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Posted by Kraig on Mar-17-2006 23:32:
TWISTED 2006 - April 15th @ MLC - Cosmic Gate, Amber D, Flave & More!
Twisted Productions is proud to present our signature event...
WHEN: Saturday, April 15th, 2006
WHERE: Maritime Labour Centre
-- All ages event
-- Concession and coat check available

MAIN ROOM:

COSMIC GATE, GERMANY - www.cosmicgate-music.de
Vorsprung Durch Technik (or "Advantage through technology" in English) pretty much sums up the typical German stereotype. Super efficient, groundbreaking and full of innovation. If Mercedes are this to the motoring world then Cosmic Gate are paralleled within the world of electronic music.
After a chance meeting at a record label head office in Germany, Claus Terhoeven aka Nic Chagall and Stefan Bossems aka Bossi have created and inspired some of the most influential music ever to hit our dance floors over the past decade.
Today, Cosmic Gate are rated number 23 in the online directory of the worlds leading DJs at DJlist.com whilst remaining a permanent fixture, positioned for three consecutive years inside the DJ Mag top 100 confirming Cosmic Gate amongst the elite of dance music's most famous and popular DJ duos.
During the trance boom of the late nineties no DJ set would have been complete without the sounds of Cosmic Gate. Original productions such as The Drums, Back To Earth, Exploration of Space, The Truth, Raging and the unforgettable Fire Wire, which reached #9 in the UK charts and dominated DJ record boxes, homes and car stereos across the globe for the majority of the synth filled millennium year.
In Germany the act have seen unequivocal fame with no less than seven chart top 40 singles to their name along with two artist albums Rhythm & Drums and No more Sleep rocketing their way into the album charts.
Success after success with their own original productions has been accompanied by an impressive repertoire of Cosmic Gate remixes, for artists including Tiesto (Urban Train), Ferry Corsten (Punk), Blank & Jones (DFF), Svenson & Gielen (Answer the Question) and Vanessa Mae (White Bird) to name but a few.
Behind the decks, Cosmic Gate can be found week in week out performing at the worlds leading clubs from Velfarre in Tokyo to Glow in Washington and from The Gallery in London to Sydney's massive Home club. European festivals such as the legendary Nature One, Mysteryland and Trance Energy have paved the way for the Cosmic Gate DJ experience to be appreciated in full effect.
Regular DJ appearances on every continent including major stop offs in Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States have given Cosmic Gate the chance to reach their truly global fan base.
Cosmic Gate have always been, first and foremost about their fans. The ability to adapt and change their musical style with the ever changing face of dance music has seen the Cosmic Gate sound develop and move away from the harder edge trance through to their current, more subtle yet still driving energetic music style.
Cosmic Gate recently released Back 2 Back vol. 2, the second in the mix compilation series distributed through the worlds leading music companies. These include Black Hole Recordings globally, Ministry of Sound in Australia and Sheer Music in South Africa. A superb testament to their popularity with sales figures continuing to soar into the thousands.
The duo are currently working on their third artist album, arguably their best yet. Comprising a mixture of vocal and instrumental tracks the album combines progressive elements with trance, techno, tech-house, electro and house.
Due for release in April 2006, the fifteen track artist album will not only include their recent hits Ultra Curve, Bilingual, Monotone and I Feel Wonderful (feat. Jan Johnson) but will deliver a phenomenal blend of driving cool club tracks, a certain for airplay from the worlds other leading DJs and set to edge Cosmic Gate in the same direction they have been moving throughout the past decade - right to the top.

AMBER D. - UK, www.amberd.co.uk
Amber D has gone from rising star to super star in next to no time. Her meteoric rise to fame has come mainly from extensive background in music as she is a classically trained pianist and has completed a BTEC National Diploma in Music Technology and also has her own studio at home and the proof is in the awards she�s already won - Selected as a Mixmag Future Hero in 2004, she also won the prestigious Mixmag Future Hero of the year award for two years running!
With her crowd pleasing tunes and technical skills taking her from early appearances at Golden and Goodgrief to headlining sets at virtually every leading hard dance event. This year has seen Amber stay at the Tidy Weekender, Polysexual, Frantic, Storm, Wildchild, Slinky, Garlands and Dance Academy to name a few, culminating in summer festival appearances at Godskitchen, Global Gathering and Creamfields in the UK, Dance Valley in Holland plus Extreme vs. Tidy in Ibiza.
The remainder of 2005 shaped up even bigger and better too, with a live BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix in October followed by even more club and festival touring around the world.
The highly talented Amber has an undeniable gift behind the decks, and her stunning looks good nature and endless enthusiasm for dance music have put the world at her feet at just 23 years of age. Twisted Productions is proud to welcome Amber in her first ever visit to Vancouver!
With locals:
TAZIX vs. AZIM
MONTANNA & RES
FERRY FSH
DETN8R
More TBA
SECOND ROOM:

FLAVE - Seattle, WA (Housewreckin, Alpha Tribe)
www.myspace.com/djflave
His foot? His elbows? His mouth? Maybe you prefer watching him scratch behind his back? Not good enough for you? Well see if you can swallow him coming up and playing a live free styled performance of him playing his sax over some chunky house beats! But there's something else... if his alter ego "Tha Funkist" takes control of his body look out because all hell is about to break lose! A 70's Disco super hero appears with a white afro that can touch the ceiling. Hands down this isn't just a "DJ" Flave (AKA Tha Funkist) is a performer in all ways. We brough him years back to another Twisted sequel and we're excited to have him back... what is he going to do this time?
With locals:
PRECISE vs. KRAIG
SEVEN aka. Norrie Taylor
GREG C. (Speed Garage set!!!) WE'VE BROUGHT HIM BACK!!! 
CHARLIE TUNA
TRIPLE D.
WYATT
TICKETS:
100 @ $45
150 @ $55
100 @$60
$65 Thereafter
-- Online at www.clubvibes.com/twisted, Boomtown, Laramy at Metrotown, Beatstreet, UFO, Q-K Karaoke
** I WILL POST AS SOON AS TICKETS ARE IN STORES AND ONLINE **
Posted by Kraig on Mar-18-2006 00:14:
THE TWISTED WEEKENDER!
Friday = ARMIN VAN BUUREN @ Plush
Saturday = Twisted 2006 w/Cosmic Gate, Amber D., and Flave @ MLC
Sunday = CARGO 3YR PARTY w/BENNY BENASSI & TECHNOTRONIC @ Plush!
Who needs sleep?
Posted by DetN8R on Mar-18-2006 09:20:
I'll sleep when I'm dead
Meantime...RAAAAAVE! This is my Birthday weekend and man oh man, if you people think you've seen me destroyed, you all had just better wait 
Posted by Tayfoon on Mar-19-2006 03:12:
Cosmic Gate is good stuff
Posted by Kraig on Mar-22-2006 19:12:
Flyer added.
Posted by Kraig on Mar-23-2006 01:53:
Tickets are at Boomtown and live online!
Posted by forever2day on Mar-23-2006 02:22:
niceeeeee,,,theres so much happenin lately!vancouvers starting to get into the whole trance scene right ooooooooooon!!!
Posted by Kraig on Mar-31-2006 01:46:
Can you believe it's almost April?!?
Posted by Kraig on Apr-13-2006 20:26:
MAIN ROOM:
Detn8R = 10 till 11:15PM
Montanna vs. Res. = 11:15 till 12:30AM
AMBER D = 12:30 till 2:30AM
COSMIC GATE = 2:30 till 4:30AM
Tazix = 4:30 till 5:45AM
Ferry Msh = 5:45 till 7AM
SECOND ROOM
Wyatt = 10 till 11PM (Speed Garage)
Charlie Tuna = 11 till 12AM (House)
Precise vs. Kraig = 12 till 2AM (Breaks)
FLAVE = 2 till 4AM (Expert skooling on the Pioneer 600)
Seven = 4 till 5AM (House/Electro)
Greg C. = 5 till 6AM (Speed Garage)
Triple D = 6 till 7AM (Breaks)
Posted by AquaYak on Apr-13-2006 20:42:
sounds great kraig, i got my ticket... just a question (not that it matters) but hte tickets all say 19+ and 2 pieces of ID for a maritime party?
Posted by Kraig on Apr-14-2006 15:04:
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Originally posted by AquaYak
sounds great kraig, i got my ticket... just a question (not that it matters) but hte tickets all say 19+ and 2 pieces of ID for a maritime party? |
LOL... printing error as we used a template from one of our many club nights.
Thanks for clarifying!
Posted by Trance-Fiend on Apr-14-2006 15:58:
twisted u guys should just stick to throwing small partys at clubs ... i tink ur times is doneskies for the big events .. i mean the Legendary "Twisted" events i remember were fuckin big .. wit massive linesups .. u guys shoulda just waited for PNE to open again ... MLC / riverside . those 2 places are just not rite for big events like "Twisted"
im retiring rave till IMF .. IMF never fails .. last years IMF was the best rave i ever been to in couple years .. setup was just outta control!!! .. lineup man ! .. Yoji , JOC , Scot Project .. now thats wut u call a fuckin lineup !! all raves should be like IMF 05 . haahah
Posted by Kraig on Apr-14-2006 16:53:
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Originally posted by Trance-Fiend
twisted u guys should just stick to throwing small partys at clubs ... i tink ur times is doneskies for the big events .. i mean the Legendary "Twisted" events i remember were fuckin big .. wit massive linesups .. u guys shoulda just waited for PNE to open again ... MLC / riverside . those 2 places are just not rite for big events like "Twisted"
im retiring rave till IMF .. IMF never fails .. last years IMF was the best rave i ever been to in couple years .. setup was just outta control!!! .. lineup man ! .. Yoji , JOC , Scot Project .. now thats wut u call a fuckin lineup !! all raves should be like IMF 05 . haahah |
Thanks for your opinion on things. The reason why our shows were bigger and "better" as you put them was due to the venues available to us at the time.
The reality is, Twisted is here to stay. We are actually right now even working with the city and trying to legalize more larger venues. The City of Vancouver unfortunately is sometimes challenging to work with. Case and point - The Station. This new venue was broken in by Savio on New Years. The venues capacity upon opening was over 1000 people -- the city recently reduced it to 775 people to discourage booking large parties/headliners/DJ's in there because they know with the lower capacity that we can't afford to throw the show.
That is an example of the politics that we as promoters have to go through day in and day out.
Solid throws some good shows and I agree IMF had a good line-up. Let's not forget that that to date, Twisted has thrown the largest attended party in that venue with over 5600 people in attendance at Spooky 6.
Thanks again for your feedback, we'll keep doing what we're doing as the shows are selling out and will work as hard as we can to legalize more venues and continue to bring world class talent.
Posted by AquaYak on Apr-14-2006 17:43:
Twisted, due to it's affiliations, business structure, and experience, is the most professional of all the 'rave' companies (though PH1 is still the king of club shows). Between TAZ, Twisted and CARGO (plus Boodang in Calgary) you have companies with enough capital to bring headliners consistently. Having thrown 50+ successful events and at all the city venues, past and present, these companies are the most likely to get city council approval. Everyone knows im not exactly pro-twisted because i generally dislike their headliners for being too hard house and for other reasons which really shouldnt matter to anyone. However it should be now fairly obvious that twisted is much stronger than we give them credit for.
Posted by Kraig on Apr-14-2006 17:52:
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Originally posted by AquaYak
Twisted, due to it's affiliations, business structure, and experience, is the most professional of all the 'rave' companies (though PH1 is still the king of club shows). Between TAZ, Twisted and CARGO (plus Boodang in Calgary) you have companies with enough capital to bring headliners consistently. Having thrown 50+ successful events and at all the city venues, past and present, these companies are the most likely to get city council approval. Everyone knows im not exactly pro-twisted because i generally dislike their headliners for being too hard house and for other reasons which really shouldnt matter to anyone. However it should be now fairly obvious that twisted is much stronger than we give them credit for. |
^ Thanks for that note.
The reality is, Twisted AND CARGO need companies like PH1, Agroculture, Spectrum, Silverwaters and the likes to offer even more diversity to Vancouver peeps. There is absolutely no way we can ever cater to everyone's listening tastes.
I just hope the city will work "with" us and not "against" us like a lot of other cities do across Canada and abroad.
Posted by AquaYak on Apr-16-2006 10:21:
Well its 3:15 and im at home. WEAKKKKK. Great set up, good everything, but weak music. Cosmic Gate's new album is gonna be weaaaaaakkk. They changed the time slots and krys missed bossi, im sure hes pissed now. I spent $65 to hear 3 good tracks, including Tiesto - Urban Train (Cosmic Gate Remix).
Alot of people were dissapointed. It wasnt that the set was bad, it was just too slow, like 132-135 the whole time... and everytime he got fast, he slowed it down again. Total frustration! Also he went all cds, which means no more turntable tricks (which the duo is well known for). A whole set of Techy prog (ala Vlado but not as good) was a dissapointing surprise.
Still, Stefan was a very nice guy, signing a huge stack of records, chatting for a while, laughing, its just a shame things didnt turn out well.
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