Nocturnal Wonderland, formerly known as Nocturnal Festival, is a massive electronic music festival that has been steadily growing and brings the biggest names in music and dance to an audience of up to 50,000 musical enthusiasts. Nocturnal Wonderland for the first time in 2012 is a two-day event that occurred in early September around Labor Day until 2009, when it was changed to occur on the last Saturday of September. There are usually 5 stages with a total of over 60 different artist playing over the two nights. The styles of music heard are extremely vast and vary in range from year to year. Every year there are artists from the trance, drum and bass, break beat, and house genres.
The first Nocturnal Wonderland was held in 1995. In its early years, Insomniac (the production crew responsible for Nocturnal Festival), did not have a steady venue for this event. The location for the party/event would have to move around from year to year. One of its most famous locations was in the Coachella Valley Indio Polo grounds. This is the same location where the now famous Coachella Music Festival is held. In 2003 (after one year of Nocturnal Wonderland not being held because no venue large enough for the event could be secured), Nocturnal Wonderland returned to the National Orange Show, in San Bernardino, after having first taken place at that location in 1998. The Orange Show has been the location of Nocturnal from 2003 to the present except for 2007. During 2007, the event was held in Downtown Los Angeles.
On Labor Day Weekend 2010, Insomniac surprised many fans by introducing Nocturnal Festival Texas held at Apache Pass Fairgrounds in Rockdale, Texas, just outside of Austin. This event became not only the first Nocturnal Festival outside of California, but also the first multi-day Nocturnal being held on September 4 and 5. Insomniac would further surprise fans by announcing Nocturnal Festival California will be two days as well in 2012, as well as a return to the name Nocturnal Wonderland. Other similar festivals in the Southern California area include Together As One (Produced in conjunction with Go Ventures), Monster Massive (A Go Ventures Production), Beyond Wonderland, and Electric Daisy Carnival.
Line up for 2012 includes:
Friday 21 September
Axwell
Alesso
Fedde le Grand
Morgan Page
Cedric Gervais
EDX
Manufactured Superstars
Joaquin Bamaca
Above & Beyond
Mat Zo
Cosmic Gate
Super8 & Tab
Norin & Rad
Boom Jinx
Soundprank
Dirtyphonics
Andy C
Downlink
The Prototypes
Skeptiks
Mediks
Flinch
Fury
Saturday - September 22nd
Sebastian Ingrosso
Pretty Lights
Benny Benassi
Arty
R3hab
John Dahlbäck
Chris Lake
Deniz Koyu
Funkagenda
David Steven
Dash Berlin
ATB
Showtek
W&W
Simon Patterson
Myon & Shane54
Sean Tyas
tyDi
Darin Epsilon
Subfocus dj set
12th Planet
Planet of the Drums
Crizzly
Dub FX
Culture Shock
Torqux
Hamilton
Deco
Snareophobe & Starfighterz
Röyksopp
Little Boots
Bassjackers
Orbital
Neon Indian
Joachim Garraud
Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike
Danny Avila
James Egbert
Danny Tenaglia
John Digweed
Gui Boratto
Umek
Mark Knight
Nicole Moudaber
Jamie Jones
Damian Lazarus
16 Bit Lolitas
Droog
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