Wish deadmau5 was before fischerspooner but otherwise nice times!

So stoked Eddie plays during Dyloot! I have seen Dyloot lots! NEVER seen Eddie sadly

what time will Will Call be open?

does anyone know the set times for the festival? or does it not work that way.

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Originally posted by tkw00t does anyone know the set times for the festival? or does it not work that way.

skills/spundae will probably post their float set times, or at least the order of appearance, ahead of time. other floats will just post their set times on their own floats the day of the event, if at all.

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So I never go around to getting tickets cause I thought I'd be out of the area. What's the cheapest way to get them (do any stores have hard ticekts)?

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Originally posted by JD8899 So I never go around to getting tickets cause I thought I'd be out of the area. What's the cheapest way to get them (do any stores have hard ticekts)?

cheapest will probably be craigslist: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/...bbreviation=sss

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I'd like to say I'm being unbiased here. I know it may be hard to beleive, but I am trying to be...

...but I was really really impressed with how the lineup in the main room worked out.

I forgot how amazing Fischerspooner can be. I heard they weren't very good at Vanguard, but they BLEW ME AWAY last night. And those who saw them at vanguard were talking about how it was like night & day. Absolutely destroyed the place. Wow. I don't know how else to describe it.

Deadmau5....the crowd ate him up.

GrooveArmada is a more subdued act, but the crowd was groovin' hardcore overall.

Main room was still packed to the gils during Halliwell's set...ALL OF IT. It was nuts seeing everyone on the feet and to the far reaches of the corner jumping up and down all night long without slowing down.

I usually keep my impressions of an event lik this private because of the whole "bias" argument that came out, but I just came away so impressed w/ how it all worked out, I just had to say something.

Dunno how the side room was, spent mayeb five minutes it all night (cause I was working).

My feet are still killing me like never before. I didn't realize it fully last night but I sprained a couple toes from running after fools would get up on the speakers on stage and having to jump over lights and stuff to go after them. It was a lot of fun, but strressful and painful. A dangerous! loz.

This post is simply about the music itself.

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Not trying to be negative nancy but compared to last year I felt like this afterparty was a big big let down sonically. I had so much fun though simply because of the people, friends, etc. but I think there were some major musical hang ups. It was too loud when the first DJ was on, big time ear ringing. All in all the lineup just wasn't good. Deadmau5 was probably one of the best of the night and I by far not his biggest fan. Fischerspooner was also up there but the fact that they didn't play ANY of their famous songs was a really big blow. There wasn't the hands in the air moment when a producer plays their big songs or classic tunes... (eg. Smells like teen spirit, or In and out of love from last years...). The trance in the side room was pretty good though. Unfortunately I didn't get to see Haliwell but I did hear he tore it up. I felt like Groove Armada really ruined the mood. The entire night I felt like I was listening to the same sound except for fischerspooner and Deadmau5 but even then it was just nothing special. Best song of the night was Touring in NY by Maybb. Lights and lasers were awesome. I wish for color lasers in the main room. Other than that all good. I had such a blast though, way way better than Pop. Significantly worse than Lovefest 08 though, but you can't always be expected to have the best set. For the price I don't feel like the lineup delivered but the crowd is what makes lovefest what it is and I don't regret dropping for a second on that.

well thats interesting, its sunday night and the score is 1 positive review and 1 semi-negative review.

I want to see some pics and vids and more reviews of this night. The price of entry was very high IMO per person, so im curious about what people got out of this night...

furthermore it sucks that there was no color laser in the main room, what happened, did someone cheapen out? lets see some pics and vids!

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Originally posted by rudypoochris There wasn't the hands in the air moment when a producer plays their big songs or classic tunes... (eg. Smells like teen spirit, or In and out of love from last years...).

I really and truly stopped reading after that. I missed when SLTS was played last year...and ya know what, I would've barfed because that's such a cliche and easy track to get a crowd with. Lazy way of doing it. If it was some insanely good remix that just can't be missed, then that's one thing. When it's a track a couple DJs play for a couple weeks a month, especially at the big events to get thec rowd going....eh, don't change who you are and what you play.

It sounds like it's just harder for you to get into the music style/progression of the main room. Can't expect to be pleased every time, even when others are. I like all kinds of music, but was worried about how the main room would work out (largely because I wasn't sure how good GA or Fisherpooner was these days), and as far as crowd reaction goes, only the DJs had a better view than me (see anyone running after people running up on the stage? That was me most of the night until we got security peepson each end of the speaker line)

And GrooveArmada didn't lose the crowd. Just a lot of the stuff he played you grooved to more than jumping up and down. Ya know, GROOVE Armada (oddly, just realized I was saying how GA's music actually made you groove and put that together, hehe.). He didn't have any of big peaks in his set.

And no hands in the air moment? huh? There were lots of them. Especially when Deadmau5 dropped his Kaskade remix to wrap up his set. Maybe you didn't htink that or all the others were ones, but 95% of the crowd sure did. From my point of view at least.

DJ Dan's set was better than I expect too. Especially the beginning and end of it. He's real hit or miss with me, but last night I thought he delivered.

Deadmau5 is not my cup of tea these days, but there was no let down in energy from when Fisherspooner went off and he came on (unlike the complaint peeps had at etd.POP with trance acts being before him) and the crowd was going insane to him. So when I write my impression, I am trying to respect that aspect.

I like color lasers better, too, but those were four green 40 watt lasers. Nothing to joke about. That said, you can't have the same aspect of the production be the same year to year. There's been no lasers at all in the past, color lasers, green lasers, one laser, more lasers. You have to change things up. Be fresh.

Wrapping up, Fischerspooner did play some of their tracks (and he sung to them), but you are right about them not playing their big classics -- that said, would have they necessarily fit well with the night and all that? not sure. But I would have loved to hear them nonetheless. Other than that, I though their set was killer. I was just surprised how good it was.

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