RAVE RAVE, TECHNO TECHNO!

The Listening Room 2004 was a *blast*, as expected. The party sold out by 5pm, we opened the doors at 9pm, and when we opened the doors to the Laser Dome at 10pm, it packed up pretty quickly.  The lasers and lighting by Craig from Roundhouse Productions were phenomenal - I didn't notice at the time (preoccupied) how much work he put into making the lights and lasers sync with my set, but upon viewing the video clips later, I was wickedly surprised.

I shared the stage with my close friends Tom Schulz (appearing with guest Jon D. Banger), MAX POWER (Thomas and Rich), GIJody and Inject (Fish, Amrit and Jamie).  The guys at Pound Recordings ran breaks in the second room all night, so folks spent a lot of time walking back and forth between the two stages, trying to absorb all the goodness.

"Noor" means "light" in Arabic (iirc), and was the name of this Mile 36 party thrown by the Beheshto and Ducky guys.  An ambitious party, two soundsystems, two stages, but only about 150 people overall - everyone had a blast though.  It got *cold* at night, but this time we were prepared.  Visuals were done by Grady and crew, all live organic analogue fractal video feedback - it was *wicked*.

This party was on the same beach as "Trancemission 7", tho quite a bit smaller.  Mind-bogglingly beautiful scenery and loud, pounding beats - it doesn't get any better than this. :)

"Fuck You" is a clubnight throw by Soundproofer Trevor "SonOfJacob" Jacobson, at "Lick", a nightclub upstairs of the Lotus Sound Lounge in downtown Vancouver.  I was asked to throw it down, and I did.

The weird part of this show was the intense heat!!!  I had my usual chocolate on stage (I rarely eat chocolate, except when I need extra energy and focus, so just before [or sometimes during!] a show...), but the bright stage lights turned my Aero bar into a baggie of brown goo.  It was so bad that I was worried about my equipment, which was getting hot to the touch - I had them move two of the lights.  I pitied DJ Sappho, who had to spin up in the DJ booth, which was probably 10-20 degrees hotter than the stage - so hot that it caused the Tascam CD recorder I had rented to drop frames, rendering the recording useless. :(

"Trancemission 7" was, as the name suggests, the seventh year of Soundproof's amazing free outdoor summer party - these guys throw a wicked party roughly once every three months all year, and as a "give back to the scene" they throw one big end-of-the-fiscal-year outdoor party - I was asked by SonOfJacob to perform, and of course I accepted!  Probably 500 people showed up to this one, and it went off all night long - this party had by FAR the best setup I've ever seen for a free party; it must have cost them a bundle.  It was made all the sweeter by the sharing of the stage with my good friends Thomas and Rich, the dynamic duo known as MAX POWER.

The party was at the legendary "Mile36" camping ground, thirty-six miles outside of Squamish, BC.  My set was from 4:00-5:00 am - when I started, it was pitch black out, and when I finished it was dawn.  Hearing my techno LOUD as the glaciers on the mountaintop across the river slowly faded into view is an experience I will never forget.

Trancemission 7 would rank in my top three parties ever attended, not to mention played at!!