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2019-07-27 01:01
in Clubbing, Festivals
It was very last minute, but I was able to join my local SF trance friends on a trip to Washington's Gorge to attend the Above and Beyond weekender:
We met in Seattle Airport and went to get an RV (a few of us rode in it but slept in tents) and go to our camp site:
We had premium camping, which was quite nice:
Things got nice around sunset:
And then it was time to enjoy darkness and the more popular DJs. Time for me to shine and looking for other people with shiny things :)
The area also had a nice set of vendors:
Day #2 started with a nice yoga set with Paavo:
In the tent, Tony interviewed Seven Lions, and it was interesting to hear how he got into music and his special style of mixing dubstep and trance (both of which, when mixed together, I quite enjoy):
I then spent most of the day watching the show from a shaded spot. Sadly, I can't say I enjoyed any of the music during the day, it was definitely not trance, nor anything else that did much for me. The views were still nice and it got better as the sun set:
I went to look for more night pictures:
That got me in bed by 03:30 or so, and after not enough hours of sleep, it was time to drive back to the airport:
Alvin and Afik DJ'ed in the RV for us with portable equipment they took in the plane
some people had better 'tents' :)
nice views of the gorge even from our location
Afik worked on putting his sign back together after the flight
I made some custom gifs for the occasion
listening to this is like an endless fall to your death? :)
and finally above and beyond, 2 out of 3 as usual
this was a fantastic idea, thanks to Paavo for the nice music
they nicely let a few people of the crowd in a viewing area behind the DJ
the exiting thing was that I ran into Rory who made a totem pole using some of my arduino code
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