Hard Dance Event: Connecting the Harder Styles

O HDE - Hard Dance Event - tem como objectivo reunir os profissionais de "harder styles of dance music" e faz parte do programa da 15ª edição de Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), que nasceu no ano de 1996 como uma pequena conferência de música electrónica sendo nos dias de hoje uma das maiores e melhores conferências de música electrónica a par da mais conhecida, por entre os "típicos" portugueses, a Winter Music Conference (WMC).

ADE terá lugar entre 20 e 23 de outubro de 2010, sendo que o programa de HDE inicia-se no dia 21 em que seminários, workshops e outros tipos de contactos irão contribuir para o convívio entre a comunidade de hard dance e o desenvolvimento deste estilo de música.

Hard Dance Event Connecting the Harder Styles irá decorrer na sede da Q-Dance, Dance-tunes e ID&T em Entree 300, Amsterdão.

Resta apenas salientar que presumo ser a primeira vez que a cena harder styles tem o seu espaço no ADE.

The HDE - Hard Dance Event, aims to connect professionals in the harder
styles of dance music. As an official part of the program of the Amsterdam
Dance
Event (ADE) it allows artists, promoters, entrepreneurs and other
professionals
to discuss, experience and continue current and new
developments. The program,
set on Thursday the 21st of October, consists of
plenty of time to get together
in the bar area, seminars, workshops and meet
& greets. The event will draw
an international crowd with invitations
sent out to the global hard dance
community.

The location is the
state of art headquarters of ID&T
& Q-dance and allows for the use
of all modern presentation and
communication means. The building is situated
in the new entertainment and
shopping district in the South East of
Amsterdam and close to the train and
metro station. Within a short walk
there are some bars, restaurants and both the
Amsterdam ArenA football
station and Heineken Music Hall which have an important
part in hard dance
history.

The harder styles in dance music consist of
many different
genres ranging from dubstep to speedcore. The number of music
labels goes
well in the hundreds, maybe even thousands, and hard dance tracks
have
frequently found their way high into the charts. In Holland alone hard
dance
events are visited by over 600.000 people annually while communities like
Partyflock.nl (which is mainly hard dance oriented) have millions of
pageviews
every week. Facebook and Youtube represent another big chunk of
web presence
with profiles from artists, labels and events having tens of
thousands of fans.

Participants can register at www.harddanceevent.com
(online 17th of
September) to receive their official invitation for the
event. Hotel deals are
available while the location is easily reachable by
car or public transport.
Schiphol Airport is close by and there will be a
shuttle service between the ADE
and the HDE.

The fifteenth edition
of the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE)
will take place from 20-23 October 2010.
The four day event is the world's
leading electronic music conference and
showcase festival and 90,000 festival
visitors and 2,200 conference
participants are expected. The ADE conference has
become the most important
of its kind and provides the international electronic
music industry a
platform to do business, to exchange knowledge and keep up to
date on the
latest developments and trends.

www.hard-dance-event.nl
www.facebook.com/HardDanceEvent
www.amsterdam-dance-event.nl