bringing over 165,000 music enthusiasts to the sold out waterfront event in the heart of the City of Miami. Ultra Music Festival returns to Bayfront Park for its eighteenth annual edition, 18-20 March 2016.
Choosing to follow a unique, creative vision and a wholly organic growth focused around a true love for music, artists and fans alike, the ULTRA and ULTRA Worldwide? brands represent not only the world’s biggest and most successful remaining INDEPENDENT electronic music festival brand, they are now the most international of any festival brand in the world by far. The event organizers continue to transport the unrivalled experience from the Miami flagship festival to an ever-growing number of destinations and fans all over the globe.
Over the past seventeen years, literally thousands of the world’s most iconic DJs, producers and live acts have mesmerized audiences with awe-inspiring sets at ULTRA festivals in ARGENTINA, BALI, BRAZIL, CHILE, CROATIA, IBIZA, JAPAN, KOREA, SOUTH AFRICA and of course MIAMI, as well as ROAD TO ULTRAR events in BOLIVIA, CHILE, COLOMBIA, MACAU, PARAGUAY, PERU, THE PHILIPPINES, PUERTO RICO, SEOUL, SINGAPORE, TAIWAN, THAILAND, TOKYO and the USA. Each and every new global edition is founded on the same successful recipe that has been perfected over seventeen years in Miami, combining the most diverse electronic talent with the most technologically advanced, large-scale festival productions in the world.
In addition, the ULTRA brands pioneered the live stream experience, ‘ULTRA LIVE’ (whereby the festival is brought online to over 20 million unique viewers globally) and the audio broadcasting platform ‘UMF RADIO’ (syndicated to FM Radio in over 42 countries and reaching more than 22 million listeners weekly). Also UMF FILMS’ collaboration with FINAL KID has seen some of the most visually breathtaking festival aftermovies in the music space, including a feature-length documentary exploring the explosion of dance music, entitled CAN U FEEL IT, which premiered at the Ultra Music Festival, Miami 2012 and was exhibited in over 500 theaters across the Unites States.
In 2015, the ULTRA and ULTRA WORLDWIDE? brands have continued to push the boundaries, bringing an unparalleled combination of cutting edge productions and the world’s best electronic acts back to previous strongholds and new frontiers across the globe. With its recent festival editions breaking records in JAPAN (September 2015), SOUTH AFRICA (February 2015), KOREA (June 2015), CROATIA (July 2015) and BALI (September 2015), and with the addition of the many new ROAD TO ULTRAR events all over the world, the ULTRA brand has now united NINETEEN COUNTRIES across FIVE CONTINENTS worldwide.
ULTRA JAPAN 2016
DATE
SEPTEMBER 17
OPEN 9:00 / START 11:00 / END 21:00 (TBC)
SEPTEMBER 18
OPEN 9:00 / START 11:00 / END 21:00 (TBC)
SEPTEMBER 19
OPEN 9:00 / START 11:00 / END 21:00 (TBC)
VENUE
Tokyo Odaiba ULTRA JAPAN
(ODAIBA ULTRA JAPAN SPECIAL EVENT SPACE / KOTO-KU AOMI)
ORG
ULTRA JAPAN 2016 Executive Committee
