Volux Lighting Fixtures Deliver For The L.A.B. Stage On Breakaway Festival's 2026 Circuit
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This year's design for the L.A.B. Stage at Breakaway Festival put two Volux Lighting fixtures in the workhorse role: The Volux Lighting Phantom and Volux Lighting Phyton. Combining their versatile effects package and IP rated durability is delivering massive punch at the immersive deep house stage on this years circuit, provided by Premier Entertainment Group.
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Breakaway Festival is the one to watch on the festival circuit right now. The brand has grown from a single 2-day event in Columbus, Ohio in 2016 into the fastest-growing independent multi-city music festival in the country, with last year's run pulling record-breaking numbers north of 300,000 attendees nationwide.
2026 is the biggest year yet at 14 stops coast to coast, running from April through November, and the tour is currently underway after kickoff dates in Dallas, Tampa, and Arizona. Sitting alongside the main stage at every stop is the L.A.B. Stage, the festival's outdoor house and deeper electronic platform. It's a side-stage footprint with a faster artist turnover, lower trim, and closer audience proximity than the main, which means fixture choice actually shows up in the show. Whatever's hanging has to carry the show and the entire artist roster.
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Volux Lighting Phantom: The Versatile BeamWash
Volux Lighting Phantom is an IP65 Beamwash putting out 24,000 lumens off an array of 19 independently controllable 60W RGBL LEDs. Each primary LED is backlit by 4 RGB GLODOT pixels, giving you 76 backlit pixels per fixture behind the main array. Programmers can keep the GLODOTs subtle for a soft halo around each lens cell, or push them into a direct-view pixel matrix for aggressive eye candy. Either look reads from the back of the dancefloor.
The 4.5 to 60 degree zoom is the other half of the case. Pulled tight, Phantom throws a defined column through the hazer for the fat beam look that anchors a drop. Pulled wide, it floods the deck and the booth with an even, saturated wash. An indexable rotating lens effect adds a slow mid-air texture on top of the pixel work when you want it.
Volux Lighting Phyton: The IP66 Hybrid-Profile
The 24 Volux Lighting Phytons are the more interesting half of the workhorse pair. Phyton is a fully featured hybrid-profile built around a 600W LED engine, putting out up to 32,000 lumens with a native zoom range from 1.9 to 52 degrees. At the tight end, you get a true concentrated beam with illuminance up to 200,000 lux at 5 meters, the kind of long-throw beam work that has historically required a discharge lamp or a laser source. At the wide end, the same fixture delivers a flat, even spot field clean enough to take a framed key on the DJ. One unit, multiple jobs across the night.
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Color runs CMY plus CTO supplemented by a 7-color dichroic color wheel that includes a CRI filter, plus Volux's MINTRA minus mint/green system for cleaner calibration in mixed-camera and eye-matched environments. Full blackout framing shutters hold a clean edge across the full zoom range. The FX package, seven rotating gobos, eight static gobos, six layerable prisms across two planes, dual frost filters, an iris, and a fully rotating animation wheel, is what makes the hybrid-profile label mean something on this fixture.
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The IP66 rating is the spec that matters most on a touring run. Most outdoor moving heads in this class top out at IP65. Phyton pushes to IP66, adding protection against high-pressure water jets on top of complete dust resistance. That's the same spec that held up under Miami's heat, humidity, and storm risk at ULTRA, now translated to a different festival environment with a different kind of stress test attached.
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What This Says About Volux
There's a parallel here worth naming. The fastest-growing independent festival brand in the United States is putting the workhorse load on a lighting manufacturer that's been growing at a similar pace, and that alignment isn't an accident. Volux has spent the last two years putting hard reps on its product line in front of working LDs, programmers, and crew chiefs at the highest end of the festival circuit. Breakaway is betting on production that can keep up with where the brand is going, and Volux is building gear that can handle that kind of run.
Want to take a closer look at the Phantom or Phyton? Head over to the Volux Lighting product pages for full specs and documentation. As for where these fixtures show up next, we'll let the rest of the festival season speak for itself.
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