December 15th - Rainbow Rave, Uelsen

Last saturday it was time for an old fashion 'Happy Hardcore' party ... the winter edition of RainBow Rave. 4 years ago, we started Critical Mass at this party, at this location, so it always cool to be back.

The location is the megaclub ZAK, in Uelsen, Germany. It's pretty long drive for us, but always worth it.

The line up was awesome. 2 live acts, and 4 dj's! Bass-D, Waxweazle, Paul Elstak and us ! Plus our friends from 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor and 4-Tune Fairytales !

We had the kick off. Our settime was from 12.30 till 02.00 AM, which was okay since we were attending Thunderdome after this.

The club was not too crowded when we arrived ( the night was still young ). The dancefloor was empty, and all people were having drinks and stood around it. This I had to change ofcourse.

After 5 minutes the first people came to the dancefloor, after 15 minutes this was changed to let's say 25 people ... At the end of our set the dancefloor was full and the hands were all the way up in the air ! Very nice Uelsen ! We liked it !

After us it was time for Des'ray and D-Rock to play for all those enthousiastic people ! As the vibe was set, I think that would not be a problem ! Unfortunately we had no time to see the others, because we were attending the last Thunderdome in Amsterdam !

Here are some partypictures made at Rainbow Rave :





- Our very own Critical Mass dj, Mr. Mogwai !  -

  

- the one and only Dj Paul Elstak -





- Dj Waxweazle -

  

- Lilian aka. 4-Tune Fairytales -

 

- Des'ray and D-Rock aka. 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor -




December 1st - Pump Up The 90's, Gorinchem

Our first gig last saturday was a big one ! Almost every time these Pump Up The 90's parties are sold out, and this one was no exception. Although the 'Evenementenhal Gorinchem' is a little smaller than the one in Hardenberg, there will still 1900 people ! Wow !

The artists at this party were 2 Brothers on The 4th Floor, The Darkraver and us.

Our settime was from 11.45PM to 12.30AM. Very short for a dj set, so it had to be powerful !

When we walked to the stage, I noticed that the crowd was standing about 10 meter from the stage. Pretty strange. For me an extra challenge to still get them to come closer! At parties like this you cannot play everything .. the crowd is more commercial so there will no 'Geleihoofd' from Darrien Kelly to name one ...

We started pretty relaxed, playing some cool happy hardcore tracks, but then trying to test the audience. I saw a lot of people dancing their asses off, even girls on high heels making that gabber moves .. so cool !

In the middle of our dj set it was time to play '98 To Your Mind' the ultimate bootleg made by Viper & Evil Activities .... First people sang along to Highlanders ' Hold Me Now, and after that the great 98 To Piano melody comes in ... I think 1000 or more people were standing with their hands up in the air ! What a great moment !!

The set was great, and half way the people were already close to my stage. So everything went quite well ! We were really satisfied and so was the organisation.

Hoping to do some cool stuff for them in 2013 !