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Man, Armin played a brilliant set. With no opener he did a great job starting slowly and buildup it up. He played a few Markus Schulz remixes (Talk like a Stanger and Beautiful Things) along with a few other tracks and basically worked on finishing the initial build with Nathan Fake - Outhouse....then he just got harder and harder, and faster and faster.
I couldn't stop jumping around for the whole 5 hours he played...even when I was running around the floor trying to say hi to peeps...
The crowd was so into it by the time he entered in his second hour of music, and they just got more into it. When he stopped at 4:20am or so, the main room was as packed at the time as I had seen it since last June for PvD....I didn't think Armin would be able to top how packed Ferry was able to have the room at at 4:20am back in late February. The difference then, though, is that Ferry kept on playing because of the crowd and the insanity and played until almost 5:30am, while Armin ended up stopping - I think he was very tired because it looked like there was some discussion for him to play longer.
Anyhow, met Dave Lewis and talked to him a ton - very down to earth, mellow guy who seems to have a lot of fun with the job he has...he's a lucky guy!!!
Anyway, to sum it up, I'll use a statement the (co)founder of Spundae used to describe the night..."This is a fucking awesome night."
Met a few TAs, and also talked to a couple I haven't seen in forever (to the point I couldn't remember who they were -- sorry about that!)...was nice to talk to y'all!!!
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Dave Toole - [email protected]
Spundae Productions (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County, Las Vegas)
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