i've not been clubbing as much as I'd have liked to this year, missed some big nights due to work comitments.

Highlight's for me were travelling to cocoon club in frankfurt for hawtin and rios and the sonar festival in barcelona - absolutely amazing.

I left one job and started another and have been paying off most my debts this year. Havent been to anything major this year at all, Going to see Hed Kandi on boxing day at out local club tho cant wait for it. Then next year its creamfields and global gathering for sure !!!1, I aint gonna miss them in 2006

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didn't go out as much this year, but still managed to see a fair number of djs.

highlights:

-> seeing sven vath and picotto @ club space this past march; hadn't seen mauro since '02 and sven since '00, but they were outstanding during a meganite party -- picotto was also dope a few days later.

-> marco bailey impressed this past summer

-> up-and-comers cedric gervais and serge devant threw shit down the times i saw them

-> saw ferry earlier in the year and he impressed as well with a high energy set

-> saw tiesto a bunch of times and despite some hit-or-misses i felt he was better than he had been in years. he dropped my favorite set of the year @ space during the wmc, tracklisting here.

lowlights:
-> g&d continuing to drop sloppy sets, despite playlisting tunes i generally enjoy (the same could be said of holden)

-> pvd @ summerstage in nyc: last year's party in the middle of a rainstorm was tremendous; this year, pvd had an overall off year and his central park party was lackluster and poorly-flowing

-> tiesto exporting his concerts overseas

-> everybody sucking electro and new wave cock...

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[Dark Disco|Frozen Balearic|Gay Biker-House| Boogie-Trance|Heavy Electronica|Soft-Goth]

Haven't been to as many parties as I'd like to, hopefully better next year. I'm planning to do better anyway.

Went to Extrema, Dance Valley and Awakenings festivals in the summer, which was pretty neat. Top performances:

- Richie Hawtin at Extrema
- Takaaki Itoh at Awakenings
- Function at Awakenings
- The psytrance tent at Dance Valley

Not so top performances:

- The minimal tent at Awakenings, liked by many but it's just not party music to me, doable for home listening sometimes but that's about it.
- Chris Liebing at Dance Valley, well, his first fifteen minutes anyway, in between the sound failures (which he didn't hear until a few minutes later) he threw down some pretty uninteresting stuff. Reason enough to check out something else for me.

Additions maybe later..

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My take on... (various mixes planned, updated when I can be arsed)

Definatly didn't get out as much as i'd have wanted...

but anyways..

Tiesto
Ferry Corsten
Agnelli & Nelson
Stevie G
Lisa Lashes
Judge Jules
DJ Sammy (i swear... DJing live... hes not bad... no cheese in sight
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(And some more well known local DJ's)

and before the end of this month i'll have hopefully also seen... (if all goes to plan)

Mauro Picotto
Marco V
Scot Project
Dogzilla

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Headliners
Liquid Todd (twice)
Sandra Collins
Paul Oakenfold (twice)
The Chemical Brothers (Live)
Moby (meh, it was a concert, but I'm putting it here)
Astral Projection
Infected Mushroom (Live + DJ Set)
Rabbit in the Moon (Live)
Carl Cox (twice)
Ferry Corsten
Gabriel & Dresden
Grayarea (Live)

List from Best to Worst
01. The Chemical Brothers
02. Astral Projection & Infected Mushroom (same night... my GOD )
03. Rabbit in the Moon (Live)
04. Love Parade SF (w/ Ferry & Carl Cox) + Road-Trip
05. Moby
06. Perfecto Presents (Collins, Todd, Oakey... Oakey blew ass)
07. Carl Cox (I was expecting Techy goodness, not Cox dropping Say Hello )
08. Freaknight 9 (Todd, Grayarea [bleh], G&D, and Oakey... Oakey was better this time)

i'm sure all add more dj's to this list, but for now this is who i remember seeing:

hawtin at demf and in chicago
lee burridge (twice)
three (twice)
sander k on the terrace at wmc, crobar nyc and crobar chicago
steve lawler at wmc, spirit in nyc and in chicago
mazi (numerous times)
magda
armin (twice)
pvd
carl cox (twice)
jeff mills
surgeon
punisher
akufen
john tejada at demf and in chicago
bill patrick in nyc where opened for sander k and also chicago
nic fanculli
danny howells (twice in chicago)
markus schultz in detroit
loco dice
adam beyer
atb
g&d
terry francis
ellen allien
derrick carter
matthew dear
ADA
metope
numerous local dj's (sassmouth, kyle szmurlo, mike khoury, seneca etc. - too many to name)

best parties of the year were hawtin at demf and his afters party; lee burridge's july set at vision in chicago and afters; and all of the other afters and loft parties in chicago - this city has one of the greatest undergound scenes

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I saw:

Thrillseekers
Cosmic Gate
Johan Gielen
Laurent Garnier
Phynn
Solarstone
Ton TB
Sasha & Desyn Masiello (Fundacion)
Steve Lawler (2x)
John Digweed
James Zabiela (2x)
Steve Angello, Eric Morillo, Picotto, PVD
Blank & Jones
Paul Oakenfold
Ferry Corsten (2x)
DJ Silver (DNB)
Kazell
Sasha
Sean Miller
James Holden
James Lavelle
Andy Moor
Desyn Masiello


Best shows were:

1. Sasha @ ICE Las Vegas
2. Laurent Garnier @ Rex Club paris
3. James Zabiela @ Monday Night Social (small monday night lounge/bar venue in LA!)
4. Steve Lawler @ Avalon (Both times)
5. James Holden @ Avalon

Alot of the shows were great, James was awesome at Avalon, Digweed was amazing on a tuesday night FREE bpm party...12-2am and just banged it out for two solid hours! Sasha & Desyn @ Fundacion were amazing. Solarstone played a very good trance set...best I've heard this year.

Worst:


1. Mark Tabberner opening for sasha @ ICE
2. Lavelle wrecking like crazy before Holden
3. Tarbernner playing after Sasha...killed the mood COMPLETELY

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I've done fuck all clubbing this year compared to previous ones. Gone are the days where I would be out near enough every week unfortunately. In 2005 the DJ's i've seen are: (I've seperated them into nights)


Dylan Rhymes
Lee Burridge
Paul Jackson

Graeme Park
Eric Prydz

John O'Callaghan
John Askew
Paul van Dyk
Andy Bagguley

Jerry Bonham
Paul van Dyk


My favourite night was Graeme Park and Eric Prydz at Gods. Especially Graeme Park's set, who played lots of fun house. Plus it's great to be able to say i've actually heard a set from this legend.

Another honourable mention on the list was PvD's 6 hour set at Roxy, and even more so Jerry Bonham's warmup which was just shit hot. This is the first time I have ever been clubbing in NY, so this night was very special to me.


The rest of those DJ's seen this year can be broken down into the following 3 categories:

Very good - Lee Burridge, Paul Jackson

Okay - Dylan Rhymes, John Askew

Dog Shit beyond belief - Andy Bagguely, John O'Callaghan

This year was basically my first year clubbing so I haven't been able to go to many shows since I'm only 19.

best to worst...

Paul van Dyk & Jerry Bonham
Ferry Corsten & Jonathan Allyn
Sasha & Steve Porter
Armin van Buuren & Ian James

I plan on seeing Steve Lawler the 29th though

Had a quiet year this year due to not many internationals coming over and crazy work.

Saw:
Prodigy (Live)
Hyper
Rank 1
Signum
Armand van Helden
Luke Chable
MIKE
Richie Hawtin
Marco V
Benjamin Bates
Mauro Picotto
Dave Lea

Highlights for me were definitely
Prodigy
Marco V
Rank 1 - pretty shite atmosphere, but a great set.

Picotto also played a great set but I wasn't really in the mood for it, which sucked cos I'm sure I would have enjoyed it immensly

Lowlights
Missing Hybrid
Some random rnb club I got dragged to

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