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My Korea Report is completo!!

The link is over on the left or you can click here. Apologies for taking so long but I think you'll realise why it took so long to put together when you start reading it.

Where have I been?

Korea and Japan, that's where.
It's taking me a little bit longer than expected to put the report together but its underway and should be done in a week or so.

In the meantime here's something to chill you out.

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If Ice Cube was British

Courtesy of b3ta

New Banksy near Paddington

Not an easy pair to get to :(

2 Girls 2 Bikes

It's not rude!

Impressive light show

Tiesto @ Victoria Park

25,000 people gather in East London to see the "biggest DJ in the world"(TM) and once again I was there, now the fifth time I've seen him.
Warm up act on a very warm day were Hadouken, Calvin Harris and Sneaky Soundsystem

Cyber bunnies not impressed with Hadouken (they were just going for a drink really!)

Somehow this little kid managed to gatecrash an over 18s event. His mum was trying very hard to make him wear these ridiculous headphones. If you're wondering why its looking empty

a) its still early

b) the area immediately in front of the stage was called the gold circle and the tickets were more expensive. It meant those of us in the cheap area couldn't get close to the stage unless we were prepared to leap the no-mans land between the barriers and evade the security...which provided a lot of laughs during the days events.

and who's that strolling off beer in each hand?

Sneaky Sound System from Oz were pretty good even if the lead singer did look like Justin Lee Collins

That's what 25 thousand people look like. The crowd were very friendly actually and there was an amazing vibe all day.

Tiesto came out a little earlier than expected catching most of the VIP lot off guard who had to come running into the gold circle en masse.
Not sure who this clown is? Someone who managed to blag a press pass by the looks of things. His pics can be seen here.

The soon to be Mr and Mrs White, beers in hand.

Being in the privileged circle, Adam was able to borrow my camera and take some close ups. Thanks Adam!

Supposedly there was a bigger police presence today than at all the other events that had taken place in the week, but I think that's because they knew the music would be good. At the queue line in there were lots of people being pulled over and randomly searched. I only saw 2 arrests at that time.

The light starts to go down and the lights start to go up!

Some clown decided to climb the speaker stack and he was being very brazen up there, dancing whilst not holding on etc. I think there were a lot of people filming in the hope he'd slip.

Hey look, I have a little man dancing on my finger!

Arm the confetti cannon and FIRE!

Clown up the scaffolding was soon joined by 2 others and quite understandably the organisers cut the sound and would only put it back on when they came down, which they did to a barrage of boos and no doubt some waiting officers at the bottom.

Fireworks

Flame throwers

Ticker tape cannons

Fireworks

Lights on arms that moved and a cheap "let me hear you" message to the crowd. Actually the visuals were superb, and probably the best I've seen him use.

and here he is at the end throwing his earphones into the crowd.

A wonderful show on a day with wonderful weather and a wonderful crowd. What more could be asked for!

oh, yeah some youtube clips from people who were happy to film the event on their phones so I didn't have to.


Rock anthem given the trance remix early on in the set.


Cheesy sing-a-long lets get the crowd as one tune...




Some of his own tunes

Wykahmix Update

I've realised that I've only posted links to my first two Wykahmixes on here. Well there are two more that you can have a listen to, and I'm now hosting them on soundcloud.

Wykahmix 1 - Angelic

1. Spring Breeze (Martin Roth SummerStyle Remix) - DJ Tatana - Armada
2. No More Alone - Giuseppe Ottaviani ft Stephen Pickup - Vandit
3. Redemption - Sophie Sugar - Vision Soundcarriers
4. Ocean Drive (ft Phillipa Joy) - DJ Shah - Armada
5. Lost (Club Mix Edit) - Sunlounger & Zara - Armada
6. World Gone Mad - Mannix vs Kaymak - A State of Trance
7. Hide & Seek (Tiesto's in Search of Sunrise Remix) - Imogen Heap & DJ Tiesto - Black Hole Recordings
8. The Way It Should Be - 4 Strings vs DJ Shaine - Liquid Recordings
9. Hyper Intelligence (Ian Betts Remix) - K90 - Dataless Recordings
10. Fake Awake (Original Mix) - Andy Moor - Anjunabeats
11. Brazil (2nd Edit) - Deadmau5 - MOS
12. Not A Lot Left - Myon & Shane 54 - Anjunabeats

Wykahmix 2 - Descent

1. Let Go - Kandi & Neumann - Anjunabeats
2. Nailed - Paul Webster - Armada
3. The Last Pluck (Fluffy Mix) - Marcus Schossow - Tone Diary
4. Ipanema - John Miller - Vision Soundcarriers
5. Edward Carnby (Tiesto Vocal Mix) - Tiesto presents Alone In The Dark - Kontor Records
6. Ways and Means (PVD Remix) - Jon O'Bir - Dance4Life
7. Dream Way (Arctic Moon Remix) - Dereck Recay - (Redux Recordings)
8. Don't Wake Me Up (San Antonio Harbour Mix) - DJ Shah ft Inger Hansen - Armada
9. Upgrade - Will B - Vision Soundcarriers
10. Pandora (Daniel Kandi's Emotional Mix) - Rapha - Armada

Wykahmix 3 - Dry

1. Your Loving Arms (JA Sunrise Edit) - Jose Amnesia & Karen Overton - New State Music
2. Not Falling Apart (Tiesto Remix) - Maroon 5 - Octoscope Music
3. Battery Life - Chunk & Twist - Anjunabeats
4. Bounty Island - Black Pearl - Armada
5. Read My Mind (Gabriel & Dresden Unplugged Mix) - The Killers - Def Jam
6. The Reward is Floating (Markus Lange Mash Up Remix) - Deadmau5 vs. Jape - White Label
7. Work It - Daft Punk vs Flapsandwich - http://flapsandwich.blogspot.com
8. Closer (Than a Heartbeat) - DJ Tatana & Andrew Bennett feat. Tiff Lacey - MORE
9. Albion (Original Mix) - Myon - In Trance We Trust
10. 63b Clerkenwell Road - David Newsum - Armada
11. Liberate - Daniel Kandi & Robert Nickson - Armada

Wykahmix 4 - Fallen

1 - Chinook (Uplifting Mix) - Dakota - Armada
2 - I'm Not Alone (Tiesto Remix) - Calvin Harris - Sony Music
3 - Beyond the World - Mike Sonar - Infrasonic
4 - Leaving London (Mac & Taylor Remix) - Team SR - Five AM Records
5 - Timewave Zero - Ummet Ozcan - Cloud 9 Dance
6 - Don't Look Back - John O'Callaghan - Armada
7 - Poppiholla (Thrillseekers Remix) - Chicane - Enzo Recordings
8 - Madagascar 2009 (Richard Durand Remix) - Art of Noise - Platipus
9 - Foldback (Mike Foyle Remix) - David Forbes - Fraction Records
10 - Body Lotion (Jorn van Deynhoven Remix) - Roger Shah & Savannah - Armada
11 - Shapeshifter (Epic Mix) - Thr3shold & Detune - A State of Trance
12 - Essentia (Fast Distance Remix) - Supercomps

If you like your trance then you might like these.

My Italy trip

In July I spent 9 days touring Italy; 4 with the coaster club and the rest doing my own thing.

On this trip I took in the following cities.

• Verona
• Bolzano
• Bologna
• Venice
• Rimini
• Bari

and the following parks

• Movie Park Studio
• Latemar Alpine Coaster
• Merano 2000
• Gardaland
• Mirabilandia
• Fiabilandia
• Zoosafari Fasanolandia
• Miragica

The flickr set can be found here .

Cool Evian Commercial

I have no idea why this hasn't been shown in the UK yet. Perhaps it has and I'm watching the wrong channels. Great vid though.

One Day Only - Royal Albert Hall

As a bit of cheap publicity the Royal Albert Hall opened up their loading bay to the public to present some graffiti that had been put there to celebrate the musical history of the venue.

Derren Brown - Enigma

I'm a fan of his TV shows and always wanted to see his live performance, and on a whim I managed to get a last minute ticket for his new show currently running at the Adelphi theatre in London.

A mixture of his usual mind reading tricks with some more darker stuff in the second half, he entertained a packed house for about 3 hours. Whilst I'm not going to give too much away here I will say that the ending did catch me by surprise, and although I could figure out some of the tricks the last one I still can't get my head around, even now.

It's not all rigged, as the biggest cynics believe. My photo, taken on the way in, featured in a Guess Who trick, and was chosen by one of the four participants (it makes sense if you see it). The one thing I did find odd was in the second half when he attempted to put the entire theatre into a trance. I didn't think hypnosis on a mass scale was allowed but then by not referring to the H word using "induced trance" instead he can probably get away with it.

Definitely worth seeing...

...Goose and Moose and Apple Juice

Fallen Princesses

Amusing take on the Disney princesses done by Dina Goldstein. More on her stuff here.

Cinderella

Snow White

Rapunzel

Little Red Riding Hood

Sleeping Beauty

Jasmine

Belle