“We also booked Sven Väth for the first time way “Most of the people that come to Kazantip spend the sea with a glass floor. I was DJing to people
back in 1998,” says Steven. “He had just started most of the year working hard in stuffy offices, dancing on a glass floor with waves crashing
his Cocoon project and his agency said he could waiting for the summer so they can party at the below them — it was just amazing.”
only play for us on a Wednesday night. It was a Black Sea resorts and their clubs. Many people “It’s such an exciting scene over there because
weird night of the week for parties over here but come and spend their only holiday at Kazantip people are so hungry for the music. When you
we decided to go with the date and in the end and lots of them that I’ve spoken to say it gives play there it feels like acid house first did in the
had 6000 people dancing to Sven’s set. He was them the strength they need to go back to their late 1980s. It’s exciting to be part of that.”
amazed and asked us if it was a national holiday home cities and live through another year of
the next day, but it wasn’t.” work!” In 2006, Andrey Soldatkin formed Rucea,
a company dedicated to putting on dance
UnIqUE SEllIng PoInt Mark Doyle’s Fierce Angels label is one of the music events in Russia and bringing DJs such
In neighbouring Ukraine, Odessa is a good city first from the UK to put on regular parties as Armand Van Helden, David Guetta, Paul
for clubbing all year round but a major annual throughout the Black Sea coastal area. Back in Oakenfold, Todd Terry and Darren Emerson to
dance music festival called Kazantip is the February, Doyle and his posse went out to Russia play in the area.
main focus for clubbing tourism in the summer. for the annual Sochi Winter Music Conference “When the Soviet Union broke up in 1991
Kazantip’s unique selling point is that it’s a (SWMC), Eastern Europe’s answer to WMC with everything began changing,” says Andrey.
month long, with techno, house and trance the usual mix of panel discussions, workshops, “Western TV became available and new music
parties, open-air gigs and events during the parties and networking. Doyle was one of only started filtering through. Those influences,
whole of August! seven English-speaking dance industry players teamed up with the impact of the internet,
“We attract thousands of clubbers mainly from at SWMC. started to feed the seeds of dance music culture
Ukraine, Russia, Baltics, Belarus and a number “There were about a thousand DJs and promoters in the area. Now we have a really healthy scene
of other central East European countries,” says all gathered together in Sochi,” he says. “After operating across Russia and the Ukraine and,
Sergiy Grytsenko, organiser of Kazantip. “Last I took part in a panel, we did a Fierce Angels during the summer months, there are a lot
year James Zabiela played, as did Deep Dish and party at a nearby club called Platforma, which of parties happening in the Black Sea coastal
hundreds of other international and local DJs. is basically an old oil drilling platform out in areas.”
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