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Above & Beyond @ BED, 3-22-07 review + pics
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| DarkAngel |
It's 6:44 in the morning...and I'm still awake to deliver my review of this night.
BED in South Beach on Washington Avenue, despite being a rather small venue, and having a way WAY less than classy exterior, makes up for it with a fancy, loungish interior with a sound system that WON'T leave you terribly deaf unlike some clubs.
A DJ booth set up on the side wall, right in the middle, and not too high at all, giving the crowd a good level of interaction and intimacy with whoever is behind the decks. Large box shaped speakers on both sides of the dance floor, which is pretty spacious in my opinion, for a small venue.
The opening DJ, don't know who he was, started with some kinda slow ass crap, but eventually started to pick it up by throwing in some decent prog/prog trance, but then killed it (in the bad way) a bit by throwing some house crap in the set as well. But, by the time he was finsihing up, he was playing better stuff. He did a good job getting the night started.
And around 12:30 or so, the main event of the evening had begun.
Above and Beyond, from the UK...Paavo and Jono Grant in attendance, started the night off with a lot of prog and a couple of electro-ish tracks. They gradually built their set, and around the halfway mark....
...they unleashed IT.
Full blown trance and semi-hard tunes that had the place going insane. Their crowd interaction was superb, and the crowd LOVED them. Flawless mixing, massive tunes and...
at 4:36 A.M.....it FINALLY happened.
Thanks to Jason (J13) and his cell phone text, we got to hear
Above & Beyond - Far From In Love :eyespop: :eyespop: :tongue3 :crazy: :o
I heard the track coming in and went APE. Flipped the out and was going so insane I actually fell on someone :wtf: And I wasn't even drunk!
ooops
It was a moment I had been DREAMING of, and I wonder if djstopngo was there...I only met up with 2 TAs: J13 and Wenddy. Many thanks to you and your crew for letting me chill and lounge with you on that bed! Very comfy! I was pretty much lounging the whole night LMFAO, but got up when I heard tunes I loved. Tracks included:
Air For Life
Another You Another Me
Alone Tonight :D
Cosmic Gate - Element of Life (thanks to J13 for this ID)
Gabriel & Dresden - Dangerous Power (Original mix) (Thanks to J13 again for this ID)
Darren Tate & Jono Grant - Let the light shine in <- YEAH!!! PURE trance bliss!! SO melodic and classic.
Ferry Corsten - Beautiful (remix) <- forgot who remixed this one
Analog Feel?
Good for Me (? mix)
Daniel Kandi - Child <- I ID'd this one myself heh
No One on Earth (Gabriel & Dresden remix)
End track: REMOVED
Encore: ID
This was an absolutely STUNNING night. I overheard many people after the end of the set say this was the greatest set they had ever heard A&B play, and I have to say I can't argue with that...except that I was waiting for Can't Sleep :(
Pics to come later today....but GODDAMN. As a TA...as a clubber...as a partygoer..... If you missed this one, you missed out on something memorable....special. Not to down that Ultralounge party, but I honestly believe there is NO WAY that party with A&B there can compare to this, unless A&B get an extended set, like the one we were most fortunate to have been granted.
Great....ING night.
That is all.
DarkAngel of TRANCE. |
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| Dream Beamz |
| yeh man, BED is a great venue, very surprising when you get inside and there appears to be no club lighting installed but as the night goes on the lighting comes on. The club has a magical feel for sure and G&D there last conference is a night that will always remain in my memory as one of the best nights ever |
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| DarkAngel |
And here we go with pics.
More pics in the next post! |
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| DarkAngel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dream Beamz
yeh man, BED is a great venue, very surprising when you get inside and there appears to be no club lighting installed but as the night goes on the lighting comes on. The club has a magical feel for sure |
Yea, def.! This is one of those clubs were looks can most certainly be deceiving.
Here are the rest of my pics!
VIP, bitches!
LMFAO @ Wenddy :stongue:
Wenddy & Jason (J13)
Yeah I took an ass pic. :haha:
The waitress in the black was in' HOT.
End pics.
I have a few videos, but I'm uploading those bitches later. :o |
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| bdr222 |
| Man A&B rock but they sure do look like nerds. kinda funny :toothless |
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| philippe |
| quote: | Originally posted by DarkAngel
And here we go with pics.
More pics in the next post! |
Ha! You managed to catch me on (only) one of those, but it's only from the back, so you're forgiven :p
I will post the full tracklist later... For now, I have a pool party to go to :)
Oh, and in case it's not clear from the photos, Jono's shirt read: SCIENTOLOGISTS MAKE BETTER ACTORS! Don't know about Paavo's; it was in Japanese. |
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| limin_li |
| Ahh funny how they switch Tony to Jono this time. Looks like Zoltar "The Brother From Another Planet" was there too. |
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| av1 |
| Nice review DA. Wonder if they will broadcast a portion of the set on TATW like they did last year with their Nikki Beach and Nocturnal sets. (1 hour of each). |
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| DarkAngel |
| quote: | Originally posted by limin_li
Ahh funny how they switch Tony to Jono this time. Looks like Zoltar "The Brother From Another Planet" was there too. |
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| quote: | Originally posted by av1
Nice review DA. Wonder if they will broadcast a portion of the set on TATW like they did last year with their Nikki Beach and Nocturnal sets. (1 hour of each). |
I REALLY hope so. This set was just so amazing. |
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| av1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DarkAngel
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I REALLY hope so. This set was just so amazing. |
Me too because I missed it. I did not even go out because of work, and it would have been a brainbuster deciding between this and Ferry with Edgar (BTW I heard they leveled Cameo) |
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| DarkAngel |
| quote: | Originally posted by av1
Me too because I missed it. I did not even go out because of work, and it would have been a brainbuster deciding between this and Ferry with Edgar (BTW I heard they leveled Cameo) |
Sucks you couldn't come man. :( Everyone I've talked to about this event, I've told them all that is easily one of the greatest sets I have ever heard. I still look back on it and am in shock.
Everything was perfect: the venue, the people, the vibe. I have to admit, I wasn't expecting such a great vibe that night, but was plesantly surprised.
What a memorable night. WOW.
I can see behind your eyes
That you're afraid of who you are
Only silence now between us
I'm amazed we come this far
Far from in love (x2)
Like a fire burned to embers
I know this is where it ends
In the ashes we are dying
Almost strangers only friends
Far from in love (x4)
Far from in love
So far from in love
Far from in love
You know I don't know
How we'd get so far
Far from in love
Far away, from the love we had
yeah yeah
Far from in love
From all the loving that I knew
How I miss your touch
Far from in love
Sailing away from me
Like melting snow in my hand
I miss your touch
Far from in love
Trying to sew up a love that was built on this end.
I miss you so much
OH MY GODDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111 |
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