09.10.2010, Posthof Linz

The Danube Rave is one of the longest living events in Upper Austria, and probably one of the most prestigious and ambivalent projects as well.  The first party in 1993 featured  three D.J.s (sic!), which you will probably still know: Westbam, Electric Indigo and Eric Fischer. The last one, Eric Fischer, is up to this day the mastermind of the Danube Rave, and soon his project picked up speed, fame and size.

Paul Van Dyk, Sven Väth, Richie Hawtin, Laurent Garnier, Felix Da Housecat, John Aquaviva, Jeff Mills, DJ Hell, Boris Dlugosch and Adam Beyer, just to name a few, got invited to play at the Danube Rave during the first two years. Linz turned into a mekka for techno-enthusiasts and thereby got attention by an audience all over Austria and even from Germany and the party-hungry Czechs and Slovaks.

Where there is light, there is also shadow: The Danube Rave got criticized by other local techno-crews like Uran-C for commercializing their beloved scene. This debate of course got fought all over Europe, a fight which already started in 1991 with the rivalry between club owners and rave organizers in UK, France and Germany. Nowadays this isn’t quiet the big topic anymore, as the borders between subculture and mainstream tend to blur more and more on the one hand. And on the other, electronic music lost it’s revolutionary claim and found its place in our society, which naturally comes along with compromises and settlement. Since the mid-90s, the driving force behind the evolution of electronic music is the club-scene, whereas the soundsystems utopian dream of a revolutionary techno movement bursted a long time ago.

But lets come to the presence: I was thrilled when Eric called me and offered me the honor of booking this years electro-house floor, officially hosted by the project Discolab which I started two years ago. I’ve called some friends and I think the result is as awesome as it can get: Our floor houses some of the best Electro-House DJs Austria has to offer at the moment. And the rest of the lineup is breathtaking as well:

mainfloor tech.minimal
MATTHIAS TANZMANN – KAISERDISCO – KAROTTE – POPOF live – DAPAYK&PADBERG live – MAETRIK – JACUZZI BOYS

foyer grosser saal muthaland
KOMATON live – MARKUS LINDNER – CRAZY SONIC – UCIEL – SWEET ERNEST – ANDY CATANA – MARCELLO DUPONT – TOM SLATE

posthofbeisl house.disco
hostet by MOTIVIC RECORDS
AARON CARL – STEPHAN HOELLERMANN – DISCJACKSON – CERTAIN SUBJECTS – MEHMET ACUMA – MIKE T

kleiner saal elektrohouse
hosted by DISCOLAB
THE INTEGRALS – DISCO DEMONS – LEN – TECHNICK – PINIE WANG

visuals
4YOUREYE – FTc & RudE

Tickets 24€ plus fees: http://www.oeticket.com/portal/de/sonstiges/clubbing/danube_rave_2010/76921/

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