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Agya
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Posted : Aug 15, 2006 10:11
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of course the music it wasn't excactly what i expected but i knew that when i saw the line up...i was dissapointed a little cause i never heard a true full on dj set except from tsuyoshi with his 3-4 last tracks and i realized that moment in the end of the festival that nobody gave moments for the full on psy freaks...
great perfomances from vaishiyas,penta,quasar,psynema,ace ventura,cosmosis,ghreg on earth,biotonic...i am big fan of andromeda but they were awful,they started massively but somehow they turned their music in bad and noisy...what happened to their great production i can't understand...
it was my first time in boom and all these days before the party i was very anxious about the line up...some people here were telling that the boom is not only the music but much much more...it was true...when i saw all these structures i understood what they meant...the boom festival is many things than music...i have been in other festivals but only when i came in boom i realized the meaning of respect to psy trancers or better for that they knew that they had to do with human beings(this goes for showers and good food)...thanx again to boom organization for the festival ... |
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kolladetregnar
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Posted : Aug 15, 2006 10:35
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We had a very pleasant stay !!
I was soo surprised when I first came to the spot.
The organizers managed to make something REALLY special, and as a first-boomer I can only say that this festival will stay in my head for a loong time !!
Big thanks to Diogo,Jigar & Megan plus ALL the other hard workers. !! You guys did a HUGE job !!!
Also, thanks to all our friends we met and hung out with. We´ll meet again for sure ! b0m shanti !
One small thing that bothers me though :
I missed G.o.w, Amanda, Quasar and Anar´s sets 
hmm...
thanks again to all the people !!!!!!
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essbee
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Posted : Aug 15, 2006 11:34
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My final comment about Boom 2006 - I was absolutely fucking disgusted to see all the people who had left during the last night and on the morning of the tenth leave such a mess around what was theuir temporary homes for seven days.....empty bottles of booze, coke, plastic, general rubbish when some were only a matter of a few metres from a large rubbish bin!!!
Also - Boom provided recycling as well which not many people seemed to give a toss about!!
I am proud to say that my friends and I did about six or seven sweeps of where we camped to pick up every final thing before leaving - then to encounter what some of these so called hippies and friends of the earth left behind made me quite sad....
Clean it up people!! P L U and Respect - this does not just mean to other people but to nature as well!!!!
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Bandanaman
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Posted : Aug 15, 2006 11:46
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What an amazing party, Boom far surpassed anything I could possibly have imagined a trance festival to be!
The music, people, location, organisation etc. etc. were as far as I'm concerned, pefect! For me, the only thing that could possibly have made this gathering better would be a spectacular natural event like a solar eclipse, but lets be honest that's quite unlikely 
Upon first arriving at the festival I wasn't too sure about the dancefloor, but once the music started I was completely converted, it was by far the most impressive structure I have ever seen used for this purpose! The chillout must also be mentioned, as this was equally amazing, AND the entire floor was cushioned, what a great idea!
In regards to the music, although I think there could have been slightly more good full on music as played by AMD, I don't think the line up or set times could have been better. I enjoyed dancing to sets both during the day and at night, and loved the variety on offer. And sorry folks, but I'm one of the people who love the dark, night time psy! For me, the muscic is not about evil activities or depression, it's just about having it hard!! |
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Lilit
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Really nice festival, best BOOM so far. I do agree with opinions about the night music, pure horror mostly! As far as I’m concerned the Tsuyoshi’s closing set was very bad too. Fortunately the facilities (showers and even toilets!) were functioning very good. Big thumbs up for the Oleg and the crew who were ‘navigating’ the queue in the showers
Personal highlights:
- Highlight tribe - both times (despite I was bitten by the dog at the their show at the Sacred fire; that much about big state that it would be a dog free festival… erm…)
- Sebastian Kruger
- Ace Ventura
- Sally Dollaly
- Yutopia
- Cosmosis (although I am a heavy progressive lover I enjoyed his perform very much and I must admit that the Cosmosis made a best atmosphere at the main stage, he had the best communication with the audience)
- Water sprinkles hanging of the ceiling at the dance floor and famous “bombeiros” themselves
- DMT at the Chill stage
- Açai breakfast mmm….yummy
- Yoga lessons
- Ppl
- ALL the decorations for which they set a new standard!
- Well, that would be that, I suppose… ..ooops… and the lake of course!
An objections goes to the absolute lack of any kind of announcement who is playing at the precise moment. I mean, since the organizers decided to stage the musicians which, in most of the cases, are not particularly familiar to the crowd, the minimum they should do was to write down the exact line up somewhere at the stage presenting them, so we could ‘learn’ who is who, he he… And I was pissed because I missed the Beat Bizarre who in the newspaper announcement was scheduled at 10 pm but they moved him to 09 pm.
All in all, the BOOM 2008 could definitely count on me
Pix of a friend:
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lurk
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Posted : Aug 15, 2006 16:25
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I thought I'd better write my boom review before I forget it all, so here it
is. After spending the 3 days beforehand gathering strength at a campsite on
the opposite side of lake idahna, we arrived in the boom queue at about 8am
on the Thursday and found ourselves directed into an industrial area and the
back of a 5km queue. The industrial area was chaos, with cars everywhere, it
was obvious we weren't going to be going anywhere for a while. An hour or
two later the industrial area had filled up completely, and the local police
started letting vehicles in from another direct, so now there were 2 huge
queues joining the main, huge queue. We waited, and by 12.30pm, we still had
not moved a centimeter, so the government and I decided to park the car up
and take what we could carry and walk into the festival. This proved to be a
very wise decision, it took us about 45 minutes to walk to the gate off the
main road, there was still another 4km to walk to the site from there, but
you make your own luck, and ours was a friend, Kiwi Ben, was 2nd in the
queue in a car that had room for us and all our stuff, so we hitched a ride
with him the rest of the way. We were onsite and wristbanded by 2pm, people
in the queue with us didn't get in until 2am.
After setting up camp on a ridge overlooking the main dancefloor, we went
for a dip in the lake to cool and a wander round to get our barings. I was
immediately struck by the scale of the site, it must have been a good 5
minute walk from dance floor to chill out, and from the car park to the
furthest reaches of the camp site would have been about 15 or 20 minutes.
Wicki and Monster Ron turned up around 7ish and we spent the evening
drinking and getting a little bit wonky. Next thing I knew it was 4am and I
crawled into bed. We managed to sleep until about 9am before the heat forced
us out of the tent. After brekkie, I hitched back into Idahna with a couple
of very friendly portuguese guys and picked up the car and drove it back...
there was no queue whatsoever.
The music kicked off at 6pm, can't remember who played first, but it was
fairly awful live-band type trance. Sensient played next, and as ever, he
was wicked...deep, groovy progressive. Unfortunately, things went downhill
pretty quickly from there. P-Mac played next, and he started ok, but by the
end of his 2 hour set, the music was already dark and screeching... this was
10pm, and this is the way it stayed for what felt like forever. We retreated
to the chill, and stayed there until dawn having a good giggle. I did
venture over to the dancefloor at one point during the night, I think Highko
was playing, who replaced Kindzadza who had visa problems (yeah, right, like
WHATEVER! ;-), and the music was absolutely horrific. Trauma trance. Just a
trance beat with a load of very high-pitched screeching over the top.
Nothing psychedelic about it in my opinion; and no-one looked like they were
enjoying it while they were dancing either. Just lots of faces looking very
serious at best and very aggressive at worst. I didn't meet anyone at the
festie who said they enjoyed it. That was the last time I visited the dance
floor after midnight. At 6am we ventured back to the dancefloor for
Shawnodese's dj set; it was just starting to get light and we thought the
music might change as the sun rose. It didn't. It just got darker and
darker; at 7.30am he played a track with the sample "pure evil" repeated
several times. It was the worst set of the entire festival for me, and
everyone else I was with, simply because it was completely inappropriate for
the time of day, and a lot of people were gagging for something different
after being subjected to the barrage of darkness for 9 hours. A couple of
friends from bristol even got up and went and asked the sound engineer to
turn it down ;-) He certainly wasn't playing to the crowd, who were just
bobbing up and down going through the motions, so therefore he must have
been playing to massage his own ego. Afterwards Electric Universe played,
which, although I don't like all the guitars (and guitar player/rock god
posturing) and over-the-top melodies, was like having my brain flossed with
the finest silk compared with what had come before. He was billed to play
for an hour, with Transwave afterwards, but for some reason Transwave didn't
play then, and Electric Universe played for 2 hours. Next up was a
portuguese dj, can't remember his name, but he started off very well and we
finally got some good music for an hour or so, before he descended into the
biggest cheese fest I've heard since I used to go to parties in belgium. At
least that was funny though. When the gorgonzola had been polished off, it
was Banel's turn, and he played one of the only 2 good prog dj sets of the
festival Next up was Liquid Soul, and in my book he saved the 1st day. It
was progressive psytrance at it's very best, groovy basslines, lush pads and
beautiful melodies; one of the highlights of the festival. Sadly the good
music didn't last, cos Matera from Tropical Beats took to the decks and set
the tone for a large amount of the progressive music at Boom. It was housey,
plodding nonsense with opressive basslines and bored me relentlessly and
eventually sent us packing back to the chill out.
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lurk
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Posted : Aug 15, 2006 16:25
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A quick word about the chill at boom, I've never been to a better one. It
was a beautiful indonesian bamboo marquee, surrounded on 3 sides by the lake
and it was absolutely enormous with masses of shade and loads of space to
collapse. I've no idea who played when, but the music was usually pretty
good, especially after the music on the main stage had finished at 5pm each
day; when we heard some beautiful downbeat trance that reminded me of the
golden days of Transient Dawn.
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday have already blended into one, possibly because
they were very much the same as each other (and I don't have the schedule
written down to refer to!), lots of shite music punctuated by a couple of
hours of good music; and possibly because of the mescaline and the opium ;-)
We didn't bother staying up all night again, cos there was absolutely no
point, so we slept from about 1am until 7 or 8am, when we thought it was
safe to venture to the dancefloor. Overall the music was better than the 1st
day, but there was still an awful lot of shite. There were good DJ sets from
Teko, Goblin, Ma Faiza, Marko (who seemed to play a lot of
Rastaliens/Braincell tunes) and Sally Doollally who played the other good
prog set (and finished up with Minilogue's rmx of Teardrop by Massive Attack
=D), there were excellent live sets from Billy Cosmosis, who gave the
performance of the festival, dancing like a loon, totally and genuinely into
his music, and Commercial Hippies, who were absolutely rocking. There were
other good live sets from yotopia, lish, transwave (providing a very welcome
old skool blast from the past), broken toy and cosm, who gets the prize for
remix of the festival for his brilliant re-working of queen's another one
bites the dust ;-). A special mention must go to Pysnema who provided a
combined audio visual set, playing good music and mixing it in with video
footage of the festival so far and also soundbites from performers and
punters, very innovative stuff =D I've got to have a bit of a whinge about
most of the progressive music played at the festival, especially the dj
sets, they were all exactly as I described matera's set, and it was a bigger
disappointment to me than the night music (I was expecting to hate the night
music, but I was expecting to enjoy the prog). If this is the new trend then
it seems that progressive psytrance is losing it's psychedelic elements and
becoming much more electro house/cocaine music. Quite a few of the acts
seemed to be from Tropical Beats, and not one of them made me want to buy
anything from that label.
We got up at 7am on the final day to catch Dick Trevor's DJ set, which
proved to be the best one of the festival for me. It was just what I like
from a full-on morning set, a groove, no cheese, and a sense that the set is
actually going somewhere. His mixing didn't seem to be quite up to his usual
very high standards, but that is only a very minor gripe, cos it was still
very good. Next up were Bio-Tonic (I think!), they were nothing special,
mainly because of too many cheesy vocal samples, but they didn't have us
running for the hills. W00t-ah (aka Zen Mechanics) was next on, playing
live, and boy does this man have the tunes at the moment, his set was up
there with the Commercial Hippies and Cosmosis for me. He needs to work on
his interaction with the crowd, for me, but he's only just started playing
live, so this will come Then the music suddenly turned progressive with a
DJ set from Flow Records' Pena; unfortunately, after a promising start, this
ended up being the same as most of the rest of the progressive and it bored
the pants of us. Fortunately, Andromeda came on next, and they were up there
with Liquid Soul on the first day, really smooth, rolling tunes with
perfectly judged melodies. Their remix of Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxygene is
straight out of the top drawer and their stage presence is good too, lots of
bouncing round like loons and interaction with the crowd. After this we took
a break from the dancefloor for a few hours, as the music was going on until
midnight, so we missed vaishiyas and mapusa mapusa, but came back for
Cellie's DJ set at 6pm, which was good but nothing special. After that it
was the return of the Dickster playing as AMD with Jules Hamer (Aphid Moon),
this was excellent too, and had the crowd, which by this time was absolutely
massive really going for it. Deedrah followed them with his live set, which
was also very good, finishing with a stonking re-working of Reload. Finally,
to close the festival, it was the return of Tsuyoshi after his self-imposed
exile to techno-land. He started well enough, but by the end his tunes were
straight from the camembert collection; loads of 'orrible guitars and
over-the-top melodies.
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lurk
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Posted : Aug 15, 2006 16:26
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All in all, I've never been to a festival with so much crap music, now I
know this is my opinion, but it is also one shared by everyone I know who
was at the festival, and the vast majority of people that I met there. I
have nothing against dark music in general, there are acts out there that
are hard, dark and psychedelic, Scorb, Deviant Species and EVP to name but
three and some of these should have been included on the line-up. There was
also an imbalance in sheduling for me, with the amount of full-on and
progressive equalling the amount of trauma trance, and there being more
progressive than full-on. Finally (I've prattled on about the music for too
long already), the break each day was too long, with the music finishing at
5pm and only starting again at 10pm. I realise time is needed to set up the
stage for the live bands that start each night, but two hours should be
sufficient for that imho, and it would give extra time to squeeze a bit more
full on onto the schedule, without making dark/prog fans suffer.
Apart from the general vibe, the amazing location and good times with
friends, old & new, what made Boom 2006 so special was the level of
production and the attention to detail from the organisers. First of all
they (finally) listened to the criticism of 2 key areas and did something
about it; the sound system was sorted out, no more out-of-synch 4 stack
system, instead there was 2 stacks of immensely powerful, but crystal clear,
Funktion 1 sound. And then there were the toilets; Boom festival toilets
have passed into legend as the most disgusting around, but not this time;
they were cleaned at least 3 times a day, there was always an attendent and
there was nearly always toilet paper, right up until the day after the music
finished. I've never been in better festival bogs... good work, fellas!
There ware also good touches all over the festival, a sprinkler system
fitted into the roof of the main floor, which provided a light refreshing
rain, and caused people to put umbrellas up when smoking chillums ;-), the
dance floor was covered with gravel so there was no dust; there were
recycling bins at various points around the dance floor, which people used;
there were sprinklers fitted outside the restaurants to keep the dust on the
track down; there was an amazing wooden bridge connecting the chill out with
the sacred fire area; there were shade structures built on the beaches; the
hippies were regularly hosed down, with great joy, by the bombeiros
(firemen), making the place smell better ;-) The art installations dotted
around the site were also great; the sacred fire area and the liminal
village looked fantastic, but I never spent much time there. My only slight
complaint about the set up, was that there were no back drops anywhere, I
love a good back drop, me, and it would have been nice to have seen some
next to the dance floor or the chill out. The queues on Thursday to get in
were unfortunate because it seemed that everyone arrived at once to get
there early before the queues started... cos it seemed that very few people
arrived on the Friday. Next time, please open the gates on-time (they were
eventually opened at 11.30am when they were advertised as opening at 6am),
or even better, open the site 2 days before the music begins.
Overall, it was a fantastic festival, and I'd definitely consider going back
in 2008, but please sort out the balance of music!
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lokus
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Posted : Aug 15, 2006 18:13
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nice review man
i totally agree with the night-music
- last possible solution
- trick music
- ambivalent records
myspace.com/lokuz
ps: y trance?
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the-hq
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Posted : Aug 15, 2006 18:22
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On 2006-08-15 16:26, lurk wrote:
Trauma trance. Just a
trance beat with a load of very high-pitched screeching over the top.
Nothing psychedelic about it in my opinion; and no-one looked like they were
enjoying it while they were dancing either. Just lots of faces looking very
serious at best and very aggressive at worst. I didn't meet anyone at the
festie who said they enjoyed it.
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that's right. as you say in YOUR opinion. you should write that big.
it seems you haven't met me and my friends who all had a huge smile on their face at nighttime, especially at highkos set
i was dancing across the whole dancefloor most of the time and saw enough people giving me a smile and partying their ass off. i think it just depends on how your perception is at that moments.
if you go in with a prejudice and only look for the bad things you will find a LOT of bad things. as well as i could find a lot of bad things about the daytime partycrowd.
but i don't start with it, because everyone should have their fun the way they want.
the dancefloor was set up in a way so you could easily party in daytime! thanks to the sprinklers
just because YOU don't understand the nighttime stuff it doesn't mean that there is no right for this music to exist.
i think the lineup was great, though i am not that much into progressive i have to admit that there were some really good progressive acts.
you are right with acts like scorb, etc.
that type of fullon was a bit missing, also some of the southafrican style could have been played a bit more often. but alltogether i think it was ok for most of the people telling from the number of partypeople on the dancefloor at all times.
alltogether boom is the best festival in this world i think.
so much beauty, so much love in detail, such a good organization
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lurk
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Posted : Aug 15, 2006 18:47
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i don't see why i should write that big, i repeated it later on in the review.
It's not that I don't understand it, it's just that i don't like it... despite trying to, both beforehand and again at boom (otherwise i wouldn't have bothered staying up for the first night). i've been into psytrance for 12 years now, and while i've been indifferent to a couple of subgenres, this is the first one i've actually actively disliked. to me, and many others it is an agressive form of music, and imho agression is something that has no place in psytrance.
i'm not saying there should be none of this kind of music, because clearly some people do enjoy it, but 7 or 8 hours a night, every night is overkill.
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lokus
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...i'm not saying there should be none of this kind of music, because clearly some people do enjoy it, but 7 or 8 hours a night, every night is overkill.
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very true
there are a lot of people who like to party at night but dont want that super "dark" sound. what about them? there is other nighttime music too. lets play both...
imo there should be agression in the nighttime music. but i dont "understand" most of that "dark"-stuff too.
and that hasnt anything to do with "not open minded" or "full of prejudices". i tried to listen to some of these "dark" acts but i didnt get it. some of this stuff was so badly produced (thats a matter of fact and not taste) that i wondered why they could play at the boom.
but again i say, let them share the night with other acts.
- last possible solution
- trick music
- ambivalent records
myspace.com/lokuz
ps: y trance?
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Mistress of Evil
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Posted : Aug 15, 2006 19:38
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wow, i can barely gather my thoughts enough to post. but i just want to thank everyone from the boom crew, you truly are an amaying team and it was a pleasure to work with such a great organiyation. You all worked soooooo hard to present what was in my opinion the best festival i have ever been to. Something was offered for everyone. The ecological theme of the festival could not have come at a better time. Every area of the festival was put together with so much love and care....
about the music, as someone who spent a huge amount of time around the mainstage i can honestly say that the dance floor was packed from beginning to end, never an empty moment, which indicates to me that there was something offered for all tastes and styles. Obviously not everyone will like the music all of the time, but i think boom successfully presented a high quality representation of the various stlyes and sounds in underground psytrance today (next time i hope the finnish style is also represented, it was def. missed here)
Favorite sets for me were Ghreg on Earth, Amanda, Quasar, Anar, Penta and Dj Thomas... i missed Derango and zik sadly...
to the artists i met, thank you all for being so patient and pleasant to be around. I hope that we were able to make your boom experience one you will never forget! You made the long hours of work go by so fast, i really had a great time getting to know each of you and i hope to meet you all again at some time! also huge thanks to Diogo and Nena, the whole boom office crew, and my faithful companions Jigar and Karin, you both are amazing.
Thanks boom for leaving all the participants with such a huge and wonderful feeling of possibilty...
much love, see ya in 2008
Bringing Dreams to Life!
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well i have to agree in some points with you.
for example the ghreg on earth liveact - poorly mastered samples, very sad.
but as you might have experienced the system setup for the liveacts was totally strange compared to the sound the dj's got. i don't know why this happened but some acts sounded very poor on this massive sound system.
i liked highko a lot, i have heard him in fullmoon festival and he sounded BETTER there (don't ask me why. ok fullmoon had also a massive sound system, but it seems to me their settings were better...)
i found it very sad that very often you had a really strange change in sound when changing from live to dj. i hope in the next boom the sound engineer in charge for the system is more aware of the sound changes and compensates them, as i think the loss in sound might be quite a reason why some people couldn't enjoy some of the liveacts...
remember deedrah? lots of problems at the beginning of the set (i don't think it was his equipment that made problems, perhaps i am thinking wrong, correct me if somebody knows it better, i really would like to know what was wrong there)
the sound was constantly changing its volume. loss in bass etc. sounded very strange at some points but luckily got better after some minutes
i found it interesting that on the last day the volume was noticably MUCH MUCH higher than in the days before. why? because they thought people are already deaf enough after 4 nights? pump it up from the beginning next time hehehehe i think this system has way more power reserves
darkpsy quote: "the only chance to overcome your fear is to face it"
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