... It all started back in 2000. After spending years travelling & partying around the globe, Mike, I.Mike & Marios met back in their homeland (eachone with his own past and participation to the electronic dance music), shared their experiences and shared the same thoughts. Thoughts how to find a way (finaly!) in their country (Greece) to co-operate with eachother and create something that it will build one more step for the love they have to music and to organize a gathering that will bring all the artists in one dance floor like never before.


Then they first visualized the forthcoming of the first international electronic & dance music festival of Greece.

The Island of Samothraki was always their inspiration and one of the most ideal places for a festival of its kind to be held. The island is a strong electromagnetic gate and during the ancient times, the great rituals "Kaveirian Mysteries" were held there, gathering the most important philosophers, scientists, kings, shamans but also people from different nationalities, color or religion. Alexander the Great was consived during the kaveirian mysteries since his mother was the high priest, "Olympia" and his father the king "Fillipos the 2nd".The main aim of the mysteries was to purify the soul and initiate the participants to the mystical universal knowledge.

The August Full Moon of the year 2001, was the start of this voyage. Our plan was to put Greece into the international map of dance music festivals. Only 3 months before the preparations started and late june the promotional plan began with not more than 10 countries supporting the festival promotion and presales. Our target was to gather 4000 party animals of the globe to the island, despite the hard circumstances in Greece. Unexpected more than 7.000 people arrived on the festival venue to unite and to celebrate the full moon for 3 nights and 4 days. The festival came up to be an absolute blast, getting the best credits worldwide ("my best live act ever" Simon Posford, official website). 3 after parties happened and the celebration ended almost one month after the official end of the festival.

The door opened... Samothraki Dance festival 2002 had the best potentials and has been the biggest production in the history of psytrance festival scene. The message it was one “lets make something like never before” .We wanted to place up the standards of the production and to push the psychedelic music & culture, that we love, to new horizons by introducing it to a wider audience. The Second Festival hosted more than 50 live Performances and more than 120 dj sets of the cream from the international electronic music, in 3 different music stages , 4 nights & 5 days under the blasting sound of 180 KW in total. The festival gathered more than 10.000 people from over 50 different nationalities plus the 1000 production members (volunteers, artists, crew, workers, supporters, organizers) and 1000 guests, who alltogether made a new age version of the ancient keveirian mysteries! More than 25 countries supported the production during the 6 months preparations, from Brasil to Japan to UK to Mexico to South Africa to USA to Greece. After the finish of the festival an official afterparty was organized, 60hours non-stop music, including most of the artists that performed in the festival and more.

2003 was the final piece for the full circle to be completed. After having the experience of the previous festivals, we knew what we and the people wanted. We worked more than 8 months, having a network of 120 ambassadors and information points, in more than 45 different countries worldwide. The Last Samothraki Dance Festival was 10 days of a multi-cultural interraction (including 48hours after party) and had an attendance of 8.000, incl people from over 80 nationalities. The festival itself was marked into the global psychedelic community consciousness as one of the best events of its kind.

We want to give maximum respect and a big appreciation to all the human beings that during the 3 years of the festival and up till now, they pass thru this dream,which we call it SDF! A Big thanks to all the people globally that have been to our festivals, from the Artists to you,from A to Z.

Also we want to give a big wave of love to our families and all the friends who have been close to us, in good and bad times and they know whats all about...
This DVD is dedicated to YOU!