MASSIVE TUNES

IN 1994 TAMTAM RECORDSHOP OWNER NECATI ARSLAN INITIATED THE FIRST BIG DRUM & BASS PARTY IN AACHEN ("CULTURE SHOCK") HOSTING AN ENGLISH DJ/PRODUCER: DR S GACHET... IT ALL WENT DOWN IN AN OLD WORLD WAR II BUNKER CALLED "AZ" AND MARKED THE STARTING POINT FOR A SERIES OF DRUM&BASS EVENTS THAT PUT AACHEN ON THE MAP FOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL DRUM&BASS DJ'S. IN A MORE OR LESS PERIODIC MANNER THE PARTIES ALWAYS HAPPENED TO ATTRACT 400 TO 500 PEOPLE TO CELEBRATE UNTIL THE EARLY MORNING... 1996 NECATI CAME UP WITH THE IDEA OF RENAMING THE PARTY TO MASSIVE TUNES AND FROM THAT YEAR ON GUESTS LIKE APHRODITE, CAUSE 4 CONCERN, LOXY & INK AND MANY OTHERS FOUND THEIR WAY TO AACHEN. SEPTEMBER 2004 MARKED THE REVIVAL OF THE PARTY SERIES AFTER FOUNDER NECATI TRAGICALLY DIED IN EARLY 2004... SINCE THEN DJ'S ACE & TOKE, WHO HAD ALWAYS BEEN DRIVING FORCES BEHIND THE SCENES OF MASSIVE TUNES ALONGSIDE DJ SONE (RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE GRAPHIC WORKS), MANAGED TO ATTRACT A LOT OF DIFFERENT DJ'S AND MC'S TO THE NEW LOCATION CALLED MUSIKBUNKER.... THE LIST INCLUDES NAMES LIKE KONTROL, NOOKIE, LOXY & INK (OF COURSE), NU:TONE, SKITTY, FRACTURE & NEPTUNE AND VICIOUS CIRCLE AS WELL AS MC's 2SHY, FOKUS, D.O.C., ENGINE AND RESIDENT MC SYSTEM.... LOCAL RESIDENTS INCLUDE ACE, TOKE, SONE, QUBE, S-CAPADE, LOTA & DATA. IT SEEMS AS IF MASSIVE TUNES WAS ONE OF THE LONGEST RUNNING DRUM & BASS EVENTS IN EUROPE, EVEN THOUGH AACHEN IS A COMPARABLY SMALL TOWN BUT THE WILL TO GIVE THE PARTY PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT AND THE LOVE FOR DRUM & BASS MUSIC KEPT US GOING ON AND ON... SO AFTER ALMOST 13 YEARS OF PARTYING WE ARE STILL GOING STRONG AND WE WON'T STOP ANYTIME SOON.....:-) CHECK OUT OUR PICTURE GALLERY TO GET AN IDEA OF WHAT'S GOING ON WHEN WE PARTY.....!!!!