Culturemix Magazine Issue 2 Nov/Dec 2017 | Página 15

H oly Ship is the most anticipated EDM festival of the new year. This year, music fans can set sail for the biggest party in the seven seas. Holy Ship is getting bigger and better in its seventh year. There will be back-to-back sailings from the Caribbean in early January. Gary Richards ( Destructo) started the festival after being inspired by a similar floating festival in Germany about 20 years ago. “ In 1997, I went on a cruise called the Trans-Atlantic Move and it went from Miami to some island down here. It was like 400 German techno freaks and I don’t know how I got on it. It was this little tiny boat but it was one of the best times in my life, and I’ve always thought I’d like to have an opportunity to emulate something like that,” said Richards in an interview with Billboard magazine in 2015.