Balaton Sound, the festival that can be heard up to tens of kilometers

The 2016 season of the popular Hungarian festival came to an end with the 11th of July. The Balaton Sound was organized, as usual, at the biggest European freshwater lake, Balaton, at the beach of Zamárdi. It was the tenth time for the “Sound community” to rave the night away.

The Festival is known as the main event for club music in the country, and it definitely did not disappoint its fans in 2016. Performers, like Armin van Buuren, Steve Aoki, Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike, Martin Solveig, Duke Dumont, Fritz Kalkbrenner or Hernan Cattaneo were all there to “make some noise”, as also a number of other DJs, at 19 locations of the Festival, from all over the world, to keep the lovers of dancing up, from the moment when the sun reaches its peak, sinks in the lake, and comes up again, from the specular surface of the Balaton.

Also, the festival successfully tried to attach the more ordinary festivalgoers as well, as Balaton Sound is quite famous for having an audience significantly different from other festivals. This is probably why, while having a few somewhat more instrumental performers, like Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Chris Brown, Punany Massif, Halott Pénz or Brains, they also started to hide the open-air gyms otherwise so characteristic about this festival. Still, most of the people visiting Sound are quite stereo-typically bulk up guys and girls, who fell into Mica powder on the way to Zamárdi.