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what he said 
haha yeah na it was a good event i enjoyed it, i was really tired the whole day i think because i woke up so early in anticipation! but as soon as derrick may came on i was good man i have never danced so hard or with such passion that man ROCKED... just as i suspected.
i walked into the big arena (sasha airdrawdaggerarena) for the first time, i almost had a heart attack it was huge! seriously i mean like my heart exploded through my mouth!, this was one bad mother****** of a arena guys, i mean fucking huge! and they had these mad circle visual projector things in the backgrounds they were the shit!, anyway chad d was warming up what seemed to be not that large a crowd but when one takes into account the sheer size of that place it was pretty fucking good!, unfortountaly i missed out on eddie amadour - psycho ex girlfriend which i had HAMMERED to my friends in the car for seriously like an hour driving up... i didnt know it would be played or anything and i reckon they thought the song was really shit before but then there like "yeah jigs that songs pretty good when you hear it live man, you just missed it" i was like arrghhH! 
the first international act i saw was 'goldtrix' i dunno much about him ive just heard the name so i thought id check it out, he set was pretty damn good i was well impressed he dropped this REALLY classic oldschool anthem but it must have been a newer remix or something but i am 100% sure i have heard it somewhere in like a documentary going on about the origins of dance culture i think it was adamski - NRG from memory but dont quote me , another bit of a crowd pleaser was dj falcon and thomas bangalter - i got so much love to give... the massive ibiza tune from this year, but it was so unexpected it didnt fit with goldtrixs set at all, i dont even think he attempted to mix it just faded it in and out, but i have alot of respect for him for doing something like that especially at a big event...
mmm then i was just getting anxious to see derrick and wasnt that intrested in the other acts... we (well i) rested for a while outside and met up with our other mates and then headed of to the drum and bass room at about 5 to prepare for the onslaught (you see cause 6 o clock is where it was at for me samuel l sessions then followed by derrick may! i was like hell yeah!) so anyway we bummed around in the drum and bass room which mostly involved of me shaking my head at the poor misguided youth of perth, i felt like running up to the mc grabbing his microphone and directing there sorry asses to the techno room.
but anyway 6 o clock came round and i was at samuel l sessions time but most of my mates were in the big arena at infusion and i have to say it was infusion who stole the show... i was at the start of infusion (3 guys doin there thing, live amazing stuff))but then ran over to samuel l sessions, he was THE shit i was SO impressed he was alot harder than what i was expecting but he brought a really energetic set to the entire (at this time pretty sparse room) and really got everyone going for may... about half way through i ran over to the infusion boys (they pulled me away they were that good!) and WOW i stayed there for the rest of the time they played. these guys were AMAZING they just worked it so hard, one of there dudes was no shit jumping up and down on the spot, REALLY getting into it for like the full two hours! haha he should get a medal just for that! i was getting tired just looking at him!, they had the whole arena going nuts they did a GREAT job really worth catching if they come around again guys make sure you dont miss out they were THE SHIT, everyone in that room was really loving it!. i had made sure to catch the end of them cause straight after them sasha started...(there ending track great southern land remix, omg.) i wanted to see the start of sasha cause he started some 20 mins before derrick may... but about 5 minutes into sasha (Sorry bedrock!) i said fuck this and went to see the man i had waited for forever!.
i ran over! and low and behold he was setting up and i ran over to the bar and strapped myself in for a magical 2 hours and fuck did he deliver. i have never seen so many perth djs in one place just going nuts... that must have said something. derrick worked that mixer like i have never seen man, he was ALWAYS doing something it was so amazing, he moved like lighning over that fader and just really took everyone somewhere in his set you know he built it, he dropped this amazing tune the baddest bassline ive heard in ages and i remember it was so good samuel l sessions ran up to the deck look at the record name! and i saw derrick saying "louie vega" to him so it must be a new louie vega promo or something but fuck that rocked!, but yeah all ina ll it just was the shit. (between 7:50 and 10 anyway ) my only concern is they shut him down early... same with the guys in the other arenas too... weird! everyone was shouting one more but derrick reckoned the power was cut... pitty me and my mate saw the tables still spinning around 
edit: must have been a pretty good event on the whole if me and bedrock were on two completely seperate areas and had a great time... for the main bit anyway , and the drum and bass and hip hop rooms were by no means shabby either (dj hype and dj shadow) if you were into that that was the place!
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Last edited by Jah on Dec-09-2002 at 03:49
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