In 1996, three simultaneous stages gave place to the second version. There were more than sixty national bands such as Dogma, Sagrada Escritura, Policarpa y sus viciosas, La pestilencia, Agony, among others. The foreign contributors were Lucy Bell and Los Tetas from Chile; Autenticos Decadentes from Argentina; Spias and Zapato 3 from Venezuela, Zopilotes from Peru; La Lupita from Mexico and Puya from Puerto Rico. Around 105.000 people attended the concerts.

The continuity of the festival was kept and as of year 2000 there were more international well-known artists. During that year artists such as Manu Chao from France and La mosca Tse Tse from Argentina stunned the audience with monumental performances. This year the festival goes under the motto "It is up to us that the music conti