Clown Camp.

Mondsee and Ried are two different places with different spaces. Which musical decision do you deliberately make differently at one location than at the other? Tell us through a particular floor.

Fundamentally, we want to offer the same quality and similar styles at both locations. But each camp has its own character. In Mondsee we work with the Kick Force Crew, who host the hardstyle floor and simply know their scene best.

One particular highlight to come out of that: the last half-hour on the main floor belongs to Kick Force as the “Resident Rumble”.

Ried has a strong local scene that we deliberately support there. Pavocx, for example, comes from the area and really wanted to play in Ried. Febration connects the two camps: he plays a set in Mondsee and another in Ried on the same night.

When you decide the running order, how do you recognise that two acts will follow each other well musically? Has there been a pairing that looked unusual on paper but worked precisely because of that?

Our principle is that no artist should have to pretend to be someone else. We try to place everyone within their musical comfort zone as well as we can: house earlier in the evening, drum and bass closer to the end.

But over the past few years we have also kept experimenting, for example with a bigger house artist as the headliner in a prime-time slot. That has worked surprisingly well every time. For us, that is exactly what makes a festival: doing something unorthodox now and then, rather than following the usual structure of a resident night at a club.