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I can only speak for the all-ages show, but I just wasn't feeling it last night. 
Maybe it was the poser crowd, maybe it was how packed the event was, leaving little space for dancing.
The hours before Paul weren't much to my liking, although I did dance most of the time because it's what I came to do. There were a few nice dark tribal tracks, a remix of Soul To Bare (been meaning to hear it live for a while now), and a really nice production with a cool guitar-mandolinish melody in the break (ID?). But other than that it was rather dull American progressive for me. I'm a trancer at heart. I also found the Space soundsystem too bass-heavy, and not in a club-friendly way; the highs and mids seemed drowned and toned down.
Paul's set wasn't bad, but it was... uninspiring. I mean no disrespect to the man, but I expect better from him. 4th of July was FAR better.
I know he's trying to promote the Vandit release of Marcos, but he caned the crap out of Marc van Linden the whole night. I don't know, it just rubbed me the wrong way when he left out so much other material.
I really like when Paul goes techy, and he put in a couple tracks that I'd really wanted to hear live (Kyau vs Albert - Made of Sun (KvA Hard Dub) and Reeloop - Kamistad (Johan Gielen Remix)!!!). But I felt it went on too long, and didn't really go anywhere in terms of flow. El Toro, bleh. Minor quibble.
He closed out with a couple tracks that sounded well produced, but seemed really off-key to me. The energy of the crowd dropped because it wasn't really connecting.
And the encore track was ::drumroll:: Nothing But You. 
No Summer Dream, no Love Simulator, no The Spell, no Wir Sind Wir, no Childen of the Sun, etc. Yet he put in Time of Our Lives, Connected, Nothing But You, and Alive. Oh well.
I would like to see the final tracklist, though, because a couple tracks really struck me, particularly one techy one about fourth or fifth from last that was really amazing.
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