Marc's Public Blog - Clubbing and Trance

Dezza opened the night:

After a while, we had power outages due to a utility pole having short circuits (some saw blue lightening). Thankfully PG&E fixed it pretty quickly considering:

Thankfully things were fixed in time by 23:00 for Steve to start his set:

found another Tshirt copycat :)

Dave Dresden and his partner came to join us for the epic night

Steve brough his own turntable needles for perfect rendition

It was a great night, super happy we got to go. Video summary:

welcome to LA

Finally got in, but looked like a naked peasant thanks go Banc of CA policies:

Got in in time to see Mr Brooks:

Good to run into friends again:

Ruben de Ronde was next:

Then Gabriel & Dresden were next:

Marlo came next with a dynamite set:

The awesome part was that TFSF's Triode got to go on stage for some of his tracks. We were so soooo happy for him:

Now was the time for cosmic gate:

And last, but not least, Armin of course. He did an interesting set that mixed a lot of genres, including almost techno and tech trance. Not everyone liked that, but I thought it was interesting and enjoyed it:

While this wasn't the fantastic Asot 1000 it could have been given the poor venue, rules, limited runtime, and so forth, I do have to say that all the artists put out banger sets. I know some didn't like Armin's but let's be serious, he has over 20 years worth of music and there is no way he can play the whole range and make everyone happy. Personally I liked the variety in his set even if I'm a melodic/euphoric trance person at heart.

And after just 6 hours, the show was over. It was a pretty short show due to curfews. A bit underwhelming for an ASOT 1000 show, a pretty terrible venue in my opinion, but it was still a show, better than all the other shows that got cancelled altogether.... But still, bitsweet to have a festival that didn't look like a festival due to the ridiculous rules in that venue.

The exchange party started at 22:00 when Armin was playing until 23:00 on the main show and it took over an hour getting there due to terrible traffic and parking, plus a long line getting in the venue. On the plus side, Exchange was fine letting me in with my LED outfit and fanny pack (thank you), but strangely they do not allow small personal cameras unless they also happen to make phone calls (and yes my handheld cameras are smaller than the average phone). That's such a puzzling and pointless policy, virtually all venues allow small non professional handheld cameras, which is what I have. I got mine in eventually, but it was added delay stress I didn't need.

By the time we arrived, Marlo was already playing, so I got to see part of his set in a super packed room:

By 01:00, Armin took over and went to play until 03:00, although we only started a bit over 01:00 because the room was so jam packed that it was difficult to enjoy the show.

Thanks to Jolie for this picture:

I think I had higher expectations for exchange, but I was literally 11 hours of partying in by the time I arrived, so I was already tired, and once you added the mess that it was to get there, get in, and then how badly packed it was, it just wasn't that much fun anymore, so I left early so that I had a chance to get an uber home that wouldn't cost a fortune (my original plan was to drive but after seeing the mess, I thankfully got a ride there, thanks Jolie).

Here is the video summary, pretty short given how hard it was to be there and film:

I was excited to find out she was playing one day before ASOT 1000 in LA, so I made sure to go and it was a great night, the energy was awesome.
We had two DJs open, Nagi and Mr Frost:

Nice to meet some friends:

Miyuki was nice enough to come early, spend some time with us, and take pictures:

thanks to findtherabbit for running the visuals, great job as always

Then was time for her 3H show:

She even treated us to some flute

Miyuki put on a great show for us, and finished with some high energy dubstep that was a lot of fun:

Thanks to all for the great show, it really was a blast.