DISTORTION ATMOSPHERE

WELCOME * ATMOSPHERE * DATA

If London's Notting Hill Carnival and Barcelona's Sonar made a child, it would be a pale imitation of Distortion.

WORLD WIDE WORDS

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"the best of chic and shock"
colette (Paris)

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"impressively Cosmopolitan"
Nylon (New York)

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"Distortion means party"
Politiken (Copenhagen)

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"I like it"
Vice Europe CEO (London)

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"Madness"
Pig Magazine (Italy)

click here to see fun pictures of the Distortion crew from when we were young and crazy (Distortion 2005).

LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION

Distortion 2007 opening ceremony in the Copenhagen Cathedral (Vor Frue Kirke) -
a special Distortion church service, spoken by Per Vibskov (rapping pastor), was distorted with live effects by Mikkel Metal (DK, Kompakt).
"lucky bastards!" , we hear you think, "a country where religion doesn't rhyme with oppression!" ... We just think "VOR FRUE ER SMUK"

to create magic, we have a simple trick:
spectacular locations make people feel spectacular

WIKIPEDIA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Distortion

parties with famous people are depressing.
parties with cool people give a meaning to life.

LOCAL WORDS

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BYFEST: Distortion har udviklet sig til en regulær festival i byrummet den ene gang om året,
hvor festivalen fejrer det Københavnske natteliv med en stribe gennemtænkte, gennemførte og gennemfede arrangementer
på byens natklubber eller placeret obskure steder. (...) En veritabel Who's Who over den hjemmelige scene (...) Don't Miss It".
Berlingske Guide, 2003

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CITYPARTY: Distortion has developped into a steady annual festival in Copenhagen's city-space ,
celebrating Copenhagen's nightlife with a series of throughout-clever, throughout-fun and throughout-cool events
in nightclubs and obscure locations. (...) A true Who's Who of the local party scene (...) Don't Miss It".
Berlingske Guide, 2003

ABOVE: Fleurquin, aka Mr. Distortion, (aka Silver Fox but you dont want to hear that story), at the Distortion 2007 opening parade.
BELOW: with important friends at the Distortion 2008 opening block party,
the Copenhagen Lord Mayor (Lady Ritt Bjerregård, pointing finger) and the Culture-Mayor to be, (Simon Strange, drinking beer, left)
THANK YOU KØBENHAVNs Kommune!!

Scandinavia is the only part of the world where punks drink freshly squeezed orange juice at dkk 26,95 per bottle.
BELOW: while punks drink expensive juice, upperclass chicks drink cheap cava - yeah!

Distortion opening party 2007 = 23 people celebrating their birthday party together in a circus tent on Amager Fælled...
BELOW: One of the gangs celebrating a birthday:

Punk star Lars Top (straight edge) + legendary 1980s punk-rock promotor Metalstein (double edge) + Cph Art-World's millionnaire-homo (crazed edge) ...
BELOW: One year later, at Vesterbro Distortion 2008, the trio had dropped out of rehab and was back living on the fast lane:

PARTY ESTHETIQUE

esthetique moments

ouch

so much party moment esthetique it hurts

ATMOSPHERE ATMOSPHERE

You know your festival is getting somewhere when you get this kind of atmosphere going ... on the roof of a bus:

and in a circus tent

and at 8.44h in the morning

We wish there were more hipster magazine publishers like this guy.
BELOW: We also wish there simply were more guys like these guys.

DID ANYONE SAY "ELEGANT SPONSOR INTEGRATION ?"

Distortion bartender 2006... Yes, it's supposed to make you feel like a Tiger. If it doesn't work you are a monk.

Distortion and PlayStation is a love story that lasts since 2004

Find the corporate giant with hippie brand values. THANK YOU JERRY & BEN !!

WIKIPEDIA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Distortion

Je M'Appelle Mads , one of the Distortion 2004 + 2005 legends, made a comeback at Distortion 2007.

Reception D2007 in Shawarma No.1 (the best Lebanese food in town)
with DJ Diskokaine (Wien's king of Rimini). (Rimini is like Italo but more annoying and fun)

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BELOW: Final Party 2008, at VM Bjerget, Ørestaden... we are going to have a hard time beating that one.

MORE WORLD WIDE WORDS

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"Excellent"
Jalouse (Paris)

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"where the polite and friendly Danes turn into Tasmanian devils"
LoDown (Germany)

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"Fest som Kunst (=Party as Art)"
Berlingske Guide frontpage headline (Denmark)

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"København fra sin allermest charmerende og livlig side"
(=Copenhagen at its most charismatic and lively)
AoK.dk (Copenhagen)

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"Super Cool"
Neo2 (Spain)

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"Copenhagen is vibrant and exciting - at least when Distortion is on"
Spex (Germany)

Breakdancing in the street on Saxogade / Vesterbro Distortion 2007 & 08 - THANK YOU MUCHACHO !!

distortion would not be distortion without hot mammas

TELL ME WHAT YOUR CAR IS AND I WILL TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE...
what does Distortion's very own trashy black 1981 stretch limo tell about us ?

walking the dog wearing rave princesses carrying afterparty princess bringing backup with chicks on the roof

see that grin ? it's the grin of the happy motherfuck who has a police escort to let his limousine through (his own parading street rampage).

THANK YOU POLITIET !! for the motorcycle escort
+ THANK YOU TIGER BEER FOR SPONSORING THE LIMO !!

Bitchslap Magazine has had the honourable duty of hosting the big BlockParty rave on Enghave Plads for a couple of years. WOW:

Apparently, young people today really enjoy blocking the street-traffic in the middle of the night...
Especially using 7m-tall yellow robots - and then breakdance in front of them - and then smash them around (and then burn them ..)

THANK YOU BITCHSLAP AND ROBOTIXX !!

Vesterbro, 2007:

Look at these two drunk motherfuckers from Paris. (TTC).
Below is Lyon's king of the rave, Paral-Lel (Nuits Sonores)

Meanwhile on Istedgade, Trentemøller was playing (unnanounced). Again, this resulted in blocking the street.

Distortion likes the Police a lot - so far.
Look this guy how he feels sorry to stop the party.

One great thing in life is when you have a smash party with people just before they become worldwide party superheroes.
Distortion did this with Spank Rock (pictured above, Distortion'06), Hot Chip (2005), TTC (2003), Feadz (now Uffie/Ed Bangers, 2003),
Simian Mobile Disco (2004), D-I-R-T-Y.com (2004+05+06+07), Mr. Catra (King of BaileFunk, 2004), Sebastien Tellier (2005) ...

some rich & famous people manage to keep it real:

King of DK Indie Rock Kings of Berlin Kings of Rock'n'roll and Techno Maria is just Djuna

If Distortion ever gets into merchandising, we would probably start with the "Distortion vodka cock"
(yes, a plastic tissemand filled with vodka).
Here with fashion princess Sassie sucking it off Copenhagen's über trash-queens from dunst.
(on the Town Hall Square, s'il vous plait)

2003 + 2004 in pictures (these are the only low-res pics on the page) - two fabulous years of the rise of Distortion,
look how cute we were back then.
(... and yes that's Mr. F.U.N. (Berlin) + Mr. Simian (London) + Mr. Tigersushi (Paris) on the first pic below)

Skate sessions at Alis Wonderland (Christiania) have happened at Distortion in 2002 (with Alis + Blue Foundation)
+ 2005 (with Vice) + 2006 + 07 + 08 (with Alis + Vice + WESC)

THANK YOU ALIS AND VICE!!

POWERPLANT & LÆKKER LYTTER

every year, we do a warm-up to Final Party with the local gang of amigos.
every year, it's madness.
Hot Chip and Simian Mobile Disco can go home, Powerplant and Lækker Lytter are the true Distortion heroes (the raverbus and the champagneboat arent too bad either).

One of the all-time Distortion highlights: Powerplant the Greek Sailor Band + dinner with Senegalese cook under the Knippelsbro bridge

Jon Stephensen (here between two Distortion protectors Thomas Hertz and Mads Nørgaard), faithful to rich theatre traditions, played along
and dressed as a Greek Sailor.

MixMaster Morris (the world's legendary chillout DJ) and DVDJ Oof

Vibskov Vibskov Vibskov (2003+2004+2006), is a steady member of Powerplant the Sailor band.
Powerplant is the only band that has performed at ALL Distortion festivals. They are mad.
THANK YOU MADS VEGAS !! lead singer of POWERPLANT and the biggest Distortion hero:

MADS VEGAS MADS VEGAS MADS VEGAS IS THE KING

ALSO ON YOUTUBE:

Watch a YouTube video (click for link):
POWERPLANT stopping the traffic on Nørrebrogade @ Distortion 2007

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More YouTube video (click for link):
Watch two of the sexiest bands in DK jamming each other 0ff in the streets of Nørrebro

Copenhagen's home-made submarine made a surprise appearance at D2008, towing Lækker Lytter's Søkoen v.2.0

SPECIAL WORDS

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"Distortion is like touching energy"
FOS, social design.

"Distortion is party poetry"
Colonel, Thierry Geoffroy

WELCOME * ATMOSPHERE * DATA