Dance Valley 2005 (near Amsterdam, Holland, 06.08.2005)
Facts: 10:00 - 23:00, 40.000 tickets sold for saturday, over 160 DJs, quite a lot of "big names" (check the lineup at
www.dancevalley.nl )
Pics from various digital cameras (eg Casio Z55 and Z30)
Quick trip from Hamburg, everything just fine and totally in our time planning - until 20km suddenly complete traffic jam. Short vor: "No, we are not taking that totally free extra lane on the left side, but we´ll stay on that totally jammed right three lanes." Oh well...
Finally managed to get off the highway and after a very interesting journey through the Dutch countryside we arrived at our hotel only 90min delayed. Quick refresh and then to the shuttle busses at Sloterdijk. 20mins drive and a 2km walk later we finally were at the Dance Valley, around 15:30. Short orientation (too bad, this time no map in the timetable), got one of the lockerboxes for a jacket and then off to the meeting with our friends.
At the entrance quite a lot of mud ... between 10-15cm, with water on top. The Openair-Floors Armada and Global were in pretty bad condition, but Mainstage and HQ pretty dry and absolutely ok for dancing.
Eurogrooves Tent
At Eurogrooves Tent we only heard the last couple of tracks of Randy Katana, and I was quite busy with checking around, getting drinks and the like.
NU NRG live - at the latest at Freefall everything was good again, the traffic jam forgotten and we felt home at Dance Valley again
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Frank and Harald
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Manu, Friederike and Elisabeth
Met with JP and Frieda from Amsterdam, but they were just at Eurogrooves to say hello and were off to another stage.
Met some guy again who danced from 12:00 - 22:00 at our GTA @ Planet Pro Berlin truck early July - it´s a small world.
Too lazy to change locations, so we stayed for a while at Adam Sheridan. Began quite nice, but suddenly a lot slower and not so "bouncy".
So off to find the others. Walked past Armada Stage with Markus Schulz, then through the bottleneck up on the hill, short session with Deep Dish, back to the Global Stage.
Lots of mud, not funny. Heard a bit of Marco Bailey, then Chris Liebing = nice! Really looking forward to the Meganite
Suddenly in front of me we found Marcel, who we tried to reach all day via phone, but couldn´t reach.
Over to the Armada Stage for the first track of Armin van Buuren. Hm, Stage looked very nice, cool idea with the ship and the flame throwers, but overall too slow
Double quick away from there, this time totally stuck in the bottleneck. On top of the hill then photo session.
Frank, Manu, Elisabeth, Harald, Friederike, Marcel
Finally off to HQ. H, what can I say? Eddie Halliwell really rocked it!
Blue sky. Sun. Helicoptere. Flowers. Aaargh!!!
Flower-Power
Frank flying away
Proteus
Next DJ was Proteus - extremely cool! At some point then a bit too heavy for us, and we needed to get some food and actually wanted to meet with Marcel at the Concept Tent for Preach. But after a small StuKa-Flight of Frank and me we finally decided - no chance! Again the bottelneck? No music? And missing out on HQ? NO WAY! So back again to Proteus and afterwards Organ Donors Dex n FX... mind you, I´m normally a fluffy trance, Armin and PvD - but this was
quality!
Around 21:15 we went over to the Mainstage to meet with the others. Heard the last track of Ferry Corsten and then Paul van Dyk - very nice! But so slow
I died of course as he dropped For an Angel, then even with an encore, and then was the Dance Valley already over. 7h - and we didn´t know where the time went. Of to the entrance, short visit at Lockerboxes and then the long way back to the bus again. Home at the hotel around 2:00.
- not enough decoration: the entrance was very poor compared to last year, Mainstage and HQ weren´t great either
- Sound: at Mainstage - hm, you had to stand quite in front of the stage. And then only 2 Groundsupports half way up the hill, with the Linearrays only to the back?! Same at HQ - last year it was Götterdämmerung, this year a lot less
- no mirrorball illuminated with lasers from below this year
- arriving on Friday is a lot better
+ as usual at Dutch parties met a lot of nice people
+ Saturday it was dry from 16:15 on. And later blue sky and sun!
+ Flower rain. Blumenregen. indescribable.
+ proven Party-Crew. Ibiza, we´re coming!
+ Laser. Lots of them.
Dance Valley - cu next year!
Panorama shot from Laszlo (Sweden)
lots of good names that i will miss.. who knows, plans might change when im actualy there.
Supposed to be my birthday outing as well
