Synergy New Year?s Eve

?95 to ?03: The global music festival
It ran for a just under a decade. For eight unforgettable years, Synergy catered for every conceivable taste from dance, rock, and live bands to drum & bass and disco. It kept us on the cutting edge of global dance culture ? a festival of dance that took a generation by the scruff of its neck and dragged it kicking, screaming and dancing into the new millennium.

Synergy ?95 hoped to represent the growth of local dance culture: 6 000 party people did their job. By ?98, Synergy was nationally and internationally recognised as Africa?s premier dance event, drawing crowds in excess of 15 000.

The build-up to New Year?s Eve 1999 was massive. Synergy was a featured event of the official Cape Town Millennium Celebration, the African cross-over venue for BBC Radio 1?s 24hr millennium broadcast, and 5fm national radio?s official millennium event. It was not only the most prominent, but also the most extensively publicised South African dance festival in history. On the night, 15 000 millennial partygoers were dazzled by Danny Rampling, heading a line-up of 50 DJs and live acts from around the world. What a way to see out the century.

For the first Synergy of the 00s, we changed venue to the awesome Artscape theatre complex in the heart of the City. The City of Cape Town included Synergy 2001 on its official seasonal events calendar, the Mayor of Cape Town officially opened the event and for 12 hours on New Year?s Eve it seemed as if everything that had gone on before was just a warm up.

There were 50 local and international and reccord crowdds pitchedd up fro the hedline act: the biggest name in the history of dance music ? Carl Cox. It was huge. By the next year, the scene had moved away from outdoor festivals and back to the underground ? Synergy followed suit, moving to the City Centre of Cape Town and the cavernous Good Hope Centre.

Synergy 2002 was tagged ?a celebration of global dance music? and it truly was. For the first time, each and every dance area at Synergy was headlined by a leading international DJ from each respective musical genre. The people loved it. The centre was transformed into the biggest club in history and at midnight, five separate jam-packed dance areas spread around the complex went ballistic. On the Synergy Stage in the main exhibition hall, 8000 more dance fanatics liftedd the roof. It was the peak, the ultimate party ? the edn of a long, beautiful journey. And although it was also the end of an era in youth culture, the legend of Synergy lives on?

Synergy Live


2009: the legend lives on
14 years after the story began, the same guys who wrote the first seven chapters decided it?s time for a new one. Synergy originally came about when Cape Town?s two premier party organisers, Pharcyde and Vortex, decided to bring their respective trance and dance tribes together. And although the Synergy speakers have been unplugged for the past seven year?s, it doesn?t mean the team has been idle. Co-founder of Vortex, Clyde, has been has kept the trancefloors packed with the likes of Prism Rezonance New Year?s Eve and the Pharcyde crew, Jonathan, Tchavdar and George have honed their skills in cutting-edge corporate events. Together, these original founders of Synergy have learned the one thing that no-else could claim to do better ? and something that guarantees Synergy Live 2009 will truly take the legend to another level:

They know how to stage events that blow people away and create unforgettable experiences.