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The Gąbin Tower Memorial Festival was a large Goa
Goa trance
Goa trance is a form of electronic music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India.-History:The music has its roots in the popularity of the Goa state in India in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a hippie capital, and although musical developments were incorporating elements of...

 festival, which took place between August 4, 2006 and August 6, 2006 on the site of the former Warsaw Radio Mast
Warsaw radio mast
The Warsaw radio mast was the world's tallest structure until its collapse on 8 August 1991.The mast, which was designed by Jan Polak, was tall. Its construction, started in July 1970, was completed on 18 May 1974, and its transmitter entered regular service on 22 July of that year...

 (also known as Gąbin Tower) at Gąbin
Gabin
Gąbin is a town in Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,230 inhabitants .Between 1974 and 1991 the Warsaw radio mast in Konstantynów, a village belonging to Gąbin commune was the tallest structure on earth. The tower was used to broadcast the programs of Polish Radio throughout...

, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe . Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 as remember for the 15th anniversary of its collapse. Gąbin Tower Memorial Festival was one of the largest Goa festivals in Europe and visited by 18043 people.
Gąbin Tower Memorial Festival offered contrary to other Goa parties also some very interesting non-musical highlights, like a laser
Laser
A laser is a device that emits light through a process called stimulated emission. Laser light is usually spatially coherent, which means that the light either is emitted in a narrow, low-divergence beam, or can be converted into one with the help of optical components such as lenses...

beam directed to the sky, mass-launches of balloons carrying a lightstick
Lightstick
A glow stick is a single-use translucent plastic tube containing isolated substances which when combined make light through a chemical reaction-induced chemiluminescence which does not require an electrical power source. Millions of glow sticks are sold annually.- History :Cyalume was invented by...

 (a balloon-carried light effect
Balloon-carried light effect
A balloon-carried light effect is a special effect carried by a balloon, which can be either fixed with a rope to the ground or which is free-flying.-Uses:...

), special contests for radiofreaks and a pickpocket contest, at which one had to try to steal dolls equipped with sensoric equipment something out of their pockets.