BEONIX is a ground breaking festival in Cyprus that takes place in a stunning location and brings something all new to the region. This year’s festival saw an impressive turnout, with over 5,000 attendees per day from Israel, Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, Greece, Hungary, the USA, Georgia, Lithuania, Estonia and beyond.
Across the three days it mixes up art, culture and technology with a world class line up featuring Paul Kalkbrenner, ANNA, Maceo Plex, and Stephan Bodzin, Carbon, Fiona Kraft, Jamiie, Joplyn and more across several stages and with famously high production values and super loud and clear sound systems.
This second edition in the coastal city of Limassol in Cyprus from 22-24 of September boasted temperatures consistently around 32°C which is great for this late in summer.Â
The location specifically is ETKO which was once the city’s biggest winery. It shut a decade ago but was transformed by the BEONIX team with tons of street art is plastered over the sides of hollowed out warehouses. The main stage is vast with high-quality screens which beam out trippy visuals and elsewhere you get the Hangar Stage, an air-conditioned indoor space that resembles a mini Warehouse Project and the Organic Stage for chill out and home-grown DJ talent.
The musical highlights come thick and fast – Black Coffee brings and incredible mix of African percussion and modern house from more minimal Afrobeat sounds to classic bangers. In the last half an hour he would build early 2000s throwback classics with a twist and seamlessly drop into Stardust – “Music Sounds Better With You”, this drove the crowd mental.
Elsewhere Fiona Kraft has a really distinctive sound with rolling Afrohouse and techno beats. She cleverly mixed tunes seamlessly that captivated listeners and took them on a journey and Jamiie opened the main stage on the closing night with great Afrohouse beats. A smaller artist that seems to be upcoming in the scene. Stephan Bodzin is a legend who shows why with minimal progressive techno ANNA offers slow techno and melodic builds which brought in a big crowd in Hangar Stage.
All in all a super weekend and a great way to explore a new part of the world. It seems that BEONIX really is changing the game for the local region and is well worth visiting where you are in the world.
Here are some moments we captured:
Next year, Beonix will take place on 20-22 of September at ETKO, Limassol.
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