ARTIST....: Endfest
TITLE.....: Electronation-SAT-01-05
GENRE.....: Electronic
SUBGENRE..: n/a
SOURCE....: Radio
RELDATE...: Jan-12-2008
AiRDATE...: 000-00-0000
TRACKS....: 01
LENGTH....: 58:00 min
SIZE......: 73,1 MB
QUALITY...: VBRkbps
NR. NAME. TiME:
..........................................................
01. Electronation-SAT-01-05-2008 58:00
TOTAL: 58:00 min
RELNOTES..:
At the age of 11 Endfest got into contact with American Hip Hop. It was at his
parents house in the Eastside of the Netherlands, in a town called Haaksbergen,
where he first listened to the black power from acts like Public Enemy. Endfest
was hypnotized by the angry voices of the black people in his room and the
massive broken beats. He didn't knew a thing about the black power politics at
those days, but he loved the raw atmosphere of the music. It was also the time
of the first 'Turn up the bass' compilations. While listening to those records
Endfest experienced how powerful house music could be (think of tracks like
'Total Confusion' ... remember?)
The 90's
A couple of years later Endfest got seriously interested into the harder styles
of electronic music. After listening a lot to the uplifting house music played
by the legendary DJ Steve Mason, who had a residency at the German based English
radio station BFBS London, Endfest decided in the middle of the 90's that the
moment was there to visit his first houseparty's. Party's with loud
hardcore/gabber music who were organised by a Dutch party organisation called
'Night of the Hools'. An initiative from some hooligans of football club FC
Twente who had their residency in 'Vak-P' of the 'Diekman' football stadium in a
city in the Eastside of the Netherlands called Enschede.
At those days it was ultimate gabbermadness in the Netherlands. Most people were
only interested into the hard, simple produced Dutch gabbersounds, while Endfest
preferred to hear the more polished rave sounds from Berlin, doomcore from
Frankfurt (from the PCP-crew) and happy uplifting breakbeats from Great
Brittain. The gabberscene became booming business. Everybody in the Netherlands
started to visit hardcoreparty's. It made Endfest complete crazy that most
people only were interested in drugs and not into the DJ's performing on stage
and the music that was played. The gabber scene and his music became harder and
harder. People were not happy anymore, and the hardcore evenings were too
monotonous. But then, just before Endfest wanted to wave hardcore music goodbye,
a DJ stood up who showed Endfest how to mix lots and lots of styles with keeping
da shit underground, but with a positive message. It was the Rotterdam based DJ
Rob (Parkzicht) who gave a whole new dimension at hardcore music with his
oldstyle sets. Endfest started to find the roots of hardcore (the oldstyle
sound) and became also interested in techno music.
The birth of DJ Endfest
After Endfest spinned some records just for fun at the turntables of some of his
friends, somewhere on a Saturday night at the end of the 90's a DJ changed
Endfest's life. It was on a commercial Dutch radio station for house music where
Endfest heard an interview and a MASSIVE live set of the German based DJ
Westbam. Westbam told the interviewer that he was tired of all that
four-to-the-floor banging and that he started a project to open up the whole
German (mainstream) dance scene with some "boing-boom-tsjakk" music (read:
electro music). The project that DJ Westbam started was called 'Electric
Kingdom'. After that evening Endfest started to follow Electric Kingdom and
became interested in all sorts of techno and electro music. He started to
collect records and decided to buy a cheap mixer and some turntables. Due the
electronic highway Endfest got into contact with one of the better producers
from Electric Kingdom; LUPO. After sending some Electric Kingdom records from
Berlin to the Dutch Eastside, LUPO invited Endfest to come backstage at an
Electric Kingdom Party in Germany (at the famous 'Cosmic Club' in Mⁿnster. While
Endfest saw his technolectro icons spinning (LUPO, Icon, Lexy, Westbam, Afrika
Islam, K-Paul) in Mⁿnster, he decided the technolectre scene was the scene in
which he wanted to specialize his self as a DJ. After recording his first demo
mixes under the name 'DJ Space Cowboy', Endfest more and more felt the need to
bring an ode to all those German based producers who had such a big influence on
the electronic music scene, like Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder and Klaus Schulze,
that he decided to change his DJ name in 'Endfest'. The inspiration to choose
that name came from his friend Enzo F., who found a book in the library of his
father with pictures of typical German 70's advertisement. While riffling
through the pages of the book Endfest and Enzo F. spotted an advertisement of a
glue called 'Endfest'. A new DJ name was born.
After practicing a lot behind the turntables in his room, Endfest decided to
launch his first iron achievement under his new DJ-name in November 2002. In
this month he mixed up a bunch of Berlin Technolectro and Dutch electro records
and named his DJ-mix 'Nachtfahrt Durch Coesfeld'. He distributed some copies of
this mix in a limited amount among his friends. Only after a couple of months
'Nachtfahrt durch Coesfeld' reached the status of 'collectors item' in the
geographical arctic boogie triangle Haaksbergen-Neede-Eibergen-Groenlo (Dutch
Eastside) and is still a wanted gadget in that area today.
A DJ-contest which opened up some doors
With great help from the underground madness electro from Dutch record labels
like Bunker Records, Viewlexx, Clone and his musical partners DJ Javar and Enzo
F., Endfest was able to develop a broader musical taste of electronic music. In
May 2003 Endfest made his official debut as a DJ at the UvA Cultural Festival
2003 (a festival of the University of Amsterdam) in a club in Amsterdam called
'Meander'. Although all the nerves Endfest tried to do his thing as good as he
could, but was not able to truly impress most of the elite students and rock
freaks over there.
Wenn Endfest decided a year later to show his skills once again at the Uva
Cultural Festival (the 2004 edition) it looked like the whole world turned
upside-down. Endfest spinned a fine set of electro at a well known Amsterdam
club called 'Winston' and became winner of the UvA Cultural Festival DJ-Contest.
His prize was to rock the decks at a big party ('Circue du Freaque') in the most
legendary Pop Arena in Amsterdam called 'The Melkweg'. A performance that opened
up some doors while Endfest got into contact with some new people that
eventually would help him too set up a new movement to spread to electro-virus
around; The Arctic Boogie Movement.
The Arctic Boogie Movement
After spinning his records at the UvA Cultural Festivals of 2003 and 2004, where
Endfest got some of the self-confidence that he needed to continue his
activities as a DJ, he decided at the end of 2003 to start up 'The Arctic Boogie
Movement'. A movement that criticizes the bad situation in the Dutch electronic
party landscape. A landscape were every style of electronic music seems to have
its own place and where is hardly no place for a mixture of styles (one of the
basic elements of house music). After philosophizing a lot with his musical and
scientific friend Javar, Endfest decided to express his negative feelings with
some concrete action. This resulted in the concept for an Arctic Boogie tour. A
concept that brought some small underground party's in the Eastside of the
Netherlands. Party's where people were able to find the true 'housefeeling'
combined with freaky electronic music. Not strictly underground, not strictly
commercial, but THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS!!
On the 24th of July 2004 Endfest, Javar and Helmut Katzenbaum started up an
inofficial Arctic Boogie tour in a picturesque village in the Eastside of the
Netherlands called Groenlo. This evening a huge amount of Arctic Boogie
Locofreax showed up and took over the dark and dreary streets of Groenlo... It
was a huge success and a stable base of Eastside Arctic Boogie Freaks saw the
light. After successful editions of the Arctic Boogie on Tour in Amsterdam,
Groenlo and Eibergen, The Arctic Boogie Crew has taken itself in the first
months of 2005 to a higher level through a party concept called 'Robotized'. A
concept where the Arctic Boogie Crew in association with party organisation
Genotypes invites big DJ's and live acts in the (techno)Electro scene to rock
the decks with the Arctic Boogie DJ's Javar and Endfest on the most wicked
locations you can imagine. The first edition of Robotized in the obscure
basement of the legendary discotheque City Lido (Groenlo, Netherlands) was a BIG
success. For the first time in the history of the Arctic Boogie Movement two
heroes of the Dutch electro scene joined the Arctic Boogie Crew for a freaky
night: DJ TLR (CrΦme Organisation/Leiden) and Orgue Electronique (Bunker
Records/The Hague).
The scientist
Besides playing electronic music, Endfest also wrote about this interesting
musical phenomena. February 2005 Endfest got his master title Social Geography
at the University of Amsterdam (Uva) for a thesis about the West Coast Electro
Sound of Holland that carries the title 'The Hague Rocks the Planet: The West
Coast Sound of Holland en Internet'. The thesis elaborates on a local movement
of musicians within the Dutch parliamentary headquarters The Hague, whom
utilized the usage of the Internet in the middle nineties to establish a
dynamic, digital community with an international character.
The birth of Helmut Katzenbaum
To be able to play his more experimental, obscure records with electronic music
at the Arctic Boogie tour without people asking for the more mainstream German
electro records he use(d) to play, Endfest created an alter ego called 'Helmut
Katzenbaum'. A name which refers to the illustrious, long forgotten professor
Katzenbaum. A professor who lived back in the fifties in a hermit's cell deep
into the dark woods of the municipality Greifswald in the former DDR. Professor
Katzenbaum collaborated for decades with the United States of America to
dismantle the plans for the programming and launching of the Sputnik satellite
by the USSR. Besides his formal tasks professor Katzenbaum worked in his top
secret location in the woods of Greifswald at an alternative plan to capture
open-minded youngsters from both the USSR and the USA and bring them together on
an artificial location somewhere in the galaxy, a few parsecs away from planet
Mars.
The main purpose of his ideological plan was to create a new generation of human
beings that would be able to live harmonious together without prejudices and
sickly desires to take over control of the Katzenbaum planet. Because of a
misty, fatal accident somewhere in the seventies professor Katzenbaum never was
able to complete his utopian plans for his alternative planet. The secret
mission Katzenbaum accepted made him stateless so his body never got officially
identified after he died on some dreary night in a dark alley somewhere in
Greifswald. But through a secret document Endfest bought on a flea-market in
Berlin, he find out the truth about professor Katzenbaum. To bring an ode to
this genius professor, Endfest decided to create the alter ego 'Helmut
Katzenbaum'.
The future?
Will Helmut Katzenbaum kill Endfest? Or will Endfest kill Helmut Katzenbaum?
Will Endfest destroy the Arctic Boogie Movement? Or will the Arctic Boogie Crew
enter Germany for a secret invasion to spread the Arctic Boogie virus?
The truth is out there ... somewhere ... but where? When? How?
Only time will tell ...
More info: http://www.endfest.nl/
GREETiNGS.:
To all the people who respect us and like what we produce,
no names needed here, you know who you are :)
CONTACT...:
You got something to say? E-mail us at: eyeforaneye@hush.com