December 25th - Army Of Hardcore, Oberhausen

Last tuesday it was time for the annual christmas party in Oberhausen !

ARMY OF HARDCORE !

With a line up, hardcore minded people can only dream of !

Mainstream ( 2 area's ), frenchcore, speedcore, freestyle and ofcourse, early !

Dj's like Evil Activities, Art Of Fighters, Angerfist, Bass-D, Paul Elstak, Tha Playah, Viper, Neophyte, Korsakoff and many more were bringing you some serious damage in your ears !

When we arrived, we came in at the main 1 where Dj Korsakoff was playing. She was almost finished and after that it was time for our good friend Kelly ( Evil Activities ) and E-Life, to begin their live act ! It was massive ! What a sound !

We had to play in the early area together with Darkraver, Dune, Paul and Panic which is quite the early line up !

It's always more difficult choosing your tracks when so many awesome dj's are in the same ine up as you. You want to be different, and that's not always easy.

I think we did a good job. The people danced, although it was freakin' hot in the early area. They even sang along! We had a great time ! Afterwards we talked some of our colleagues, and at 4 it was time to go .. It had been a long day !

Here are some partypictures by my man Danny from PF :

- Art Of Fighters -

- Dj Korsakoff -

- Jeroen / Neophyte -

- Dj The Viper -

- that's me -

- Kelly / Evil Activities -

- Elvis / E-Life -

- Mainstage - 

December 1st - Wonderful Days, Dordrecht

After our big party in Gorinchem, it was time for a smaller, but not less exciting party from our friends from NRG Events ~ Mister OCD !

Our settime was from 3 tot 4AM, so we had to close down. Always cool !

It was a pretty cool line up, with all sorts of oldschool heroes ... Waxweazle, Dj Norman, OCD and Human Resource!

The party was in club/bar called Dolhuis, and it was next to the studio of the one and only Evil Activities !

When we arrived, Mister Waxweazle was playing the decks, with some very cool tunes. At 3 it was our time to 'shine' ... We immediately got into the flow, as the people on the dancefloor wanted an hour of pure energy ! That was very good !

It was a fine night ! Love the energy they gave us !

It was really a cool small location ! Hope to be playing here in 2013!

Defqon1 Aftermovie

Check out our own aftermovie from our gig at the Defqon1 festival at our new Critical Mass youtube channel ..  as you can see, it was a great day !

June 23rd : Defqon1 festival

June 23rd was the day we had been waiting for since the day we heard the news that we would be playing there .... D-day ... or Defqon1 day ! Such a big festival, with all those big dj names, wow ! It was a big honor.

Ofcourse, when you are playing at a outdoor festival, the first thing you worry about is, the weather. But at 10 AM in the morning the sun was already shining and the sky was blue. The way everybody hoped for. Great start of the day.

My dj had to play at a dance festival in the south of Holland at 12 PM, and from there on we drove to Biddinghuizen, a small village in the province Flevoland, about 80km from Amsterdam. Biddinghuizen is very small village with a population of about 6000 inhabitants, but is well known because of it's themepark Walibi Holland ( formerly Six Flags ) and the area where one of the biggest festivals in The Netherlands takes place ( Lowlands ). But on this weekend, it was Defqon1 time! 65.000 people went crazy that weekend, on all kinds of hard and loud dance music!

Because of bad traffic, we arrived at 4.20 PM at the entrance, and for there we were escorted to the GREY area ( the early stage ). Unfortunenately we arrived at 4.36 ( our settime started at 4.30 PM ) but our friend Mental Theo was so kind to play an extra tune. Then it was party kicking time ! The stage looked like a big Yin-Yang sign ( check picture 1 ). We arranged a cameraman for the day ( my man Sander Kroes ) and he was filming from the arrival till ... to make a special road/aftermovie for us, for our new Youtube Channel.

There were about 1500 partypeople dancing to our tunes, and that is quite a lot, considering at other area's dj's like Kutski, Noisecontrollers, Psycho Punkz and the almighty Neophyte Records Allstarzs were playing too. It was great to see people really loving that early sound. We received a lot of love ! We played pretty hard with lots of bootlegs ( thanks to my man Dj Triax ) and people liked it. And ofcourse, people sang along with Burning Love ! :)

After our set we walked around to see the other area's and feel the vibe. Our cameraman followed us around. It was great to talk to dj's I haven't seen in a long time again. Buzzfuzz, Pavo, Predator, Waxweazle dj team, and the boys from Neophyte Records ( Kelly, Melvin and Jeroen )

At 10 PM it was time to go. We were dead tired. It had been a long day. A great day though. Defqon1 for us came to an end. It was an honor to be playing at this mega festival. Thank you Q-Dance for the opportunity! And Thank you very much for the customized Heineken bottles!

- GREY -

- RED -

- The Festival -

- Mainstage Endshow -

- Black -

Moscow partypictures 07.04.12

Here are several partypictures from the 'Epicenter' together with Evil Activities and E-Life ...

April 7th | The Moscow Adventure

Saturdaymorning, 7.30 AM ... I picked up my dj and we went to Brussels Airport ( Zaventem )

Arrived at the airport around 9.00 AM, we started our day there with a nice coffee at our friends from Starbucks. That's a good way to start your day. Next thing : CHECK IN !

For once we had plenty of time ( not common for me ) so all good. Also for once I had all the documents ( thanks to our agency Studio No.98 bookings ) so this part was all taken care of.

The plane was in time and at 12.00 we were on it's way to Moscow. My dj already went once ( for putting down a house set ) but for me, it was the first time. I had no idea what to expect. I've heard lots of good things, but it's always a question if it will turn out that way ...

At about 5 PM we arrived in a snowy Sheremetyevo Airport. I was pretty cold for Dutch standards, and I didn't really had any winterclothes but I could not complain. Because of the many traffic jams, our pick up was a bit late but that was no problem. We had free wifi at the airport. We picked up by Pasha ( dj Nail ) and his girl Olga. The first we've noticed, is that the cars looked really dirty! Plus the many, many cars. How much cars can a city have ? Because of that many cars, the 40 km drive turned out to be almost 2 hours to our hotel, the Katarina City Hotel. The hotel was definitely not bad. In room 204 we unpacked our bags and most important, our Macbooks. ( because again, we had free wifi ! )

At around 8 PM we were picked up by Kirill and his wife Natasha. We drove to a restaurant named 'Korchma', a restaurant were they serve Oekraine dishes. At the restaurant we also met Kelly ( Evil Activities ) and his MC, rapper E-Life, plus their driver/guide Julia.

Dinner was pretty good, especially the potatoes ... As apetizer we also ate some specialty, which name I forgot.  The 'pancakes' were really good, but the red caviar was not really my thing. Pretty salty.

At 11 PM we left the restaurant and went back to the hotel for a quick refreshment, a change of clothes and to pick up our music. We were all set!

At about 12 AM we arrived at the club ( called Graf ... ) it was a pretty cool club, who from the inside looked a bit like the Paradiso in Amsterdam, with a balcony. As soon as we came in, people start shaking hands so we got a warm welcome. This could turn out to be a very good gig!

Once backstage we had to sign stuff and take pictures. The JE Crew boys ( organisation ) were very nice and also the many dj's backstage were really nice. At 1 AM it was time to rock.

We started with 'Your Smile' ( Viper Remix ) and the tone was set. This was set to be not a great night, but an epic night! We kicked in some happy hardcore tunes, and lot's of early hardcore tracks. The people sang along with all our songs and the other happy tunes, it was freaking awesome. They danced their asses off! Much respect, cause this is the way it should be!

At the middle of our set, we had small pause to see if they were still awake. And they were! It was time for the greatest happy hardcore song out there ( Wonderfull Days by Mental Theo and Lownoise ) EPIC! After this track people pointed at me for doing a crowdsurf, and so I did! It was awesome! I had never done it before. It felt great! Almost at the end of our set I did it again. Our set went good, we were satisfied and seeing the people dance that much and giving us such good feedback tells me they were satisfied too.

After our set it was time for Kelly and Elvis ( Evil Activities and E-Life ) to rock the house! And they did ... BIGTIME! What energy they gave! My dj and I went into the audience, and at that point it was picture and autograph time ... I hadn't wrote autographs like this when I was still performing in the 90's .. Good feeling though ...

We were in the club till around 5, and in the hotel Kelly, Bruce and I went for an after in the hotel lobby. Just a good chat about music, and something to eat. After a check at the menu, we all went for the Alex Bar Burger ( not too good at 6 in the morning but okay ) An hour later we went to bed.

Five hours later I was awake again. It was time to see some of Moscows beauty! We couldn't leave without seeing the famous Red Square right .. ? As a real tourist with big camera I took pictures from some very nice looking buildings our guide Dasha showed us. Afterwards we went for a nice lunch at a TGI Fridays. After that we went down to the hotel with the subway. There we were picked up and after a hour ride we were at Sheremetyevo Airport again. Our Moscow adventure was over.

I hope we get the chance to perform here again, because it was really wicked. One of the BEST gigs ever! Thanks to JE CREW ( Dj Nail, Yury and all others), and OZZO Promo ( Stanislav ), Kirill & Natasha and last but not least Dasha and brother. This was one awesome experience! Till next time ! ( pictures will follow )