Sensation White

Sensation is a dance-event, which takes place in the Netherlands and is organized by ID&T. The original event, was exclusively in the Amsterdam Arena but from 2005, is located in Poland, Spain, Austria, Chile, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Serbia, Brazil, Norway, Ukraine and United Kingdom.

Although it began as one edition, just called Sensation, it has been split up into two editions, Sensation Black and Sensation White. This is done to point out the difference in music style and in the whole feeling. Sensation Black focuses more on 'darker' music, whereas Sensation White focuses more on Trance. On 2008 the names of the events have been changed: ”Sensation“ (before ”Sensation White“), and ”Black“ (before ”Sensation Black“).

Sensation White used to be a trance event, but in later years, it has become a pure house event. All the visitors are required to wear white and the Amsterdam Arena itself is also decorated to match. Sensation White has a slogan, "Be Part Of The Night - Dress in White".

Every event has around 40000-45000 tickets available and believe me, there is always a sold out. Great DJs that have appeared at Sensation include Tiësto, Armin van Buuren, Swedish House Mafia, Darren Emerson, David Guetta, Erick E, Erick Morillo, Ferry Corsten, Marco V, Paul van Dyk, Sander Kleinenberg, Steve Angello, Fedde Le Grand, Sebastian Ingrosso, Felix Da Housecat, Laidback Luke, Tocadisco and many others.

To create interest in the event, Sensation came up with a contest where the fans would vote for their favorite theme, via the social networks, and make it the anthem. The people behind this event do their best to make each party unique and unforgettable for the visitors and really give their whole energy in it. Despite all the technical problems, the DJs booking and many others, as the great amount of power consumption in each event, it is true that the do a great job.

It is truly a life experience to be there and see for yourself how great a party can be and how much people can create and imagine when they really love what they do... 




New Year Moment at Sensation White 2009 in Dusseldorf

Sensation 2008 The Show

Sensation 2005 Megamix

Coachella

Coachella is a three-day annual music festival held at the Empire Polo Club in California by Goldenvoice. The event features many genres of music as well as large sculptural art. It started in 1999 and about 25000 people attended the event, supporting headlining acts of The Chemical Brothers, Jurassic 5, DJ Shadow, and Underworld. The event went smoothly, with the biggest complaint being the blistering heat. The Coachella Music Festival has a desert setting with daytime temperatures frequently rising to over 38 °C. The festival enjoys little cloud cover or shade. The temperature drops drastically after sunset.


















After 2002, Coachella began to generate large-scale interest, and the 2003 festival drew the largest crowd yet. The 2004 event, featuring Kraftwerk, Daft Punk, and a number of other major bands, was the event's first sellout, with 50000 tickets sold for each Saturday and Sunday.

In 2003, Coachella started to include tent camping as an option for staying at the festival. The campground site is on an adjacent polo field next to the venue grounds. At 2007 festival, it was reported that camping attendance was in upwards of 17000. 2010 festival introduced many new features to camping such as re-entry from the campsite to the festival grounds, parking your car next to your tent and a limited number of recreational vehicle camping spots.

















Coachella tries to reduce its carbon footprint on the environment every year, which involves not just employees but also attendees. The festival highly promotes carpooling for its attendees, which include rewards for people who participate. Attendees who choose to carpool with four or more people in one car and have the word "carpoolchella" displayed somewhere on their car have a chance to be selected by a secret spotter to win VIP tickets/pass for life for everyone in the car. Therefore, as you can see, you can have this great opportunity for lifetime VIP pass only by carpooling and helping the environment, no matter if you own a priceless BMW or a sweat old Ford. Just help them to help you.



Now as regarding on how much fun you will have there, just have a look...

Mystery Land

 

Mystery Land is the “oldest dance festival” in Holland. It began in 1993 and its current location is Haarlemmermeer on the grounds of the former Floriade.

Mystery Land attracts about 60000 visitors a year. A comprehensive line-up offering music, dance, art and theatre is combined with workshops, fusion food and art. Various well-known artists, such as Micha Klein and Dadara, have designed the festival artwork.

Each year, thousands of people after travelling to Mysteryland, return with millions of unique stories. Every story is as unbelievable as it is true, yet none of them embraces the entire festival experience. Not only does this edition offer a broader creative program than ever. Musically, Mysteryland also brings an explosion of various electronic styles, ranging from cutting edge dubstep, hip hop and disco to the cream of the international house, techno and electro scene.

With an international cast including Sebastian Ingrosso, Richie Hawtin, Hi-Tek Soul from Detroit masters Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson, Marcel Dettmann, Tensnake, Boys Noize, Modeselektor, Martin Solveig, Dave Clarke and Ben Sims, combined with Holland’s very own heroes and talents, like Joris Voorn, 2000 And One, Speedy J, Afrojack, Chuckie, The Man With No Shadow, Gomes and Brutuzz, Mysteryland’s musical diversity can’t be mistaken. There’s even room for some surprising collabs, like hip hop artists Winne and Skinto with Headhunterz and Promo, both deejays of harder styles.

In 1993 and 1994 Mystery Land lasted 3 days and has been staged in February, March, April, June and July. Now for the 7th time in its permanent location, it takes place every year on the last Saturday of August. Mystery Land will travel for first time outside Holland, even Europe. On December 16, 17 and 18, 2011 Mystery Land is going to be held in Chile.

Experience the happiest day of the year….

Amsterdam Dance Event

The Amsterdam Dance Event is a conference for electronic music and a large-scale club event festival based in the city of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. The festival is held annually in mid-October and takes place in 40 clubs spread all over the city.

The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is the gateway to the international electronic music scene. As Europe's leading electronic music conference and the world's biggest club festival, it is a true dance lovers' Mecca. As it is one of the leading music conferences, it offers a blend of conferences, interactive workshops and technical demonstrations along with 52 venues that take place around the whole city.

ADE always brings in the crowds with established names on the line-up alongside rising stars (who take to the decks as part of ADE NEXT). The playlist for 2011 is again suitably diverse: electronic, acid, techno, trance, house, hip-hop, drum 'n' bass and other beat-filled sounds to make you move.

This annual event attracts 2,500 business professionals and 112,000 festival visitors from all around the globe to the tune of more than 700 DJs and artists. With this year's program resembling a who's-who and who's-that of dance floor royalty, 2011 looks set to rewrite the rules on bringing down the house.ADE presents music lovers with four days of the absolute world top of dance music artists.

This year's line-up sure does not fall short of previous editions. Big names include Dutch Grammy award winner Afrojack who recently scored a number one hit in America, Richie Hawtin's new 'Plastikman 1.5' show, David Guetta, Carl Cox, and, of course, Amsterdam's very own Armin van Buuren. However, there are a slew of underground heroes and up-and-comers for you to discover, so make sure to keep checking the program!

You really think you have seen all there is about dance events? Don’t bet on it! I have plenty surprises coming up for you…. Wait and see….

Godskitchen

After a lot of travelling around the world in search of the ultimate dance event experience, it’s about time to share with you the history of Godskitchen. Godskitchen is an international superclub brand associated with dance music and organizes events, particularly in the UK and US. The company runs a club night of the same name at their own nightclub AIR, in Birmingham and has an in-house music label. This label annually releases compilation albums, in addition to supporting new artists whom they believe bring something new to the genre.

While trying to come up with a name for their new house night, promoters observed that the best house parties always seem to gravitate around the kitchen. They soon concluded that the very best parties would be held in God's kitchen, hence the name. This name was also used by the 1980s synthpop group Blancmange who produced a song called "God's Kitchen", although the two may not have been connected.

Godskitchen's roots begin back in the golden era of the UK rave scene back in the early 1990s.They held their first event back in the UK at the Junction Nightclub in Cambridge, launching a series of sell out nights across the UK.

In 1997 Chris and Tyrone staged an event for 4.000 people at the Sanctuary Music Arena in Milton Keynes. The party sold out in advance at a venue that fellow superclubbers Cream had failed to fill only 12 months previously.

Looking for a "somewhere to call home", Godskitchen moved to the 2000 capacity Sanctuary Nightclub (formerly the Digbeth Institute) in Digbeth, Birmingham. Godskitchen filled the Sanctuary week after week and 1999 saw Godskitchen take their clubbing to the Amnesia Nightclub in Ibiza, pulling in 5.500 revelers every Tuesday night. Godskitchen continued to flourish on Ibiza for another three seasons, moving to Eden in San Antonio for one summer in 2002.

In Birmingham, Godskitchen continued to go from strength to strength and began work on a nightclub of their own, the superclub "CODE", which opened its doors in the autumn of 2000. With Friday's Godskitchen fast becoming synonymous with the Trance sound, Godskitchen launched two further clubbing nights at CODE. Expanding into the north of England, the first Godskitchen night was launched at Club Mission in Leeds in 2008.

In 2003 Godskitchen completely transformed their home venue CODE, renaming it to AIR. After another successful year and Global Gathering in 2004, Godskitchen took the party overseas to the Ireland and the US. The final jewel in the Godskitchen crown was to take place in July 2005 when Global Gathering was expanded to cover an entire weekend and the Friday night saw a fresh music policy with more emphasis placed on live acts. The capacity was again increased to 45.000 and the following day saw Godskitchen take Global Gathering to the Republic of Ireland for a 15.000 capacity event in Cork.

Godskitchen released their first compilation in 1999, "Divine" and has since released a further 11 compilations, the most recent being "Godskitchen Underground".

Dance Valley

It is time to tell you about the notorious Dance Valley. Dance Valley is an annual dance music festival held in the summer in Spaarnwoude, Netherlands. The first edition was in 1995 when 8.000 people attended. The festival grew rapidly, both in duration and number of visitors. The first time the event lasted 3 days in the weekend was at 2005 along with camping available at the campsite.

Big changes to the festival came in 2006. Traditionally held the first weekend of August, due to colliding with another festival UDC (Dance Valley management company) brought the festival forward two weeks from the 14th to the 16th of July. Whilst this had little effect in terms of sales it did affect the last two hours of the festival when sun light was still visible on the horizon, this in turn affected the use of lighting with the lasers not being switched on until later.

Dance Valley also played host to BMX, skate boarding and motorcycle competitions sponsored by LG. The back field HQ resided in was not used, instead a large tent towards the entrance was specially erected for the harder side of dance.

Many famous and less famous DJs played music at Dance Valley over time, with big names such as Carl Cox, Derrick May, Paul van Dyk, Tiësto, Richie Hawtin, Ricardo Villalobos, Paul Oakenfold, Ferry Corsten and Yoji Biomehanika all having made appearances.

While Dance Valley is a pure dance-music event, it caters to a wide audience by not limiting itself to a specific style though its heart is (as with most Dutch events), in trance. The biggest name DJs on the main stage tend to be Trance DJs. In 2006 Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Marco V and Simon Patterson (part of the duo Dogzilla) were the main draws. Even Päivi Vahvelainen, Mona Sahlin and Jo Pullan were seen cutting shapes there. With the main stage reserved for the big names in mainstream dance music, up to a dozen secondary, smaller stages are dedicated to styles such as Electro, Eurodance, Hardstyle and Experimental.

Have a look at this video and try to feel Dance Valley’s unique vibe. I bet you all wished to be there....