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Where the [bleep] is Jill?!

October 17th, 2010 No comments

Good question! I was attempting to complete a an overwhelming summer courseload that was too ambitious. Had to drop something at a late date. Then I was trying to get an internship and scored a co-op doing Web development, and possibly more. My brother’s wedding was coming up, and I was making the jewelry for the bridal party. I also was trying to get my own jewelry out there and finally did sell a few pieces at the end of the summer, but never had enough time and jewelry prepared to get a table at the Farmer’s Market this year. I was so busy this summer that I had to forgo Habitat for Humanity entirely. This is why I have not posted in months. I did get a mix posted on SoundCloud and should have my August one FINALLY posted soonish….

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Paul Van Dyk & Paul Oakenfold tomorrow at the Congress Theater, Chicago

May 21st, 2010 No comments

I am very happy this week. I’m heading to Chicago tomorrow night for what should be one of the best club-DJ shows in Chicago this year: Paul Van Dyk, one of the guys who really got the trance scene going in the U.S., is on his world tour celebrating 10 years of Vandit records. He brings with him successful crossover DJ and artist Paul Oakenfold, who has recently released some DJ sample CDs and a Perfecto Las Vegas compilation (which sounds great). Check out the flyer for the show.

I’ve been listening to Paul’s past and current tunes, compilations, and remixes on DJTunes.com to job my memory and hear some of the new stuff so that I’m fully ready to bounce at the concert. I had forgotten about some of these old PvD tunes that I loved! Emma and her friends will be joining me at the show (yay!), and I may even (if I can find them) meet up with the Chicago TranceFormation Meetup group led by Sound Bar and ETN.fm DJ Zita Zie! I look forward to meeting a fellow trance music lover who is also a successful female DJ. I have prior plans and will be cabbing over with friends, so I don’t know yet if I’ll be able to meet the group at 10:00 PM at a bar down the street–but it would be nice to meet some fellow trancers (trancies? trance fanatics?).

I’m really looking forward to this show, after a pretty long hiatus from going out dancing or taking a trip up to Chicago. It should be kick ass. Photos, video, and comments will be posted after I get back.

Live iPhone Broadcast from ASOT Shot in NYC

April 2nd, 2010 No comments

I’ve embedded someone’s iPhone live broadcast from the Roseland Ballroom live, below. Kinda cool–if need be, refresh occasionally to see if they start broadcasting again (it’s intermittent), and play the live music stream at astateoftrance.com right along with it (though there’s a delay of like 15 or 20 seconds). You can also check new videos (and tracklists!) at the source.

Live video by Ustream

Listen to A State of Trance 450 Shows April 1-3, 9, and 10

April 1st, 2010 2 comments

I will update this post continually as needed….

The “A State of Trance 450″ celebration/tour kicks off today and lasts for three consecutive days and for two more next weekend. Armin van Buuren begins the events with a live broadcast today at 1:00 PM, Central Time from The Guvernment in Toronto, Ontario. Check out Cube Trance’s up-to-the-hour tracklist for the whole five-day event (very sweet–thanks, Guys.)

You can hear a free live broadcast of today’s Toronto show (and also the Wrocław, Poland broadcast on Saturday, April 10, live from the Centennial Center) at alpharadio.bg. Click on the Winamp icon in the upper right corner of the page to stream it, or open the stream directly through your media player at http://188.126.1.9:8000/AlphaRadio. Other famous names (Markus Schulz, Aly & Fila, Sean Tyas, Signum, etc.) will join in with mini-guest preview mixes during the Toronto broadcast today and will have hour-long sets in various locations later tonight, which are to broadcast on some stations, and continuously on astateoftrance.com. The guest mixes will continue for the next several days and will mainly be available only on astateoftrance.com.

Here’s a full list of the events and locations and which stations are broadcasting the ASOT shows live over the next five days. Check out Armin’s Twitter feed for exact start times and additional tidbits of information.

If you miss any of the live sets (Armin’s or others’), you can hear them over the coming days at various times on zebradrive.com.

EVENT LINEUPS (taken from the official site; all times are local to each venue):

Day 1: April 1, 2010 – Toronto, Canada (GMT -5)

  • 10pm – 11pm – Arnej
  • 11pm – 00am – Blake Jarrell
  • 00am – 03am – Armin van Buuren
  • 03am – 04am – Aly & Fila
  • 04am – 05am – Simon Patterson
  • 05am – 06am – Sean Tyas
  • 06am – 07am – Signum

Day 2: April 2, 2010, New York, USA (GMT -5)

  • 09pm – 10pm – Cerf en Mitiska
  • 10pm – 11pm – DJ Eco
  • 11pm – 00am – Rank 1
  • 00am – 02am – Armin van Buuren
  • 02am – 03am – Menno de Jong
  • 03am – 04am – Roger Shah
  • 04am – 05am – MIKE

Day 3: April 3, 2010, New York, USA (GMT -5)

  • 09pm – 10pm – Breakfast
  • 10pm – 11pm – Lange
  • 11pm – 00am – Giuseppe Ottaviani
  • 00am – 02am – Armin van Buuren
  • 02am – 03am – John O Callaghan
  • 03am – 04am – Filo & Peri
  • 04am – 05am – Alex M.O.R.P.H.

Day 4: April 9, 2010, Bratislava, Slovakia (GMT +2)

  • 09pm – 10pm – Ashley Wallbridge
  • 10pm – 11pm – Myon & Shane 54
  • 11pm – 00am – Dash Berlin
  • 00am – 01am – Gareth Emery
  • 01am – 03am – Armin van Buuren
  • 03am – 04am – Daniel Kandi
  • 04am – 05am – W&W
  • 05am – 06am – Marcus Schossow

Day 5: April 10, 2010, Wrocław, Poland (GMT +2)

  • 08pm – 09pm – Mat Zo
  • 09pm – 10pm – Jorn van Deynhoven
  • 10pm – 11pm – Super 8 and Tab
  • 11pm – 00am – Andy Moor
  • 00am – 02am – Armin van Buuren
  • 02am – 03am – Markus Schulz
  • 03am – 04am – Cosmic Gate
  • 04am – 05am – Sied van Riel
  • 05am – 06am – Nitrous Oxide

You can find the Bratislava, Slovakia broadcast live from the Expo Arena on Friday, April 9, live starting at 7:00 CT on XMRadio.com‘s Area station (channel 80), as well as on astateoftrance.com. astateoftrance.com will also have live video from the final day in Wrocław.

Replays of this show appear around the Net on free streams like the 96-kbps trance stations at DI.fm‘s Trance channel, and DI also will play the Toronto live show on their premium (paid) Trance channel.

Derrick Summers (DJ Derrick) from somewhere in the U.S. won the Bedroom DJ Contest! AlphaRadio cut off the broadcast though, so I switched over to the live stream from astateoftrance.com to listen to it. Very uplifting. I haven’t found any info on DJ Derrick on the Net just yet. This does make me a little sad…the Bedroom DJ winner should’ve been me! But I didn’t enter in time :( (next time, give us a time zone for that deadline, ASOT publicity people)….

Above & Beyond at Vision Night Club, Chicago, IL

November 8th, 2009 No comments

So, I’m excited at the prospect of seeing Above & Beyond at Vision Night Club in Chicago on November 21. If I can get a decent hotel downtown for not too terribly much and have time to drive up there, and I’m going. I’m all set with glowsticks I picked up on Halloween at Wal-mart for $1.00 apiece. Emma and her friend Serge are already going to be there. I’m considering a VIP ticket, which is only $10 more.

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