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Originally posted by rowdy Chris Liebing 8:00-9:30 Absolutely destroyed the dancefloor with MASSIVE MASSIVE HEAVY BASSLINES!!!!!!!! Great stage presence as well.

AWESOME! Good to hear. I'm gonna catch him on Wednesday night in Mexico City! Can't wait!!!!

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if she's been going in this direction for a while, wouldn't it maybe be on Armin for booking her?

i'm in full support of someone playing what they want, but i kind of agree that i'd be annoyed if I was at a trance stage and heard primarily dubstep or any other non-trance style, regardless of who was spinning it.

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Originally posted by 72hrpartyanimal her actions may be the biggest career move for a dj or biggest blunder of all time. lets see what happens

what ever happened with that website take over was it a hoax? i dont know the facts BUT if a hoax then wasnt that an attempt at a "career move" that turned into a blunder?

Insomniac did a amazing job once again. Turned out to be a great event despite the weather which was not as bad as I was prepared for. I just wish ASOT 550 would have been Armin Only.

We were pre-partying with a group of friends at our place while Fei Fei's set was on and I think everyone was shocked at what she was playing. Pretty much everyone has known her for a long time and no one knew she played dubstep. Granted, we are all trance and techno people who despise dubstep, but she should not have been booked to open the trance stage. Has nothing to do with beeing narrow minded like I keep hearing. Let her open up the techno stage and see what the tech heads say let alone on a worldwide trance broadcast. I find it disrespectful, not rebellious. I repect her and wish her the best though. Just stick her in the DnB/dubstep room next time.

In general, I'm not real happy where most trance is right now and wasn't too thrilled with the linep save Armin and the performances further enforced it. I enjoyed Shogun and Sied van Riel but the rest until Armin were just blah. And good lord how Gareth Emery continues to get shittier and shitter everytime I see him. Please quit booking him for trance events. He is a douche house DJ of the worst kind now. Completely sold out. Its a shame because he was in my top 5 for years. And do DJs even pay attention to what the previous DJs play? Do I really need to hear the same (bad) track 3 times on the same stage?

And while I'm bitching, there really needs to be more mens bathrooms. Everytime I went to the bathroom, tons guys were just pissing everywhere out in the open. ugh, pigs! These aren't Insomniac's faults butt they can be addressed in the future.

End of rant, sorry.

In the end though, all was wonderful once Armin went on. Just needed way more than 2 hours. Was great to see that huge ass tent packed and going off. I do kind of wished we got VIP for this. The VIP area for the trance stage was pretty nice and in a great location plus you have VIP bathrooms. Maybe next time...

VIP upgrades were selling for $100, so I passed

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Originally posted by MelBeat VIP upgrades were selling for $100, so I passed

Ouch!

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Originally posted by GPC And while I'm bitching, there really needs to be more mens bathrooms. Everytime I went to the bathroom, tons guys were just pissing everywhere out in the open. ugh, pigs! These aren't Insomniac's faults butt they can be addressed in the future. End of rant, sorry. In the end though, all was wonderful once Armin went on. Just needed way more than 2 hours. Was great to see that huge ass tent packed and going off. I do kind of wished we got VIP for this. The VIP area for the trance stage was pretty nice and in a great location plus you have VIP bathrooms. Maybe next time...

Agree with you re: bathrooms. I do think that was Insomniac's fault - they had no one directing the line for the bathrooms so it just turned into a mess, and they probably should have had more bathrooms set up. Standing in a puddle of what was most likely pee was not enjoyable.

But yeup, the last 2 hours made it all worth it. Armin was awesome - my gf and I cut in from the side to get up toward the front and had a blast. I can't stop listening to his set. That "Fusion" track is absolutely fire, and listening to Brute brings shivers to my spine. Well done, hopefully Armin will do a solo Armin Only or ASOT show in LA in the future, without any other stages. Not really sure why he hasn't done so yet.

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Originally posted by msilin hopefully Armin will do a solo Armin Only or ASOT show in LA in the future, without any other stages. Not really sure why he hasn't done so yet.

He did an "Armin only" in 2009 for TAO on NYE. Another was planned for Monster Massive last year but the entire event got cancelled because go ventures screwed up the location. In fact, the whole reason ASOT 550 came to LA was as a gesture on Armins part to make up for the cancellation.

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Originally posted by raveed He did an "Armin only" in 2009 for TAO on NYE. Another was planned for Monster Massive last year but the entire event got cancelled because go ventures screwed up the location. In fact, the whole reason ASOT 550 came to LA was as a gesture on Armins part to make up for the cancellation.

What I was trying to say is that he should do the event on his own, rather than being part of a festival with multiple stages. I was at Armin Only in 2009 but it wasn't REALLY armin only bc deadmau5 was playing at another stage, there was a drum n bass stage, etc.

There should be an event with one stage - ASOT or Armin Only. Or a multi-stage ASOT event like the one in Den Bosch or Moscow this year. Armin keeps talking about how the US is the place to be now, but he doesn't seem confident enough to book his own event in LA quite yet (although he did Giant Village in 2007 I believe?). Tiesto just did it, Armin should go that route as well, IMO.

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Originally posted by msilin What I was trying to say is that he should do the event on his own, rather than being part of a festival with multiple stages. I was at Armin Only in 2009 but it wasn't REALLY armin only bc deadmau5 was playing at another stage, there was a drum n bass stage, etc. There should be an event with one stage - ASOT or Armin Only. Or a multi-stage ASOT event like the one in Den Bosch or Moscow this year. Armin keeps talking about how the US is the place to be now, but he doesn't seem confident enough to book his own event in LA quite yet (although he did Giant Village in 2007 I believe?). Tiesto just did it, Armin should go that route as well, IMO.

i do agree with you but it kind of depends on the promoter that your working with. most artist that come in to town rely on a local promoter. Tiesto hired insomniac to promote his tiesto in concert shows or just like LED (or whoever is in charge) hired Skills to do the upcoming "i love this city" show.

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Kaskade and SHM promote their events on their own though.