Well, I just came back from the WMC. Ultra was AWESOME!!!! The whole ezdreamer.com crew (about 24 of us) got there at 2 and we pretty much spent most of the time in the Progressive arena....which surpsingly was the least populated throughout the whole event. fine by me....more room to dance and be a dj whore . The order was all fucked up and a lot of DJ's there were a no show. as a result....Mick Wilson played early and John Graham played for 3 hours......he had the BEST set out of the entire festival. John Graham just blew my mind away dropping a lot of wicked beats and breaks and dark trance and progressive. Max Graham came on next for a brief but bangin' set and then Dave Ralph kept it up with some great progressive trance. Josh Wink then DJ 3 followed and both almost put me to sleep.

I briefly saw Scott Bond who SUCKED my left nut. Briefly saw Alex Gold who was really really good. Markus Schultz was AWESOME. I checked out BT for a bit and he trainwrecked every other mix but his track selection was really good. Tiesto was crap. and even PvD who closed the festival was blah to me. I wasn't too moved by his short 50 min set at all. I recorded it on my MD player but it came out a little to bassy.

Sunday night most of us went to PvD at Space. we were the FIRST people to set foot in the door. The opening DJ Jerry Bonham was fucking fantastic. he played just pure dark tech house ala Digweed and you couldn't help but groove to him. The second DJ was a new space resident who was ok at first but his track selection went way downhill as his set progressed.

as for PvD.....I will definitely write a more in depth review later....but for now.......let me just say that I've seen him a total of 19 times now, and this was the BEST set I've EVER heard in my life. He was just AMAZING!

His set started out dark and banging. Lots of prog house, deep house and he played LOTS of breaks all night long. 2 hours of new dark progressive beats and then the set took on a deeper tone and he just played the sickest music.....I wouldn't even call it trance so much as PvD's own style of mind-bending, jizz-inducing melodica. after about 3 hours or so the BPM's were kicked up a notch and he started playing some of his signature tunes and some old classics. He ended 6 and a half hours later with Gaia - 4 elements. I lost my voice from screaming all night and I still haven't come to terms with how good that set was.

Here's the tracklist I came up with. I'm missing about 3-4 hours of new music that I've never heard before. In the first hour alone I only knew the first two tracks I listed.


Timo Maas – Ubik (The Dance)
Joker Jam – Innocence (PvD remix)
Jimpy – Feeling Good (new remix)
JB – Unknown Origin
Star – Rock Rose (Filterheadz remix)
Alibi – Eternity (Thrillseekers New Horizon remix)
Ralphie B – Massive (PvD rework)
Zero 7 - Distractions (Bugz In The Attic mix)
R.Goodie & Tasha Baxter – In the beginning
James Holden – Solstice
Second Sun – Unknown (new track 1)
Second Sun – Unknown (new track 2)
Liquid State feat Marcella Woods – Falling (Hernan Cataneo mix)
Nu Breed – Food For Thought (Dark Alley mix)
Humate – Vivid
Starecase – See
Solid Sleep – Club Attack (PvD remix)
Minimalistix – Close Cover (Filterheadz remix)
Pat Foosheen – Automation
Space Brothers – Everywhere I Go (PvD remix)
Way Out West – The Gift (Nick Warren’s new club mix)
Aquanuts – Deep Sea (Martin Eyerer remix)
Beber & Tamra – You Wonder
Blank and Jones – Secrets and Lies (Saints & Sinners remix)
Paul van Dyk – Suzann
Connector – Interference (PvD remix)
Ascension – For A Lifetime (Coast 2 Coast mix)
Paul van Dyk – Vega (Starecase remix)
Solicitous – Furthermost
Ayumi Hamasaki - M (Above & Beyond mix)
Blank & Jones – Secrets and Lies (Solid Sessions remix)
Lustral – Everytime (Nalin & Kane remix)
Solar Stone – Seven Cities (Atlantis mix)
Chicane – Autumn Tactics (Thrillseekers remix)
Paul van Dyk – Another Way (Club mix)
4 Strings – Into the night
Gaia – 4 Elements (closed with this)

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Everything's gonna be alright

Apr 08 – Greg Benz, Gaafar El Mallah, Mike Swells, & Todd Christopher @ The Door, NYC
Apr 11 – Andrew K & Gaafar El Mallah @ Spaceride Radio Show
Apr 15 – Paul van Dyk @ Crobar, NYC
Apr 22 – Mark Pappas, Gaafar El Mallah, & Panagiotis @ The Door, NYC


May 19 – Steve Gerrard & Gaafar El Mallah @ Analog Lounge, Boston
May 20 – Steve Gerrard, Gaafar El Mallah, Mike Swells, & Todd Christopher @ The Door, NYC
May 21 – Steve Gerrard, Mark Pappas, Gaafar El Mallah, Mike Swells, & Todd Christopher @ Jesse’s Penthouse Rooftop, NYC
May 22 – U2 @ Wachovia Center, Philadelphia
May 27-30 – Montreal

Last edited by Raven on Mar-27-2002 at 17:14