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Originally posted by Yookeroo New Years Eve? I bought water at, like, 3 different stands at they were all $7. Where was the $3 water?

ah i thought you were talking about edc. yea at nye i spent between 40 and 50 bucks on water.

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This was stupid. Make things difficult for the organizers and jeopardize future events. Kind of an asshole move.

yea, hopefully it isnt a problem, shouldnt be though. that fire marshall came in with an attitude though, power trippin.

I thought it was a good party, I liked last year's way much more though.

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Originally posted by DjSway I thought it was a good party, I liked last year's way much more though.

Last year was an awesome show despite the heat and water-access problems (they ran out at like 130am and had to do an emergency run). It catere to so many different genre's it was awesome. I remember "zoning-out" in front of Diggers and Deep Dish, completely missing the C_Lawrence show. Ahh memories. Still had an awesome time this year.

water & drinks?!
what about the tracks he threw down, the good/bad transitions & overall continuity to the night? how was that?
i'm so pissed that i couldn't make it, but i want to know what i missed. he probably had time to drop a majority of the tracks he brought over!

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I thought armin was fantastic .. got in at 9 and uptil 11 or so he kept it quite mellow with the occasional big breakdown track but after that he really picked up the pace and it went uphill from there ...

only disappointment and its not exclusive to this party is armins selection of classics towards the end are getting predictable .. would be nice to see him pull of a surprise tune like his mix of aria - dido or viola or just another random oldie that djs dont play that often ...

the crowd was very good..i actually ended up going all the way to the front at the end because there was absolutely no pushing or shoving .. and i agree about the VIP, i ended up upgrading as well and after hearing of the prices they were charging for drinks , i guess the ticket was more than compensated for ... the bathroom setup was also nicely done .. funny incident with that early int he night when there was a huge line of us waiting to get in and it turned out that was only because everyone was not aware that there were multiple stalls inside to do your business so a lot of WTF's when someone who went inside actually bothered to tell us

oh ya and a thumbs down to that idiot who came on stage in the stilts and was decided to throw himself into the crowd smacking the back of my head with one of his stilts in the process ..that really hurt

Not to complain, but I think it would off been much better if Armin came on at midnight instead of playing 8 hours straight.

Does anyone have any short (or long) video clips to upload?

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Originally posted by DjSway Not to complain, but I think it would off been much better if Armin came on at midnight instead of playing 8 hours straight.

actually, it probably wouldve been better if 16 bl came on at 11 in the main room and then desyn at 2 to close it out.

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Originally posted by JCIZZLE! I though, those Giant people did a good job of organizing the event. You clearly can't please everybody I suppose.

It's an impossible task JC.

In my opinion it was one of the best nights I have photographed in a long time!!!

Giant A+

Here, I found some...
...the last one is the best! (Sander Van Doorn Remix of King of My Castle)

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Originally posted by C Em_Soul water & drinks?! what about the tracks he threw down, the good/bad transitions & overall continuity to the night? how was that? i'm so pissed that i couldn't make it, but i want to know what i missed. he probably had time to drop a majority of the tracks he brought over!

Well, I thought that he threw down some great tracks from beginning to end. He went on at 8:05pm and played till 4am. He played with Rank 1 for about 30 minutes, starting with Armin vs. Rank 1, "This World is Watching Me"... which I thought was incredible. They were side by side having a blast. Rank 1 also played Airwave... I can't name/remember the other tracks.

There was some weird moments however, the stilt-walker 'falling' into the crowd and crowd surfing was great, weird and funny. Of course the crowd getting soaked with the fake storm from above was just plain surreal.

Armin's mixing and transitions sounded great to me, although there were a few times he slammed it over to the next track, which I hate.

I thought the sound quality was average at best. The bass seemed to e waaaay to overmodulated. When Armin dropped "Lift" and "Oceanic" you could not hear any of the high-end, just that distored bass, when the break-down hit. I guess there could be a couple of reasons why... The sound guys might have not known how the track is supposed to sound, had their earplugs in too tight, or just got too drunk towards the end. Maybe it was just me...

Overall, the vibe was excellent. The people I met were waay cool and the event was extremely well organized. I bought the VIP ticket and tipped the bartender $20 right when I arrived and asked her to keep em coming until close... whew!

There was also an excellent vibe in the "Pegasis Weight-loss Center" for Desyn, 16BL and Jason, although it was like an oven in there and the Kryo was only momentary relief at every breakdown. Desyn was bringing it when I stopped in... It was fun though, losing weight with everyone smiling, high-fiving and having a good time.