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Digweed played a five-hour set from 1-6am, was heavily infused with many classic tracks that have still held the test of time and once again whipped the dance floor into a frenzy. I remember hearing Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" (was sure it was going to be "The Secret" by Joris Vorn at first since those two tracks share the same bass line), but nope! Also heard Underworld "Rez," X-Press 2 "Muzik Xpress" and some great instrumentals tracks that I can't ID.
Only thing is that I hadn't anticipated a set filled with so many classics. Guess I'm spoiled by Digweed's darker, progressive and more experimental sounds that get inside your head and make you go musically mad as mentioned earlier in this thread. Not that there weren't a good number of those, too, but the classics just took things in a different direction and then the last half hour was solid with the newer prog.
Last song, Digweed picked up the mic to share something with the (around half-full) dance floor but the mic was dead. The tech guy helped out, but that caused the sound cut out during a really awesome track. John played it up, laughed ("hey, wasn't me!") while trying that a few more times and the sound cut out every time. So was a bit anti-climactic not hearing him say goodbye, but we probably could have all written down on a piece of paper what he was going to say, turned it in, and would have been right. Something ala "So good to see you all again, there's a reason why I choose to spend NYE in LA and it's you, cheers!" After that, he threw on another track and we sang "Happy Birthday" to him before leaving.
I preferred his last tribal set at Exchange for track selection and flow, last night's set was great but just threw me off a bit. I guess it makes sense though, usually the music is a little different on NYE to expand the appeal to a wider variety of listeners. Was nice to see so many of the usual suspects as well: Hardcore Digweed fans who have shown up consistently over the years. You just know they're going to be there, and there they are! 
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Last edited by in2muzikk on Jan-02-2014 at 08:15
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