{{{OCEAN OF DREAMS}}} =============== {Name;} {{Ocean Of Dreams}} {Where;} {{Stockholm/Sweden}} {{(4000 sqm Warehouse)}} {When;} {{30th September 1994}} {Organizer:} {{Spectrum (DJ Bennie, DJ Term, Daniel Schmidt)}} {Price:} {{130 Skr (about $17) 150 Skr at the door}} First some info about the sound- and lightequipment: {{{* Electrovoice MT-4 40000 Watt * Multicolored Laser * High End Emulators * RoboZaps * Eagles * Strobes * UV Cannons}}} {{and smoke of course!}} The DJs were Tim Taylor an acidproducer from London, Mono Junk, Wave Slave (Cari Lekebusch), DJ Bennie and DJ Term. The last three are from Sweden. They all played acid. Even if DJ Bennie is told to be one of Stockholms best hardtrance DJs, I couldn't hear any music that I would have called hardtrance. But i like acid so I didn't cry... :) It's just one thing that I don't like with this hard acid that is mostly played at raves in Stockholm, and that is all theese noises! It is just noises and it has no melody at all! Why do they play that shit?! I just love 303-loops with the "boingy" style that is so typical for the 303 machine. Why do this crap when you can make POWERFUL songs with a 303 ?! {{{Arrival}}} ------- There were direct busses going to the rave from central Stockholm every half hour from the beginning to 04:00, but we was forced to take a normal bus and the tube to go home after the rave. As it is used to be... :( When we arrived to the rave, we had to wait for a long while outside. They didn't have any special queue for they who already hade tickets and I thought that was very irritating. But when we finally got inside, we went happy again. hehe {{{The Performance During The Night}}} -------------------------------- There was nearly only acid played during the rave. Some Acidtrance, but the 303 was the most used machine.... :) At one o'clock there was a MAGNIFICENT laserperformance controlled by Daniel Schmidt. A great multicolored laser with all colors of the rainbow, was freaking around in the warehouse. Sinewaves, laserrays like rain over the crowd and some just outfreaked, supercool effects which can't be explained. They spouted smoke as hell out of the smoke- machine which made the performance even better when you were able to see the laserrays in the air! This performance was SUPERB! There were no really good music played until two o'clock. And it was quite slow (I like high BPM acidtrance....170 BPM is fine! :) ) until then. About 145 BPM I would gess. But at 2:23 (beep!) they started to play really good and fast acid! (Yeah! :) ) At 2:37 they started to play around a lot with the multi- colored laser. Fast "lasershots" all over the place! :) The rest of the time there were good and bad music off an on, but there were some goodies. As a whole the music was quite OK, but to few really pounding hardtrancetracks with good melodies... A friend of mine also played live on this rave. The group is called Slaughterhouse (Direct Drive Records). Their act wasn't announced on the flyer but they were only supposed to play one hour. I didn't saw their performance but Peter (my friend in the group) told me that it wasn't too good... :) They played the last half hour on the rave (07.30-08.00) and they were of course really tired. Due to the police they had to close at eight a clock in the morning and Slaughterhouse had to shortenen their performance with half an hour...they just forwarded their DAT-tape and pressed play...and it started in the middle of a track! :) But they just took it easy and kept going on like nothing had happened... hehe I didn't really understand why they had a DAT-player, when they had brought a set with synthequipment etc...but I suppose that they had some stuff played by the DAT and some stuff played by their computer... After all You can't bring ALL your stuff when you are going to perform. They play acidtrance of very good quality! I went home at half past five because then I was sleeping at the wall with the loudspeakers and got awakened by a friend who couldn't sleep at the speakerwall due to the guy next to him who bumped my friend's head with his hands all the time when he was jamming to the music... :) The strobes had been quite slow during the night but now they were flashing like hell! Cool! I could have been there some hours more...I was alert after my little nap!, but my friend wanted to go so we went home. It was F*CKING cold and it was raining when I got out from the warehouse...:( {{{The Recordstore}}} --------------- A record store (Spiral Tracks) was placed in a separate little (20 sqm) room on top of the toilets. They sold records, T-shirts and ravemagazines. They played really good music in this room but there were so much people, that it was hard to get a look on the records. After I had bought some magazines, I couldn't stand it and went out to the dancefloor again... :) {{{The Smartbar}}} ------------ I didn't examined the smartbar so I can't tell you so much about it. It had all kinds of smartdrinks, candy and lemonade. Due to I was quite hungry, I just noticed that they hadn't any sandwiches, and I had to buy two chocolate bars to appease my hunger. :) The organizers had written 22:00 - 10:00 on the flyer but I was told by Peter that they didn't have any license more than to six o'clock! But at eight o'clock the police had get tired of the rave and told them that they had to quit or they would be prosecuted...! This was a rather big rave for Sweden. About 1500-1800 people were there i think. I know that that is few people if you compare it with the rest of Europe, but for Sweden it's quite alot of people. :) As a whole it was quite a good rave. Big locale and great sound. But I would like more melodic hardtrance and faster tempo at the start with fast flashing strobes...then you can get in trance, and THAT'S COOL! :) {{GRADE: 7/10}} {{Marcus Svenningsson alias YiPMAN - Stockholm, Sweden}}