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For unauthorized use of the label's logo and name, please use the entry ID&T (2).
Dutch label founded by Irfan van Ewijk, Duncan Stutterheim and Theo Lelie (= I, D & T).
It all started out as these three guys organizing a post-Graduation Hardcore house (gabber) party “The Final Exam” in 1992 in Utrecht. After this first big success, they organized a lot more party events such as Thunderdome, Mystery Land and Global Hardcore Nation. At the end of the nineties however, Hardcore and Gabber music became less popular and ID&T (who employed over 50 people at that time) decided to abandon their traditional music style. In 1999 they organized Innercity in Amsterdam, an indoor event without hardcore music.
The company went through some changes the last couple of years. The label ID&T is now (2005) owned by Be Yourself Music, and they sold their publishing company too. In order to stay in the music business they started Dance-Tunes.com, one of the largest legal download portal in The Netherlands nowadays. In January 2005, radio station ID&T Radio was renamed to SLAM FM, with more commercially focused music. A few months later it was sold to 2HMedia.
In March 2013, SFX Entertainment acquired a 75% majority stake in ID&T for 100 million dollars. In April 2015 Duncan quit the ID&T company.
Today, ID&T is still a major dance organizer in The Netherlands, Belgium and abroad. Some well-known events: Thunderdome, Mystery Land, Innercity, Trance Energy and Sensation.
You can read more about this label in the book “Release – 10 Years of ID&T.” There is also a documentary about this label called "God Is A DJ".
Their original mascot—The Wizard—was drawn by Eric Keijer in 1991 from a graffiti done by Mode 2 (3) in 1986 in Paris.
ID&T was a great group of friends that started a nice concept and offered great music during the 90's great records, cd's and audiocassettes .Many of them with cover designs that made us remember some classic horror,science fiction movies .
But yeah all started to go downhill during 1997-1999 era with the farce that 5th Gear & Mecado as some other sh*t labels made stupid compilations to ruin the Hardcore/Gabber scene . Thats why ID&T needed to fight really hard to still keep their fans interested , but sadly the magic didn't worked anymore many fans started to leave as the quality of ID&T became bad . Too many new artists that offered nothing great anymore , etc....
What i hate with the guys from ID&T was their silly nonsense compilations such as Hardcore Top 100 , Hardcore Best Of , and some side compilations such as EarthQuake that were more there for the money to fool innocent customers we were back then .
ID&T came back a few times in the last 10-15 years ( for example The Final Exam & The 25 Years )but their music isn't up to par and their compilations offers no new materials at all. It's only there for commercial purpose and nostalgia .
Anyway you can easily feel and listen how Thunderdome started to suffer to lose interest with their compilations .
- Thunderdome 1,2,3,4&5 the best of the best it was new and fresh it was pure rave and some tunes from Thunderdome 4 were already offering early speedcore .
- Thunderdome 6,7,8,9&10 the style has changed to Scottish hardcore to find on Thunderdome 6 we got great tunes Technohead : I Wanne be a Hippie and the happy hardcore emerged it was still a great era .
- Thunderdome 11,12,13,14&15 The most serious era still some happy hardcore but since Thunderdome 13 all changed again to be somewhat darker . It was still a great era but with Thunderdome 15 it felt like something was missing....
- Thunderdome 16,17,18,19&20 That era was clearly the downhill from the thunderdome series only Thunderdome 17 saved it but it was done and confirmed by the later on Thunderdome 21&22 it was over , they ran out of ideas . Seems they didn't know in which direction to go they tried too hard . ( or maybe i was bored of it and became too mature i don't know ) . Thats why Terrordrome the German Hardcore/Speedcore/Bunkercore from Nordcore GMBH was the option to find new materials with real doomish tunes ....something the guys from ID&T never dared .
All in all ID&T was a great adventure with many great unforgetable moments alot of fun and laughter but all has come to an end .
Before 1999 ID&T had the best dj's,acts and hardcore music. Basically after 2000 crap music from Atb, Marco v and other boring stuff was released, people still took it for granted... basically I stopped listening their commercial music... a pity. Thunderdome is back in 2017 in order to earn money from commercial point of view. The feeling of underground music has left, but also has left me and many others waiting for a successor. It will not happen. The downfall of ID&T is such a shame.
With the downfall of hardcore in 1998/99 ID&T canceled releasing on a lot of it's hardcore sublabel. For every release the almost always pre-pressed whitelabel (and at a time the "for dj's only" stickered) releases. Therefor some last releases have only been pressed as a whitelabel promotional record. Some very rare and wanted.
ID&T have just announced they are closing the label down to focus it's efforts on promoting events, a new label called 'Be Yourself' will continue to realease the compilation cd's and represent Marco V, Rank 1 and Benjamin Bates. It's a shame really, as they have done a lot for the scene, and have realeased some amazing records.
![Various - Sensation [ Belgium ]](https://i.discogs.com/EqkI_sJm4YK8xJrrX65F90dk0bG0bFmpAmX9mmdz2o8/rs:fill/g:sm/q:40/h:100/w:100/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ1MjY4/NC0xMTE1NzIxMTcy/LmpwZw.jpeg)
ColonelTirpitz
1 de octubre de 2018But yeah all started to go downhill during 1997-1999 era with the farce that 5th Gear & Mecado as some other sh*t labels made stupid compilations to ruin the Hardcore/Gabber scene . Thats why ID&T needed to fight really hard to still keep their fans interested , but sadly the magic didn't worked anymore many fans started to leave as the quality of ID&T became bad . Too many new artists that offered nothing great anymore , etc....
What i hate with the guys from ID&T was their silly nonsense compilations such as Hardcore Top 100 , Hardcore Best Of , and some side compilations such as EarthQuake that were more there for the money to fool innocent customers we were back then .
ID&T came back a few times in the last 10-15 years ( for example The Final Exam & The 25 Years )but their music isn't up to par and their compilations offers no new materials at all. It's only there for commercial purpose and nostalgia .
Anyway you can easily feel and listen how Thunderdome started to suffer to lose interest with their compilations .
- Thunderdome 1,2,3,4&5 the best of the best it was new and fresh it was pure rave and some tunes from Thunderdome 4 were already offering early speedcore .
- Thunderdome 6,7,8,9&10 the style has changed to Scottish hardcore to find on Thunderdome 6 we got great tunes Technohead : I Wanne be a Hippie and the happy hardcore emerged it was still a great era .
- Thunderdome 11,12,13,14&15 The most serious era still some happy hardcore but since Thunderdome 13 all changed again to be somewhat darker . It was still a great era but with Thunderdome 15 it felt like something was missing....
- Thunderdome 16,17,18,19&20 That era was clearly the downhill from the thunderdome series only Thunderdome 17 saved it but it was done and confirmed by the later on Thunderdome 21&22 it was over , they ran out of ideas . Seems they didn't know in which direction to go they tried too hard . ( or maybe i was bored of it and became too mature i don't know ) . Thats why Terrordrome the German Hardcore/Speedcore/Bunkercore from Nordcore GMBH was the option to find new materials with real doomish tunes ....something the guys from ID&T never dared .
All in all ID&T was a great adventure with many great unforgetable moments alot of fun and laughter but all has come to an end .