HOLLAND TRIP

          A TRIP TO HOLLAND

            by Vodka/TSB


Hi  there !  Here's da best alcoholic
swapper  writing  an  article for diz
cool  mag.   So, Vodka of The Special
Brothers  (yes,that's  me !) is on da
keys  now  and I'll talk you 'bout my
travel to Holland this summer for the
White  Label  party,  wich  was named
`Somewhere  in  Holland`.   In  fact,
that   was  my  first  party  outside
France  (where  I live, for those who
didn't  know me !) and I really hoped
that  it'd  be a great party, where I
could  meet  lots  of  my contacts (I
think that everybody hopes so when he
goes  to  a party, doesn't he?).  
Ok, I'll now describe you all my trip
from France, at the party and then my
return   to   France.    I  was  very
exciting  before going to Holland.  I
had  all  prepared  :   I  had got my
train's   tickets,   some  foods  and
drinks  for the travel and the party,
lots   of   disks,   some   paper,  a
pen...and  I had even drawn a big TsB
logo  on  a  t-shirt  !   I  was just
waiting  for  the  time I'll leave my
home and start this great week-end in
Holland.   So,  it  was  time now.  I
took  a local train in order to go to
Paris,  where I'll take a night-train
for  Rotterdam  (I just live at 30kms
south  from  Paris).I  arrived now at
the  North Railway-Station, in Paris,
and  I  had  to  wait  about one hour
before  the  train go.  It left Paris
at  23:30  and I arrived in Rotterdam
at 7:00.  Nothing special during this
night.   I  tried to sleep a bit, but
that  wasn't  very  easy  'coz  I was
sitting.   Ahhhh...   I  was  yet  at
Rotterdam.   I had to buy a ticket in
order  to  go  to Nijmegen, the party
place,  and  that's also by train.  I
bought a double ticket, for going and
coming  back, and I waited about half
an hour for the good train.  But this
wasn't  a  direct-train  and I had to
change  of  train at another station.
Then,  I  took  another  train  and I
arrived  at  Nijmegen at 10:00 (still
the morning, not yet the night !).  I
asked  some  people  at a bus-stop in
order  to reach the party place.  One
can  hopefully give me the right way,
and  I  went  there.   
All   right  !   I  found  it  really
easily.   I  entered  in  and I found
some  organisers,  but they said that
the party wasn't begin yet and that I
had  to  wait for 12:00.  Another guy
from  Amsterdam  also  arrived and we
decided to go in the town in order to
drink   something  before  the  party
begun.   At  11:00, we came back just
in  front  of  the party place.  Some
others  guys  was  just arriving now,
too.    I   started   to   talk  with
Zinkfloid  of TRSI :  he said that he
was comming from Austria with Negativ
/ TRSI and Slayer/Scoopex (who's even
comming from Finland).  Yeah !  A guy
from  Finland....  Really great !  He
also   said  that  he  made  lots  of
parties  all  over Europe during this
summer,   that  Slayer  is  preparing
Mental Hangover II for The Party III,
with  lots  of  kwel and new effects,
that  the  illegal section of TRSI is
just  cracking  Turrican III and that
they  will  maybe  bring  it  to  the
party....   And  some  others  things
that I don't remember.  

I  also  talked  with  Cubik / Trance
Inc., who's the headquarter of Trance
Inc.   And now was arriving Wizard of
Infect,  my good friend who helped me
for   going  to  this  party  (really
thanx, mate !) with his friend Poison
/   Cyanide.   Well,  the  party  was
oppening  now.   I  paid the entrance
fee  and  discovered  that  the party
room was not as big as I had expected
to.  Anyway, more and more people was
comming and installing themselves.  I
wore the t-shirt I had drawn on and I
begun  to  look  who  were  all those
guys.   During  all  the  day, I just
looked  who  was there and spoke with
my  contacts.   In  no order, I saw :
Dope  /  White Label, Nao and Facet /
Lemon.,  Radavi  and  Msw  /  Effect,
Cloud   /   Desire,   Flynn  and  The
Collector    /   Trance,   Protec   /
Mirage...   But I know that there was
also  some  guys  from Legend, Jetset
and  some  others that I didn't know.

During this first day, I also went to
the   central-town   with   Poison  /
Cyanide,    where   I   bought   some
postcards   for  my  friends  and  my
family, and I copied the new ChitChat
and   some  others  intros.   At  the
evening,   we   saw   a   movie  with
Schwarzeneger  on  the  big screen (I
don't  know the original name, but in
french  that's  something like `a cop
in  the  little  -school`.  Do ya see
what  I mean ?).  So, the night begun
and  I  didn't  do  anything special,
except of playing with Pinball Dreams
and   -Fantasies  and  going  in  the
central-town  for  eating a bit).  

At  0:30, Alien 3 had been watched on
the  big  screen.  I started to watch
it  but  I slept after some minutes !
Yes,  I was a bit tired 'coz I hadn't
really sleep the night before, in the
train.  I really woke up at 9:00.  My
friends  in  Trance and TRSI had left
the  party  during the night.  A mate
let me use his A1200 in order to make
the  second issue of my pack (Pack It
Up  !)  with  the intros I had copied
the  first  day.   Wizard  and Poison
also  left  the  party now.  I got to
the town at 12:00 for eating.  Unlike
the  day before, there wasn't lots of
people    in    the   streets.    The
competitions  begun  at 14:30.  First
the  music  competition  :   we heard
about  21  modules, lots of them were
techno  ones  but there wasn't really
some  very  good modules.  The ones I
prefered    are    :     Heaven    by
Fabian/Desire,   Power  of  three  by
911/Movement,    Reflections   3   by
Greenhouse/Legend.   So,  after  that
was  the gfx-compo :  only 5 pictures
but  good  qualities.   My prefered :
D-Mage/VD     +    Fashion/Stb    and
Facet/Lemon.   And  then  we finished
with the demo competition :  a little
intro   by   Trance  Inc.,  a  techno
musicdisk  by  The  Raven in 2 disks,
the intro for ChitChat #10 by Mirage,
and,  the  last  but not the least, a
trackmo   by   Perseus,   wich  is  a
subgroup of Infocorner (I didn't know
this   dutch   group).    After   the
competitions  ,  most  of  the people
left  the  party.  Just about 30 guys
stayed  for  the  results.  Here they
are  :   Nao/Lemon.   for  the music,
Facet/   Lemon.    for  the  gfx  and
Perseus  for  the  demo  competition.
And  after the results was given, all
the  others  guys  left the party one
per  one  (it  was  about  18:00).  I
would  like to make another pack with
some  modules'n  gfx  from the party,
and  I  had also to make lots of copy
in  order  to  answer to my contacts.
But  I was the only one who stay here
with  the  organisers.   But I had to
wait  anyway  'coz my train to France
was also the night-train.  I bought a
mouse at the little shop in the party
place.  Yes, I really needed one 'coz
I  had  still  the original A500 one.
And  they offered me a t-shirt of the
party  (really thanx, Dope !). 

So,  I  waited until 20:00 and I went
to  the  railway station of Nijmegen.
I  took a direct train for Rotterdam,
but  during  this  travel  the ticket
inspector told me that mine was valid
only  for  one  day, even if it's for
going  and  coming  back, so I had to
pay another one.  After that, no more
dutch  money left.  Then I arrived at
Rotterdam and I had again to wait for
my train to Paris, about one and half
hour.   During  this  time,  I talked
with  a  french  dude,  who  had been
stolen     near     the     Rotterdam
Railway-Station   and  he  hadn't  no
money  and  no identity papers.  This
time, I sleep realy good in the train
'coz  I had reserved a couchette.  In
the  train,  there  was  also  a nice
dutch  girl  (Hmm...Hmm...).I arrived
in  Paris  at 7:00, and I had to wait
about one and half hour before taking
another  train  in  order  to join my
parents  and  my  sister, who were on
holidays  in  a  west area of France.
And finally I arrived there at 12:00.
Yeah  !!!   What a nice week-end, and
Holland is really nice !  If you can,
try to go there.  And the dutch girls
are so nice !!!  Hmm...Hmm...