Extrema 2007 in pictures;
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This time I wasn’t very focussed on making quality pics as I always seem to do, it was more about the music this year and also because of the enormous crowd everywhere (it really was way WAY too fucking crowded this year), it made it virtually impossible to just hop from one stage to another quickly, and also because we were with a group that wasn’t into walking and constantly ducking people that much…
After we waited 30+ minutes packed like sardines at the entrance in the warm sun (next time we’ll definitely get some E-tickets for a quick hassle-free entrance!) , the first tent we went to was the Techno Dome which had a quality line up including Jeff Mills, Joris Voorn, Ben Sims and Adam Beyer. Unfortunately we only caught Gabriel Ananda in there who really whored the speakers with bass in there.
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Main Stage with Booka Shade, Tong with the Essential Mix, Junkie XL & Lawler. We caught a bit of Fedde Le Grand which really wasn’t our thing and Booka Shade wasn’t on for another couple of hours and nobody danced there, so we left and never returned, also for the above mentioned reasons.
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Future Funk with S.O.S., Harry Choo Choo Romero & Morillo. Perfect soundtrack for this warm weather. S.O.S. rocked it!!!
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This was our spot from 3pm onwards till the end of the night; Lakeside which had a killer line-up including Chris Lake, 16 Bit Lolitas, Howells, Van M, & Digweed. People really started pooring in before Howells started his set and he did an amazing job. Real nice laidback grooving and pumping music.
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Overview from Lakeside;
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The weather forecast looked extremely bad 5 days prior to this day but in the end we had sun and a few clouds almost all day. It started to rain a little sometime late in the afternoon and everybody ran inside from the terrace.
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The sky was pink….
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Best set of the day: Digweed. He had everyone jumping in there.
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Future Funk @ night;
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All in all, a fantastic day. Also, it was nice to finally meet you and your friends, Petraxx. I do have some amazing shots of you but won’t post them until you’ve seen them for yourself first.
We’ll definitely go again next year, I just hope they would limit ticket sales to lets say 20,000. It was just way too crowded. Toilets were clean and cost only one drinkticket which allowed you to use them for the rest of the day. Food was extremely varied this year and not too expensive. Drinks were € 2,20 each.
Funny thing is that eventhough I got very drunk in the last couple of hours (we were trying to finish all our remaining drinktickets, which were quite a lot!), I immediately wanted to go again the moment I woke up the hotel this morning.
I just can’t get enough of it.