Dance The Trance

[dordi1]

hajde! cuna kush ka mendje te keqe per javen tjeter?
Tom! i qeke kthy perfundimisht metalit me duket! se trance po e le mas dore...


Paul Oakenfold at Avalon - 11/26/03




Paul Oakenfold - Perfecto – Thanksgiving Eve 2003
Avalon

Wednesday November 26th, 2003

Music by:
John Debo
Eddie Bang
&
Paul Oakenfold

Wednesday, November 26th, 2003
Doors open at 9pm - this party closes at 5am
19 to enter for gals, 21 and over for guys

Avalon
6th Avenue at 20th Street
New York, NY

[Furor Aquila]

Paska shqiptare qe dine te degjojne muzike. Gezohem.

Une degjoj Trance. DJ qe pelqej jane Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold, Chicane, Kai Tracid dhe shume kenge te tjera te prodhuara nga DJ's qe nuk jane dhe aq te njohur sa ata me larte.

[dordi1]

Gjithashtu, gezohemi edhe ne, Furor!
Tíësto, e kam pa dy here ''live'', Oakenfold ma shume! kurse ato dy te tjeret, me thone te drejten jane ''te panjohur'', per mua...
keshtu qe, ''hapju Partise''...


edhe, mireseerdhe! me qene se ra fjala...

[Furor Aquila]

Chicane ben uplifting trance kurse Kai Tracid ben acid trance. Kai Tracid nuk eshte dhe aq i njohur se sa e bera une por nuk eshte keq si DJ.
Kai Tracid - Too many times
Chicane - Saltwater
Keto jane dy kenge te njohura nga keta dy.

[KACAKU]

Isha prape ne nje Uplifting Party nga Yahel,Infected Mushroom dhe GOA Gil,12 000 veta ne kodren Lykavitos Athine,luajten edhe disa DJ Greke qe jane vertete ne nivele te larta te Uplifting Psychedelic Trance.

[tom]

paske qen ke krateri plako?ooooo ca veni osht ..nigjoni ene ju te tjeret ..ai ven osht tull per psychedelic trance....
i pershnetje ene per furor aquila....

[manoklla]

Njisha fare jon Da Bass, Sandstorm, Dj Tiesto, Absolom, Dj Quicksilver (planet love) Rhythm and Drums etj etj.

[Furor Aquila]

Gate - Iron Eden (extended version)

njish fare

[dordi1]

Paul Oakenfold
"Ibiza changed my life"
It's over a decade since Paul Oakenfold took a holiday on a quiet Spanish resort with a few mates. But that trip changed not only his life, but that of thousands of clubbers worldwide. So what exactly was so special about Ibiza, and has it still got its magic today?
We all know the story don't we? It goes a little something like this. It's the Summer of 1987, right, and there's these four blokes from South London; proper music heads the lot of them. You want names? Let's just call them Paul, Nicky, Danny and Johnny. Anyway, they're out on this little Spanish island aren't they? Paul's been before - he's got a mate who's working there, Trevor - and he's decided to fly out for a few weeks to celebrate his 26th birthday.

Paul saw it like this: "I've always been a sharing person. When I find something I love I want to share it with other people; a record, a place, whatever. And that's what this island's about. Someone comes and then they bring back a couple of friends who bring back a couple of friends and so on."
The island's not particularly well-known, certainly not as packed-out as the tourist traps of, say, Benidorm or Majorca. But Paul's always liked it.

It's got a cool vibe, part hippy-trippy and part jet set rich and famous, and, besides, there's this DJ - a Spanish geezer called Alfredo - who plays all kinds of different music, mixing Farley Jackmaster Funk with The Cure or LL Cool J with some old Woodentops record. It's much better than the pretentious, exclusive, trendy bollocks of the London club scene.

So anyway, the point is that one night they're down at this after hours club that kicks off around three or four in the morning and runs through to midday - a wicked party venue just set back from the road between the island's two main towns - and they decide to take this new drug that's knocking about. Of course, the drug is not new as such - it's been a mainstay of the gay scene in Chicago and New York since the early 80s
- but it's new to our four heroes. So they pop their pills one night back in the summer of 1987 and ...and what?

Hold on a second. Let's just fill in a few blanks. The Paul was Paul Oakenfold (with his mates Nicky Holloway, Danny Rampling, Johnny Walker and Trevor Fung), the club was Amnesia, the island was Ibiza and the drug ecstasy. So the myth of Ibiza had begun. So the 'Summer Of Love' followed a year later. So acid house was born.

So British clubland was irrevocably repackaged and revitalised. So British popular culture underwent its greatest upheaval since the kids tore out their cinema seats watching Bill Haley's 'Rock Around The Clock'. So that's what. So a lot.

Paul Oakenfold continue

[dordi1]

Flash forward a decade or so and the same Paul Oakenfold is sitting in the plush pool bar at Pikes Hotel just off the main road between Ibiza Town and San Antonio (just a stone's throw from Amnesia in fact). He's sipping on his freshly squeezed and reminiscing about the parties he went to at this very hotel: Freddie Mercury, Grace Jones, the whole champagne set shenanigans.
These days Oakenfold is a living legend. It's a crap term (generally used of clapped-out lounge singers and ageing, cosmetically enhanced film stars) but in his case it happens to be appropriate. Just check out the story of his ecstasy conversion. Because that's a legend if ever I heard one. But is it true?

"For me, it's all about the music. The drugs just complement the music. I suppose if you speak to people who aren't so into music then they'll tell you otherwise. But music and drugs have always gone hand in hand; it's more a question of what was the drug of the generation; whether it's marijuana, cocaine or E." Yeah. But is the story true?

"Sure it's true. Before '87, I came here and just got off on Alfredo's music. Then I took a pill and it was, like, 'Oh my God!' And then? Well. You're on a mission aren't you?" Mission is right. Because when the four pioneers returned to London, they attacked the club scene with a missionary zeal; preaching the Balearic gospel to anyone who'd listen. Danny opened the seminal Shoom with his girlfriend Jenni and Nicky took the music to a more populist level with Trip at The Astoria. But it
was Oakenfold who really set himself a challenge when he negotiated a Monday night (Future) at what was then London's most celebrated venue, Heaven. Within a month he was 12 grand in debt and was beginning to wonder if he'd made an expensive mistake.

"I believed in it though. Even at the time it felt significant and right. We didn't care if we were making a statement but we just felt that we were on a better buzz than the people in London. Not even a drug buzz. Just having a lot more fun. At first we only had that hardcore following that had been to Ibiza, the people who gave out flyers and the bar workers, and we were barely breaking even. But slowly everyone brought someone who brought someone who brought someone. And it just got going. Just like Ibiza itself."

This seems to be a theme of Oakenfold's life; that word of mouth philosophy and his passion for sharing the music. And its a theme that has taken him full circle; from his time on the Amnesia dancefloor as one of the first proto-ravers to tonight's session at Cream's opening in Ibiza at - where else? - Amnesia. Though these days the venue is Brit-dominated, and the stretching queue is strictly Anglo-file.


Paul Oakenfold continue