I Love Techno 2009

electrogrimey

As far as I can see, there's nothing on here about ILT this year so I thought I'd start one off. I'm planning on going this year for my first time, and I have a question or two for previous attendents (one's that I didn't see answered on last year's thread). First off, what's the story with tickets? Are they not out yet, or are they sold out or what? 'Cos the only place online I can find says they're €150! Which can't be right...And secondly, how easy/dodgy is it to source em...stimulants...once you're there? 'Cos I'm planning to fly straight to Brussels, not Amsterdam, and I don't really wanna risk it through customs...

Jello

I'm going for my first time this year too, but a mate of mine went last year.

Tickets aren't on sale for another while, not sure when exactly. They'll only cost around €40 or €45. And my mate had no problems with sourcing 'stimulants', so you should be fine

Deadmau5 is first confirmed act btw.

electrogrimey

Excellent on the vitamin front, I wasn't too concerned, as I'm guessing it's gonna be the more or less the equivalent of the Cannabis Cup!
Yea I saw they were €40 odd last year, but then I saw this http://www.worldticketshop.com/dance_and_electronic/i_love_techno_tickets/33921_i_love_techno_gent. Must be some kinda scam....
Deadmau5? Suppose he was always gonna play wasn't he, where's he confirmed?

Jello

electrogrimey wrote: »

Excellent on the vitamin front, I wasn't too concerned, as I'm guessing it's gonna be the more or less the equivalent of the Cannabis Cup!
Yea I saw they were €40 odd last year, but then I saw this http://www.worldticketshop.com/dance_and_electronic/i_love_techno_tickets/33921_i_love_techno_gent. Must be some kinda scam....
Deadmau5? Suppose he was always gonna play wasn't he, where's he confirmed?

Yeah at €150 a ticket I wouldn't trust it at all.

Deadmau5 is confirmed on his myspace.

electrogrimey

Any idea when the rest of the lineup usually comes out?

Jello

Some time in August I think. They might announce it a bit earlier this year because it's on a few weeks earlier than last year.

brianc27

deadmau5, WTF, the cvnt with the mouse head, wouldnt be surprised if they announce tiesto in concert aswell, really wish they'd change the name of this event, very mis-leading

electrogrimey

Well in fairness, techno pretty much covers near enough all genres of dance that you find there...it's gonna get a bit complicated if you have to change it every year to suit the acts that are playing and "I Love Tech-house, Electro and Minimal, Along With Many Other Sub-Genres Of Dance Music" doesn't really have the same ring to it...

brianc27

they can just take the reference to techno out of it, take any reference to genre's out of it, completely rename it as it is not the same festival as it was

nah_biy!

It's been I Love Electro for years, tickets are 40 bucks, there's plenty of drugs there but there's a bucket load of local drug squad too with dogs and plenty of patting down. Once you're in though you wouldn't even know there's security, deadly vibe.

brianc27

theres been fvck all electro at it for years

nah_biy!

brianc27 wrote: »

theres been fvck all electro at it for years

lulz bro, jog along there please

brianc27

name me some electro acts that have played at it the last 3 or 4 years, coz theres been fvck all

SRFC90

Justice, Crookers, Busy P, Boys Noize & Brondinski and likes are who I'd say he's talking about.

ghostdancer

people really need to learn the difference between electro and electro house.
there has been essentially no electro at ILT for the last few years.

the festival and lineup seems to get progressively worse each year. hopefully it's not another nu-rave/electro-house/dance-punk wankfest, but it probably will be.
pretty badly run event overall, but a good session.

brianc27

Justice, Crookers, Busy P, Boys Noize & Brondinski and likes are who I'd say he's talking about.

thought as much, those acts are not electro though

Daroxtar

Deadmaus comfirmed as the first act?? FFS. 2 unlimited have more to do with techno than that tw@. Thats the equivalent of Maddona playing glastonbury, look how that went.

personally I feel it's way too commercial now. Not what techno is about imo.

Zascar

It's what happens to almost all festivals. They start out all cool and small and only the people why are really into it go - then they bring their firneds the enxt year and the promoters need to make more money - so they get some headline/cheesey acts in to pull more crowds and so on and so fourth.

Electric Picnic used to be an Electronic Music Festival - now look at it.

Luke Creed

brianc27 wrote: »

deadmau5, WTF, the cvnt with the mouse head, wouldnt be surprised if they announce tiesto in concert aswell, really wish they'd change the name of this event, very mis-leading

He is a dope, He playing ILT and he thinks all dj's are "Cvnts"?? i
wouldn't give the lad the steam off my piss never mind a gig.

SRFC90 wrote: »

Justice, Crookers, Busy P, Boys Noize & Brondinski and likes are who I'd say he's talking about.

Justice and Crookers are Pop Dance (or something) imo. Nowhere near electro.

Helix

ghostdancer wrote: »

people really need to learn the difference between electro and electro house.

this, this, and this thrice more

Nedermeyer

Without wanting to offend anyone, I personally feel that people getting bogged down in genre definition is destroying their enjoyment of the music. just because someone doesn't know their electro from their electro pop or their electro from their electro clash or tech house from acid house, doesn't mean that they can't go and enjoy a gig none the less.

I do agree that with 'techno' in the title is a bit misleading, but as far as i remember, the likes of Robert hood and such have played their recently.

But who gives a flip anyway ?

If you don't like it, go to Russia.:D

Executive Steve

Zascar wrote: »

Electric Picnic used to be an Electronic Music Festival - now look at it.

when was that?

Helix

ep was never an electronic music festival, or anything even resembling it

Why not change this festival's name to I love cheese?

Riesen_Meal

Awakenings are probably the last decent techno promoters left....

Luke Creed

Fieldog wrote: »

Awakenings are probably the last decent techno promoters left....

x2
Also that Maximal Festival in Italy looked good.

Jay D wrote: »

Why not change this festival's name to I love cheese?

I love cheese and boring Minimal! :O

gerry99

hi , i was there last year & we stayed in amsterdam & we got the train to ghent for the event . the train is only about 3hrs so if stayin in brussels i would say it is well worth a trip to ammydam & you can source all the " stimulants " you want there . i plan on stayin in brussels myself this year so that is what i will be doing .. i dont know how easy it is to get stuff in ghent or inside the event as i had no need to look last year .. you can but tickets off the official i love techno website soon enough for only around 50\60 euro's i think .. i left it too late last year & had to organize my tickets off some guy in ghent thru facebook & altho it all went well i ended up payin 120 a ticket which i wont be doin this year !!

Jello

First names announced:

Dave Clarke, Boys Noize, Deadmau5 live
The Bloody Beetroots, Laurent Garnier live
Simian Mobile Disco live, Chris Liebing, The Proxy live
Fake Blood, Buraka Som Sistema live, Speedy J, Surkin
Don Rimini, Johnny D

SRFC90

Whats the story with some having (live) beside their names!!??

sudzy

Is it something to do with mixing all the samples and beats live rather then just throwing in a cd with a track on it...? I dunno, just speculating!

g5fd6ow0hseima

Liebing and Speedy J are about the only acts I could consider going to. Dave Clarke has played ILT more times than Felix Da Housecat has played oxegen for god sake.......... and thats every ****in year!

I was at ILT last year, but I wont go again. Awakenings looks the best one, although they are on opposite times of the year. ILT is more or less on its own in that time of the year, which helps.....

brianc27

theres an awakenings weekender early october and another one in november.

safe to say i wont be goin near ILT this, line up so far looks like a nightmare

Luke Creed

SRFC90 wrote: »

Whats the story with some having (live) beside their names!!??

A dj set is done on Vinyl, cd, Serato, Vdj, Traktor etc.

Live usually means Machines (eg. 303, 909, Elektribe etc) or Ableton or Mainstage in logic, basically anything in which you or constructing the songs live not mixing them on vinyl etc.

It looks like i might his this i also hear Ortin Cam is playing this year and hopefully Bas Mooy too, if Liebing, Mooy, Ortin Cam and Speedy J are in the same room im there!

empirix

Luke Creed wrote: »

A dj set is done on Vinyl, cd, Serato, Vdj, Traktor etc.

Live usually means Machines (eg. 303, 909, Elektribe etc) or Ableton or Mainstage in logic, basically anything in which you or constructing the songs live not mixing them on vinyl etc.

It looks like i might his this i also hear Ortin Cam is playing this year and hopefully Bas Mooy too, if Liebing, Mooy, Ortin Cam and Speedy J are in the same room im there!

correct - as for the elektribe - incorrect! piece of ****

NilByMouth

chris liebing and dave clarke are the only acts for me.Its a good session though...

Luke Creed

empirix wrote: »

correct - as for the elektribe - incorrect! piece of ****

Really? Why do you think that? I was thinking of buying one about a year ago.

FLYNN-DOG

I went the last two years and it was good....but think I'll go to Timewarp next year instead tbh.....

Deadmau5 can lick my balls...what a sh1thead

stepperupper

Gigs on the continent always have a more relaxed happier feel than in Ireland so I'm gonna boot over with the lads. Will make a day trip to the Dam as well. Only thing is I keep getting an error when I try to buy my tickets on ilovetechno.be. The support are rubbish as well. Saying stuff like Check the information and try again. But like I haven't even got to the part where I put in credit card details. It fails after I select the payment method. Have tried both Visa and paypal. Very annoying. Will sort it out somehow. Looking forward to boys noize. Haven't seen 'em yet. Were supposed to be very good in Dublin der.

TriceMarie

What dates ILT this year??

teufelswerk

Saw laurent garnier playing a 2 hour live set last month, he had a saxophnist with him for the entire gig which is about as good as you'll get for a live set. he played his dj set 2 hrs later (DJ Hell filling playing between the live set and the dj set, nice) but his live set was far better. His live set at ILT should be more of the same which is worth the 40 quid alone.

welcomeinjam

Right I've decided I'm gonna go over to I Love Techno. I got pretty cheap flights but I was wondering does anyone know of any decent cheapish hotels in Gent????