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Transmission - Afterthoughts
ok im starting the official transmission afterthoughts thread because no-one else has yet  .
In Anycase id have to start of by describing the event as being genreally dissapointing. Aside from the excellent tuneage being pumped out by the altitude Dj's, the rest of the night was so boring.
Nervous promised that the evening would be much more uplifting as opposed to the normal hard trance mash-up. Little did i know that it would be exactly the same as every other transmission, except for a couple of extra rooms.
The locals (bexta, Pee-wee etc.) played the same old sets with the same old tunes that we heard last year. Again we heard The race, the theme (sooo over this) and the drill. They are cool tunes to dance to, but they are totally overplayed and so boring. The mixing between them was pretty shocking too. I dont know how many trainwrecks i heard nervous and pee-wee do.. Id like to say that im officially over hard trance
Moving onto hennes and cold, i thought they played pretty well, it wasnt my sort of music but i could still appreciate their track selection and mixing. It was such a relief to hear something a little different, albeit hard and banging.They definitely knew how to work the crowd,so they have my respect.
Moving onto the other arenas ( had to get out of the main arena..) i was the happiest the whole night in the "funky mission" arena. It was a funky-house arena ( as you might have guessed) and i heard some pretty cool tunes, and had a pretty good time.Everyone seemed to be a lot happier and not as focussed on drugs and heavy basslines...I saw parts of Shamus and matt roberts and thought they played really well.
Into the "nu mission area", i walked in a few times and almost instantly walked out due to this room being a total sweatbox. Quite literally there was almost no ventilation besides the doorways, and the tempreture directly outside was almost 7-10 degree's cooler!. In anycase it was refreshing to walk in there musically as there were some different styles and different tracks being played (still hard). I was hanging out the whole night for Muli ( an ITM Dj who *claimed* to play uplifting trance) but when i got there i was again dissapointed  . Expecting some armin/tiesto/PVD styles (stupidly) i was eager to dance to anything under 140 bpm!. What Muli ( and solis, a dj he was versing) did play however was mainly some hard stuff, with a couple of semi-uplifiting tracks, i couldnt name them off the top of my head but to say the least it wasnt what i was expecting. I walked out just before the end of his set and went home feeling a little shortchanged.
In general ( if you people are still reading :P )im totally over hard trance,and it seems to be almost entirely for the drugs, and not much else ( IMHO :P ) and am dissapointed that this event was not as promised. The only saving grace(s) throughout the night were : Stama, Diggs and morro, Liquid M, shamus and Matt roberts.
ohh and it was cool to see Webmeister and DjWay towards the end!
what did you guys think?
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