My brief review can also be caught at the Solarstone website. If any of you recognize me by reading below, let me know and I can see if my brain works well and remember seeing you.
Sorry for missing the meet up as I was not really aware there was one this time. I hadn't caught the comment before I left San Diego. Below is a copy of my post on the Solarstone site; the user names reference the names on the website there, not here:
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What a fun night. God I wish we had night like this down here in San Diego but promoters just don't see trance as that viable right now. It's all got to be Electro and Dubstep.
Josh & I wound up having dinner with a bunch of musical heads in LA that included Sharky ('smü[th] Music,) Johnny Yono (Armada, Lange, Baroque) and the opener before Solarstone, Micheal Badal (Anjunabeats, Jigsaw, Molecule, etc). Laughter and good times ensued as we ate dinner after a gorgeous SoCal day in the mid-70's (That's like 23C for all you SI people.) Yes, it is strangely warm for this week all of the sudden. After some fine Mediterranean food, Josh and I drove down to the venue. I thought it would be much more club-like but it really was more like a stage with a booming sound system and some large scale lighting.
Michael had started his set and had a rough spot for one mix early on, but the energy was getting the crowd moving. His set surprised me since he had talked about how he had to watch the energy in his set for Rich to really blow it up. His set was equally enjoyable as we all made funny remarks to him during it.
Rich showed up and was flocked by a good number of fans including the likes of the area infamous sweetcandygirl (check Markus Schulz's first LP's (Without You Near) linear notes for the infamy.) Eventually as people went back to dancing I walked up to Rich in the solarSwarm shirt I have. His first words as he pointed at me were, "You must be a swarmer?" We both laughed and I said, "Why yes, I am, I'm the infamous MyStro." We shared more laughs, and I introduced Josh who was asked to explain the "Josh the bear" moniker by Rich. After a bit, Rich went on stage and started rocking the decks after they switched the booth monitor (why the had only one stack I don't know) to the other side.
Solarstone blew it open with a dope intro form of Touchstone (seemed to combine the Album and Club versions.) Two songs later he followed it up with Slowmotion, and from there on it was basically a Solarstone hit parade with a bunch of Solaris label representation mixed into it. He also dropped the Mike Foyle remix of Apple One's "Heart Shaped Box" as tribute to the solarSwarm's progress and the three of its members (Agray, joshthebear, and Myself(MyStro023)) there. Since we were right up near the booth, he offered a complimentary two-handed "S" when he dropped it to us. The place loved the track in my opinion, and everyone was rocking smiles. Rich closed down his set with a mix of Seven Cities (Solarstone's Atlantis Mix) as well as dropping Andain's "Beautiful Things" (sounded mostly like Gustav's Remix of it but I can't be sure.) I believe I also heard mixes of the tracks Part of Me, 4Ever (Dub perhaps?), Late Summer Fields, Ferry Corsten - Gabriella's Sky (Solarstone Remix), Solarstone ft. Jes - Like A Waterfall (EPIC room at the drop of that one), and Spectrum (though I'm not 100% sure on that one.)
Post the set, I got to speak to Solarstone again and enjoy one more conversation before leaving to drive with Josh back to San Diego. The night really capped a bad week of work down here, what with a computer hard drive failure and an abnormally stressful week, and I was happy to see something start to turn around. Thanks again for coming out Solarstone!
If there was one draw back for me it was the low end. Sharky even likened it to listening to dance music in a Prius. LOL. I couldn't understand why the bass was so non-existent. It was my first trip to Circus, and I found the venue to be fine and getting in much easier than many places. Thanks for the great show LA!
Quazar
The turnout was much better than a lot of the events near the end of last year at Circus (Mike Foyle, for instance), especially considering the competition from Avalon last night.
I have a feeling LMD is going to have a good year.
I'd also like to say that was one of the best trance sets I've ever heard. It helps that Solarstone has been one of my favorite producers for many years, and he played a lot of his stuff. :)
system-7
We all know this was a great night! LMD is kicking ass and I hope to see more through out the rest of the year. Excellent night, a lot of good looking people (male/female ratio unprecedented) and especially all my TA's.
I think last months 10 year anniversary for LMD has really started to establish a rep for the club. LMD please keep up the good work. Just when the mainstream thought House is the thing, boom!!!! trance comes out killing it. I'm sure many can agree there is no comparison to TRANCE ENERGY AND EMOTION.
MelBeat
I agree, I didn't say the turnout was bad, I was more focusing on many regulars not showing up, and they were not at Avalon (I went there too), except for the Nexxez/Red group, but that was to be expected because of Gil La and Fei-Fei playing there.
Quazar
People just want to go where the party is, and that Ten Year Anniversary event definitely boosted Circus.
I was talking to Apeattack about this, but I think if they start calling it "Circus Hollywood", it would boost attendance. People love hearing the word "Hollywood". :P
in2muzikk
I still say that the turnout was great, and it seemed like most all of my friends were there...or maybe I just don't have that many friends... :nervous:
Seriously though, took me close to a half hour just to get from the club entrance to the dance floor, I ran into so many smiling faces! :) All in all, I'd say this was the best EDM night at Circus this year!
