Trance Energy

Trance Energy is a Dutch dance event featuring DJs from around the world. It`s been held since 1999 in the Netherlands and is organized by ID&T, the leading dance events company.

In 2011, ID&T changed the concept and renamed the festival to "Energy the network". The change was announced in September 2010, and labeled as a simple "name change". Yet after the line-up announcement, it was clear that Trance Energy was existing no more and Energy was going to be a completely new festival.

Audience in the first years was mostly Dutch but now it has many international visitors, mainly from the European Union and sometimes from other countries around the world. The festival earned worldwide fame thanks to bootlegs of DJ mixes and some official videos of former editions. At the 2010 edition, it has been said by ID&T that more than 40% of the audience was not Dutch. ID&T also stated that Trance Energy will be renamed to just Energy in 2011. After the publication of the line-up, it appears that the festival is no longer trance only but other genres are appearing.

Trance Energy contains three stages located in different halls. The "Mainstage", where headliners DJs do their sets with lasers, lights and fireworks. The "Madhouse" which features more house and club music. An alternate stage whose name changes each year where mostly trance is being played. Since 2007, a fourth stage has been added, the "Hard Stage" featuring harder derivatives of Trance Music. In 2009, students of the Utrecht School for the Arts were asked to design the entrance of the festival. Everyone grabbed his laptop and started to make his drawings. They finally  created a unique entrance, where interactivity, game-elements, video, fashion and music came together.

Trance Energy has become "the place to be" for DJs and Trance addicts and almost all big stars  including Armin van Buuren, Cosmic Gate, Paul van Dyk, Johan Gielen, John O'Callaghan, and Rank 1 are performing at the festival.Bootlegged DJ sets from Trance Energy are also very popular and a number of them are considered "classic" by the Trance community.