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Entrance (Dave Angel Remix)

My remix for Sven Väth - Ritual Of Life was originally released in 1993 on Eye-Q Records
This track is imported from the original DAT and remastered by Oliver Lieb

Sven Väth - Ritual Of Life - Spicelab Remix (1993)

Gert van Veen began his musical career in the late 70’s. He played guitar, bass and keyboards in bands with musicians who later became famous with Urban Dance Squad and Spinvis. Van Veen himself chose a more experimental electronic direction and found the ideal musical platform in the Amsterdam house explosion of 1988. After several successful releases in collaboration with DJ Eddy de Clercq, including the very first Amsterdam house record 'Pay the piper' and the club classic 'Dish n tell' (House Of Venus), he started the (Detroit-)techno project QUAZAR in the summer of 1990, with wing man co-producer Eric Cycle. 
A year later, the first Quazar album ' The Seven Stars' was released, after which the group - expanded with dancers - embarked on an extensive Dutch live tour.
In 1993 van Veen started Welcome to the Future, a series of parties at Paradiso in Amsterdam, for which he invited befriended techno and house acts. The first editions included Speedy J, Orlando Voorn (1993) and the still barely known Underworld (1994), which Welcome to the Future later named as the moment the group broke through in the Netherlands.
After nine years of partying in Paradiso, Welcome to the Future moved to the new Amsterdam club Studio 80 in 2005, which van Veen as creative director (2008-2013) helped gain international fame. In 2013 the intimate Studio 80 scored an impressive 35th place in the DJ Mag Top 100 of international clubs. 
From 2007, Welcome to the Future also became an open-air festival, in nature reserve the Twiske. 15 successful editions were held between 2007 and 2022.
The final Welcome to the Future ('The last dance') attracted 25-thousand visitors in 2022.
In addition to being a producer, live act and party organizer, Gert van Veen is also an author. He graduated in musicology, was music editor at the Volkskrant for 15 years and wrote several books about music and the music world.
In 2018 van Veen received the Amsterdam Dance Event Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2022 a gold medal from the city of Amsterdam, the Andreas penning, as an ambassador of Amsterdam night culture.

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