Videos: Sandwell District @ Timewarp Holland (4th Dec 10)

Photo by Luke Garwood

Winter is always warmed up by one of our favourite festivals, Timewarp, in one of our favourite countries, Holland, and this time they switched it from Rotterdam to one of our favourite cities, Amsterdam. So far everything is looking rather promising but just to make it that much sweeter the guys at Cosmopop decided to get our boys, Sandwell District, involved too.

Held in Sporthallen Zuid, a sports centre near Schipol Airport, filled with 40,000 wanting clubbers, the stage was set. Darko Esser and Steve Rachmad did stellar jobs on warm up duty before Sandwell District took the stage. And they only just made the stage too. Schipol was having difficulties caused by the snow so Dave and Karl's travel plans changed drastically. Originally intending to fly from Berlin straight to Amsterdam, they instead flew to Dusseldorf and had to get a taxi to Amsterdam and arrived only 20 mins before the start of their set. Anyway they simply shrugged all the problems aside and went to work in the only fashion they know how!

Unlike in October @ Berghain, when i was unable to get some videos (rules is rules) I took full advantage this time round. And here they are

Plenty more videos can be found on our Youtube Page

First names announced for Timewarp Holland 2010

Here are the first names for this years Timewarp Festival in Holland

Sven Vath

Loco Dice

Marco Carola

Karotte

Speedy J

Chris Liebing

Sandwell District

Gui Boratto (Live)

Joris Voorn (Live)

Early reports suggest it will be held on 4th December this year but in 2010 it looks like the event will be held in Amsterdam rather than the previous years where it's been held in Rotterdam. My 2 visits to the Maassilo venue, in Rotterdam, over the last 2 years have made it one of my favourite venues in the world. Timewarp need to have something special to live up to the old converted power station. But it's not often that Timewarp lets us down so I'm fairly confident whatever they dig out will be more than a little bit special!

You can follow Timewarp on Twitter or check out their Official Website for all the info on this event and future events

Sets from Timewarp Mannheim 27th March 2010

It didn't take long for them to surface but here's the first batch of sets from the amazing Timewarp Festival last Saturday @ Mainmarkthalle.

Steffen Baumann

Turntablerocker

Ellen Allien

Chris Liebing

Sven Vath

Speedy J

Monika Kruse

Collabs 3000 Live

Lexy Live

Lost Souls Timewarp Pre Party Video

What an amazing weekend we had in Mannheim and it all started off with our pre party at Hafenstrand. Was great to see so many up for it faces of the people who travelled all the way over from London for the spectacle that is Timewarp! DJs Faster, Rossko, Antony Difrancesco, Ryan Stylus, Tonic DJs, Marvin Hinkel and myself all played our part in making this one of the best pre parties i've had the pleasure to be part of! And those of you that joined us, i'm sure you'll agree

Plastikman Rehersal @ Timewarp Mannheim

Lost Souls Timewarp Pre Party @ Hafenstrand

Looking for somewhere to get yourself warmed up for the mighty Timewarp Festival?

Well fear not as Lost Souls are fulfilling all your pre party needs. We're ferrying hundreds of clubbers across Europe in a yearly pilgrimage to Mannheim. On board the planes and buses are a collection of some of London's best djs armed with bags filled to burst with great music.

Headlining the event is Airdrop Recordings incredibly talented Romanian, Faster. I was lucky enough to catch his set at the recent Cerca Trova party and i was more than impressed with this guys ample skills. The rest of the line up goes as follows

Andy Bone / Antony Difrancesco / Dan Farserelli / Harry McCanna / Iain Kemz / Lee Hume / Richard Rowll / Rossko / Ryan Stylus / Tonic DJs / Waf / XI

Hafenstrand is just a short distance from festival site and has a great array of drinks, plus an 8 euro buffet dinner so you can charge up your stomachs for the marathon session ahead.

Check out the Facebook event page here for all the info

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108734459144715

Timewarp Mannheim 2010 Set Times

Timewarp Rotterdam is back

Very few details so far but it's on the 12th December with Mr Vath, Loco and Karotte. Same venue as last year which i'm extremely happy about because Maassilo is possibly the most amazing venue i've ever been too. It's going to be one hell of a night.

www.time-warp.de

Youtube vids

Welcome to the XI's World blog.

I thought i'd start off by sharing my youtube page with you all.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ElectekXI

There you'll find various videos from some of the events i've attended over the last 12 months or so.

Featuring videos from:

- I love Techno 2008

- Timewarp, Rotterdam 2008

- Timewarp, Mannhiem 2009

- Sonar 2009

- Fabric (Various dates)

- WetYourself

- Lost Souls

Including DJs such as

- Richie Hawtin

- Jeff Mills

- Chris Liebing

- Ricardo Villalobos

- Luciano

- Loco Dice

- Cassy

- RPR Soundsystem

- Johnny D

- Perc

- Marcel Dettmann

and many more.

Enjoy