Pure DJs - Lady Dana
In her early years she already had a great passion for music.
After working as a courier, she got hooked on house music.
Within a few weeks she bought two turntables & a mixer & started rocking!
In 1993 she received her first bookings. In this year she played in ‘De Drieluik, Pascha and Kabul. Also at the ‘Skorp’ parties she was a well know visitor.
In this period there was a separation between the softer styles of house, like mellow & ambient and the harder styles like Oldstyle and early hardcore.
Very soon it became clear that Dana preferred the harder styles of house. She quickly developed her talents within the harder sounds. She played events together with artists like Gizmo (Ferry Salee), BuzzFuzz (Mark Vos) and Pavo (Paul van der Vooren).
Every weekend there were several parties throughout the country. If Dana was DJ-ing or not she was present at almost everyone.
From 1995 the schedule of Dana grew more and more busy. The in this year still unknown style (hardcore) was vastly gaining popularity in Holland. One of the bigger party organizations started to organize bigger events. With concepts like ‘Earthquake, Thunderdome and Mysteryland they attract party people from all over Holland.
From 1994 Dana was present at every edition of ‘Mysteryland’ She also was a well know face at the Thunderdome events. Her style was developing rapidly to one of the harder movements within the hardcore.
Slowly the crowd became aware of the talents & success of Dana. At every performance she received massive responds from her fans.
Due to the big success of the Thunderdome events, the organization (ID&T) decided it was time to launch the Thunderdome concept worldwide.
Thunderdome started touring across Europe.
Dana; “Thunderdome on tour was one of the best experiences in my life”
Dana traveled to almost every country in Europe and played the most prestigious clubs in Belgium and Germany.
During this period hardcore started to gain popularity worldwide. It became a booming business & almost every hardcore fan between the age of 16 and 25 started visiting parties on a weekly basis.
Dana had almost 4 bookings every weekend. What once was a hobby became a full time job.
She played events like: ‘Masters of Hardcore’ and Mystery World and visited clubs in Spain and Italy.
Around
1998 hardcore was on its return. It slowly moved from the mainstream back to the underground. There grew an enormous interest for the styles from 1991-1992. Q-dance (back then QlassElite) started with a series of parties under the name “Oldstyle Outburst”. These parties where held at the famous Hemkade 48 in Zaandam. At this venue Dana was in the line up almost every month, presenting her best classics.
Shortly after the start of the “Oldstyle Outburst”, Q-Dance started with a second classics-concept. HouseQlassics became the older brother of the Oldstyle Outburst. After the first edition the event moved to the ‘Vechtsebanen’ in Utrecht. At every edition Dana was on stage.
In the beginning of 1991 Dana started combining the hits from back in the days with a new sound which came from England. UK Hardhouse.
This was a faster style of trance & techno, supported by fierce baselines.
Within no time this sound gained popularity under the Dutch party crowd.
UK Hardhouse started to gain a lot of fame in the Dutch dance scene, but soon it became clear that the Dutch crowd preferred something harder.
From Germany and Italy came a new form of Hardhouse. This form had more power & less speed. It was a combination of German hardtrance & Italian hardbass techno. The crowd in Holland gave a massive reaction on this new sound and ‘Hardstyle’ was born. Dana adapted rapidly to these new sounds and became one of the first DJ’s who played this style of dance music in Holland.
Q-dance started a new event in the Hemkade 48 under the name Qlubtempo.
On this events the artists played a combination of the UK hardhouse and the German/Italian hardstyle sound. To distribute the new sound to the rest of Holland, Q-dance started with ‘Qlimax’, which was a bigger version of Qlubtempo. Dana became a resident on this event.
After a few successful editions of ‘Qlimax’, Q-dance launched the Qlimax CD series. The first volume was mixed by Dana.The second edition was in the hand of her colleague and friend DJ Pavo. For the 3rd they combined their forces to create a massive double album.
From the beginning of Qlubtempo, hardstyle grew to one of the most popular style of dance music in Holland. Besides Q-dance more party organizations started doing events in this style. Slowly then hardcore bookings became second business. Dana dedicated her live to hardstyle.
Nowadays Dana is the most popular hardstyle DJ in Holland. With unbelievable success she plays several parties every weekend.
Watch out for her own productions, which will be released soon.
BEST PARTIES
• Thunderdome on tour
• All Mysteryland festivals
• Masters of Hardcore
• Nr. One – Italy
• Nightmare in LA – USA
• Scorpio – Spain
• Qlubtempo 1 to 10
• 1991-1992 Oldstyle Outburst
• HouseQlassics
• Qlimax 1 to 6
• Shockers, Rai – Amsterdam
• Sensation ‘black edition’ Arena –Amsterdam
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