Yes! We’re on! The Amsterdam Dance Event 2008 has officially started. Apparently, adding the pre-ADE Wednesday to the program was not a bad decision for the Felix Merites, the very base of the event, has welcomed a swarm of networking, rave loving, speed dating dance heads already. Everybody is looking fresh and together, something that most definitely will have changed when Monday morning comes.
But we will worry about that later. First it’s time for the thirteenth edition of this exciting event that will inspire us to our very core and wear us down in the process. But that’s how we do in our crazy little dance music world, right?
At 17.00 hours came the moment we have been looking forward to since months: the official opening. The Amsterdam city council showed their sympathy for the ADE by means of some kind words from Carolien Gehrels, the Councillor of Culture. After that, it was time for Krijn van Noordwijk’s finest hour: the presentation of DJ, a coffee table book he and his partners at Maslow have been meticulously working on for the last two years. And the result is stunning! Armin van Buuren, the world’s number one dj was there to recieve the first copy, and added: “What Krijn did here shows that you can achieve anything you want if you believe in it.” If that will turn out to be the ADE’s mantra for this year, we will all leave Amsterdam with a beautiful smile on our faces. To be continued…