HOPE TO SEE YOU ON THE NEXT ONE
a yellow warrior and a white worldbridger
introduction halfway done, come back later for more
mike (psychomeiko) first stepped into the psy scene in 2002 and quickly found their chosen family in the underground scene of amsterdam. living in squats, learning everything about all aspects of parties in locations like Donauweg, Hedonia’s Garden, Wenkenbachweg, Amstelrust and so many other now iconic squats. in 2006, joeke (cimi) stumbled upon a video of Boom Festival 2006 and was mesmerized by it all: the people, colorful and dancing freely, the mysterious music… summer 2007 was her first psy year, finding out about illegal outdoor parties soon (due to the website goatrance.net) from organisers like 9 Lives of Hofmann, Trance Maffia/Tribal Meditation and and her first festival experience was Full Moon Festival 2007, after which she knew for sure she had found her place. in 2008, she went back to Full Moon Festival and, as they found out many years later, mike was there too. looking back now, they shared many dancefloors before they first met, for example on Distelweg, de Droogbak during Kingsdays, Ruigoord, all around Westpoort and Sloterdijk in the bushes or under a bridge, Papierweg, Papaverweg, at Zirk parties, Bom Voyage, StichtingVrijFeesten, Dutch Acid Family, and finally in 2009 they bumped into each other on the Danzigerbocht, a huge squat with parties every friday. it took another year for them to find each other again and get together as a couple, on a psy thursday in de Korsakoff. at the time, mike was organising some parties at de Nieuwe Hemweg, a squatted slaughterhouse with dead flies still all in the gutters of the tiled hall – a raw and ugly place where the most beautiful nights were celebrated. we had more ugly squats with amazing energy like that back then, like the squat soccerfield/sports canteen called Türkyemspor, but also the most comfortable cozy ones like the Deccaweg, where you could dance barefeet on soft carpet, there was heating, amazing toilets and a fuckn good vibe too. we were kinda spoiled with so many party opportunities, a scene that was keeping itself going and the music that was keeping it all moving.
the story has only just begun… but i will continue another time, so come back one day.
parties
lots of them
in the future, we will showcase our ‘resident djs’ here
For now, this is what it is.
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