Website:
https://www.thunderdome.com/en/

Thunderdome is a famous concept in hardcore techno and gabber music that was mainly used for a series of parties and CD-albums. It was organized by the Dutch entertainment company ID&T. The first party was organized in 1992 and the party held in December 2012 was advertised as being the end of Thunderdome. However, after the 2012 event, the party was brought back in 2017 for the 25th anniversary with a 2019 edition announced the following year.

History
Before the Thunderdome concept was started, ID&T organized a big rave called The Final Exam, that was held on 20 June 1992. This was the first attempt to bring hardcore and gabber to a wide audience and the first event organized by ID&T, who would later go on to organize other big dance music events such as Tomorrowland, Mysteryland, and Sensation White, and Black. Later in 1992, they organized the first Thunderdome party, which was simply titled The Thunder Dome, which was held on 3 October 1992 in Heerenveen.

In 1993, ID&T / Arcade Records also started a Thunderdome compilation CD-series with popular gabber music. ID&T also sold other kinds of merchandise such as T-shirts, bomber-jackets, caps and even an energy drink (Thundertaste). The Thunderdome concept was considered important to the popularization and spreading of gabber music during the 1990s. Though it was the biggest and most popular concept in the scene through most of the 1990s, that title is now being rivaled by other events, such as the ones organized by Masters of Hardcore.

In late 1999 ID&T took a break from the Thunderdome concept and stopped producing the parties and CDs. The break lasted until 2001, when they resumed throwing parties and producing CDs. After the restart, one or two parties each year were held. In 2002, the concept for the party was the 10th anniversary of Thunderdome. A CD that was recorded live at the party and an anniversary DVD were released, both entitled Thunderdome: a Decade. In 2007, the 3-CD set XV: 15 Years Of Thunderdome was released in celebration of Thunderdome's 15th anniversary.

The December 2012 event was advertised as being the end of Thunderdome. An anniversary compilation album was also released. A press release for this album announced that: "It all comes full circle now. It’s time to let Thunderdome become what it always has been: a legend."

On 3 November 2015, ID&T announced that while the Thunderdome concept was retired, they introduced a new similar event called "Thunderdome Die Hard Day" due to massive demand. The event took place on 5 December 2015. On 3 October 2016, the 24th anniversary of the first edition of Thunderdome, ID&T announced a second Die Hard Day event to take place on 3 December 2016 at the Warehouse Elementenstraat in Amsterdam.

At the Dominator Festival on 16 July 2016, a plane with a banner that read "25 Years of Thunderdome - See You in 2017" was seen flying over the festival grounds. The official Thunderdome Facebook page then uploaded a post that read "See you in 2017," which confirmed rumours about a 25th anniversary edition of Thunderdome. After Die Hard Day II, ID&T announced that the third edition would not happen in 2017 due to their preparations for the 25th anniversary edition of Thunderdome. Instead, Die Hard Day III was held on 27 October 2018, again at the Warehouse Elementenstraat.

On 17 February 2017, ID&T released the trailer for the 25th anniversary of Thunderdome, which took place on 28 October 2017 at Jaarbeurs Utrecht.

On 24 July 2018, a plane flew over the festival grounds at the Dominator Festival again, similar to the 2016 festival, with a banner that read "Thunderdome - See you in 2019." This was then followed up with an official trailer uploaded to Thunderdome's official YouTube channel on 30 January 2019, stating that the 2019 edition would take place at Jaarbeurs Utrecht on 26 October 2019.




#Thunderdome #GabberManzionHolland

Thunderdome XV Years - Past - Gizmo & Dano - Disc 1

Here's a little music biography from me, the man behind GabberManzion Holland :)  

-In 2000, started making mixtapes on cassette tapes. 

-In 2004, started producing hip hop beats together with Randy Dentinger. 

-In 2005, started producing solo Hiphip / hardcore / house / dance / breakbeat projects. 

-In 2005, Mixed my first hardcore mix . 

-September 21, 2008 Youtube channel latibrigade founded.

-February 10, 2009 Youtube channel tntproductive founded. 

-March 24, 2010 Youtube channel Outlawmanzion founded. 

-March 24, 2010 Youtube channel Rockmanzion founded.

 -March 27, 2010 Youtube channel GabberManzion Holland founded. 

-May 13, 2010 Youtube channel terrormanzion founded. 

-June 5, 2010 Youtube channel Musicmanzion founded. 

-June 13, 2010 Youtube channel Crookietv founded. 

-September 11, 2014 Musicmanzion banned worldwide due to copyright infringement. 

-April 24, 2011 Youtube channel Jukebox manzion founded. 

-June 3, 2015 Youtube channel Jukebox manzion stopped and changed name to MusicManzion Holland as restart. 

-October 11, 2018 GabberManzion Holland is mentioned in the article 'THIS IS 6 OF THE MOST LEGENDARY GABBER DOCUMENTS' of hardcorenews.nl
SOURCE: http://www.hardcorenews.nl/6-meest-legendarische-gabber-documentaires/


-November 25, 2018 producer name XTZ founded.

-December 17, 2018 producer name X-Stream founded. 

-February 14, 2019 GabberManzion Holland has it's own photo in the article 'UNDERSTANDING THE VISUAL LANGUAGE OF GABBER' of boilerroom.tv
SOURCE: https://boilerroom.tv/article/understanding-visual-language-gabber


-February 14, 2019 Mister GabberManzion Holland interview  in boilerroom.tv 'DO RAVE VIDEOS DISTORT THE MEMORY OF GABBER?' is published.
SOURCE: https://boilerroom.tv/article/do-rave-videos-distort-memory-gabber


-April 17, 2019 producer name Chronic-X founded. 

-August 19, 2019 producer name Animals On X founded. 

-November 14, 2019 Zanjay Chattarpal is thanked in the credits for supplying his 90s Thunderdome VHS tapes in Thunderdome Never Dies Documentury
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May 13, 2020 producer name Z-JAY founded. 

-November 26, 2020 Mister GabberManzion is featured on national Dutch television  'een programma over de jaren 90'  
SOURCE: https://www.npo3.nl/een-programma-over-de-jaren-negentig/26-11-2020/VPWON_1311742

-In the meantime I have produced & mixed under these various names:

-TNT RECORDS 

-Billie Wax 

-Mister X 

-TNT X 

-Mister GMH 

-Mister GabberManzion Holland 

-XTZ 

-X-Stream 

-Chronic-X

-Animals On X 

-Z-JAY

-Z-JAYS