I’m writing to give you (RV blog readers) another update from the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE). Over the weekend, I had a chance to check out the ADE Famous party, and it was definitely worth writing about…
 
Famous had an impressive line-up. Jerome Isma-Ae, Remy, Glenn Morrison, Matthew Dekay, and Ravene Voluz were all on the roster, so the event had progressive written all over it…though, at some point, I noticed Matthew Dekay mysteriously disappeared from the line-up.
 
The party took place at Club Home, a posh venue with plenty of room for sitting and chilling. It was a nice looking spot all the way around. The main room itself had a low ceiling and was very dark; it felt intimate and underground. The second room was small and bright; it also looked great.
 
Glenn Morrison played at the start of the party. Unfortunately, I only had the pleasure of catching the last 10 minutes of his set. He played groovy, melodic, feel-good tunes, which made a good impression on me. The main room was just starting to fill up during the performance by Remy, who was laying down tons of crazy grooves. The crowd was loving it and grooving along.
 
As soon as headliner Jerome Isma-Ae cued up his first record, the roof got blown off. Fueled by his typical Jerome style beats and basslines, everybody started jumping around like primal madmen. Jerome kept this up for about an hour and a half and then changed gears, adding a good deal of variety in his set. It didn’t seem to bother most of the audience (they where having a great time), but I wasn’t a big fan of the change up…so I went upstairs, to the second room.
 
Hearing groovy, carnival-inspired drum rhythms meant only one thing…Ravene Voluz. She’s an outstanding DJ! (…and it doesn’t hurt that she’s hot!) Ravene layered all types of tribal sounding grooves on top of each other, with almost lightning speed. No track seemed to play for more than 2 minutes, which made for a lot of listening variety and tons of fun. From what I saw, I was very impressed by this Brazilian DJ.
 
After Ravene left (and, not surprisingly, half of the male audience as well), Mr. Morrison was ready to do his thing up in the second room. He picked up where he left off in the main room earlier. I felt he had a great sense of what he should be playing. When Glenn played Sasha’s Xpander, it blew my mind. While I wasn’t expecting too much from Glenn, he actually made the night one to remember.
 
The Famous party is the last ADE event I will be covering, so I wanted to wrap things up by saying this: If you’re an electronic music fanatic and want to have a week filled up to the brim with good parties, the Amsterdam Dance Event would be the best place to go…well, perhaps second best after the crazy summers of Ibiza
 
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