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2022/06/11 Our First Dreamstate Harbor in Socal

π 2022-06-11 01:01 in Clubbing, Dreamstate, Festivals

Dreamstate of of course the happy place for Trance Lovers, Dreamstate Socal in San Bernandino is just totally awesome, but it's only once a year. Insomniac fixed that for us by adding a new Dreamstate also in Socal, but a different location. While I'd love to have had it in the bay area somewhere, Socal wasn't too far and it was another great event.

And so great to meet all my friends and DJs again (thanks Anna for the pictures):

Since I re-made all of Giuseppe's T-shirts, it was fun to take another picture :)

and it was so great to finally be able to enjoy Astrix's set and meet him

Thank you to Killed with Kindness for covering the event and all the pictures again, including this Trancefamily meetup:

Dreamstate Harbor, New Venue, Impressions

The event was at the end of a pier, away from people so we could enjoy plenty of noise. The venue wasn't huge, but just big enough, and looked great at sunset/night:

One downside of the venue is that it still had a midnight curfew apparently, which is surprising given that there wasn't much nearby. As a result the event started early (15:00) which meant plenty of punishing sun that got a fair amount of us sunburned despite sunscreen (one contributing factor was the breeze which made things cooler and caused people not to feel that they were being burned, it also made things kind of cold at night for those who didn't have layers). Hopefully the event can start and finish a bit later in the future to limit the harmful sun.

The good thing is the 2 stages were so close and it was easy to move from psytrance to trance, and speaking about psytrance, what a treat. It's rare to get good psytrance, and we got lots of it. Thank you!

Random notes on the event:

single GA bathroom location, but the venue was small enough that it was fine

food options were fairly limited, but enough not to starve :)

decors were nice, especially at night

free parking (thanks), although it was a somewhat long walk to the venue for some, but no worse than EDC

no sound interference between the stages and yet they were close enough for easy stage hopping

VIP facilities were maybe a bit limited compared to the much higher price, but at least you got the nice bathrooms (which didn't have lines) and it was easier to be closer to the front of the stages (albeit with a side view that wasn't great for pictures)

The lineup was solid with a mix of DJs from around the world, including some locals from california

Less can be more, I do love dreamstate san bernandino with its 4 stages, but that also means I'm missing out on 3 different DJs every hour. Here it was much easier to be able to enjoy most of the music.

Like many I put on sunscreen, but didn't put enough and got sunburned anyway. Ideally the event can be at least 2H later next time (17:00 to 02:00).

Day #1

Got there bright and early, 15:00, and did my best to hide from the sun :)

Craig did such a killer set, loads of fun

GO delivered as always, thank you

psytrance loving me was excited to see Liquid Soul again, and he always looks so happy, can't blame him

After Astrix was unable to attend EDC, great to have him, another killer set

By then, it was time for a great sunset:

And back to the Djs:

JoC did another fire set

Markus Schulz

Nice to finish with Whitenoise for some psytrance

Day #1 video summary:

Day #2

Day #2 video summary:

People

One of the things that makes trance special, is the people, all the smiles and great positive energy. Trance family is truly a family, and for many it is well needed therapy that gives us energy to cope with daily life :)