It’s safe to say Amsterdam’s Trouw time in the club world truly ended on a high note with two big blowout closing parties. Staying true to last year’s announcement that, on 3rd January Trouw closed its doors for the final time and left one of the best dance floors in the world behind them.
No forced closures or legal battles though, the venue’s founders knew when they opened this highly influential venue that it was temporary. They wanted to fulfil a dream and now they’ve done it, it’s mighty time they got some sleep. The founder of Trouw has previous world-renowned clubs under his belt, like Club 11 in an old postal office on the 11th floor of Amsterdam’s Centraal Station. And Trouw, the industrial warehouse of the old Dutch Newspaper that was turned into a creative hub of music parties and art exhibitions.
The ‘Last December Weekender’ was essentially the warm-up for the NYE/NYD session however this 35-hour stint beginning at 10 PM on Saturday, December 27th, saw main event DJs gracing the bill including Tale Of Us, Mano Le Tough and Marcel Fengler. A fitting name “Until The Music Stops” was the last event that was the emotional close to six years of musical progression and good vibes, boasting a secret line-up on the lead up to the event, to name a few that made an appearance, Seth Troxler, Âme, Henrik Schwarz, Nicolas Jaar, Dimitri, Tom Trago, Gerd Janson and of course it was the founder of Trouw, Olaf Boswijk that was the man to play the final hour with a b2b set.
Trouw, meaning ‘faithful’ in Dutch, really was one of those unique spaces that was a hub for underground house and techno in Europe, it put Amsterdam on the map alongside London and Berlin and never failed to deliver on weekly line-ups. There have been many that have illuminated those eye-level decks that sit in the middle of the dance floor and the countless residents have become familiar faces around the Europe circuit. Gaining that 24hour licence was a turning point for Amsterdam nightlife and made Trouw a top contender for those all-weekend-long parties that other cities offer us regularly, Olaf Boswijk told, “We are busy dismantling everything and the club is closed, the feeling of that speaks for itself”.
To commemorate the end of Trouw, Olaf and the other contributors to this superclub created a book, detailing their memories and tribulations alongside a specially produced vinyl record by the resident DJs. Not only this, like any great building with a sad departure, pieces of the club’s tiling can be bought in memory to all those who danced their hearts out at this iconic venue.
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