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Originally posted by PVDfan07 I don't know, maybe 100 would be worth it for the comfortable experience, but 275, no way. Was that up by the dj booth or the area across from it?

100 was for the back, across the way... 275 was so that you could be "15 feet from Tiesto" as they tried to entice me to upgrade... lol. like i give a $hit how close i am to him, especially considering how many times i've seen him before and at much cooler/exciting venues.

i hate when small places try and rape their customers and detract from the experience.

The show really wasn't that bad minus the sardine-like conditions. Tiesto actually seemed pretty into it. He moved into decent trance stuff pretty fast...mostly ISOS7 material. I also remember hearing Ronski Speed - All the Way.

Overall it was worth my money. My noob friend had a blast as expected.

I'm still not disappointed that I missed out. Although, I've really been turned off by big name DJ shows since Armin's show at Opera last year. I've skipped out on all "epic" DJ's since

I've seen him too many times, anyway... I'm looking forward to Deadmau5!

OK, here's my review...

The tracks Tiesto played were surprisingly good. I wasn't expecting him to play trance since I thought he had abandoned the genre ages ago, but I was wrong! Lots of material from ISOS7, but much of it wasn't. Although I must say, Tiesto is a really bad entertainer. The entire time he was just staring at his decks, mildly bopping his head, looking around. I think I saw him smile and interact with the crowd twice. When he left, he just waved and walked away. Compared to the last show I saw (Armin in Chicago, where he was at 100% energy, totally into the crowd, and came out to shake hands before he closed his set), it was a really big downer. As for the sound system, it was fine in the beginning, at least for me because I had Etymotic ER-20s in my ears, but about halfway through Tiesto's set he decided to crank up the bass ALOT, so even with my earplugs in it was mostly what I heard.

Here are the tracks that I could recognize / remember, in no particular order (listing most of the ISOS7 ones first)
Banyan Tree - Feel The Sun Rise
Andy Duguid feat. Leah - Wasted <--- The crowd went NUTS when the first beat dropped, it was great!
Jerry Ropero feat. Cozi - The Storm (Inpetto Remix)
Dokmai - Reason To Believe
Cary Brothers - Ride (Tiesto Remix)
Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek (Tiesto's In Search of Sunrise Remix)
Cressida - 6AM (Kyau & Albert Remix)
Cass Fox - Touch Me (Mike Koglin vs. Jono Grant Remix) <--- BEST moment of the night, hands down. The crowd was going CRAZY and everyone knew the words! (Although they were singing the Rui da Silva version and not this one... noobs )
Majai - Phoria (Elevation Remix)
Hensha - The Curtain
Andre Visior & Kay Stone - Something For Your Mind (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix) <--- click here for YouTube video
Estiva vs. Marninx - Casa Grande <--- also have a video of this... you can hear me singing the melody in the background, hehe
Ronski Speed feat. Aruna - All The Way (Original Mix)
Alex Kunnari - Lifter (Original Mix) <--- I never thought this would be so good in a club!
Gareth Emery - More Than Anything (Stoneface & Terminal Dub)

Oh, and the guy who opened, Roland Darragh, was really good! Not too big of a prog fan, but he really got me pumped up. The only two tracks I could recognize were Tranquility Base - Surrender (Jaytech Remix) and Pryda - Armed, but I still really enjoyed his set. Calamar and I were yelling "ROLAND! ROLAND!" whenever the stupid fucks in the crowd started chanting "TIESTO! TIESTO!" during his set. Seriously, how disrespectful can you get? Oh well, they were probably too strung out on E to know who was spinning, anyway. And they probably didn't even know what Tiesto looks like before last night...

All in all, good night, worth the $45! I'll post the links to those 2 YouTube videos in a bit.

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Last edited by Lazlow on Jun-25-2008 at 18:56

ID 7 is Andre Visior & Kay Stone - Something For Your Mind (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix)
ID 13 is Ronski Speed feat. Aruna - All The Way (Original Mix)
ID 16 is Gareth Emery - More Than Anything (Stoneface & Terminal Dub)
ID 17 is Hensha - The Curtain

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I just noticed something about the tracklist. Did he not play any of his own songs?

He played a couple of his remixes.

Updated again (deleting post above)

- Intro (maybe Banyan Tree – Feel The Sun Rise)
- Andy Duguid Featuring Leah – Wasted
- Kaskade – 4 AM (Adam K & Soha Mix)
- ID 1 (techno-ish sound)
- Jerry Ropero Featuring Cozi - The Storm (Inpetto Remix)
- Cary Brothers - Ride (Tiësto Remix)
- Imogen Heap - Hide And Seek (Tiësto's In Search Of Sunrise Remix)
- Cressida - 6AM (Kyau & Albert Remix) {Missed this one... thought it was DJ Eremit - Tanz Der Seele (YOMC Remix) but that was actually the last track... must have been another female vocal/chant type song. Can't remember anymore.} - Fits the bill, right?
- Dokmai - Reason To Believe

- Missed a few… had to step outside with a friend (probably 3 tracks)

- Cass Fox - Touch Me (Mike Koglin vs. Jono Grant Remix)
- Sequentia Presents Sunshade - Vertigo (Mike Koglin Remix)
- Solarstone – Solarcoaster (remix?) (not sure about this one)
- ID 3
- Majai - Phoria (Elevation Mix) & Majai - Phoria (Elevation Mix)
- ID 6 (old school trance sound)
- Andre Visior - Something For Your Mind (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix)
- Coby - Blue Sapphire (Carl B Remix)
- ID 8
- ID 9
- Estiva vs. Marninx - Casa Grande
- Skunk Anansie - Brazen (Weep) (Richard Durand Remix) & ID 12 (same song)
- Ronski Speed ft Aruna- All The Way
- Alex Kunnari – Lifter
- Beat Service Presents Sunstroke - Sky Cafe (DNS Project Remix)
- Stoneface & Terminal - Endorphine (Album Extended)
- Gareth Emery - More Than Anything (Stoneface & Terminal Remix)
- Hensha - The Curtain
- Virtual Vault - Request
- DJ Eremit - Tanz Der Seele (YOMC Remix)

Glad to see this show didn't turn out to be a total bust. I'm honestly amazed that at this point after touring for so long he's not totally drained, hope he gives himself a break soon.
Anyway, good reading the reviews and such.

i remember the last time I saw Tiesto live in Atlanta was right after Nyana came out. amazing set and an amazing night at Eleven50, i saw this fat kid fall off the stage and take a whole wall of curtains down with him. it was incredible i could hardly breathe

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Originally posted by raynbo Glad to see this show didn't turn out to be a total bust. I'm honestly amazed that at this point after touring for so long he's not totally drained, hope he gives himself a break soon. Anyway, good reading the reviews and such.

I'm pretty sure what he considers touring is what we consider a luxury vacation