OK, way too exhausted to write a long thing now....but will sum it up with this...

FUCKING AWESOME. Fuck Monster Massive. Fuck Together As One. It blowed away both of them. Oceanlab Live PA was faaarrr better than I ever though. I was even wondering if Justine was perhaps lip synching, but I never saw her off her words once, not even the slightest. Either she is the best lip singer or she is just really good live.

Lange, wow, was very impressed.

Now Above & Beyond, OMG!!!!!!!!!! Far harder, faster, and better than I ever expected. Yes, they played a lot of progressive trance, but they played it good and hard and fast. Had the whole place going nuts. Thousands of people jumping up and down at once.

The location of the party was great! The sound was awesome for a rented out space. Only a couple of small piles (it was 18+, so not 250 difference e-tard piles like you see at Monster Massive or Together As One), and towards the end of the night, no one was really sitting down.

Anyhow, just a awesome time. Was better than I expected. I am sore from this experience, and I'm going out tomorrow night.

Pictures later, if they came out well.

Dave

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Oceanlab was awesome. I'd kill to have the chance to relive that experience. Hey Dave were you there holding a camcorder in the very front with a buddy that was doing the same?

Amazing Party!!!! I was in the TOWER Of Trance all Night.. Great party
Great Vibe and it even went pass 30 minutes so Above and beyond got to play a full 2 hrs... Lights and Sound were just perfect. Dave nice custome! haha saw your face all painted! anyways GREAT PARTY can not wait for February 12, 2005! That will probably be POPSICLE's LOVE Festival.

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Amazing. 'Nuff said.

I ID'd a lot of tracks last night but I kinda.. forgot them all after going to bed. -_-" Here's what I remember:

Adam White & Andy Moor present White Room - The White Room (A1 Mix)
Plastic Boy - Twixt (2004 Remix)
Veracocha - Carte Blanche (Ronald van Gelderen Remix)
Ferry Corsten - Punk (Original Mix)
Oceanlab - Satellite (Live PA/Original Mix)
Oceanlab - Beautiful Together (Live PA)
Oceanlab - Sky Falls Down (Live PA)
Oceanlab - Clear Blue Water (Live PA)
Armin van Buuren - Blue Fear 2004 (Agnelli & Nelson Remix)
Delerium - Silence (Above & Beyond 2004 Remix)
Signum - First Strike (Signum Signal 2004 Remake)
Young Parisians featuring Ben Lost - Jump The Next Train (Kyau vs. Albert Remix)
Pulser - Cloudwalking (Pulser 2004 Remix)
Dirt Devils - Music Is Life (Original Mix)
Super 8 - Cre8 (Original Mix)
Adam Freeland - We Want Your Soul (Infusion Remix)
Talla 2XLC - Can You Feel The Silence (Club Mix)
Jan Gustafsson - Eternal Light (Original Mix)
Menno de Jong presents Halcyon - Watermark (Original Mix)
Above & Beyond presents Tranquility Base - Surrender (Original Mix)
Endre - Kallocain (Robert Nickson Remix)
Above & Beyond - No One On Earth (Gabriel & Dresden Remix)
Jono Grant vs. Mike Koglin - Circuits (Original Mix)
The Thrillseekers - Synaesthesia 2004 (Ferry Corsten Remix)
Madonna - What It Feels Like For A Girl (Above & Beyond 12" Club Mix)

Might have mis-ID'd some tracks, but most of those should be right. Anyone else remember or have the actual tracklist?

Well, here goes my review of the night-

First off, I gotta thank Jeff for being able to pick me up near people's park, and taking me to alemeda, back to berkeley and etc. Oh and the digging for $$$ on earbuds was awesome .

We got there at 10. Dyloot i think was playing some weird cybertrance stuff that was somehwat dancable to. The suddenly, he drops white room then callokain back to back, also jukeboxing in some weird remix of carte blanche. I expected him to be absolute crap, but he was actually quite alright.

SO next came Oceanlab's live PA. I first saw justine, then i saw that guy in the yellow shirt weilding a guitar...it was insane. Needless to say, the live PA was amazing, and i remebered pretty much all the lyrics to the songs. Whats important about this PA is that they normally sound pretty bad (like mavi at TIC) but i didnt hear any problems heere.

Finally came A&B. THeir set started off kinda slow, then more stuff started coming in. I was hoping to hear surrender, but instead they chose to play by fav A&B production, their remix of madonna. I was almost about to weep! Overall their set was amazing!

If it werent for the two FOBs smoking pot in front and back of me, it would have been a perfect night. included below are my very best pix, and imo my 2 best ones, as a teaser

-phase AKA derek

PS: thanks peter for letting me stay in jackson!





http://www.pbase.com/eflatdavis03/popsikle_6&page=all

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man I wasn't expecting much from Oceanlab Live PA, I was actually kinda worried Justine would sound terrible but I was totally wrong, she was AMAZING

and for a while I was also wondering if Justine was lip-syncing just as Dave had said cuz she sounded so good. In the end I don't think she was lip-syncing, she was just totally on and close to perfect.

Oceanlab was soooooo amazing, their performance tops anything i've ever seen so far and I'm sure it'll be hard to beat.

Oceanlab definately made this my fav Skills event, and an experience I'll never forget from the moment I heard "Sunday, sunrise..."

I believe this was the tracklist
Oceanlab - Beautiful Together (Original Mix)
Oceanlab - Clear Blue Water (Original Mix)
Oceanlab - Sky Falls Down (Original Mix)
Oceanlab - Satellite (Original Mix)


nice pics Derek

where were u in relation to the stage Dave? we were in the front and center, 2nd row from the stage

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Amazing party I was up in the very front row from Dyloot till A&B.. So yeah I didnt wanna miss Oceanlab + Justine live so I got a real close up. I think she was lip-sync'ing cuzz I caught one phrase where she opened her mouth but no words came out of the speakers and she looked back at one of the A&B crew then caught on, she came in 8 beats early =\ Of course I could be wrong, but nevertheless it was damn amazing. Great crowd. Personally I enjoyed Lange's set the most out of that night, I also really liked how he interacted with the crowd so much, he even came around the front to shake everyones hand after his set. My highlight would be when A&B threw on "Jump the next train". One thing that let me down was I didnt hear any probspot tracks maybe I was browsing other rooms if anyone else heard any.. Good stuff, legs are sore, hearing is temporarily muffled. But i'd still do it again

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ROAR!!

My pics are here

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Spundae Productions (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County, Las Vegas)

hm I don't remember seeing u Dave, and I'm sure i woulda remembered u if u looked like that haha, nice makeup

i think i got in some of ur photos tho

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I thought A & B was boring and repititive. Oceanlab and Lange were great and Jason's set was wonderful.

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Originally posted by Psiweaver I thought A & B was boring and repititive. Oceanlab and Lange were great and Jason's set was wonderful.

Yeah, Above & Beyond really could have done a better job, but Oceanlab was great, and I agree that Dyloot had the best set that night.

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