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Oscar G is more techno and house. His tribal sound might be fun but it is a lot drier than trance. BT, Steve Lawler and Blank & Jones, and Armin would be your best bets. Me and a couple of TAs will be at BT July 11th. We'll probably be reminiscing about the old school days if you like to join in.

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Originally posted by keithos27 because bracelets STARTED at $100 last night compared to most other nights when they are $20.

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Originally posted by Scottaculous Oscar G is more techno and house. His tribal sound might be fun but it is a lot drier than trance. BT, Steve Lawler and Blank & Jones, and Armin would be your best bets. Me and a couple of TAs will be at BT July 11th. We'll probably be reminiscing about the old school days if you like to join in.

Will be in San Diego (where I originate from) visiting friends and family. Thanks for the invite though. I am new to the scence and none of my friends prior to my trance addicition are fans so I basically end up going to shows alone or occasionally a friend of mine will come up from FL for the larger shows (like she did for Tiesto) but the smaller shows I don't usually go to for that sole reason. So, I am always looking to meet new people that I can learn from and to hang out with. Hope to see you around.

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Originally posted by iammesol

yeah i couldn't believe it either, but i did get my money's worth in alcohol, haha. and to be honest, since i had the money to spend, it was nice to not get elbowed every other beat or have to wait in line for 10 minutes for a drink... i could just chill, listen to the music, dance, and have fun.

some bracelets were $275 though...now THAT was ridiculous!

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Originally posted by PVDfan07 Hearing there was no space to move makes me feel a little better.

Yeah, sorry -- you won't hear a whole lot of consolation here. :P

It wasn't nearly as crowded as I expected. With a little determination, it was still very possible to navigate the crowd and reach the front of the floor. To be honest, for the most part, I didn't mind the massive turnout for this show, as the enthusiasm was seriously intense. I wish I could help with the tracklist, but the chaos and exhaustion of the night made it difficult to ID or recall most of the songs, many of which were unfamiliar anyway. I do know that I really enjoyed the set.

Roland Darragh's warmup set was also good, building up toward trance around 11-11:30, but taking an unfortunate turn toward house shortly thereafter. Ti�sto started right after midnight.

He did not play Fox Lulz (as anticipated earlier in the thread), which was a great disappointment. I might have to drop that one (after cleaning it up a bit) into my epic trainwreck trance set on Sunday at Midcity Cafe's open turntables event. Be sure to attend! It's bound to be at least 2% as awesome as last night's event, at an even smaller fraction of the cost.

I really enjoyed it! I saw him at Bonnaroo on the 14th and his set was a lot different. His mixing and set overall was top notch although I did like his Bonnaroo set better. I just didn't like how they roped off the elevated front stage. It was way too crowded for that.

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Originally posted by DJ Blitzkrieg I just didn't like how they roped off the elevated front stage. It was way too crowded for that.

Yeah, I meant to mention that. Considering that Opera usually open the stage to us plebs during these packed events, as they did for AVB, it's dumb that they'd reserve it for VIP during the Ti�sto event, especially since the VIP area was so empty compared to other nights. Maybe that's good for revenue, but they should be able to create incentives for the overpriced VIP lounge without making everyone else miserable, right?

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Originally posted by Calamar Yeah, sorry -- you won't hear a whole lot of consolation here. :P

It's ok. LOL. Just trying to make myself feel better. Are u really going to be spinning a trance set Sunday? If so, I may have to come check that out.

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Originally posted by keithos27 yeah i couldn't believe it either, but i did get my money's worth in alcohol, haha. and to be honest, since i had the money to spend, it was nice to not get elbowed every other beat or have to wait in line for 10 minutes for a drink... i could just chill, listen to the music, dance, and have fun. some bracelets were $275 though...now THAT was ridiculous!

I don't know, maybe 100 would be worth it for the comfortable experience, but 275, no way. Was that up by the dj booth or the area across from it?

Anyways, sounds like it was a pretty good show besides being pretty crowded. Sounds like he probably played a lot of stuff I may not be familiar with, but he usually does a good job with track selection. Almost the whole ISOS 7 album was tracks I had never heard before.

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Originally posted by PVDfan07 Are u really going to be spinning a trance set Sunday? If so, I may have to come check that out.

Well, it's a mini-set -- on open turntables night, everyone who signs up (or just shows up) gets a chance to spin for about 15-35 minutes, depending on how many attend. My "set" always consists of trance, whereas most of the others play other flavors of EDM. I believe Doug Theodore also brought some trance to the Last Sunday event a couple months ago. It's a good opportunity to enjoy a variety of tastes. Greg hasn't posted an announcement yet, but I'm assuming we'll have another event this Sunday?

(Sorry for the brief thread derail, heh. Uh, to segue back toward the topic: Maybe someone else could bring some ISOS7 tracks to Midcity in the hopes of reliving last night's fine experience? ... Minus the massive crowds, deafening sound system, and glowsticks.)

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Originally posted by PVDfan07 I don't know, maybe 100 would be worth it for the comfortable experience, but 275, no way. Was that up by the dj booth or the area across from it?

100 was for the back, across the way... 275 was so that you could be "15 feet from Tiesto" as they tried to entice me to upgrade... lol. like i give a $hit how close i am to him, especially considering how many times i've seen him before and at much cooler/exciting venues.

i hate when small places try and rape their customers and detract from the experience.

The show really wasn't that bad minus the sardine-like conditions. Tiesto actually seemed pretty into it. He moved into decent trance stuff pretty fast...mostly ISOS7 material. I also remember hearing Ronski Speed - All the Way.

Overall it was worth my money. My noob friend had a blast as expected.

I'm still not disappointed that I missed out. Although, I've really been turned off by big name DJ shows since Armin's show at Opera last year. I've skipped out on all "epic" DJ's since

I've seen him too many times, anyway... I'm looking forward to Deadmau5!

OK, here's my review...

The tracks Tiesto played were surprisingly good. I wasn't expecting him to play trance since I thought he had abandoned the genre ages ago, but I was wrong! Lots of material from ISOS7, but much of it wasn't. Although I must say, Tiesto is a really bad entertainer. The entire time he was just staring at his decks, mildly bopping his head, looking around. I think I saw him smile and interact with the crowd twice. When he left, he just waved and walked away. Compared to the last show I saw (Armin in Chicago, where he was at 100% energy, totally into the crowd, and came out to shake hands before he closed his set), it was a really big downer. As for the sound system, it was fine in the beginning, at least for me because I had Etymotic ER-20s in my ears, but about halfway through Tiesto's set he decided to crank up the bass ALOT, so even with my earplugs in it was mostly what I heard.

Here are the tracks that I could recognize / remember, in no particular order (listing most of the ISOS7 ones first)
Banyan Tree - Feel The Sun Rise
Andy Duguid feat. Leah - Wasted <--- The crowd went NUTS when the first beat dropped, it was great!
Jerry Ropero feat. Cozi - The Storm (Inpetto Remix)
Dokmai - Reason To Believe
Cary Brothers - Ride (Tiesto Remix)
Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek (Tiesto's In Search of Sunrise Remix)
Cressida - 6AM (Kyau & Albert Remix)
Cass Fox - Touch Me (Mike Koglin vs. Jono Grant Remix) <--- BEST moment of the night, hands down. The crowd was going CRAZY and everyone knew the words! (Although they were singing the Rui da Silva version and not this one... noobs )
Majai - Phoria (Elevation Remix)
Hensha - The Curtain
Andre Visior & Kay Stone - Something For Your Mind (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix) <--- click here for YouTube video
Estiva vs. Marninx - Casa Grande <--- also have a video of this... you can hear me singing the melody in the background, hehe
Ronski Speed feat. Aruna - All The Way (Original Mix)
Alex Kunnari - Lifter (Original Mix) <--- I never thought this would be so good in a club!
Gareth Emery - More Than Anything (Stoneface & Terminal Dub)

Oh, and the guy who opened, Roland Darragh, was really good! Not too big of a prog fan, but he really got me pumped up. The only two tracks I could recognize were Tranquility Base - Surrender (Jaytech Remix) and Pryda - Armed, but I still really enjoyed his set. Calamar and I were yelling "ROLAND! ROLAND!" whenever the stupid fucks in the crowd started chanting "TIESTO! TIESTO!" during his set. Seriously, how disrespectful can you get? Oh well, they were probably too strung out on E to know who was spinning, anyway. And they probably didn't even know what Tiesto looks like before last night...

All in all, good night, worth the $45! I'll post the links to those 2 YouTube videos in a bit.

ID 7 is Andre Visior & Kay Stone - Something For Your Mind (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix)
ID 13 is Ronski Speed feat. Aruna - All The Way (Original Mix)
ID 16 is Gareth Emery - More Than Anything (Stoneface & Terminal Dub)
ID 17 is Hensha - The Curtain

I just noticed something about the tracklist. Did he not play any of his own songs?

He played a couple of his remixes.

Updated again (deleting post above)

- Intro (maybe Banyan Tree � Feel The Sun Rise)
- Andy Duguid Featuring Leah � Wasted
- Kaskade � 4 AM (Adam K & Soha Mix)
- ID 1 (techno-ish sound)
- Jerry Ropero Featuring Cozi - The Storm (Inpetto Remix)
- Cary Brothers - Ride (Ti�sto Remix)
- Imogen Heap - Hide And Seek (Ti�sto's In Search Of Sunrise Remix)
- Cressida - 6AM (Kyau & Albert Remix) {Missed this one... thought it was DJ Eremit - Tanz Der Seele (YOMC Remix) but that was actually the last track... must have been another female vocal/chant type song. Can't remember anymore.} - Fits the bill, right?
- Dokmai - Reason To Believe

- Missed a few� had to step outside with a friend (probably 3 tracks)

- Cass Fox - Touch Me (Mike Koglin vs. Jono Grant Remix)
- Sequentia Presents Sunshade - Vertigo (Mike Koglin Remix)
- Solarstone � Solarcoaster (remix?) (not sure about this one)
- ID 3
- Majai - Phoria (Elevation Mix) & Majai - Phoria (Elevation Mix)
- ID 6 (old school trance sound)
- Andre Visior - Something For Your Mind (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix)
- Coby - Blue Sapphire (Carl B Remix)
- ID 8
- ID 9
- Estiva vs. Marninx - Casa Grande
- Skunk Anansie - Brazen (Weep) (Richard Durand Remix) & ID 12 (same song)
- Ronski Speed ft Aruna- All The Way
- Alex Kunnari � Lifter
- Beat Service Presents Sunstroke - Sky Cafe (DNS Project Remix)
- Stoneface & Terminal - Endorphine (Album Extended)
- Gareth Emery - More Than Anything (Stoneface & Terminal Remix)
- Hensha - The Curtain
- Virtual Vault - Request
- DJ Eremit - Tanz Der Seele (YOMC Remix)

Glad to see this show didn't turn out to be a total bust. I'm honestly amazed that at this point after touring for so long he's not totally drained, hope he gives himself a break soon.
Anyway, good reading the reviews and such.

i remember the last time I saw Tiesto live in Atlanta was right after Nyana came out. amazing set and an amazing night at Eleven50, i saw this fat kid fall off the stage and take a whole wall of curtains down with him. it was incredible i could hardly breathe

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Originally posted by raynbo Glad to see this show didn't turn out to be a total bust. I'm honestly amazed that at this point after touring for so long he's not totally drained, hope he gives himself a break soon. Anyway, good reading the reviews and such.

I'm pretty sure what he considers touring is what we consider a luxury vacation

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Originally posted by Dj Dizzy i remember the last time I saw Tiesto live in Atlanta was right after Nyana came out. amazing set and an amazing night at Eleven50, i saw this fat kid fall off the stage and take a whole wall of curtains down with him. it was incredible i could hardly breathe

That's really mature.

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Originally posted by GAtrancegirl24 That's really mature.

the kid was drunk as hell. anyone who is fucked up and does something fucked up is open target my friend

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Originally posted by Dj Dizzy the kid was drunk as hell. anyone who is fucked up and does something fucked up is open target my friend

bump.

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Originally posted by Dj Dizzy the kid was drunk as hell. anyone who is fucked up and does something fucked up is open target my friend

Note to self: Never be drunk around DJ Dizzy ha ha ha!!! Cause I know that I do some pretty stupid funny as shit when I am drunk.

Updated again for anyone who still cares....

- Banyan Tree � Feel The Sun Rise
- Andy Duguid Featuring Leah � Wasted
- Kaskade � 4 AM (Adam K & Soha Mix)
- Nic Chagall - Sun Red
- Jerry Ropero Featuring Cozi - The Storm (Inpetto Remix)
- Cary Brothers - Ride (Ti�sto Remix)
- Imogen Heap - Hide And Seek (Ti�sto's In Search Of Sunrise Remix)
- Cressida - 6AM (Kyau & Albert Remix)
- Dokmai - Reason To Believe

- Missed a few� had to step outside with a friend (probably 3 tracks)

- Cass Fox - Touch Me (Mike Koglin vs. Jono Grant Remix)
- Sequentia Presents Sunshade - Vertigo (Mike Koglin Remix)
- Solarstone � Solarcoaster (remix?) (not sure about this one)
- ID 3
- Majai - Phoria (Elevation Mix) & Majai - Phoria (Elevation Mix)
- ID 6 (old school trance sound)
- Andre Visior - Something For Your Mind (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix)
- Coby - Blue Sapphire (Carl B Remix)
- ID 8
- DJ Pure- My Definition (David Murtagh Remix)
- Estiva vs. Marninx - Casa Grande
- Skunk Anansie - Brazen (Weep) (Richard Durand Remix) & ID 12 (same song)
- Ronski Speed ft Aruna- All The Way
- Alex Kunnari � Lifter
- Beat Service Presents Sunstroke - Sky Cafe (DNS Project Remix)
- Stoneface & Terminal - Endorphine (Album Extended)
- Gareth Emery - More Than Anything (Stoneface & Terminal Remix)
- Hensha - The Curtain
- Virtual Vault - Request
- DJ Eremit - Tanz Der Seele (YOMC Remix)

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