Q-dance
Q-Dance is a music organizer, record label and online radio operator from the Netherlands with a focus on hardcore techno , hardstyle and hard trance . The most important events organized by Q-Dance include Defqon.1 , Q-Base , Qlimax , Dominator , The Qontinent and X-Qlusive .
history
The company, founded in 1999, initially limited itself to event organization . Today Q-Dance works as an organizer and also as a record label and has various DJs under contract, including DJ Astrid , Technoboy , Zany and various others.
Q-Dance operates internationally and has been part of the market-leading Dutch music label ID&T since the end of 2006 , whose founder Duncan Stutterheim transferred management to Q-Dance founder Wouter Tavecchio after his retirement. The two organizers and record labels dominate the Dutch hardstyle music market with over 25 dance festivals with a total of more than 500,000 visitors annually.
Q-Dance is currently very active in Australia and organized “X-Qlusive Showtek” there in December 2008 and “X-Qlusive Technoboy” in December 2009. Defqon.1 also took place on September 19, 2009 and September 18, 2010 for the first time as "Defqon1- Australia" in Sydney .
By raising the tax on events in the Netherlands in 2011, Q-Dance decided to cancel two of its successful events called In Qontrol and Houseqlassics and to host two new, more profitable events in the Heineken Music Hall and the ZiggoDome in Amsterdam. On October 1, 2011, QORE 3.0 premiered in the Heineken Music Hall. On December 31, 2012, the first Freaqshow was held in the Ziggodome , replacing the Q-Dance New Year's Eve event “Qountdown” from previous years. In 2017 Freaqshow ended after five years on December 31st and was replaced by WOW WOW the following year. In 2018, the Q-BASE festival at Niederrhein Airport was also held for the last time.
In earlier times Q-Dance also organized other events such as Hardcore Resurreqtion , Qountdown , Qlubtempo , Qontact , Teqnology , Q-Beach , Qrimetime and Promo . Since then, individual stages of the organizer have also been represented at many major festivals.
Q-dance events
since | Surname | Current venue | Visitors |
---|---|---|---|
2000 | Qlimax | GelreDome Arnhem | > 29,000 |
2003 | X-Qlusive | Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam | 5,500 |
Defqon.1 | Biddinghuizen | 85,000 | |
2004 | Q-dance presents | Ziggo Dome Amsterdam | 12,000 |
2005 | Dominator | E3 Eersel beach | 50,000 |
2008 | The Qontinent (with bass events) | Wachtebeke | 30,000 |
2009 | Defqon.1 Australia | Sydney International Regatta Center | 25,000 |
2012 | The Sound of Q-dance | N / A | |
2013 | Capital | Ziggo Dome Amsterdam | 12,000 |
Dominator (Indoor Edition) | Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam | N / A | |
2014 | Hemqade | North Sea Venue Zaandam | N / A |
2015 | Defqon.1 Chile | Santiago de Chile | N / A |
2016 | Mysteryland NL | Haarlemmermeer | > 60000 |
2019 | IMPAQT | Niederrhein Airport | |
2019 | EPIQ | Ziggo Dome Amsterdam | |
2020 | Defqon.1 @ Home | Walibi Holland |
Former events
from ... to | Surname | Former venue |
---|---|---|
1999-2010 | Houseqlassics | |
2000-2001 | '91 -'92 | Hemkade 48 Zaandam |
2000-2003 | Hardcore resurrection | |
2001-2004 | Qontact | Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam / Beursgebouw Eindhoven |
2001-2007 | Qlubtempo | Hemkade 48 Zaandam / Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam |
2002 | Club Q-BASE | Hemkade 48 Zaandam |
2002-2006 | Teqnology | Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam |
2004-2007 | QrimeTime | Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam |
2004-2010 | In Qontrol | Amsterdam RAI |
2010 | De Q-dance Feestfabriek | Amsterdam ArenA |
2008-2011 | Qountdown | Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam |
2011–2012 | QORE 3.0 | Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam |
2013-2013 | IQON | Sydney International Dragway |
2012-2017 | Freak show | Ziggo Dome Amsterdam |
2004-2018 | Q-BASE | Niederrhein Airport |
2018 | WOW WOW | Ziggo Dome Amsterdam |
2019 | EPIC | Ziggo Dome Amsterdam |
2020 | DEDIQATED | GelreDome Arnhem |
2020 | Defqon.1 @ Home | Walibi Holland |
Web links
- Q-Dance website (Dutch)
- Website of Q-Dance (English)
- Q-Dance at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ ANBerlin, December 9, 2006 ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ londoncalling2008.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ European Center for the Experience Economy, November 2006 ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 261 kB) Study “Human Experience and Ubiquitous Art”, pages 9-10.
- ^ Q-Dance Australia website
- ↑ X-Qlusive Showtek website