all's well that ends well
Finally back home. Brain's kinda fuzzy - I stumbled out of bed Mon morning and haven't slept yet.
Ok, what everyone wants to hear - DT @ Space. If anyone's blood pressure will go through the roof (that's you Tom!) then DON'T read anymore.....
Got there about 1:30am. Doors opened at 10, but Danny didn't actually hit the decks til about 2. He had a good bit of technical problems throughout the night with the equipment, scrolling sign etc., but he pushed on. The crowd was the largest about 6am.... kinda surreal to see the lights flood the place while everyone has their hands in the air ... I mean thousands of hands..... and evreyone's screaming their heads off, the sirens blaring.... insanity.
About 10 he started off this 3 hr session of relentless, pounding tracks.... he never paused or even let up with the tempo. People were dropping like flies. Then from 1 - 3 he played every single bit of remix/ production/edit work he's done in the last year (the exception being the back2basics comp - from that he only dropped 3 tunes). Amusing bits - seeing Digweed absolutely plastered, jumping around; seeing Burridge start a conga line, which became people dancing around a circle, holding hands.
After all this heavy stuff, he dropped Always (beedle mix) and that was fun, people (about 100 left) just grooving, boogie-ing, holding hands and twirling each other around.
I left at 4:30pm, too tired to stay longer. Heard it went til 7ish. Heehee.... 14 1/2 hrs..... I think I had my DT fix!!!
I only remember some of the tunes. As the set progressed he stopped using the scroll thing and just babbled, so I didn't catch all of what he said. A 17 (?) min remix of "Dream On" with vocals from "I Feel Loved" thrown in.... and then it had the "surprise ending" of kd lang's "Constant Craving". Don't ask me how he did it, but he did it.
Said it took him 3 days to put that one together. Biggest tune was X-press 2 feat. Yello - Work. Oh my god, he pounded the crap out of that.... my heart can still feel the bassline. Others - Dirty Bass by Cox, Be Freed by Yousef (?), Rok to It (?) by Alan T., Love for Generations by ?, then one track had a piano instrumental bit and it was dedicated to Frankie Knuckles, then..... ok, brain dying, cause there's more but can't remember now. Of course, "Be Yourself" was played at least 4 times since that was the theme for the entire session.
After all of that, I hung out with friends and later kinda checked out the Bullit party (DD, S+P, Luke, 16B etc.), then spent the rest of the night at the Satellite records party - Seaman, P+W, Blackwatch - and a very pleasant surprise - Moshic&Zidan. These 2 were amazing. Basiclly, I sat down for everyone else and just had to get up and move (in an "ouch, pian" mode) for their set. So good.
My flight left there at 11am, I was back home by 3:30pm and went to work for 5pm. Now, I am going to crash out til tomorrow night. If I don't make it down for Hybrid, you know I'm still sleeping.....
-Tara.
