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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: colby newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:07 PM Subject: Re: festival report? To: Frank Glazer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> this year's had the most incredible soundsystems in every stage. INSANELY good sound. zip was great on saturday at the festival, and the egyptian lover was fun as he**. i wanted to see peanut butter wolf, but he was a no-show (i think?) we left around 9:30 or so to eat dinner and get ready for the interdimensional transmissions party that night, which was (and i'm not mixing words here) the best party i have been to in 10 years -- easy. mike servito (ex-pat detroiter now living in nyc) completely DESTROYED IT. i've seen him a handful of times before, but on sunday morning he blew the entire loft into another galaxy. it was all killer acid, chicago jack and acid house, impeccably mixed on a over-the-top soundsystem. i don't think there was one post-1995 tune -- i felt like i was 17 again, seriously. servito was so f***ing relentlessly awesome, derek plaslaiko conceded his set time and let mike play through it all. i'd estimate there was an average of 200-300 people maybe (maybe more?) dancing in the gritty loft that bethany shorb makes her cyberoptic ties in. the crowd and vibe was alive and unreal. everyone there couldn't say enough good things about the night, and it was worth the trip to detroit alone. we stayed there until around 8:00 AM, and it was busted by the popo shortly after. to make it even more surreal, motherf***ing MOBY walked in there around 5:00 and just hung out. it was, as csaba would say, "the place to be". we slept until about 1:30 on sunday, and then went to the plaza where the highlights were heartthrob (absolutely incredible as usual) and the cool kids. girl talk was complete mayhem crowd-wise, but that (again) seemed to be detrimental to the set itself. still, it was fun to watch for a bit. left around 10:30 with no distinct party plans in mind, and actually just hung out at the hotel all night with our friends after deciding that the party choices weren't all that mindblowing. stayed up really late again, and woke up at four PM or so. a few of the out-of-town friends had to leave, and we also had to run our friend maggie back to ann arbor. by the time we got back into detroit (around 8:30), it was rainy, and we decided to nix hart plaza altogether because of that. petey and amy and i ate some dinner and then hit up the works for the accelerate party for a few hours, then headed back home to get a few hours of sleep before i had to catch my flight this morning. although we didn't go to the plaza at all on monday, TOO FAR GONE...NO WAY BACK was so devastatingly badazz, everything after it was an afterthought. i would have loved to have gone to see kenny @ soul skate, but honestly, it couldn't have held a candle to the insanity that was saturday night. there was still a handful of acts i am shooting myself in the foot for missing, but all in all, A+,would rave again. -- peace, frank dj mix archive: http://www.deejaycountzero.com
