ID&T
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ID&T is a Dutch entertainment and medium enterprise that was founded in the early 1990s and organizes the largest dance events in the world.
ID&T stands for the initials of three founders of the company, Irfan, Duncan and Theo, all residents of Amsterdam. All three were experienced in the art of organizing house, techno and trance parties when they created ID&T, and their goal is to organize the largest events in the Netherlands and the European electronic dance music scene. Their first big event was "The Final Exam" in the Utrecht Conference Center, with more than 10,000 people in attendance.
Today, ID&T is the largest dance organizer in The Netherlands. Events organised by the company include Sensation in the Amsterdam Arena, with around 40,000 people. There are two editions, Sensation White (trance), happening in the first saturday of July, where all party people must be dressed in white, and Sensation Black (techno, hardstyle), happening in the saturday thereafter, where all party people must be dressed in black. Other parties include Mysteryland on the Floriade 2002 terrain near Hoofddorp, with around 50,000 people, Innercity in the Amsterdam RAI Congress Center (45,000 people) with eight areas and several styles, happening in the middle of December, Thunderdome (hardcore techno and techno), Trance Energy, Bloomingdale and NJOY. Such parties last all night, from 11pm to 7am (except open-air ones), having lots of spectacular light and laser shows and fireworks. Beyond that, ID&T operates its own music label in addition the country-wide radio station Slam!FM, the ID&T Release magazine, bars, restaurants, as well as the multilingual music download portal ID&T Dance Tunes.com. Moreover they organized the first event where a single DJ who played all night long, with Tiesto in Gelredome on 11 May 2003. They organized these events again in the same venue on two subsequent nights on 29 and 30 October 2004 and again on 2 June 2007. The same happened at Ethias Arena in Hasselt (Belgium) on 6 Nov 2004 and 19 May 2007 [1]. The concerts in 2007 are named 'Elements of Life'.
On July 16, 2005, the first Sensation White was organized in Germany, in the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen. Together with the musical and theatre company Stage Entertainment (formerly Stage Holding) they created ID&T Germany as a joint venture. On April 16, 2005 the same event took place in Belgium.
