Maschinenfest is a yearly, three-day
underground music festival featuring
industrial,
power electronic,
noise, and
dark electronic performers.
There are both independent and signed bands who are booked to play, as well as
many vendors for music and related paraphernalia. Featured record labels and
noteworthy companies include:
Ant-Zen,
Hands Productions,
Pflichtkauf,
Spectre Records and
Ad Noiseam.
Traditionally the festival has been in
October, held in a
bunker deep
underground
Aachen,
Germany. The venue has posed some problems with
heat,
humidity and
air circulation, as well as
condensation dripping on to the
gear of the performers, but the atmosphere of the bunker has proved quite
fitting to the genres of music played throughout the festival.