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Area Festival
Location(s) North America (touring)
Years active 2001 - 2002
Founded by
Date(s) July - August
Genre(s) Electronic, Rock, Hip hop
Website

The Area Festival was a music festival founded by popular electronic musician Moby, who asserted that he was "in large part, inspired by the ethos of Lollapalooza",[1] and wished to create a similarly "genuinely eclectic, interesting, alternative music festival". Electronic music is music that employs Electronic musical instruments and Electronic Music technology in its production Rock music is a genre of Popular music often though not necessarily employing Electric guitar, Bass guitar, and Drums. Hip hop music, also referred to as rap music, is a Music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rap which is accompanied with A music festival is a Festival oriented towards Music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as Musical genre, Nationality or locality Electronic music is music that employs Electronic musical instruments and Electronic Music technology in its production A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a Richard Melville Hall, also known as Moby (born September 11, 1965 in Harlem, New York) is an American DJ Lollapalooza is an American music festival featuring Alternative rock, hip hop, and Punk rock bands Dance and Comedy performances Moby organized the first such festival, called Area:One in 2001, and the sequel tour Area2, in 2002. The festival is currently on indefinite hiatus. The festival featured diverse genres of music. Besides headliner Moby, the main stage mostly featured rock and pop acts. Rock music is a genre of Popular music often though not necessarily employing Electric guitar, Bass guitar, and Drums. Pop music as a genre features a noticeable rhythmic element catchy melodies and hooks, a mainstream style and conventional structure The second stage was an air-conditioned tent where electronic, dance and smaller bands performed. This article is about music for dancing in general You may also be looking for Electronic dance music.

The 2001 Area:One acts included Moby, OutKast, New Order, Carl Cox, Nelly Furtado, Incubus, Paul Oakenfold, The Roots, The Orb, Rinôçérôse. Richard Melville Hall, also known as Moby (born September 11, 1965 in Harlem, New York) is an American DJ Outkast (typeset as OutKast) is a Grammy Award -winning American hip hop duo based out of East Point Georgia, a city New Order are an English rock group formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner ( vocals, Guitars Synthesizers, Peter Hook Carl Cox (born July 29, 1962 in Oldham, Lancashire, England) is an international techno and house Nelly Kim Furtado (born December 2 1978 is a Canadian Singer-songwriter, record producer actor and instrumentalist, who also holds Portuguese Incubus is a Grammy -nominated Alternative rock band based out of Calabasas, California. Paul Oakenfold (born 30 August, 1963 in Greenhithe, Kent, UK) is a Record producer and a popular trance The Roots are an American hip-hop band from Philadelphia Pennsylvania. The Orb are an English Electronic music group known for popularising Chill out music in the 1990s and spawning the genre of Ambient house. Rinôçérôse is a French band founded by Jean-Philippe Freu and Patrice Carrié that mixes rock music and electronic dance music Here is some video filmed live at the first Area Festival: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r0HsA3Kk9Q

The 2002 Area2 acts included Moby and David Bowie in alternating headlining slots: as well as Ash, Blue Man Group, and Busta Rhymes. David Bowie (ˈboʊiː born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 is an English Musician, actor producer, and arranger. Ash are an Alternative rock band that formed in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland in 1992 Blue Man Group ( Blue Man, BMG) is a creative organization founded by Phil Stanton Chris Wink and Matt Goldman it is centered on a trio of mute performers called Trevor George Smith Jr, (born May 20 1972 better known as Busta Rhymes, is an American actor and Musician of Jamaican descent

The festival also featured a DJ tent with a rotating list of artists.

The main sponsors for the tour were Intel, KMX, and Pepsi. Pepsi-Cola is a carbonated beverage that is produced and manufactured by PepsiCo.

Contents

Area:One

This concert in 2001 featured:

Area2

This concert in 2002 featured:

Area2 Tour Dates

Area was a three-week touring festival in the Summer of 2002,

See also


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