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VooV Experience 2005 REVIEW
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pr0fane
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Posted : Jul 25, 2005 17:46
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2005 was the year of the 14th VooV Experience – one of the longest-running electronic music festivals, and a yearly gathering for trance fans around Europe (and other parts of the world). This was my 4th visit to the festival, and it came out much like expected.
Due to the bad weather forecasts (which turned out to be wrong) we didn't go until Friday, but luckily enough in good time to avoid the big queues at the entrance. After setting up our tents we had a long walk around the festival-site, and it was pretty much the same as earlier years: the Alternative Stage (or Progressive if you like) was in the same position as last year, but with more Deco (NOS and Jamin Murphy) – good, but not very surprising. Apparently there had been heavy rain on thursday, so much was behind schedule; the market wasn't as crowded as earlier years, and they where still setting up deco shortly before the opening of the Alternative stage.
The opening of the alternative stage was basically a dejavu of last year: full on. Ignis played a decent set, up until the 3rd mainstream remix (Chemical Brothers, DMC and Eurythmics) where I left the stage, sat in the camp for a few hours before going to sleep around 3 AM.
Woke up around 10 AM and chilled in the camp before going to the Alternative stage to hear Banel. I caught a few of the last tracks of Salaris' (Sangeet and Mullekular) liveset, which to me sounded quite boring and uninspiring. Banels came on afterwards, and his trackselection was good, with lots of stuff from Set:4 and Set:5, some older FREq material, some new Phony Orphants and Behind Blue Eyes tracks – and of course a lot more. He had a few offbeat-mixes at times though, but I had a good time.
I heard parts of the Shiva Chandra and Montago & Golkonda sets from the camp, before going to the stage again to hear my favourite act on the whole festival: Jaïa – and he didn't disappoint! Every track in his set was amazing, and it contained all the dancefloor tracks from the "Fiction" album, the "Passengers" collaboraton with Silicon Sound, and a good bunch of new unreleased material that sounded equally amazing. After playing 1½ hour (30 minutes more than planned) the crowd was screaming for more, so he played 2 extra tracks – "Serial Groover" and finally the amazing classic "Mai Mai".
The opening of the Main Stage was a disappointment like always – 10.000 people standing like sardines in a tin, a soundsystem that makes it impossible to enjoy the music if you're not standing inside the small circle of speakers, and the same uninspired fireshow (from my point of view) like always. After watching the opening from a distance, we chilled in a small shop with waterpipes with a great view to the Alternative stage, where T.C.K., Johan Bley and Martink where playing. It was a pleasant surprise – fine trackselection by the DJ, ranging from funky house to storming progressive trance, and the guy on the drums did a pretty good job adding some more dynamic to the music, although he overdid it a few times. Hearing "Hale Bopp" was especially nice.
I left the stage around 2:30 to get back to bed, and caught 15-30 minutes of Pentas set on the mainstage – very dark psychedelic music as expected, and not as bad as much of the random-sounding "dark psy" flooding the market at the moment – although I must say it wasn't really my cup of tea.
Had a very good long sleep, so woke up pretty late (unfortunately missed the comeback set of Necton), but just in time to hear much of Reefer Decrees set. Having his latest track on "Set:5" in mind I was expecting a lot, but it wasn't as good as I was hoping for. His laptop broke down towards the end, so he had to play the rest of the set from the CDJ's, and the highlight was of course when he played "Nightvision", accompanied by the first rays of light since sometime Friday evening. Magical finish to an otherwise disappointing set.
I love the first two albums from S>Range, but knowing he has turned towards full on lately, I wasn't expecting a lot from his set on the Main Stage – and it wasn't really that good either. It was very melodic and cheesy, and not nearly as deep and emotional as his earlier stuff. Ok for a full on set, but disappointing coming from one of the pioneers of the Scandinavian progressive sound.
Sunday ended at the Alternative Stage with Beckers and D-Nox providing groovy music for no less than 5 hours! "Switch" was ofcourse a part of Beckers set, they both played their new remix of Antix' "Le Lascard", D-Nox played "Hale Bopp" – and the rest of their sets where awesome as well. After that (knowing that there wasn't really anything we had to hear on the Main Stage on the last night) we decided to pack and leave for home.
Good:
- Jaïa, D-Nox and Beckers
- Trance-Shop.com's stall selling Spirit Zone and Plusquam releases for 5 Euros! (I left with 13 CD's and 1 DVD )
Bad:
- Nothing new. Almost the same deco (apart from in the chillout, and also some more on the Alternative stage), and the same stage-setups as last year.
- Annoying soundsystems in the camping-area. This has been a problem on all the VooV's I've attended, and it's getting more and more annoying, as the organizers doesn't seem to care. People, if you like hardstyle, go to a hardstyle party! If you like psychedelic/progressive, go to one of the 2 open stages! Stop terrorising your neighbours with loud music.
Overall it was a pretty good experience like always, although far from being my best. Luckily we where spared for heavy rain (there was some light rain Friday evening and Sunday morning), and although the music wasn't always great, the best sets where definitely worth the money.  DJ pr0fane (Iboga Records) | Multiphase
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Fine Diner
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Posted : Jul 25, 2005 18:56
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my highlights of VooV
Main floor - Penta ( only )
Alternative - Sensient , DJ So , Reefer Decree , Beckers , Jaia... |
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drooid
Sun Control Species
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Posted : Jul 25, 2005 19:01
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Beckers has the tunes.
djSO has the skills.
was too drunk to hear Jaia properly.
But that Sensient has a whole nuther slice of Bagel going on. congrats on the cleanliness tim.
the FATLINE is ending www.myspace.com/suncontrolspecies |
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evgeny@aero-groove
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Posted : Jul 26, 2005 09:31
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mouka
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Posted : Jul 26, 2005 11:57
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Shanegobi
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Posted : Jul 26, 2005 13:49
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well, just back from the voov, .... what a festival, .this was my first voov, and it was very impressive, met many lovely people, and rally enjoyed playing there, nervous as hell, but truely enjoyable
music was quite enjoyable on both floors................ thanks so much to the voov crew for a wonderfull time  |
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psylocib
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Posted : Jul 27, 2005 22:27
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this 2005 edition of the VooV was a great time!
i loved jaia ; beckers and d-nox on the alternative floor and the live of pop stream was a pleasure!!
please 4 the next years book more progressive on the main stage!
thanks 2 da spiritzone crew
cheers
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pete
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Posted : Jul 29, 2005 08:21
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Penta and Becker were highlights for me as well...gotta mention Bissenden in the chill area though-I enjoyed the dubbier tracks in particular.
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björn
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Posted : Jul 29, 2005 20:50
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Antaro blew me away completely. He is my new hero. One of the best sets I ever heard! |
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psy_muse
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Posted : Aug 2, 2005 08:23
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Don't know why you were nervous Shane you rocked at the FMF and Voov! One of my favorite sets for sure. |
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Dazzler
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Posted : Aug 3, 2005 15:52
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I thought it was another quality Voov. Ok, the music may have been a bit of a mixed bag, but that's the beauty of a festival - a whole range of artists in a short space of time. Variety is the spice of life...
On the main stage, highlights for me were Shane, S Range (partly cos the sun was shining!) and Lox (why has no one mentioned his set? Had everyone gone home by then?!)
On the second stage, D Nox was good as always, as was Beckers. Banel was solid, I enjoyed Montagu and Golkonda, and Jaiai was pretty good.
Voov has never been quite as good since they split the music so clearly between the two stages - you need a variety on the main stage. Anyone remember Fabio and Mapusa in 2000, for example, or Pied Piper the following year?
Still, the best festival around in my opinion.
later |
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Christian
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Posted : Aug 4, 2005 14:39
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hey to all ....
just wanna say thank u for the great support and feedback ....
again voov was something very special for me and I hope I could give u a nice sunday afternoon.
thank u voov team for a great weekend.
we all had big time fun and of course we all gonna be back in 2006!
my highlights were the sun, the people and the voov vibe.
peace |
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Dazzler
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Posted : Aug 5, 2005 17:52
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On 2005-08-04 14:39, Christian wrote:
hey to all ....
just wanna say thank u for the great support and feedback ....
again voov was something very special for me and I hope I could give u a nice sunday afternoon.
thank u voov team for a great weekend.
we all had big time fun and of course we all gonna be back in 2006!
my highlights were the sun, the people and the voov vibe.
peace
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hey mr D Nox - you rocked
out of interest what was the track you finished your set with? |
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Christian
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Posted : Aug 5, 2005 19:29
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Hi Dazzler ....
the track I finished my set with was "Motion - 3rd Contact"
its not released yet but soon u will see it around! and some other bombs of Motion too!!!
cheers |
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Dazzler
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Posted : Aug 8, 2005 14:17
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nice one - i'll look out for it! |
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