Marc's Public Blog - Clubbing and Trance

TFSF's Sony Jacob opened the night for us:

we celebrated Sony's BD

I even made a screen for him :)

he even got cake

Nice to see friends and happy crowds:

Bryan Kearney nicely did a meet and greet with a few contest winners and then took over for a great 3H set:

Martin Cisco opened for us, including a great new mix of Gamemaster:

it was Anna's Birthday celebration too

glad to re-unite with friends

Anna had many friends come for her BD:

After Martin, Triode took over:

Then Blastoyz came and took over around midnight:

he nicely did a meet and greet

shots!

Blastoyz even got a cake :)

Back on the dancefloor to meet people and enjoy the sets.

And then got to enjoy Blastoyz's psytrance:

wonderful lasers

Thanks all for the great night. Here is a short video summary:

Nice to see my friend Kepik open

some pretty dope visuals

Jason Ross was last, and did a great job

It was definitely an interesting mix of dubstep and other things. Different and yet enenjoyable.

Video Summary:

Oh well, we still got there in time for Gareth, 3rd time seeing him in 48h, a record :)

and we finally got him with his picture :)

Of course, ran into friends as always:

Then came time for Above and Beyond:

push the button is back!

and got lucky to get this picture :)

Let's have another gratitude mix for the road :)

It ended way too early (22:30), but given the 2H drive home, it wasn't terrible I guess. Fun was had, rest of the weekend was spent to sleep :)

Video:

But back to the show, it was the best laser show I had seen in the last 4 years, and a great set from Gareth, lots of fun

We were hoping to get balloons in, but they were not allowed :(

Glad to see friends again:

After the openers, it was time for the main show:

Gareth played guitar for us

Nice setup to run all this, could even see the track that was about to be played:

And then Gareth took us on a musical journey, that included psytrance and dubstep, along with lasers :)

Here's the video of the whole show. The recording isn't as good as the professional recording will be, but it should still be good:

After a very nice show, it was over, until the afterparty:

Thank you Gareth and Gareth for the great show.

It was so much more fun to go with friends and I also made a few extra displays for my outfit:

and I found my Dreamstate girlfriends again, so happy :)

What was new this year was the after party from 02:00 to 06:00 which was a great last minute addition for anyone who didn't have a long drive home. Also, it was good not to have 3 conflicts every hour, because damn, that was the rest of dreamstate for me, I really wanted to be at 3 stages almost every hour. I wouldn't be mad if DS switched to 3 days with 3 stages instead of 2 days with 4 :)

The lineup was solid like I said:

Pictures libraries:

The Grounds

The lights and decors were awesome as always:

The stages were as follows:

The dream

The sequence

The void got bigger and nicer this year

And Vision was indoors as usual, nice but the stage was badly lit

The People

ready to go out

so great to run into my DS Harbor friend Emily

she was so sweet and made an custom tranceledguy kandi

and it's not a party without Afik and his crew :)

Danielle from TFLA

Trancefamily SF, represent!

Ran into copycats, haha

I thought that was funny :)

I'm easily amused ;)

Day #1

arrived in time to see my friend Khromata for more great psytrance

Hana and her angelic singing was great to see again

Then we had the Trancefamily Meetup Pictures:

And back for Elysian to see Emma Hewitt and ilan Bluestone:

It was great to be able to meet them both:

Ben Nicky also had a very enjoyable set

But it was time for some psytrance triplets, stopping by Ms Monique on the way:

Up to Liquid Soul for some lovely psytrance:

so much fun to meet again

Then Astrix was next, for more technical psytrance, focussed as always:

Back to Dream for PvD:

And then ending with a Aly & Fila b2b John O Callaghan:

stage lighting was minimal unfortunately

Short Video Summary:

Day #2

Then was time to see Ruben de Ronde:

pretty full by then already

But yes, I wanted some more psytrance, so we went to see Whiteno1se:

And while there, it was great to hang out with some of my favorite psytrance DJs:

3rd time is a charm, Blastoyz finally looks like his picture :)

and Reality Test

Then back to Dream for ATB and then Audien:

And then Armin. I was hoping he'd finally play a classic trance set, given that it was, you know, dreamstate, but he played some mainstage set again, that was disappointing. The set wasn't bad per se, but a poor choice for dreamstate in my opinion:

Abraxis was last, hard to get pictures with no proper lighting on stage:

and just like this, it was 02:00, the main show was over

But not the afterparty in Vision, 4 more hours to go:

Craig Connelly and FactorB finished the set with some pure trance joy

It's not a good party if the sun hasn't risen when it's over :)

And just like that, the 2 days, 26H of trance, were over. I cannot give enough thanks to insomniac, all the artists and everyone who brought in outfits, smiles, and good vibes.

Video summary of Day #2:

Conclusion

Haliene did a wonderful performance, with so much love and energy. I was delighted to get front row to that show.

Glad to run into Robert again, he must have a season pass at Pure :)

The video is unfortunately of poor sound quality, because, well, the sound at Pure was bad. The music was too loud and Haliene's voice was had to hear:

But I got to meet her at the end and get a great picture with her:

For a change, I tried to not take my cameras and just use my Pixel7 Pro. Given the distance, using a 5X zoom from a distance on a cell phone with a small sensor, was not going to be great, but the phone did not as poorly as I expected. It didn't match my real cameras of course, but did ok-ish.

A few pictures below, oh yes and the show as actually quite good. Interesting music (melodic dubstep and other genres), and great visuals:

Good show, and got out just in time to go home, change, and go see Haliene at Pure

Great to see the TFSF crew again, and the usual suspects, plus other random fun pictures with people

Anna, our TFSF embassadress, mingling with the crowds

She even made kandi for the band

The show included 2 opening DJs:

And to our surprise, infected mushroom brought an entire band, I had a couple of outfits ready of course :)

Then, the band took over, it wsa a great show packed with energy:

For the last hour, they switched to playing a psytrance DJ set, which was quite enjoyable too:

It definitely was a great night, definitely an enjoyable show, especially with the unexpected live piece. Thank you.

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