did anybody see Digweed?? Jesus all this Armin and Blank & Jones talk makes me want to throw up..

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Originally posted by runningman did anybody see Digweed?? Jesus all this Armin and Blank & Jones talk makes me want to throw up..

From what i heard(demi, digweed, B&J, Armin)...Digweed had the best set, by far!

Although I had more fun during armin's set

I spent most of the night either on stage, or in the crowd snapping off photos. So all I gotta say is wow what a great vibe! The crowd was definitly there to party and let loose. People shouting and screaming dancing it up at the front of the stage. It was a pleasure to watch a mass of bodies bumping to the beat. I'm sure some of you guys still saw me doing a little ass shaking even though I was mostly behind a camera.

Huge credits to the ETN.FM crew (AMB_ and Jurel(NYTA)) for there tireless efforts in making the livewebcast possible so that viewers could watch at home. Thanks very much for making me a part of it!

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Originally posted by drgoodvibe Huge credits to the ETN.FM crew (AMB_ and Jurel(NYTA)) for there tireless efforts in making the livewebcast possible so that viewers could watch at home. Thanks very much for making me a part of it!

you got your 15 minutes of fame mate! watching ya on the stream was kinda weird.lool. also spotted chanoa.
webcast review:
B & J > ARMIN >>Greyarea >>> Markus.

the stage setup was insane, best i've seen so far.

now let's hear some reviews of le Dish and le Weed.

p.s. again kudos to the etn crew for making it possible for us to watch and enjoy it at the comfort of our homes.great job.

THIS IS WAYNE YOU MIGHT REMMEBER ME. (white guy 5'10 spiked red hair, green ad yello glowsticks, wearing a black tshirt type top with jeans.)
THIS IS MY REVIEW. (with might i add a little confession)
---NOTE IF U GET BORED AT THE BEGINNING PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SKIP TO THE END, BECAUSE THATS WHERE IT GETS GOOD---

arrived at 10:30
stayed in KH till 12:30, went to the TA meeting, love u guys. (im new btw my TA account hasnt published, this is my freinds acc.)
enjoyed the tunes, did some glowstringing with yello/green. Struggled to Guv, listened to Digweed, enjoyed, wasnt impressed.

back to KH for B&J. spun a killer set, thats when i met a short asian girl who i spent the rest of the night with, not sure if shes T.A. really cute and short, awesome girl made my night 100x better.
[PS if u were watching the live feed you would have seen us numerous times at the front watching armin]

AND NOW... for the best part.
Before tonight i was only somewhat impressed with armin, having never seen him before, i really thought he spun mainstream new vocal trance. ASOT trancey vocal meets ISOS 4 type stuff, which i enjoy dont get me wrong, but not in lenth.

SOOO armin starts spinning, and uhh im enjoying him, and within the first half an hour i keep waving for him to come shake my hand, and the girl i was with, cause she really liked him. SO he notices me. SPECIFICALLY. and if u were really watching armin, you would notice that he always looked in the same spots for the same people.

so the first hour goes by, im really enjoying the music, it hadnt goten hard yet, so my previous opinion had started to change of him.
SECOND hour --- he starts to sign things and hands out decks of cards and shirts signed. The first 4 or 5 rounds i tryed desperately to get something, so i decided .. im going about this all wrong. GREED is not the answer.

SOOO instead of reaching for myself, i began to point down at the girl i was with in order to get something for her, because it would have really made her night. SO the next time armin looked, i pointed to her, and he shook his head and smiled. The next wave of items, the bouncer gave out all, except a deck of cards and then he walked right to us, pushed away grabbing hands and gave it specifically to my girl. Needless to say...she was exstatic. which really made me happy aswell

Also during hour 2, armin begins to look straight at me after every song he spins. which at first i found pecuiliar, but ignored and enjoyed. He also probably thought we made a cute couple. hehe.

ROughly third hour. armin threw on a non-vocal pretty hard trance song, and i loved it. so i went nutz and danced like a mofo. Armin noticed right away, and i gave him a thumbs up and mouthed "i love this song" he then gave me a thinking face and winked. THen he proceeded to his vynels and grabbed another song, which undoubtly was hard. i loved it and went nutz once again, still ignorant.

roughly beginning of hour four. Im now starting to really connect with armin, he looks at me at the beginning, and he waits till the climax to see my reaction. So i begin to abuse this. lol.
The songs i like, i go nutz for, if its too soft, i give a moderate smirk to him. songs i really like, i nod my head to him, smile huge, and mouth "this is a good one" and give thumbs up. So he starts to break out the classics. Old trance i havent heard since my tiesto/oakenfold sets from 99' 00' 01. I LOVE THAT SHIT, the foundation music that revolutionised "trance" as we know it today. Not only this. buuuttttt he starts busting out the oldskool vocal trance ANTHEMS. i FRUITIN love those songs. and i scream the lyrics at the top of my lungs. he just looks and laughs at me.

ROUGHLY 4 hours 30 mins. i.e. 30 mins left. My cutie leaves me, she was tooo hot, understandable, it was a sauna near the last hour. espec at front. so i literally get to the front. and when armin throws on a song, i listen to the song, and begin to dance with a beat with precision timing. BASICALLY im dancing to the music notes.
and after roughly 5 songs, he looks at me, gives me a thinking face, and grabs 2 more songs, i knew them, which gave me the ability to dance to them exactly. and during every song he just looks at me and laughs, but after the other 2 and this goes on basically to the end of the night. IF u noticed the bouncers at all, you would have noticed that they pointed to me alot. they were actually impresed that i could dance perfecly to just about every song armin threw at me.
undoubtly this is hard to describe. but it honestly felt like he was spinning for me. and i know your all thinking, im crazy or was really high. but i dunno.
what i do know is, i connected with armin. its hard to put into words and leave as a messsage on a forum.

so im gunna wrap this up.
i met a ton of TA's. and you all were fantastic.
The girl i hung out with absoultely made my night a million times better and without her i probably never would have gone to the front.
i completely changed my opinion on armin, and have placed him in my top 3.
i had the best night of my life. Ive never connected with a DJ like that, and to have it be armin, ranked 3rd in the world. just blows me away.
one of the bouncers actually asked his boss if i could go meet armin, but the lead bouncer said no. i could have met him. there was a chance. that blows me away.
im writing this a bit sketched. so please dont critique it, and dont think im way out to lunch because i honestly dont believe any of this post is in any way false.

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My friend Dan told me earlier on that he was gonna get there early like around 9pm because he waited for hours last year.I thought that was TOO early but we met up at 9pm...We got in after 15 minutes or so.I started running into some old friends & many TAs.We ventured into the Guv around 10:30 and it was pretty empty compared to the KH but after 20 minutes we we're bored & headed back to the KH.My game plan was to stay in the Koolhaus ALL nite because I knew that it was gonna be RAMMED later on that nite...Well later on that nite I felt like checkin out the other rooms...The Guv was PACKED...the room above the Orange Room (forget the name) was RAMMED and the Skybar was also JAMMED...I got my ass back into the Koolhaus and THAT'S where I stayed...

DJ sets we're overall good...I also agree that the lighting set up behind the DJ booth was wikid...Oliver dropped some pretty good beats and the same for Markus Schultz...Greyarea was "ok" but I was pumped to hear Blank & Jones most of all...I saw these guys 3 or 4 years ago at the old Limelite nightclub.Well I just danced my ass of throughout their set...I really loved The Killers- Mr. Brightside Blank and Jones Remix...1st time hearing that version of that song so I gotta get my hands on it

As soon as Blank & Jones we're done I left...I've heard Armin spin before & I was tired & sweaty

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wheres the afterparty?

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Originally posted by goodnet !!! Here is my review of LOL, consisting of only highlights: DJs: Blank and Jones - Set of the night for me. Classics & solid playlist, can't ask for much more. Armin - Good show. Saw a few girls taking thier tops off to have Armin sign em. Good job Armin! Venue: I really, really liked that mosaic light show setup in the KH, behind the DJ booth. Absolutely brilliant! ...And i'm spent. Thanks to those TAs I metup with & those who wished me a happy bday (Sept 5)

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I had the stupid urge to venture around all the other rooms and see how they were..... HUUUUUGE mistake! RAMMED to capacity ++++ I don't think I've ever seen it that packed before.. and I'm talking every room. The orange room actually had some space.

Considering I didn't spend and arm and a leg for this... and since it took me less than 5min to get in.. I think it was def. worth it for me. But yeah!! IMO... B&J.. owned the night.

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Originally posted by RobbyG. ... but I was pumped to hear Blank & Jones most of all...I saw these guys 3 or 4 years ago at the old Limelite nightclub.

hahaha.....I guess this was before I knew u Robby... cause I was there too ...one of like only 20 or so people

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i can't say this about many parties, i dont' think many TA's danced harder than i did. No need to mention DJ's. because they made me go til i couldn't stand anymore.


All the TA's i got to see again, you make going to these things just that much better.

Much love to everyone.

P.S

i finally caught a glimpse of swamper movin his feet. wow. is all i can say

also, Lisa, you said i looked like a cartoon character, i couldn't hear which one you mentioned, so tell me.

As well, Sarah * Beach 420 * you've got to be the sweetest girl, thank you for replenishing my system with water when seemingly i was about to drop.

God bless that packed house.

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Footballs' Comin Home....

A night of unexpected heros!

Got into the club early with tamiko, robben and sean cassidy. We knew we had to get there early cuz of the guestlist problems etc etc. So we hit up the line at about 9:30 and got in within 15 minutes. I think I waited longer in the ATM line!

Got into the KH where mark oliver was playing some energertic proggy stuff. I find that he always plays better when the lineup after him is solid; he didn't disappoint.

Then, MARKUS. Holy SHEIT. WOW. Some people weren't feeling it? This man blew me away. Slightly proggy at the beginning, very hands-in-the-air-breakdowns-while-anticipating-the-huge-return-of-the-beat kinda choons. I absolutely loved it.

Gray Area. They didn't really catch my ear. I respect them for what they do live, but they just didnt rub me right...

So I went to see diggers and WWWwwooooooo! PUMPING stuff. In general I am terrible at classifying sub-genres and sub-tangent-genres (note the way i described schulz' set lol), so I dont know what youd call it - but it was somethign along the lines of "in your face dirty prog with wicked basslines and some ripping synths" The whole time I was in the Guv, Diggers was right on his game. Seemed very good technically.

Headed back to KH to catch a few drinks and blank and jones. Ive heard rumours that these boys represent trance at its finest...and it was SOOO gooooood to hear it! Got me moving the whole time, until it was time for another drink and to rest up a lil for armin.

Armins first track.Zocalo. Precisely the tune I wanted to hear. Right at the beginning too Good thing, becuase after that he started rocking hard right away... I came to see armin based on the last time he was in town, where he was reall in ASOT...this time, a little to hard..too soon. I understand he was going with the flow of the night, but i mean..he's armin, Im sure he could start of with disco house and then go into his ASOT stuff and noone would mind. Dont get me wrong, he was good, just not the style that I had my heart set on. Not to mention the smart people trying to push to the front of the stage...like theyll hear better or something? I just want to get my groove on! jeeeez!

All in all an amazing night. My feet kill, my back is sore and my neck is stiff from all the jumping and head bobbing...all leading to the conclusion that LoL as a whole did not disappoint [except wanting to check out skybar...WTF ive never seen something so packed]

Thanks Ashley and geko for the water, you guys are LIFESAVERS

Overall impressions:

Mark Oliver - awesome opening. good track selection 9/10

Markus Schulz - perfect tunes, awesome energy "its a little bit lonely down here" 10+++++. Set of the night.

Gray Area - not my style I suppose. And yes, VERY loud. Didnt see much so I wont give them a numbers rating

Digweed - wicked wicked groovy beats, good technically. Had me moving the whole time 9.5/10

Blank and Jones - 9.5/10 EXCELLENT choice of tunes, especially near the end. I loooooooove hearin those B&J remixes, Last Time (Martin Roth Mix) Nightfly, Cream, MIND OF THE WONDERFUL! woo!

Armin - Not what I expected, and sometimes that can be worse than not knowing what to expect. Zocalo was played. Life was good. 7/10

Good to see everyone again! I loooove to party with yyou guys so much