The Croatia Diaries

The electronic music empire is a divided place. Common knowledge dictates it’s Berlin for the technorati and mismatched-shoe bloggers, Ibiza for decades-established superclubbing, Las Vegas for that peculiar breed of Elite-EDM ers. That leaves Croatia something of a mystery. There’s been plenty of speculation- that it’s ‘the new Ibiza’, that it’s ‘better than Ibiza’, or that it’s ‘the new Magaluf’ – and it’ll be all over in a decade. The legends surrounding Croatia grow year on year, largely because, much like the Moon in the ‘50s, Soviet Russia in the 80s, or Lady Gaga – not many people have been there for any length of time. Data Transmission – underground electronic music experts, pioneers of party hotspots, (and according to a Google image search – authorities on low-level satellite transmitters) have decided to fix this. We politely declined offers for a season in Ibiza, a season in Mallorca, a season in the US and a season in the Crimea (for real) to get to the heart of this mystery. We’re sending one of our writers to be the first journalist ever to do a ‘Season’ in Croatia. 

Three months. 13 festivals.  You can check out where he’s headed by looking at our Croatia Guide.

Ally Byers informed us that volunteering to spend a quarter of his year in the former Yugoslavia was a project born out of a passion for the unknown, a need for discovery, and in no way linked to his owing an ex-girlfriend rather a lot of money. He’s our very own first chimp into space.

We’ll be doing daily updates, words, videos, interviews here at Data Transmission. 

For more information on the festival in Croatia this summer head to our Data Transmission Croatia Guide 2014