Italy’s biggest techno festival closed its 11th edition with a record 115,000 attendees and has announced the dates for its next event: July 4, 5 and 6, 2025
Jeff Mills, Maceo Plex, Honey Dijon and The Blessed Madonna stood out on a poster with more than 100 artists such as The Blaze DJ, Carl Cox, Four Tet, Nina Kraviz and The Martinez Brothers
He FuturFestivalsponsored by the historic Italian sportswear brand, also offers a parallel programme of contemporary art and a top-level Art&Techno experience.
He Kappa Futur Festival Turin, one of the most impressive electronic music festivals in Europe, has closed its eleventh edition, breaking its own attendance records. Celebrating the success with 115,000 people who came to one of the three days of this mammoth Italian event dedicated to techno music and also with links to art and fashion. Aware of having established itself as a prominent event in the European festival calendar, the organization has announced the dates of its next edition, which will take place on July 4, 5 and 6, 2025. A new event to dance the future with all its consequences.
Everything that Kappa suggests is great. In this last edition, we were able to dance to the rhythm of more than 120 artists divided into 5 monumental stages located in the Parco Dora site. This is a former industrial and factory area that has been transformed for several decades into a green area for cultural and sporting events, giving FuturFestival the post-industrial air that suits electronic and raver sounds so well. The link with the sports brand that gives it its name is very close, as it lends the concept and logo, being the only music festival that integrates a fashion brand into its name, lending it its reputation and brand image. Not in vain, Kappa is a Piedmontese brand founded in 1916 that has been a reference in urban and popular cultures, taking advantage of each edition of FuturFestival to design an exclusive line for the event.
On the artistic and strictly musical level, during this eleventh edition artists such as Jeff Mills, Carl Cox, Bonobo, Four Tet, Nina Kraviz, The Blaze DJ, Whomadewho in hybrid format or The Blessed Madonnaamong many others. The list of sound proposals is decidedly endless, occupying the vast majority of rhythms and styles that govern current techno, from Ibiza to Detroit, passing through the clubs of Berlin or London. The success with the public is simply impressive. The image from stages such as Futur or Voyager is that of a human tide of people dancing and enjoying themselves, with little clothing due to the high temperatures typical of this time of year, in which a rain served as a refreshment on the last day.
As is customary at many European festivals, Kappa’s opening hours are from 12 noon to 12 midnight. Afterwards, there is a range of afterparties in various clubs in the city of Turin, such as Centralino or Audiodrome, where you can continue the party until the early hours of the morning.
Nina Kraviz
‘Art&Techno’: dance, futurism and contemporary art
Another aspect that distinguishes Kappa FuturFestival from other electronic music festivals is its connection to Turin art, starting with the very title, as ‘Futur’ is a nod to Futurism, the early 20th-century art movement that began in nearby Milan. The festival grounds offer art installations such as Marinella Senatore’s ‘Dance First, Think Later’, the hosting of Oliviero Toscani’s photographic work recording the festival fauna, as well as a self-produced exhibition, ‘Infinito, Italia atemporal’, by Jacopo Di Cera.
But this intense relationship between the festival and art does not end there. Those with a lot of money can opt to experience the ‘Art&Techno’ programme: one of the most distinguished electronic music experiences. The price includes all the luxuries imaginable at a music festival: accommodation in a five-star hotel, transport on demand, exclusive access to VIP areas and backstage with food and drink throughout the festival. However, one of the aspects that arouses the most interest, especially among those who are getting older and crossing the threshold of respectability, is the programme of visits and encounters with the artistic fabric of Turin: guided tours of the city to discover its satanic past, contemporary art spaces such as the Galleria Mazzoleni, one of the essentials of the European scene, the old Fiat factory converted into an exhibition space, and artists’ studios and private collections so that the most distinguished attendees can dance with awareness, embraced by the furious rhythms of the industrial atmosphere.
