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                                           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,
which  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
hasn't  begun 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  begins.   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 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 opening 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 put
the t-shirt I had dramn on and I began 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?   (Yes,  Kindergarden Cop - Ed).  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,  which  is  a subgroup of Infocorner (I didn't know this dutch group).
After  the  competitions, the 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 for 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.   A  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...