Monokreck describes his style as "open minded house, from glitchy microhouse to deep techno, and all in between". Melting many styles of electronic music together to create a warm atmosphere on the dancefloor.
Op vrijdag 26 december zal VOLTT dit jaar nog eenmaal goed uitpakken voor een knallende afsluiting van 2008. Op 2e kerstdag zal de Paradiso namelijk in het teken staan van VOLTT met een hoop vooruitstrevend talent en gerenommeerde artiesten.
In navolging van het overdonderende geweld op het tot nok toe gevulde CLiCK feest tijdens het Amsterdam Dance Event krap twee maanden geleden, maakt de organisatie zich op voor een nog meeslepender en vooral intiemer spektakel.
De jaarwisseling neemt altijd een beetje spanning met zich mee, meestal met de grote groep dierbaren die je hebt is het altijd een beetje onderling onderhandelen. Wel uit, niet uit, wel thuis, niet thuis, wel afteren, niet afteren, wel werken, niet werken...
We arrived just before midnight at the huge underground Graansilo. With almost no queues at the door, we were on the dance floor in no time! It was already a full house when we saw the last bit of Sicco Bosscher’s set. This young upcoming producer from the Hague just dropped some fine tunes this year and seemed to be very in the mood doing his set in this nicely filled room, wich seemed to be very appreciated by the audience: expressed in cheering, whistling and hands in the air. A nice intro to begin the night with!
Dimi Angelis took over in a fast tempo, playing loads of dark, underground and acid flavored tunes. A bit too fast and dark for us at that moment. The audience danced all right, but they didn’t seem very enthusiastic.
To take it a bit easier and get more into the groove, we walked up to the biggest room, where the hilarious vodka-hooked Wighnoby Brothers started their minimal thing. Like during the re-opening of the Westergasfabric they played a rather hard and underground minimal set, great to warm up with.
After a while we were getting bored with this minimal house, so we went back to the other room where Dimi was finishing his set to make room for the live set of Rotterdam’s pride Jeroen Verheij a.k.a Secret Cinema. After experiencing his astonishing live set at the NYE edition of Awakenings in 2003, he managed to impress me again (big time!) with an almost brand new set filled with heaps of new massive tunes. Loads of crazy screaming bleeps and samples combined with heavy basslines, combined with some old skool tracks in between and some beautiful deep tracks. The crowd loved it and the atmosphere was set. What a diverse set, what a climax, what a talent! Big up and deep respect for this very very talented man! It made him definitely the best act for this awakenings edition and impossible for the other artists to compete with.
Kay D. Smith took over and kept up the force, but his tunes (and mixing skills) were less impressive than those of Secret Cinema. Definitely more a producer than a dj. His own tracks are pretty hard (a bit too hard for me), but his set was more ‘average hard’ with average tunes, but this made his set easy to listen and dance to.
In the other room another talented Dutch producer, Joris Voorn, was doing his thing. His live-set was also filled with lots of new material and can be the best described as deep, intelligent techno with a heavy bassdrum. Nice to listen to, but it couldn’t get the audience to greater heights. In between we had peaked into a long, dark and dampy basement, where the Wighnoby Brothers did their second minimal set, wich was less hard than in the main room.
Danilo Vigorito took it to a higher level in the main room with his catchy hard and funky Italian sound and his great 3-deck mixing skills. Funny thing is that he’s a real Marco Carola look-a-like, only taller. We left the place around 4.30, because my mate was very tired and had obligations the next day, so there was no time left to hear Steve Rachmad and Miss Djax.
It has been an enjoyable last edition for this year with an interesting line-up. The decoration was a bit poor compared to other editions, but of course the lasers were there. Shame there was little room to dance properly and get lose and that constant queues of people were walking through our dancing spot, wich was pretty annoying. A good thing was that the middle room wasn’t the minimal room, so people finally had a proper place to relax. Up to Awakenings 2006!
Well, strange there was still no topic on this one!
For me it was an ok edition, noting more, nothing less.
Although there was a special action with the tickets for those who missed the friday last november due to wether and traffic problems, this did not seem to have had an effect on the number of tickets sold; It was really crowded!
The volume was good in all areas as wel as the atmosphere and for me personally Joris Voorn, Miss Djax' live set and Steve Rachmad were the heroes of the night!
lately little bit spoiled by minimal sounds , so music in NOW was in begin of the evening very minimal with the wighnomy brothers, also enjoyed the set of Joris Voorn, but after that it was real hard techno and the same sound in WOW. hoped it was more seperate one room techno and one room minimal. so jumped into the basement, where we stayed rest of the night.
first time for me in the "new" Now & Wow, must say I liked the old one better, the new location is a bit too underground if you ask me and smelly, damn those underground hallways really smelled bad, almost threw up a couple of times walking through because of the horrible smell.
came in with Dimi, sounded ok, bit hard for the time, heard Secret Cinema after that and it was a real nice set with lots of new material I believe, after that Kay D. Smith, who played quite a nice set, I didn't really expect that so that was nice, afte this it was time for Miss Djax, heard about 15 or 20 minutes before I left the this room, not really my thing, way too hard
also checked the other rooms in the meanwhile, nothing really special, basement was ok, except for the closing act in the main, Steve Rachmad, played a real real nice closing set which I had not heard in a while.
had a nice evening, but no more N&W for me in the future
i think it was a nice edition although most of the time it was a bit too crowded to really lose yourself. most of the artist played a lot better than i expected.. i even liked the wighnomy bro's in the main room
but the artist who really did it for me, was definately miss djax! in my opinion she played an impressive liveset. hard & pounding chicago-influenced acidtechno.. just what i wanted to hear! to me it sounded quite fresh, because not many artists play this kind of techno nowadays.. so thumbs up for miss djax!!
that minimal-basement was cool too, although the music couldn't turn me on actually.
i hope monumental will continue doing some editions in the graansilo in 2006!
ps. props for the superior soundsystem!!! this is how it should be!
, so music in NOW was in begin of the evening very minimal with the wighnomy brothers, also enjoyed the set of Joris Voorn, but after that it was real hard techno and the same sound in WOW. hoped it was more seperate one room techno and one room minimal. so jumped into the basement, where we stayed rest of the night. 
