Kazantip 2007

Just when you think you’ve seen everything, you get invited to a mad festival in Ukraine, which in retrospect may just be the biggest dance festival in the world. Where else do you have hundreds of thousands of visitors, over 300 DJs (such as Timo Maas, Dr. Motte, Armin, Grooverider, Robert Babicz, Teichmann Brothers, Playlove, and many more) and who knows how many live acts, 15 stages (and I do not mean tents but architectural feats like geodesic domes, Roman style arenas, some built on land, some in the middle of the sea, some only accessible via a 5m high monorail), and lasting over 5 weeks non-stop?

V-King and me were lucky enough to be invited to VJ there, we stayed for 10 days, VJing 4 nights amongst which one of the highlights of the festival doing the mainstage (which was open only on some crowded saturdays) for Timo Maas amongst others. We even managed to do some DJing on 2 occasions.

With some of the best music you ever heard, gorgeous women wherever you look, this has been more than we hoped for and 10 days were over before we knew it. If you have never heard of it, Kazantip is like combining all the cool clubs on Ibiza on one huge terrain by the Crim sea and fusing it with some Burning Man creativity, that’s as close as I get to describing it.