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Blasts from the Past: Birthday Bash Edition
Buckle your seat belts, some more time travelling coming up. It’s the Birthday Bash Special. Huge jumps will occur. One obvious rule (apart from jungle, of course): Every photo is from December 3rd or from my birthday celebrations the following weekend.
My birthday bash anno 1998. Notice the Dimensions poster, the center piece of my living room at the time. A massive party weekend at Den Grå Hal, Christiania, april 1996. Rotundum on the Friday, Jungle Fever on the Saturday. The note in my diary about that weekend says “FOR VILDT!” so I was clearly happy about it. But that’s another story.
Svingsen pointing at Rune RK pointing at beer.
Gløgg in the cups. And yes, I went all in with the techno posters in that flat. The Legohouse flyer featuring Dave Clarke, Wpoody and Richie Hawtin lived in the hallway (but didn’t survive the move to the next flat).
Time jumping. December 3rd 2005. My first Birthday Bash at Nadsat.
While the awesome suede catsuit diverts your attention, I am barely visible at the bottom left corner of the photo, investigating a time portal that has suddenly appeared in the floor.
Vitus on the decks. Oldskool.
One of many group hugs and also, enthusiasm about having an actual digital camera to play with.
Junglettes looking well-behaved and totally succeeding.
Mika showing everyone how it’s done.
Satisfied jungle smiles.
Miss Popo posing.
Lucy Love explaining something to someone in the background.
Dj Caspar. This set was so good, I made an enthusiastic note of it the day after in my 2005 calendar. The calender has limited space, so very few dj-sets make it in there, even really good ones; I mean, think of the volume of it otherwise. So this set was, no doubt, straight up awesome. Photo courtesy of Nufound; my camera had stopped circulating by then.
Phonetic slowing down.
Sune watches my happy jungle arms expressing themselves.
Dj Drop discovers that the time portal is still open.
Chriszka discovers that this cava bottle is still not opened.
More un-opened bottles.
CRS sporting one version of those signature Krueger stripes. Darkside patterns.
Time jump to what I think was my first birthday surprise party ever, year 2000. Birthday cake by Svingsen who managed to make me some marvelous ones quite a few years in a row, always with highly motivating texts on top (such as ‘Du er for lækker’ written on this one). Later this evening, we went to something called Plasma at Amager Bio. If it was psytrance I think I would have remembered, so it was probably techno.Another photo from my surprise birthday party at Svingsen’s flat. Here is a babyfaced dj Nis, anno 2000, and my brother Jakob.Another PIC from the surprise party. Here’s Claus with a balloon and Magnus with a handsign, and in the front, a babyfaced Niels aka dubqnp. I remember so many details from this flat. For instance, the printed flyer on the wall next to Magnus. I just dove into my archives (yes, I have folders and boxes filled with old flyers) – AND I FOUND IT!
I have four copies (LOL) in mint condition saved in a folder. Here’s the cover, photographed:
And the back:
It’s a flyer for a Jungle Fever party at Operaen, a day in September in the late 90s! Legendary times. Check all the names on the flyer. <3
Unrelated, but in the same folder, I found this gem as well (another one from Operaen) – ‘The Old Skool Bash’ (how sweet that we started calling the sound of ’93 and ’94 for oldskool in 1999 and 2000, LOL).
And here’s another one flyer from the same folder – from a Grooverider party at Stengade 30 (probably 1999):
70 dkk for Grooverider at Stengade! Those were the days.Check the lineup on those three floors! Legends everywhere. And the ‘tickets available at Baden Baden´. <3 Ah, those days before Facebook.
Ok, onwards with the birthdays bash pics from through the years.
Massive time jump to December 3rd 2009. After a very intense round of Chriszka’s Birthday Bash at Culture Box. We are still alive, barely. So much dancing, no time for photos, apparently.
December 3rd, 2010. Enter the smartphone and my two year non stop Hipstamatic phase! We are charging the batteries for another Birthday Bash at Culture Box. 20 minutes to go.
Arrival. Tim Driver dj’ing at the Birthday Bash. Culture Box, the basement, 2010.
Classic Hipstamatic cut. I sort of like it.
And that was that. Time to chill.
This post was originally made on December 3rd, 2014 – another birthday, obviously. This is a slightly updated version. Time portal is functioning. Time for some more jungle bubbles, then.
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