One of the most famous electronic music festivals around the world is Sensation, which first appeared in the Netherlands. Despite the fact that the festival is not so many years old, it has become popular all over the world and is held in many countries.
The organizers of Sensation festival were brothers Miles and Duncan Statterheim, who were famous for their small but creative parties in the clubs of Amsterdam, Netherlands. One of the parties was declared a white party, as you can guess, everyone who wanted to attend had to come completely in white. The party was very successful and soon rumors about it spread all over the Netherlands.
In 2000 Myles died in a car accident. He was seen off on his last journey by the whole city. Interesting and the fact that at the funeral everyone was also dressed in white. His brother Duncan decided to honor his brother’s memory and the next year he organized a Sensation festival. He asked all guests to come dressed in white, and 80 percent of the 40,000 guests responded to his request. Since then, the tradition of coming to Sensation parties in white has continued.
In the early days of the festival there was only one Sensation, but it soon split into two variants – Sensation White and Sensation Black. Sensation White focused on trance and house, while Black played heavier music – hardcore techno, hardstyle.
The division between Sensation White and Sensation Black is not only in the music that is played. Guests are only required to come in white or black. Over the course of the two different parties, Sensation White has been renamed simply Sensation and Sensation Black has become simply Black. Furthermore, Black moved permanently to Belgium.
Until 2005 Sensation was held only in the Netherlands, but then the festival started to come to other countries as well. Every year the list of countries changes, the parties only in the Netherlands, in Amsterdam, remain unchanged.
Over the years Sensation parties have been played by such DJs as Tiësto, Armin van Buuren, David Guetta, Paul van Dyk and others. And Black has been visited by such celebrities as Showtek, Headhunterz, DJ Lady Dana, The Prophet, Technoboy, Tommyknocker, Yoji Biomehanika and Mauro Picotto.