Charlotte de Witte performs at the Voltage Festival in Basel – Basel

Jamie Jones' House, Charlotte de Witte's Techno: The tension festival in Basel rises on the eve of Swiss National Day.

The numbers can be sobering. And an inquiry commissioned by a Swiss wholesale company in 2016 brought a very disappointing result. Only 45% of those surveyed knew what was happening on August 1st: the creation of the Swiss Confederation.

Since 1993, the national day has been without work. This is a good thing because the day before, the tension festival in St. Jakob Gartenbad gets up. His slides can be used by festival guests this year. You can cross the tunnel at a speed of up to 60 kilometers at a time, while DJ AndHim or Jamie Jones, founder of the creative house Hot Creations, hangs up on the festival stage. For the first time is the Belgian Charlotte de Witte. Born in Ghent in 1992, she was a teenage teenager of New Romantic music and influenced by EBM that she released under the male alias Raving George. In 2015, his first single appeared under his real name with "Weltschmerz". This accelerated his career almost absurdly. Today, he belongs to the artistic tribe of major techno festivals like Tomorrowland and Pukkelpop. Everything is accomplished, you might think. Nevertheless, she still has a dream: to be next to techno disc jockey Len Faki. This could already happen at the Festival de la tension. There is the Berliner, known for his hard, regular player.

Date: Basel, Festival of Tension,
Gartenbad St. Jakob, Tue, 31 July,
12 noon