ScottBailey

Was never a Prog or Trance guy. But Sasha played a warehouse in Oakland in 1999. I was 17 or thereabouts so couldn’t get into clubs. DJ Dan was on before. DJ Dan absolutely hammered the place. First time I heard Sandy/Housetrap “Overdrive” (monster tune). I was like, nobody can top that. - Dan played a hellava set. But Sasha smashed it. I thought the floor was going to fall through when “Future In Computer Hell Pt 2” was played. Might be my favorite night out.

      Dan love the fact Vasquez ejected him for supposedly taking ‘notes’.

      This is a new one to me! Fantastic!

      I always loved the rumor that he had a shower built off to the side of the dj booth in Arc, so that he could bathe during his 18 hour marathon sets.

          jonattonyeah must have been blindin’!

          I only got to see Sasha once during the glory years, but he didn’t mess around! Was on the same bill as PVD and Oakey, so the beats were up. Destroyed me with Shaiva, Zerotonine and Boy Voyage!

            zackster Vasquez’s DJ booth was fucking mint. It was like a departure lounge. My mate said he would play Sacred Circles next to Junior Boys tracks.

                Dan i remember that he had his own booth at Twilo, but I never saw what it looked like.

                  Dan

                  The mix is quite close to the set he played at Space. Started on Fibonacci Sequence etc. What a night that was

                      Referring to Sasha at Space and GU013.

                      Incidentally he came on after a 5 hour Tenaglia set

                        Dan

                        Ya man. The club was sooooo good back then. Every refurb afterwards made it worse and worse

                          Heavyweights like Junior Vasquez don’t play lame ass songs about math!

                            Would slide into Ruhe (Humate Remix) like butter.

                            zackster

                            JV was an insipid cunt but he could put down a fun set even if the mixing is piss poor. It’s likely because he’s gay.

                                zackster Don’t doubt it. Just really conscious that 98/99 was around the time the GU series really got going, and it coincided with:

                                1) the massively increased availability of chatboards like GU, with trainspotters discussing every record a DJ player
                                2) access to the likes of Napster, making sharing of live DJ recordings so much more common

                                Basically, those things together meant there was really no such thing as an unknown track on any of these GU mixes. It also meant you got to hear what a DJ REALLY sounded like live, which in a lot of cases, was really not good.

                                    vinnyt77 It also meant you got to hear what a DJ REALLY sounded like live, which in a lot of cases, was really not good