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Didn't go in to the trance room I got enough of it on the boat.
I was jumping back between Main Room and Orange Room, Jon was laying down some nasty beats.
Junkies Ripped it up in the main room, heavy stuff from them like always.
Loco Dice blew my fucking mind saturday! He played so much harder than I am used to hearing from him and his mixing was really clean, normally you hear semi train wrecks from him and bad sound levels but shit that was insane! he looked like he was having a great time and the crowd was jamming out which made me happy because I was no sure how they would react. Ovi said it best " The people who really love this music came out tonight"
Dubfire was incredible, he was less focused on the people around him and was enjoying himself, doing funny little motions with the mixer and the maschine and I kind of feel like he was playing for himself which I thought was great. It wasn't as good as his Family Day set but it had a great groove then it got dark and heavy in the last hour.
Calderone was not impressive at all again, his tracks were pretty generic and his build up/drops were not impacting.. really big build up and then nothing. He got better at the end though which made me happy but that was probably his last 45 mins to an hour.
Dubfires tour manager I think it is, some dude in the booth with him was whacked out of his mind, he came out on the patio with Ali and was talking complete nonsense to us, he was super entertaining doing these random dances holding a glowing flower all night.
The lighting was great Saturday, one point the fog just got so much with this blue type of strobe light it was a really cool effect and we lost a bunch of people who were with us because they got freaked out lol.
I was in somebodys booth and there was this asian dude there he reminded me of the asian guy from the hangover 2, same high voice and talking like he was the shit, he brought up how they are all producers there and pointed out Adam K. Nothing to do with anything but I thought it was funny that this guy was acting this way.
Saturday didn't feel like a Labour Of Love, it felt like more of a Techno event on a normal Saturday night and I loved it, Guv needs more Techno there imo. Other than Calderones set it was a perfect night 5/5
Sunday was just disgusting, I didn't have fun till the end... but I expected it.
Sunnary James and Ryan Marciano were pretty decent but had no flow at the start, I was expecting some nice house beats from all of them and got generic tech house but I still enjoyed it knowing what was coming later on. They got in to some nice House later on in the set and had the crowd rocking, they were having a great time.
Benny Benassi started off with some nice progressive and then it went all down hill, he has done this before making me think that it was going to be a nice set and then change it up. Electro was very corny and then he went in to dubstep, so we just started making obnoxious dubstep sounds on the patio while my friend showed random people weird pics on his phone as they walked by, it was a good laugh with the confusion on there faces.. that is how bored we were.
Avicii was same old, I feel like i heard the same set from him 3 times now and couldn't take it anymore so we did the mission of trying to get through the sardine can guv was made in to.
Finally get through to watch Deko-ze do his Sunrise set, he was playing classics and dropped "Spin Spin Sugar - Sneaker Pimps" that got me off my ass and start dancing, then all of a sudden at 6 am the bouncer says cut it and then harasses deko-ze some more. This made me really angry because it's a tradition that deko-ze closes out guv from skybar.
Made our way down and thank god Manzone and Strong are on and did they ever kill it, they play deep Tech and were relentless. The bouncer came at almost 8 am and said cut it, it looked like fab didn't want to stop but what can you do. They saved my night!
I am glad I didn't pay because I would of felt ripped off for Sunday, it was a really cool vibe from people but all in all just wasn't fun.
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