Europe · Central

Austria

Austria's electronic scene is concentrated but unusually diverse: Vienna anchors the club network, while Graz, Linz and Innsbruck connect techno, house, drum & bass and experimental culture through independent rooms, promoters and annual festivals.

ID: HISTORY

1958—NOW

From signal
to scene.

A cultural history of Austrian electronic music, told through studios, machines, labels, clubs and the people who kept transmitting.

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ID: EVENTS

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21AUG

Kautzen · 14:00

streamlines festival 2026

Seedcamp Kautzen

Techno

27AUG

Wiesen · 14:00

Outback Festival 2026

Festivalgelände Wiesen

Drum and bass

04SEP

Vienna · 14:00

BeatPatrol Festival 2026

Galopprennbahn Freudenau

Techno

04SEP

Vienna · 15:30

Unsafe+Sounds 2026

Multiple Vienna venues

Experimental electronic

05SEP

Innsbruck · 11:00

Intensity Open Air Festival 2026

Olympiaworld Innsbruck

Hardstyle

ID: NEWS

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Vienna’s new awareness rules move safer-clubbing practice into law

Since 1 July, qualifying music events from 300 people must plan formal support structures, name trained contacts and define how incidents are handled.

Bruck an der Leitha

Paradies Garten tests a phone-free pocket inside its festival

→Vienna

FARCE turns a self-produced Vienna album into an FM4 number one

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