Above & Beyond @ BED, 3-22-07 review + pics
It's 6:44 in the morning...and I'm still awake to deliver my review of this night.
BED in South Beach on Washington Avenue, despite being a rather small venue, and having a way WAY less than classy exterior, makes up for it with a fancy, loungish interior with a sound system that WON'T leave you terribly deaf unlike some clubs.
A DJ booth set up on the side wall, right in the middle, and not too high at all, giving the crowd a good level of interaction and intimacy with whoever is behind the decks. Large box shaped speakers on both sides of the dance floor, which is pretty spacious in my opinion, for a small venue.
The opening DJ, don't know who he was, started with some kinda slow ass crap, but eventually started to pick it up by throwing in some decent prog/prog trance, but then killed it (in the bad way) a bit by throwing some house crap in the set as well. But, by the time he was finsihing up, he was playing better stuff. He did a good job getting the night started.
And around 12:30 or so, the main event of the evening had begun.
Above and Beyond, from the UK...Paavo and Jono Grant in attendance, started the night off with a lot of prog and a couple of electro-ish tracks. They gradually built their set, and around the halfway mark....
...they unleashed IT.
Full blown trance and semi-hard tunes that had the place going insane. Their crowd interaction was superb, and the crowd LOVED them. Flawless mixing, massive tunes and...
at 4:36 A.M.....it FINALLY happened.
Thanks to Jason (J13) and his cell phone text, we got to hear
Above & Beyond - Far From In Love    
I heard the track coming in and went APESHIT. Flipped the FUCK out and was going so insane I actually fell on someone  And I wasn't even drunk!
ooops
It was a moment I had been DREAMING of, and I wonder if djstopngo was there...I only met up with 2 TAs: J13 and Wenddy. Many thanks to you and your crew for letting me chill and lounge with you on that bed! Very comfy! I was pretty much lounging the whole night LMFAO, but got up when I heard tunes I loved. Tracks included:
Air For Life
Another You Another Me
Alone Tonight 
Cosmic Gate - Element of Life (thanks to J13 for this ID)
Gabriel & Dresden - Dangerous Power (Original mix) (Thanks to J13 again for this ID)
Darren Tate & Jono Grant - Let the light shine in <- FUCK YEAH!!! PURE trance bliss!! SO melodic and classic.
Ferry Corsten - Beautiful (remix) <- forgot who remixed this one
Analog Feel?
Good for Me (? mix)
Daniel Kandi - Child <- I ID'd this one myself heh
No One on Earth (Gabriel & Dresden remix)
End track: REMOVED
Encore: ID
This was an absolutely STUNNING night. I overheard many people after the end of the set say this was the greatest set they had ever heard A&B play, and I have to say I can't argue with that...except that I was waiting for Can't Sleep 
Pics to come later today....but GODDAMN. As a TA...as a clubber...as a partygoer....FUCK. If you missed this one, you missed out on something memorable....special. Not to down that Ultralounge party, but I honestly believe there is NO WAY that party with A&B there can compare to this, unless A&B get an extended set, like the one we were most fortunate to have been granted.
Great....FUCKING night.
That is all.
DarkAngel of TRANCE.
Last edited by DarkAngel on Mar-23-2007 at 11:36
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