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Dear LA: I am sorry (re: Armin van Buuren in SF)

While I only heard three hours of his set before giving in to my lack of sleep (1 hour) from the night before and waking up at 6:30am...I do have to say, Armin was KILLING it in SF tonight.

Started off proggy and then just turned it on. Bigtime! Even the LA peeps up here said tonight was like night and day compared to his set Saturday night.

Dunno if he played it in LA, but he made my night when he played 4 Strings - Take Me Away (Purple Haze Remix)! WOWZAS!!!!!

For awhile there, I thought SvD was spinning actually. A lot of the same tracks SvD would play bunched up together. It r0xx0r3d.

I've seen Armin three times in LA and countless times in SF, and the three times I've seen him in LA still ranks at the very bottom of my list of Armin sets I've seen in person. I dunno, maybe he just knows how to bring it when he comes to SF.

Alain Octavo and Syd Gris once again confirmed my belief that SF openers for trance DJs are just better than the ones in LA. They fucking rocked.

BTW, Ruby Skye was fookin PACKED. Peeps standing outside stuck waiting to get in for a couple hours because it was so packed inside. Haven't seen that at Ruby in forever. I've seen Ruby Skye sold out before and not that packed. Whole place was jumping, too. Crazy hot, though.

Anyhow, I'm officially done with clubs for awhile as my child will be entering this world next month and I just need to be around at all times in case of emergencies. I'm glad it all ended with a night like tonight. It does suck that I was just too tired to function. I felt myself like tripping over myself because my legs were just too wobbly (note: I was sober tonight ). Wish I could have gone bonkers until the end of Armin's set, but it didn't happen.

Dave

PS. Diskodave, be strong.

ok i've seen armin spin 6 times in the last year including 3 sets in la and tonight was by far the most driving, purely energetic trance set i've heard him throw down... the best set since last year's memorial day madness. he started off slow with a couple vocal tracks (amnesia & jenny rene - louder then karen overton), but after the first 3 tracks the energy level in the club elevated for every track for the next hour+... armin paid homage to sander van doorn early on by lining up punk'd svd remix to dark roast svd remix to 4strings - take me away purple haze remix and wow that sequence alone made my night. another exceptional aspect of the night was the fact that armin was getting squirrelly on the mixer the entire time... the most i've ever seen him work the mixer in fact. like dave said, if i didn't know any better i would have thought svd was at the decks. i'd have to say that a HUGE part of why sf trance/house/electro/prog sets are top notch is because of sf's local djs and their ability to inspire magic from the headliner by working the crowd hard moments before the main act comes on. alain octavio seriously dropped the PERFECT opening set. he was going nuts on the mixer as armin arrived which, i think, put armin in the mood for the same hard, explosive programming. alain is no anomaly either, i would have expected the same perfection out of syd gris, jefferey allen, ismael rodriguez, turbine, cyber joe, taj, the list goes on... ruby skye's bartenders had it out for me also, i had 3 tall cups of almost purely jager which got me zooted until probably half an hour after last call... then i crashed into super sobriety and the heat in the club took it's toll. after 3 nights straight edm insanity: dj frances, donald glaude, frenchy le freak, dj bali, danny howells, jefferey allen, alain octavio and armin van buuren, i'm gonna hang my hat and disappear for a solid 3 weeks until jefferey allen & james zabiela destroy mighty sf. holy crap, what a relentless 4th of july!






i've never seen ruby skye so packed in my life... the main room, the balcony, the back room, the front of the club... everywhere you went their were bodies filling up space. it was more packed than the sold out ruby skye 6 year anniversary show with tiesto... and the crowd was leaps and bounds better, the floor was jumping with the beat and armin was busting out some slick dance moves that reminded me of howells. i went outside for a smoke around 1 and there was still a line around the block just standing there not moving cause the club had reached capacity by midnight.

all the pics

the TAs i ran into included davet, ninetyninej, diskodave, toolman667, knightlife415, andrieux, a bunch of sfta lurkers, a bunch of folks off the spundae boards, peter & guiv and the only lata i spotted was bob_motamedi, but that's probably half the TA crowd that was there because i didn't even see half the people i was supposed to meet up with there. martin roth and robert nickson were also in attendance, which was very cool like last time armin was here when gabriel & dresden and matthew dekay came to hang out and party

I am truly disappointed I missed what sounds like an once in a lifetime set. Sounds like Ruby Skye was annoyingly packed though, but maybe better people than when I saw Ferry last week (when some drunk biatch dumped a glass of champagen on me)...on top of that I sacrificed Armin to be in Brazil and they friggin lost to France! doh!

I missed out on last night

I was just too feckin tired. I'm staring at my ticket as I type this...

Whatever though... not like I'll never be able to see Armin again. Glad you guys had fun!

Thank god he didn't play like that in LA.. his set in LA reminded me of his older sets been hearing too many sets lately sound SvDish.

alain's last track before turning it over to armin was john digweed - warung beach (mashtronic's white sands remix) and when he twisted the bass in and out 4 beats the crowd went nutso! i actually left around 3 because i was getting nauseas from the heat, the nearfield bass and the churning jager in my stomach, plus my feet were killing me, so i don't even know if armin decided to play until close or if he handed off the decks to syd gris. i'll wait on others to finish out the review of the night

Armin was awesome... for the short time I saw him..

I cant wait to check him out in Ibiza.

I think Armin sucked in LA cuz he was wearing white.

What a night!! I have a friend who was in LA and came back up here to see AVB. He said last night AVB was soo on point throughout the night. It was super packed and the club had to stop letting people inside. There was still a huge line outside as well... I wasnt able to catch Alain's set but i know he delivered an amazing opening set. Great seeing you Dave T, lex400sc, and the bunch thats always out in full force.

Hope all of you have a great 4th of july today. Im going to a BBQ and then off to work for a few hours.

Wow.

I should have gone. I didn't have very high expectations, but the pics kind of speak for themselves.

It was great finally meeting the SF TAs!

I have to say that this was probably the best set I've ever heard Armin Play...Too bad he does not play like this in L.A.

Track selection was amazing....and Starboy...You would have loved his set...Trust me!

Ruby Sky is a GREAT Venue!

Guiv's house is truly magnificent!

Oh and all the rumors about Alain Octavio are true. He is a great DJ.

All in all I had an amazing time!

Thanks Dave and Lex and 99J for saying hello!

Not fair! Armin needs to come back to Spundae LA and play like he did in SF! So not fair!

bob, it was nice chatting with you, glad you had good time.

i'm really crappy with IDs in the club but i do remember hearing kva - walk down, avb - control freak svd remix, dogzilla - without you, simon & shaker- zero and i thought i heard menno de jong - tundra (fierce dub) or else some other very similar floaty melodic track from not too long ago. actually i heard a couple familiar '05 melodies, but my memory is shit

Some other IDs from last night.

Mike foyle � Shipwrecked (John O'callaghan mix)
Sunlounger � White Sand (DJ Shah�s original mix)
Thomas Bronzwaer � Shadow World (Midway Remix)
Armin van Buuren � Sail
Armin van Buuren � Burned With Desire
Arisen � Arksun
Aalto � 5
John o�Callaghan � Exactly
Solar Express � Momentum
Mark Otten � So Serene (Menno de Jong Fierce Dub)
Randy Katana � Fantastic Plastic
Re:locate � Rogue

He also played Randy Katana - Plasticfantastic. Craziest I saw the crowd just purely dancing was to this track. The insane intro to the track with the fast ass snare drum going off, when used the right time (and Armin used the track at the perfect point in his set)...it just takes control of you and you can't help yourself but to move to the groove.

I went to bed right after posting last night and finally got up at 6pm. :-p

pics or ban!

anyone recall what armin's first track was? jennifer rene would like to know

uploading my pics now and video will post tomorrow!!!

What a GREAT Night! Armin Van Buuren rock the house till about 4:35am

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Originally posted by lex400sc anyone recall what armin's first track was? jennifer rene would like to know

Mike Foyle - Shipwrecked

Damn, so SF go another 4 - 4 1/2 hour set from Armin.

I love clubbing in SF!!!! I am going to miss the clubs nights here come next year when I move to LA. Will have to deal with short sets then. :-\

Everything posted about Armin KILLING IT in SF is absolutely true!!!!!!!!!!!

I've seen Armin 5 times and this was his best set imo....he came strong with the first few tracks and never let up....even isa was impressed and she likes strictly house and breaks...the energy, the trackselection, the programming, the mixing, the vibe, the EVERYTHING was insane. Had sooooooooo much fun. We left about a half hour before his set ended but I was sooo fucking tired from the weekend and the 5 jager/redbulls weren't giving me any energy. What a fucking amazing time that was -- I can't wait to see Armin again. (Sept 12 - Armada Closing Party @ Cream Amnesia in Ibiza)

I too have never seen Ruby that packed out and my friends from Sac that i brought down were blown away -- what a perfect night for them to experience ruby skye.

Nice talking to you too Bob -- and of course DaveT, Rich, and Diskodave.

I too will be taking a break until Zabiela -- these last couple months of ruby have been nuts.

Anyways pics, vids, full review of my 3 day partying marathon tomorrow.

Just got back from the city after watching fireworks at the Marina.

3 days + donald glaude + danny howells + armin +5.5 combined total hours of sleep =

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Originally posted by ninetyninej Just got back from the city after watching fireworks at the Marina.

Screw the Marina fireworks. Went last year and was boring. Nothing like Orlando or Boston's (best EVER, every year).

We just sat on our balcony (15th story, top floor) and got a 3 hour spectacle. Starting at about 8:30 and trickling out at about 11:30 (still some going off now at 1am, just not a big spectacle). It was insane. As far as we could see in all directions, fireworks going off in the sky. Ghetto style. But lots of commercial grade ones in there, too. Because I live on the edge of Western Addition, a huge chunk of them were going off within a few blocks of me. Looking across the bay to Oakland, it was like the whole city was like Western Addition. Stuff going off everwhere! And the cops only made one person stop because he was doing it in the middle of a busy stream between lights, lol. The police station is right across the street from me and there were cops standing in the parking lot with fireworks going off right across the street in plain view and they didn't care, lol.

Anyhow, it was impressive and the most fun I had at watching fireworks. And I've been to TONs of them. :P

Great night...one of the best sets i've heard! I couldn't believe how fast AvB's set went by. I was tired and left around 3:30, but am amazed that he didn't finish until 4:30 --- 4.5+ hr set!!! Sadly, it was too crowded to dance (still not nearly as bad as when PvD spins at 1015). Plus, I wish I had bought earplugs b/c the music was much louder than usual...my ears are still ringing. The crowd was actually slightly better than the typical RS crowd, since I only had one argument with a rude person (who pushed me out of the way to get closer to the DJ), and had a mere single drink spilled on me Gladly, most of the people were there to enjoy the music and not to get f**ked up. I now need a vacation to recover from last night!

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Originally posted by fury Some other IDs from last night. Mike foyle � Shipwrecked (John O'callaghan mix) Sunlounger � White Sand (DJ Shah�s original mix) Thomas Bronzwaer � Shadow World (Midway Remix) Armin van Buuren � Sail Armin van Buuren � Burned With Desire Arisen � Arksun Aalto � 5 John o�Callaghan � Exactly Solar Express � Momentum Mark Otten � So Serene (Menno de Jong Fierce Dub) Randy Katana � Fantastic Plastic Re:locate � Rogue

He played all of those in LA and then some..

With the exception of burned with desire and so serene man looks like we got fucked at the white party, what a dissapointment

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Originally posted by starboy He played all of those in LA and then some.. With the exception of burned with desire and so serene man looks like we got fucked at the white party, what a dissapointment

some other tracks he played in LA:

Alex M.O.R.P.H. & Rank 1 - Life Less Ordinary
Racoon - Love You More (Armin van Buuren Remix)
Armin van Buuren - Control Freak
Armin van Buuren - Shivers
Ferry Corsten - Beautiful
Filo & Peri Feat. Fisher - Ordinary Moment (B & B Mix)
S.O. Project - Direct Dizko (Sander van Doorn remix)

considering he only played for 2 hrs, i think that was the best TL i've heard. and you can't really compare a 2 hr set to a 4+ hr set.

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