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Memorial of Gino Lighner in the Church of Ruigoord. Speech by XLR-8 Axel Rator. Video by XLR-8 Axel Rator. "EDM has become another famous export product of the Netherlands and as a ‘product’ this generates a lot of money.
But we come from a different time. At the beginning of the birth of House in the Netherlands there were maybe 40, 50 people who were involved devoted to House music. I mention a few Eddy de Cercq, Joost van Bellen, Gert van Veen, Ilja Reiman and Henk, Raymond Oostendorp, Per, Spider Willem, Fred Berkhout and of course last but not least the Koggesteeg Planet E and Subtopia group Jeroen Flamman, Abraxas and Gino. Then ofcourse we had fans of House Music who were always present at house parties. House Music was not allowed to be played in regular clubs. It was a daily battle against the established order. Society was different then than it is now, the entire west side of Amsterdam was one desert of empty warehouses, the Bijlmer and also the Zeedijk were a real No-Go area with junkies, punks, whores and aggressive dealers. Parents did not take it so strictly, at the parties there were children attending from ten to fifteen years old, their parents apparently could not make a difference. Rene and Celeste were such young groupies. The quays of yesteryear for boats to and from the Dutch East Indies were still filled to the brim with enormous bags of cocao nuts, coffeenuts and the likes. In those warehouses in West and the quays, squat parties were organized. The entire group of people mentioned above played records at all those kinds of parties. Newspapers were full of pseudo-scientific articles in which the establishment tried to stop the House music revolution. Articles such as ‘Low Tones are Bad for the Body and Mind’. A little later there was also the Naar Huis Bus, in which God-fearing people had united. These buses were parked in front of parties to really keep the public away from going to a party. The EO had a youth day that I attended as a technician. There I saw in the wings that the youth were really being hit with the Bible over the ears. God does not want you to go to parties. I personally was interviewed for national radio where I was told that we had to work with pentagrams of burning candles at the parties, because who else but Satan could attract God's children in such numbers on a Saturday night. Which meant that they had to miss church on Sunday. Gino comes from this time. Subtopia was one of the very few illegal clubs where only House music was played. When (finally) the first really official permitted party was allowed to be held in the Escape in Amsterdam where I performed live with my band as the opening act for N-Joi. This was probably the least attended party ever. Only ten or twenty people showed up, people just couldn't believe that the first official party was a fact. And there in the first row, the only row were the handful of DJs from Amsterdam and the surrounding area. To say that we were the disciples of House music, it was a close call. One of our disciples went with Gino. It was a wonderful tour. I am devastated that the tour must now continue without our Gino." XLR-8 Axel Rator