ruhr-in-love is an annual one-day open-air festival held in a park in the ruhr region, running since 2003. it brings together around 25 floors curated by clubs, collectives, labels, and booking agencies across the electronic music spectrum, covering hardtechno, hardstyle, progressive trance, goa, and psytrance among other genres, all within a single daytime event from midday to ten at night.

v.i.b.e.z. production is a cologne and bochum-based collective that holds the dedicated goa and psytrance floor at the festival. they have run this floor at ruhr-in-love across multiple editions and also operate independently at other events and festivals including nature one, covering goa, psytrance, and progressive trance programming.