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The Miss Netherlands beauty pageant has officially come to an end, marking the close of a significant chapter in its history. Last year’s winner, Rikkie Kollé—the first trans woman to hold the title—was the final contestant to wear the iconic silk sash. Kollé used her platform to champion inclusivity, a theme central to the decision to end the contest.

Director Monica van Ee explained that empowering women, the pageant’s mission, has grown challenging amid increasing criticism and societal pressure. Unrealistic beauty standards perpetuated by social media have further fueled insecurity among women, prompting the need for change.

While this marks the end of Miss Netherlands, it’s not the end of the organization’s efforts. A new initiative, Niet Meer Van Deze Tijd (“No Longer of This Time”), will replace the pageant, focusing on empowering women through issues like mental health, diversity, and self-expression rather than traditional beauty ideals.

This shift reflects broader efforts to modernize beauty contests globally. Miss Universe recently opened its doors to older women and married contestants, signaling progress in a traditionally rigid industry. These changes aim to create a more inclusive and representative future for women in pageantry and beyond.

What's right: Miss Netherlands beauty pageant ends

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Holotropic & Sasemoi - Whispered Trails 6 
Whispered Trails (Live at The Voyage) [DLV003 / DELVER]

Produced by Pim van der Ploeg aka Holotropic & Reinald Van Praet aka Sasemoi
Mastered by Holotropic
Artwork by Pim van der Ploeg & Reinald Van Praet
Released by DELVER from Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Release Date : January 17th. 2025
Format - Cassette and Digital

Holotropic and Sasemoi's passion for hardware jams has been brewing these past years in search of a raw and unique sound. Whispered Trails is the first recorded and released outcome of this creative process.

Recorded during one of their live performances at The Voyage in Alkmaar, a place for experimentation and symbiosis between ambient music and visual arts, this release is laced with the atmosphere that such a place for co-creation brings to the participating artists.

Generative synthesis, mellow chord progressions, layering of soundscapes and textures to take you on a sonic journey.

Their collaboration even stretches to creating the artwork together, with Pim/Holotropic painting an abstract piece on a small canvas for Reinald/Sasemoi to alter it using algorithmic digital processing.

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Marco Aurelio | Live Set | January 10th 2025

Title: "The Rex"

This set is for techno-purists as it crosses the boundaries of human imagination when it comes to soundscapes by blazing full-on three decks sorcery in this paced-up set.

Imagine cybernetic implants and neural interfaces, tuned into the frequencies of black holes, pulsars, and solar flares, crafting beats that merged the pulse of the cosmos with the energy of the underground.

This journey will bring you into a trance which is a tribute to the infinite where you reach a void of space that is abstract and contains rhythm, connection, and life.

Fasten your seatbelts for this intense trip that builds up intriguingly where techno should be about as it's only for the headstrong.

Marco Aurelio serves you richly without spilling a drop during this live masterclass. Be prepared for mayhem brought to you by "The Rex" himself, Marco Aurelio Amsterdam's finest.

Tracklist
	 
LASK - Angels
Assumption - Spontaneous Prose
Scheermann - Monji
Mefteh - When Winter Comes
Tøtal - Potion
Daryn Steytler & Cullen Enslin - Storm
Amine Kohb - Cassini
Nørbak - Despida
A.Morgan - Stay Right There
Pakard - No Stress
Mamwadi & Niklass - Diffuse Reflection
Loose-E -  Route 627
Skeef Menezes - Mayday
Jardinage - Find Me 
Johannes Astrup - The Premium Service
KTK	- KALYPSO
Scheermann - Drummer Next Door 
Sicion - Abstract Projection
Nortsch - Benigna
Plastikman - Mantrax

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Purgatorium by Marco Aurelio - The Rex ╚═ live @Amsterdams Most Wanted ═╗ 10-01-2025

Barren Ash and Frozen Streams

In the shadow of the scorched heavens' fall,
Barren trees, their whispers call.
Flames have devoured their ancient might,
Now ash and cinder veil the night.

A river winds, frozen, cruel, and bare,
Its icy veins choke the lifeless air.
Beneath its surface, secrets seep,
A tomb for souls who dare not sleep.

Through withered fields of dying grass,
Where time itself will never pass,
Satan's choir chants infernal,
A hymn to realms beyond eternal.

The frost-bitten wind bears their cries,
A pact etched in desolate skies.
Under a crescent, pale and grim,
They spill their blood for the blackened hymn.

Ashen roots claw the earth in despair,
Hellfire breathes in the frozen glare.
Barren ash, frozen streams,
A land forsaken, haunted dreams.

By the flames we are born, by the frost we are bound,
In this cursed hollow, no life is found.
We rise, we fall, to the hymn of death,
Satan's whispers on every breath.

HELLFIRE - Barren Ash And Frozen Streams

Six Portuguese episodes of the podcast project "Pecados Abaixo do Equador" ("Sins Beneath the Equator"), highlighting the Dutch colonial past in the northeast of Brazil.

The project is a Brazilian/Dutch/Belgian coproduction of 100 short location-based podcasts in three languages (Portuguese, English, Dutch). 

Sins Beneath the Equator: A modern retelling of the Dutch occupation of Brazil is an international co-production taking a modern look at the Dutch occupation in Brazil (1630-1654). Its main objective is to deconstruct myths deeply rooted in the Pernambuco and Brazilian imagination. These include the ‘myth of the good Dutch coloniser’, which presents Maurice de Nassau as a humanist and visionary ruler, or the romanticised idea of the ‘union of the three races’ to expel the Dutch in the so-called Pernambuco Restoration. 

All material is available on a project website, and on Placecloud.io, which integrates Google Street View into the listening experience:

https://brasil-holandes.marcozero.org
https://placecloud.io/?c=28460 (Português)
https://placecloud.io/?c=28440 (English)
https://placecloud.io/?c=28450 (Nederlands)

The list of the included episodes, and links to their transcripts in English:

Pecados abaixo do equador (Sins beneath the equator)
https://brasil-holandes.marcozero.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/transcript.sins_.pdf

É mais fácil um boi voar de verdade do que Nassau ser um herói (Easier for an ox to fly than for Nassau to be a hero)
https://brasil-holandes.marcozero.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/transcript.flyingox.pdf

Colonizadores colonizados pela mandioca (Colonisers colonized by cassava)
https://brasil-holandes.marcozero.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/transcript.cassavaflour.pdf

O primeiro polonês a caminhar no fundo do mar (The first Pole to walk on the bottom of the sea)
https://brasil-holandes.marcozero.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/transcript.seabottom.pdf

Civilizados e traficantes de africanos? (The civilized as human traffickers)
https://brasil-holandes.marcozero.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/transcript.traffickers.pdf

A grande fachada (The great facade)
https://brasil-holandes.marcozero.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/transcript.facade.pdf

Pecados Abaixo do Equador

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Marco Aurelio, a rippled journey through the empty void, a sound too strong to exist in the nothingness of space. 
Yet, somehow, there was a vibration felt by every atom in the vicinity, as though the very fabric of the universe had caught a vibration of Aurelio's specific sound.

His fingers danced across the holographic controls, with his mind connected to the flow of the moment. 

The stars outside were just pinpricks of light, distant, cold. Inside, though, the air was electric.   

Aurelio always trusted the stars, but today, the stars seemed to be whispering something different.

A figure out of place but his hands are a blur that alters sound waves, bending, and stretching them into existence.

Not just a DJ set. It is a key, a doorway to something vast, something the universe had kept hidden for eons  
The music is the bridge, the connector, and the journey has only begun.

It's an ancient code of awakening.

Enjoy the ride!

Purgatorium by Marco Aurelio - The Ripple ╚═ live @Amsterdams Most Wanted ═╗ 31-01-2025

Welcome to my latest Minimal Deep Tech House mix! This high-energy set is perfect for late nights, clubbing, or just getting into the groove. I've carefully curated a selection of the finest tracks from top artists like ANOTR, Sidney Charles, Obskür, and many more.

Get ready to be taken on a journey through pulsating basslines, hypnotic melodies, and infectious rhythms. This mix is designed to keep you moving from start to finish.


Tracklist:
Burnin' - Art Edit - ANOTR/Stef Davidse
Got The Reload - Watchers (UK)
Organica - Sidney Charles
Workin' the Door - Ranger Trucco
Way I Do - Tre Reynolds
My Bad Your Fault - Kolter
Suspicious Minds - Close to Custom
First Light - Pedro Borlado
Late Night - Di Chiara Brothers, Mariche
Flip The Switch - Ozzie Guven
Body Slam - Dimmish
Bass Generation - Extended Mix - Jack Wostear
T.M.P. - Across Boundaries/Chris Stussy/Locklead
Holy Kush - Vitess
Trip Advisor (Rhythm, Snare, Bass) (Original Mix) - Sidney Charles
Vibrations - DXNBY
Devil (Extended) - M-High, Chicago Hustle
Falling Back - Obskür
Canvas (Original Mix) - Sidney Charles
Pleasures - SLAMM

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ANOTR, Sidney Charles, Obskür - Groovy Minimal Deep Tech Mix

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Hi there! I am EAS and i like to create metal, so I started my own project called 'HELLFIRE'. I am also on Spotify, Itunes, etc. Please don't forget to like and repost my tracks if you are in to my music. Cheers and rock on! EAS (HELLFIRE)

Born and raised in Amsterdam with Moroccan roots.

Marco Aurelio takes you on an immersive journey through pulsating rhythms and dynamic soundscapes. 

His sets are dynamic and contain energy shifts, sometimes deep. Still, he stays consistently uptempo, driving the energy forward as hypnotic loops weave through the mix, creating a trance-like atmosphere. 

Expect layered sounds where he plays trippy and atmospheric set that pulls the audience to a deeper into a kaleidoscopic sonic experience. Tribal percussion elements add an organic, primal intensity, grounding the ethereal sound in raw, rhythmic power. 

Throughout the set, energy shifts keep the crowd on their toes, building tension and releasing it in waves, delivering an electrifying, mind-bending ride from start to finish.

Personally, he is called Sous and he is for many years behind the curtains a known face and contributor as well as a force to the underground scene Amsterdam.

Bookings & MGMT: sous@amsterdamsmostwanted.nl

"I found my peace behind the decks. As a former member of a special police unit, DJing has become my therapeutic outlet, helping me clear my mind.
I primarily play a mix of minimal, deep house, tech, and techno, incorporating groovy rhythms and familiar samples.
My ultimate goal is to have fun behind the decks. I love spontaneous b2b sets with friends and enjoy playing in intimate, off-the-beaten-path settings where people can connect and party without distractions."

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