Dance Department presents Cocoon

Amsterdam Dance Event took place this week and yesterday I went hard drunk on Sven Väth and Ricardo Villalobos at club The Sand, just outside downtown Amsterdam. It was pret-ty awesome. The DJ sets will be featured in either the Dance Department Podcast or the radio show in the next few weeks.

I’m sick now though and I have a big ass boo-boo in my head and in the back of my throat. One should never go clubbing when falling ill, it’s really bad. Midterms start next week, so yeah, my timing to start drinking again is excellent as usual.

Press Release

Van Diepen's Dance Department Podcast Reaches one millionth download


Hilversum, the Netherlands, September 12th 2006 - The leading Dutch dance music show Dance Department, on Radio 538, has already reached her 1 millionth podcast download. Since September 2005 , English spoken enhanced podcasts have been made available to the national and international public. The podcast, presented by Wessel van Diepen, is an exclusive mix featuring the latest dance records and a half hour guest performance by one of the world's top DJs. The Dance Department podcast has been a worldwide success, making its distinctive and lasting mark on the American and Canadian Podcast Top 15 charts, among others.

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Ps: I didn't literally translate the original Dutch press release though. Why? Cuz it sucked and contained incorrect information and weird phrasing. Not that I'm all that, but compared to the people of the press, I'm freaking Proust. And yeah, FYI, I know who Proust is - I absolutely loved Moby Dick.

24/7 Dance

Wessel van Diepen's Dance Department on Radio538 (Dutch National Radio) now has its own spin-off on the internet, called 24/7 Dance [not a very orginal name, is it ?]. Non-stop dance music hand-picked by the worlds greatest DJs, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

In addition to contemporary, new and upcoming dance music, 24/7 Dance will also be featuring music from way back when and ground breaking underground classics from DJs such as Secret Cinema, Visage and Planet Funk.

For digital dance music 24/7, go to:

Digital Radio

Click on "24/7 Dance" in the field right of the Digital Radio player and let the music play.

You can also rate the tracks you hear, but you have to register first. This also means that when you're not registered, you won't be able to listen to the stream in HQ [128kbps] - you'll have to listen to it at LQ [96kbps].

It's all in Dutch, but if this project turns out to be a success, it'll be featured in English in no-time. So for now, only premium services for the Dutch speaking among us. Unless you'd like me to walk you through the registering procedure, which is fairly simple. But that's easy for me to say...

Check it out and enjoy,

Billy