[LINK: http://www.kazantip.com] 'KaZantip (also known simply as "Z") is an electronic dance music festival held every year on the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine. The entrance ticket is called a "viZa". It takes place for 4-6 weeks in the summer and more than 100,000 "paradiZers" visit each year. There is a cult of orange colored fashion and yellow suitcases associated with the festival. The festival is named for the Kazantyp headland near which it was held from 1995-1999. Each year the festival is held at a beach resort on the Black Sea, or Azov Seas, but not always at the same location. It advertises itself as a "virtual republic" with over 300 DJ on more than 14 dance floors which play 21 hours per day. The first festival was held in 1991 when Ukraine was still part of the former Soviet Union and has as similar long tradition as Loveparade, Burning Man and Streetparade. The president,

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