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| rizo |
day 1
- steve lawler had such a sick set and the crowd was so grimmy lol omg good times! favorite set so far
- soulwax was second favorite. really surprising and great live set, even got myself a drum stick from the drummer :D reminds me of digitalism
- underworld was good but i think setting up after a dj set affected their show, sound was muffle and i didnt have to use my ear plugs for the first time! their performance wasnt as good as the warfield but they did play more tracks this time around
- ferry played a lot of classics but i wasnt up front and chilled around the tent to take a break esp after lawler madness
- bloc party was neat but really not my thing i guess and i wanted to get back to the dance tent in tipme for Lawler
- gogol bordello was really interesting and fun to watch/listen. thanks rafal :)
- glaude and dan were meh, same tracks as usual but at least they have an energetic attitude and into their set
- the offspring, em theyre from san jose no need to watch em :p
- foo fighters, missed them cause we were all at underworld :(
went to club Ibiza for Glow with a few NY/DC TAs and caught Breakfast (he opened and closed -- both were really good and it was a joy seeing him mix. really energetic guy too), some DJ i forgot the name of and a special surprise short guest set by Corsten! Club itself is nice, reminds me of a larger 1015 with a Ruby Skye crowd. DJ booth is nice but its so high up its retarded. stayed until the end and then had breakfast with Breakfast at Dennys :haha:
so all this w/o almost 48 hours of sleep and only 2 shots of patron (they were free) and im not hurting yet... just having so much fun with NY/DC TAs and the festival itself :D |
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| skizzell |
| quote: | Originally posted by rizo
[*]the offspring, em theyre from garden grove / huntington beach no need to watch em :p
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fixed. :) |
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| 2tall |
| quote: | Originally posted by rizo
[*]gogol bordello was really interesting and fun to watch/listen. thanks rafal :)
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heh, "interesting"... sounds like you had a good time. i need to do some of these weekend music festival getaways (but not the coachella types) |
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| rizo |
| quote: | Originally posted by skizzell
fixed. :) |
thinking of some other band then, still don't care. :p
| quote: | Originally posted by 2tall
heh, "interesting"... sounds like you had a good time. i need to do some of these weekend music festival getaways (but not the coachella types) |
ya was actually one of the most entertaining from that stage that day.
after having a sleep deprived cracked out night/morning (luckily i got to shower!!!) day 2 was all about Richie Hawtin (so much for that shower as i got sweaty and dirty right away again), Stone Temple Pilots and Nine Inch Nails!!! :crazy: :eyespop: :eyes: Oh NIN was so bad ass incl the visuals/production! Wish I wasn't so tired to fully enjoy it. Deadmau5 did play differently from the previous 2 times ive seen him, a lot of miminal stuff maybe because he was before Hawtin? Moby started off banging but I left as I didn't plan on missing STP. Later found out he just played top 40 stuff after his first 2-3 tracks :o Same goes with Armin... at least according to Frank |
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| neogaia |
| quote: | Originally posted by rizo
went to club Ibiza for Glow with a few NY/DC TAs and caught Breakfast (he opened and closed -- both were really good and it was a joy seeing him mix. really energetic guy too), some DJ i forgot the name of and a special surprise short guest set by Corsten! Club itself is nice, reminds me of a larger 1015 with a Ruby Skye crowd. DJ booth is nice but its so high up its retarded. stayed until the end and then had breakfast with Breakfast at Dennys :haha:
so all this w/o almost 48 hours of sleep and only 2 shots of patron (they were free) and im not hurting yet... just having so much fun with NY/DC TAs and the festival itself :D |
Sweet! You probably partied with some of my DC trancer friends then! And Breakfast is the man! Such a sweet friend & super energetic in his sets :)
Sounds like it was a success! Might have to fix my plans to go out to this festival next summer :) |
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| rizo |
| quote: | Originally posted by neogaia
Sweet! You probably partied with some of my DC trancer friends then! And Breakfast is the man! Such a sweet friend & super energetic in his sets :)
Sounds like it was a success! Might have to fix my plans to go out to this festival next summer :) |
limin_il, mike (limin_il's friend/co-worker) and DCgirly, rest were NYTAs I've met before. why didn't you go, are you not in the DC area anymore? |
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| limin_li |
Day 1 Review.
Jay , Polly and I woke up @ approx 10:30 AM Saturday morning, all beat up but excited. After we ate lunch, we were really pumped for the show.
Except me in this picture. Hehhe
Well, we arrive at the gates wondering where to pick up the tickets. Took us about 20 minutes or so, not too bad.
We came to the Dance Tent around 1pm. This unknown DJ was playing a decent electro set. Pretty impressive.
As I was getting use to the place, I met up with bunch of locals including Zoltar "The Brother From Another Planet" and then DCgirly and her sister.
DJ Dan and Donald Glaud came on to the stage, rock the place. Apparently, not only Donald is a DJ, he is a male cheerleader too hehe.
DJ Dan and Donald played Novy Vs Eniac-Pumpin, Fatboy Slim-*69 and lots of Daft Punk remixes including Around The World. Great set all around.
And den guess who showed up?
Yeah the SFTA's w00t!!
Then I went off to see The offsprings for something different. I got to say, I am not big offspring fan. I was hopping to hear "Why don't you get a job", so I didn't stay up for that.
I went back to the tent as usual, and there he was
Even more interesting person came in to the tent.
Yeah, that was a guy with a tooth brush. No kidding.
Jay was getting some...
Soulwax came on to the stage. What it appears to be a rock band with vocalist and a drummer, but they played EDM which was cool
I wanted to know if SFTA wanted to meet the local DCTA. Rizo was like sure.
Steve Lawler did play a decent minimal set from my opinion. But we were all waiting for Ferry to come on.
Ferry started pretty strong with some electro sounds and then went to the his classic routes with Binary Finary-1999 (Gouryella Remix) and he finished with PUNK!!! Freaking awesome. Never mind the body surfing and the mushpit a dance tent. It was a great show. I was pretty warn out, and then bam!!
StarSoprano!!!!
We had to grab a couple of drinks :D I had a cup of Mojito and she had a vodka/cranberry juice drink. Good times, I was getting pretty buzzed after the budlight.
Underworld was pretty cool, but we were figuring out where to go from there on. One of my friend wanted to just chill at his apartment, but the majority TA wanted to go see Breakfast @ Ibiza.
Apparently, I give out bad direction lol.
Franky, Gilbert, Erica, and I headed down first, only to find the cover charge was 25 bux!!!! Rip off!! Here are some photos from Ibiza
and the after after party.
Yeah, Gilbert and Franky didn't sleep for the that 48 hours.
Franky still got it going on LoL!!
That's it for day one!!! Up next, Day 2. Stay Tuned. |
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| limin_li |
Day 2 Review "Where the is the Double Tree Hotel"???
We came home from Breakfast, the food, not the DJ, around 6:30AM.
Rizo, Erica, Franky, Jay, Polly, and I were all sitting down on the floor by 2pm playing Street Fighter II ST. Well mostly Jay and I. I still pwn him, no questions ask :-P
We got to the race course around 2:50pm, only to find out that deadmau5 was playing "Reward is cheese" Mr. Joel Zimmerman did play a mashup of workidz-washmachine with some other accepella. It was pretty cool.
Of course Joel has to put his helmet (summer edition) on for the show.
Meanwhile, I step out of tent again to catch up with a friend of mine from UMBC. She was doing some sort of neat things with gravity.
Richie Hawtin was okay. Remember I am not a big fan of minimal.
I gotta say Moby did an awesome set, track selection wise. DJing side, he was meh, because I kept on hearing little trainwecks in every transitions. Moby 3rd track was Basement Jaxx-Where is your head at, and he accidentally press the cue button on the CDJ. WOW, DJ Armando, the guy from XM BPM channel was like :wtf: Moby did make it back by playing R.I.O-De Janeiro (SH Project Remix) and lots of electro stuff. I was quite please with his set. He didn't waste any time at all, the music just kept on building and building.
The most crappy part according to my co-worker is that, NIN, Kanye West, and Armin van Buuren were all playing at the same time.
He and I went out for little bit for food. We went to see NIN, they played "Closer" which made me really happy!!
We went to the south stage for Kanye West, but the boy isn't coming on, and "I said it, I am going to see Armin"
Balding!!
Overall, Armin's set was okay. I walked in when he started to play "Going Wrong" (Sean Tyas Remix) Armin encore was U2-Beautiful Day (Mat Zo Remix) beautiful finish.
Overall review. This is one festival that is going down in the history as long as I live! This is one of the best birthday present ever!!! Big thanks to Swamper for hooking it up.
FIN. :-)
PS here are some pictures that didn't make it to the top.
Cute girl!
DJ Armando from XM BPM Channel.
For a complete set of pictures, I have it everything up at my website as well as facebook and of course day 2 |
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| bjorn niclas |
wow, great pics. looks like so much fun..
wish i was there man |
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| rizo |
good stuff limil but that pic of frank and i doesn't show the true color of the pink blanket lol :stongue:
anyway favorite moments was the vibe during lawler :eyes: :crazy: :eyespop: and NiN performance esp when they played  Hurt
pics w/ my old Casio pocket camera which i forgot to bring my extra battery and memory card -- didnt get a press pass :(: http://rizo.ws/080809-10
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| djThomasPhan |
| looks like good times, hope you return in one piece :D |
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