![]() ![]() ![]() We were very into Detroit techno, disco, and warm, soulful house. “But we nevertheless partied every weekend. “It was the heyday of minimal, and we fucking hated minimal,” Martojo recalls. In the span of just a few years, Martojo and his friends Casper Tielrooij and Matthijs Theben Terville went from being bored out-of-towners from the Hague who would drive up to Amsterdam every weekend to being a vital cog in the capital’s revived electronic music scene. “But that scene is actually not that vibrant in Amsterdam itself.” “All the big EDM artists come from here,” acknowledges Dekmantel co-founder Thomas Martojo. “It births… the monsters.” He’s referring to electronic music heavies like Tiesto, Afrojack, and Armin van Buuren-all of whom were pointedly absent from this summer’s third annual Dekmantel Festival, which took place amidst Amsterdamse Bos, a man-made forest near the city's Schiphol Airport. “Dutch dance music has the worst reputation,” Jordan Czamanski, one-half of Amsterdam-based dance duo Juju & Jordash, tells me. ![]()
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