That was a great night. Totally worth it! I was at the pre-party meet up at Tortillia flats. It was cool meeting all you guys there, fun chatting having a laugh before heading to the club. Great meeting some of you guys I haven't met before: Ninjapimp, DJ Rocco (you didn't add me to the pre meet up list ), Endlesswave etc... Nightcreature it was great meeting you, glad you had a great time. Az, Margaret, Graham..pleasure to see you guys again.

Spent most of first part of the night in the VIP, nice warm up for sure. But when Hernan came on I couldn't be peeled from the front. Was up there with Techno addict and his crew being totally mesmerized by the amazing shit that dude was dropping. From floaty melody lines to dirty tribal beats, I did not want to leave! Subsequently, I was very dissappointed when I went into the VIP to realize the trance was winding down. I missed the trance! I loved the prog in the main room, but I was craving the trance by the end of the night..and I missed it. Damn!!

THere were other people I had the pleasure of meeting and/or chatting with. TranceXtacy, Jenna and Mike, Diginut...the list goes on!

All in all I give the night an A.

i soooo wish i didnt have to work so i coulda come down earlier...but i made it down anyways....a little after 3!! big thanx to john for getting me on guest list ( ).....i FINALLY got to meet a lot of the TA's i seen on here....and im most definitely comin out again....lol ...im not even gonna bother naming people cuz im sure u all know who u are who i met and saw again...WIKKID TIME!!!

oh an ...thats not a slap on the ass...thats a tap!!!

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alrite .. full review time ..

got off work at 10pm and was forced to take a bus down, due to Tara not being home anymore when i called ! heh, it's alrite tho cuz u offered a ride back .. anyways, i hate driving to parties like this since i can't drink az much but whatevers .. so i get down there at like an ill 11:50 pm (good thing the rain stopped by then) and went into Systems. (big thanx 2 E2EK1EL_D3 for the treatment at thr door..)

Got inside and had to bypass all the formalities with everyone as i rushed into the stall since i had to take a leak real bad. Anyways, so yea go outta the stall and said hi to everyone.

Here's the review on the sets:

mecha

got there too late cuz of work! sorry for missin ur set bro, where didja go? didn't cya all nite ..

mute

sick prog. as always from the Presidente Jr. so wickids seein ya out again for ur idol heh .. i know u leave for Europe today so hav a good trip man and bring back lots of rekkids ..

vagrant

very nice changeup with the breaky sounds. i don't think i saw ur partner in crime tho .. ? aren't there 2 of you .. ?? "************" it was a nice set !

dj eso

esooooooooooo ! u tore it up like a mofo ... For an Angel and Airwave?? man the entire floor came out for that! hehe pretty sick set.. Phantom Lounge .. ??

walter mindz aka. Malice

whooa.. whatta set to close off the nite .. some nice ass smooth mixing and transition there. perfect set to continue the drama .. and Push - Universal Nation to end the nite .. ? good gracious .. E2EK1EL_D3 !!

Hernan Cattaneo

Endlesswave: told ya so !!

anyways.. so as always..

shouts out to the usual crew
Endlesswave
StereoPrincess
Mike S.
jenna_rae
DJ Stylez aka. Sonny
Waxen aka. Sarrah <--- congrats guys !! wanna see that baby!!
DigiNUT-SACK
drgoodvibe
ryanm
Ninjapimp
DJ_Hordash <--- HARD at work ..
mot10n .. err.. i mean The Highroller ..
Time2Burn - toasty!
Cuzo
E*Master
TranceKitten
Ziggy
Arek - saw ya, but don't think i said hi!
tatgirl - thanks for the cookies, now i know i'll be as right as rain.
Itikia - Sept. approaches!
MissQ
charmscars - thanks again for the ride offer!
loconet
TechnoAddict - happy bday man!!
KevinEarth
cono_sur
HardcoreTrancer
TranceXtasty - hav fun in Poland!

the DJ's
TranceGeek aka. dj mute
ryanmarcus aka. vagrant
dj eso
walter mindz aka. Malice

Shouts out to the first time crew
torontobarfly - whoa.. talk about as is !! nice meeting ya man!
Skipper - nice seein ya out at a non-techno event heh ..
the_broad - see, told ya it'd be worth comin out .. beats staying home eating salt and vinegar Lays Chips ..
fantom - good seein ya finally Vin..
pixiechick - saw ya last time too !
partyprincess - see.. i was gonna say hi, but i was juss too damn shy and plus all the TOTA guys thought i'd be too irresistable for ya so they held me back from doin so.. dammit Mirza next time don't hold me back, i know what i'm doin !

MASSIVE Big-UPs go out to:
E2EK1EL_D3 - for makin this all happen ! respect!
Swamper - THE LEADER !!
Tordan - for the ride home ..
LKD - wtf?!? i heard what happened man .. that's gotta suck royal.. hope u come out for UltraSpin 2 tho ..

alrite , if i forgot anyone else , please sue me, i know a good lawyer!

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Last edited by dEsidEL on Jul-05-2003 at 21:21

I will preface this post off by saying I will inevitably forget to mention some people I met last night. So don't be offended...I'm almost as bad with names as I am with progressive.

Got there at 11:30-ish, guest list went smoothly, saw Hordash in line apparently, but didn't know it was him. (Sorry, I'm the only person on this board who doesn't know ya from the back. har.) Saw him inside which allowed me to quickly offload those two Misstress Barbara CDs that I burned (thanks for the choco martini in return) and, strangely, made my way to the BACK room...where I thought the TA night was. Oops!

I spent most of the night discovering that ONE picture on the internet identifies you to the entire universe, as people were coming up to me and saying "hey Skipper" which left me completely stupified since I had no idea who you all were.

From what I recall, I spoke with:
- Hordash
- John (can't type out your TA name - too complicated )
- TechnoAddict
- Diginut
- Endless Wave
- Tatgirl
- torontobarfly
- Cuzo
- Timetoburn
- Diesidel
- Mecca (sp)
- oh shit, I know there are more, but I forget. SEE?!

Anyways, I had a fun time. I had to call it a night since I had been up since 5:30am that morning, and my bed was calling. (and the subway was going to stop running.)

Looking forward to seeing you all at the next installment...hopefully with some techno as well

hey all, just a few words before i head out...

i had an amazing time last night, TA's were out in full effect and turned this into yet another great event!! Shoutouts to everyone i've met last night, theres tooooo many of you to list right now!

'el Presidente' proved why he is THE MAN of progressive music right now, his set was insane! I wish he would come around more often...

ok, gotta run, i'll see you all in about 2 months!

ciao

This was an amazing party! I had a blast!

To start off a big thanx goes to E2EK1EL_D3 for putting me on the guestlist! I thanked you in the club and I just want to thank you once again. Thanx to all the TAs who showed up to this event! A big thanx goes to the DJs who made the night awesome! Also a huge thanx goes to the organizers of this event, you guys are the best!!!!

TA pre-party meet up
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I’ve came to the TA pre-party meet up at Tortilla Flats. I searched the restaurant for any sign of TAs, and after almost giving up hope of finding anyone, I went to the back of the restaurant and there I saw Margaret. She introduced me to Andrew, Pierre, Chris, Graham, and other TAs. We chatted for a little bit and when we were about to leave Aslan showed up and before we knew it he ordered a big ass plate of food! Which he had to finish quickly , because we were in a hurry. But being tall and all he didn’t have a problem cleaning up his plate

Once we payed up at the restaurant, we hurried to Systems. It was around 10:15 and the place was still closed! We waited there for a little bit and before we entered, Craig (torontobarfly) showed up and I’ve been introduced to him. Once inside I quickly went to the VIP room and mecha was already spinning melodic progressive house.

DJs and sets
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Mecha’s set was great in terms of track selection but his mixing needed some work . I was listening and chatting with Andrew so maybe I missed a few good mixes . The set was great to chill too . Many tracks were very melodic and beautiful. Overall it was great chillout set!

Dj Mute came on next. His set had a great deal of melody, it was danceable and I think he dropped Sasha – Xpander(remix?)! I went crazy when he dropped it. His mixing was awesome! The tracklist consisted of very melodic progressive house. I think he later teamed up with Vagrant and they were spinning together, because I’ve noticed that the DJs were alternating every couple of tracks or so. Overall an awesome set! Great to dance too!

Vagrant’s set was the highlight of my night. I must say that this was the most beautiful progressive trance/breaks set that I’ve ever heard. I’m a sucker for melody. Vagrant you’ve got to post one of your live turntable sets on TA!!!! And you definitely have to post your tracklist from Systems if you can remember it! This set consists of very/extremely melodic progressive trancers. Vagrant’s mixing was really really good . I could hardly notice the transitions. Vagrant knows exactly when to start and when to finish your mixes. Very smooth mix. His track selection was amazing! Overall an amazing set! Amazing to dance to! Was flying! Bravo! Finishing with Rank1 – Breathing Awesome!!!

Dj Eso’s set was an awesome trance set. Awesome mixing. Great track selection! Very banging set! Great to dance to dance to! Eso dropped many uplifting trancers, he knows exactly when to star and when to finish his mixes. A very smooth set! Finishing with Rank1 – Airwave! When he dropped PVD – For An Angel the room was jumping! I could see the turntables shaking so hard that I was worried that the vinyl would starts to skip! An awesome set! Great to dance to! Awesome overall!

Walter Mindz’s set was filled with hard/uplifting trancers. A great set! It was awesome to dance too. By that time I was soo exhausted, but Mindz still managed to make me move! A few beat mismatches, but nothing major. At the end of Mindz’s set, E2EK1EL_D3 convinces Mindz to play Push – Strange World and the whole place exploded! Overall a great set!

Overall the all the sets get a 10/10. I take my hat off to all the DJs, bravo guys, bravo!

The club/TA room/crowed
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Very few people were smoking, smoking up, or doing drugs, which is always a plus! I hate dancing in a room filled with cigarette smoke, pot smoke, etc... The speaker system in the room was a bit busted. Sometimes, some speakers would suddenly cut out, which is was a bit annoying but nothing more than that. There were no lasers in the room, but who cares cause there were many glow stickers!

In the ta vip room the crowed was awesome! I mean the majority of people in the room were TAs . The room was filled with very friendly, energetic, fun and interesting buch of people! Most of the people that I’ve talked too were either going to university/college or have already graduated. A very mature crowed.

There was more than enough room to dance! There was always room to sit on the couches!

Overall the setting was amazing! Very well organized! 10/10

Overall...
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Overall this was the best party I’ve been to in my entire life, hands down! Great DJs! Very well organized! Lots of room to dance! Lots of room to seat! Great people! Also if you’ve noticed, the sets were building up/ progressing from one DJ to the next/ There were no pauses or halts between DJ sets! It started off with progressive house and then moved to melodic progressive house, trance, melodic trance, uplifting trance, and then hard trance! Basically the music was always building up!

Props to Nat for making to this one. I hope that your arm will heal very soon! Props to all the TAs that I’ve meet but forgot to mention in my post. I’m just so overwhelmed after this event that my memory has gone blank! I’ve been destroyed mentally, by the music, and physically! My legs and my entire body is completely sore from all the dancing! Oooh, please don’t flame me for the long post

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There were a couple people last night who I spoke to that mentioned adding me to their MSN or vice versa. It's [email protected], feel free to add me if you want.

Also, I wanted to thank John for hooking this whole thing up. Great job man!

Torontobarfly: I thought when you told me your TA name you said Torontobutterfly. I thought that name sounded a bit fruity, which is why I didn't recognise it! Sorry

Alright, here comes my review, followed by a pathetic attempt at shoutouts:

Kicked it off early at about 10:15 with Jeff (TECHno Addict) and his friends in line - also, a bunch of you guys were right behind me but didn't notice (Chris, Margs, Az, and the rest of the crew). A fair number of TAs in the VIP room almost right away, so the night started out pretty nice. Mecha's set was pretty bangin', and Mute's set was awesome (as expected ).

Right before I got in, the bouncers were pissed - apparently there were four "Joe C"s on the guest list and they were not very happy about it. "What's the big deal, when the 5th Joe C shows up, don't let him in." Hahaha... that was pretty funny.

Around this time I started wandering... found out eventually from Dan that Cattaneo had been on for 20 minutes already (WTF, how did I not notice that?). Anyway, he KILLED me for a good couple hours, really really amazing set. The VIP room kinda died somewhere in the middle of Cattaneo's set, which I guess shouldn't be much of a surprise since the headliner was on, but I liked it better the first time when it was active all night.

The speaker in the VIP room kept cutting out, which sucked. Hopefully they'll upgrade the sound in there soon. Also, it was damn hot, even before Cattaneo came on I had to go to the main room a few times just to cool off. Breaks room didn't hold my interest either.

So the obvious plus of the night was that there were TONS OF TRANCEADDICTS! I didn't get to meet the ones from out of town, but BIG UPZ to: Jeff and his friends (Tyson, Steve, and another who I've forgotten...), Jason, John, Art, Beh, Ryan, Pierre, Peter, Navid, Chris, Az, Ron, Craig, Sarah (Waxen and Skipper), Frank (E*Master and Cuzo), Jazmin, both Mikes (Mike S. and non-TA), Jenna, Joe, Russ, Drew, Graham, Margs, Tara (I attempted a greeting...), Dan (awesome set once again), Ben, loconet (name?), Emery, Ziggy, Mirza, Kim and her work buddies, Nat, Ari, Luca, and god only knows who else, I tried my best to remember!!

Bigger upz to Swamper of course.

Emery, Nat told me at the party that the girl was NOT partyprincess. Unless you're talking about someone else this time...

Anyway, good times were had by all. I did jet early, and I'm not going to get into that here, but I was still having a good time.

Bring on invasion #3! Hopefully we'll hear some techno at that one! No jungle though, because the lighters would not be good for that VIP room!


Edit: Hardly had anything to drink, I was seriously having so much fun with Cattaneo's set that I just forgot about the booze for an hour and a half... yeesh... sorry Greenhorn, next time.

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2009-06-18 - DJ Annoying @ People Need To Know Where I'll Be
2012-11-32 - DJ Insufferable ɸ Or At Least the Stalkers I Complain About
2048-06-66 - Spastic & Whocares ¶ Although I'm Actually Flattered
9999-45-81 - Tweaker Gimp ☼ I Probably Won't Even Go To This But I Have To Make Sure I Fill Up All The Available Space Here

Last edited by DigiNut on Jul-05-2003 at 23:31

man i really wish i could've made it out last night...sounds like it was a wicked time

sadly i had to work (again)



im sure all the tota djs tore shit up proper though

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quote:

Originally posted by drewfactor Torontobarfly: I thought when you told me your TA name you said Torontobutterfly. I thought that name sounded a bit fruity, which is why I didn't recognise it! Sorry

lmao, no problem.....ummmmmm....torontobarfly,torontobutterfly....i guess they both apply

it was great seeing some of the ta's i'd met before and some of the new ones....don't even ask me to remember everyones name, sorry, but i'm old and brain doesn't quite work the way it used to

looking forward to seeing everyone again!!!

craig

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Last edited by torontobarfly on Jul-05-2003 at 23:15

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Originally posted by DigiNut Emery, Nat told me at the party that the girl was NOT partyprincess. Unless you're talking about someone else this time...

2 partyprincesses?!?

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