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Mindoutpsyde Presents' RAINDANCE April 12th Iowa City, IA
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@ktif
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Posted : Apr 18, 2008 07:49
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Raindance Recap!!
First off I must say. With each event that we throw, my sense of love and pride grow and expand as I watch the evolution revolution happening in my very own back yard. These events have clearly burrowed themselves into your hearts; they have become an extension of all of our realities and existences. This is evident throughout the entire night. From people making amazingly beautiful works of art; spending countless hours, only to donate the beauty for the "cause". To people picking up cigarette butts (without being asked to) in cold weather and then asking “What else can I do?!” These are but mere drops in the sea that supports our environment that we have created for one and other. An environment built on respect for one and other and for the land. Such a simple concept to preach, but when it comes down to doing it, often brings the demise of this great concept. Not here. Here in Psyowa we have a standard that is maintained throughout any one of our events. I believe that it is the people that actually care about the wholesomeness and good that comes from all of this, are the ones who impact our community so profoundly. Do you notice how there is not a glimmer of attitude throughout the night, but a bright beam of positively glowing for everyone to feel. The river of disrespect is dry, yet the bodies of acceptance, compassion and unity constantly overflow their banks. My point in all of this is that all of our actions are beginning to formulate into extremely positive reactions. We all can feel this, we felt it last weekend. The catalyst for this great movement has actuated a force that now cannot be stopped. This force is the future, and the catalyst is you. Please continue to better yourselves in any way you can, as we better ourselves we better our community. We all deserve the best, we all deserve each other. The future is looking very bright from my perspective, a bright light which we tenderly care for and love--this is truth.
AAAAnnnnd now for my review...
Our best yet. I say that with a grain of salt though as this was hands down our most stress inducing party to date. I mean the amount of everything that we put into this event really had us spread and stretched thin (hold mom joke). I think as with anything though, the more you strive for excellence the more work you put in front of you. We have always set the bar for our events to the level of personal satisfaction, we all have heard the old adage “We’re our own worst critics”, well we apply this so there are no corners left to cut. I am happy to see that this philophy is spreading as others are striving to contribute their own excellence in anyway that they can—this is so beautiful to me.
Everything went swimmingly for the set up. It was awesome to see so many people taking initiative to combine their dreams and fantasies with each other. It was evident from the stunning deco set up that it was indeed like walking through peoples dreams. The whole night seemed like a dream as a matter of fact. Possibly it was the surreal environment. To everyone that contributed artwork—thank you! We can’t say this enough, how big of a difference it makes when people step up and start thinking of how to further what we got. Cliff, Liza, Mallory and the countless other amazing individuals who made it an effort to impact this party with their own special sauce—People your sauce is strong. Keep it up. Keep that love flowing and overflowing. I want to tell you what a difference all of you make but I am afraid my words will do this no justice. Thank you. By far one of our most elaborate and beautiful set ups ever.
Musically the night was amazing. I caught most of Trevors and Phils set. I thought that stylistically there was a bit of clashing going on but it is for good reason. Trevor, you have been getting into some really heady sounds lately, I can’t quite put my finger on it as of yet, but I like it—A lot! I think that as you travel further down the road that you are going on you will bask in paradise—its not far friend, keep goan!! It was really interesting though, I enjoyed the organic sounds that were growling through the speakers. Chris played some sharp and spicy tracks that got the dance floor’s ears and energies perked! I really enjoy listening to your sets as they always have a great flow to them, I can’t wait to go out to Cali with ya next month and show em how we do it back home! Hope everyone enjoyed what I played? I re-recorded the set and it is up on the MindOutpsyde . com website under music. Please do have a listen and enjoy!
The Ooze as always is phenomenal. I have actually developed a slight addiction to their music. I must have it twice a day or else all my teeth fall out. Next came the guy who “doesn’t know what he is doing”? It is the Face with the Head, it was the FaceHead. WOW!!! I was blown the hell back by his set. Just up my alley. The best thing was that YOU guys LOVED IT!!! It is very refreshing to hear from artist after artist that the crowd here is the best crowd to play for because you don’t like some, YOU LOVE IT ALL!!! MEGA PROPS PSYOWA, WAY TO WORK IT!! After the onslaught, that was FaceHead, and a little re-energizing I was ready for some Konflux! I loved that opening track that he played, Pondscum. Minimal and groovy, his set had a great progression to it leading from darker minimal sounds to almost twilight sounds towards the end. Great stuff, I really enjoyed it! Ctrl-Alt-Delete was the best live trance performance I have ever seen, hands down. The music that he played along with his energy had my jaw on the floor! AMAZING! Every DJ and Producer can take a lesson from this guy! I don’t think I have ever seen a dance floor here at home in such frenzy—Good shit, ey!? I did not get to catch much of Airycks and Paradigms set because we had a lot of stuff come up at this point, but from what I heard it was a beautiful morning music as fine as the feeling you get listening to it. Overall the lineup was one of the best ever (period). I think this is something we can all agree on!
Big thanks go out to all of the volunteers who help with everything throughout the night. Concessions, the door, security all wouldn’t be possible without the efforts of amazing individuals such as yourselves. Cleanup was AWSOME! So many people that contributed their time and efforts into making the place look spotless. Granted this time the venue was in slightly worse shape than the previous time, a learning experience. This is the only thing that I would say that we have to work on. There was paint on carpets and some minor paint damage, but these are accidents and by being careful this can be avoided. The toilet paper holder in the women’s bathroom that got ripped off the is the only true venue related problem that we had. I think that next time everyone just needs to exercise a bit more caution (which doesn’t hurt, but helps) and we will have an even better event! So with that said Psyowa—Hats off to you! Hat’s off and sincere gratitude for all who come to support, explore and constantly redefine what it means to BE ALIVE!!!
Make sure to mark you Calendars to the RAINDANCE DECOMPRESSION on APRIL 25TH at FARRAHS! Jam packed with the best of Mindoutpsyde, this one is gonna be a blast. Come reconnect with the amazing people who you met, or meet some fresh faces. Either way, I hope to see everyone!
With sincere infinate love,
Nick
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KaiserSoze
Primordial Ooze
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Posted : Apr 18, 2008 08:13
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I can't tell who won the longest review reward, but everyone came really close..
Some beautiful words there fellas and one hell of a party.
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acidity
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Posted : Apr 18, 2008 08:46
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I guess the party was so awesome that we were going out of words to describe it.....
WHAT A PARTY!!!
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ctrl+alt+del
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Posted : Apr 21, 2008 03:34
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Where do I begin?
RainDance was THE most amazing party ever organized. The MindOutPsyde crew did a fantastic job of pulling this off.
The venue + the sound + the line-up + the crowd + the vibes = BLISS
The music was phenomenal. I'm not much of a dark-psy fan, but Primordial Ooze and Facehead changed my opinion of that sub-genre of psy-trance.
Primordial Ooze - not only are Scoot + Igor top-notch producers but also they know who to create mayhem with their incredible live set!
FaceHead - Chuck played some of the most high-power night-time psy I've ever heard. The set was FIERCE! That track he played --> "Rip-Off" --- AAHHHH! Chuck can I have that one please? Hahaha!
Konflux - I had no idea we had such similar styles. Everyone told me that your music was "funky," and after hearing your set I concur!
The People - Mid-Westerners sure know how to tear up the dancefloor eh? The stomping was non-stop from start to finish. There was a lot of positive energy that night. Parties in the US need more people like the PSY-owans! NYC could learn from all of you 
MoP Crew - Thank you for a KILLER party! I was honoured to spin for you guys. I'm going to spread the buzz - "Mindoutpsyde throws the BEST psy-parties in the US."
AND FINALLY - thanks to everyone for the awesome compliments. Thank you for the kind words, I deeply appreciate it. The overwhelming support propels me to do my best every time I get behind the decks! 
Last but not Least - thanks to my PERFECT girlfriend for accompanying me all the way to Iowa! Your support makes me do my best! Thanks for everything "minha querida." 
Much Love and Respect,
Vish
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FaceHead
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Posted : Apr 21, 2008 10:37
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wow ya everytime i leave iowa i cant wait to get back. ok so some people go to an amusment park for vacation some go to a resort but me i went to iowa and had considerably more amusing time than many other options. Ya see i dont get much human contact in oregon so rather than do anything else just meeting and interacting with all you unique specimens has been quite a vacation. i dont know what else to say theres too much so ill sum it up in one unintelligable run on sentance...
plane long, milwuakee morning sleepy foreign, more music, meet new friends, more music, pizza, sleeping coughing, more music, get ready, dreary drive, wanna smoke cant smoke, cough syrup, lost, found, run around reunion, hi, hi, hi ,hi hi, hugs, hi, high, nervous, setup shaking, hit play, it all goes away, jump, crowds energy makes me laugh repeatedly out of pure enjoyment, play, finale', foot cramps, hi thanks, hi thanks, hi thanks, smoke out back adjusts me back to reality, Kinda got sicker, outside to get cold air, talk nonsense with some guy, walk around, listen to frogs, feel better, meet new friend, re-enter, eyes shut enjoying the sound, cant dance still cramps from my set, abes gone, pickup trash, smoke a cig, vomit, eat crackers, sidewalk afterparty reunion, sleep, wake, music, sleep, wake, music, pizza, music, sleep, wake, music, fun, music, ignoring cellphone, music, no internet, sleep, wake, music, hilarity, music, movie, and so it went till now im back in milwuakee waiting for my flight back to oregon tomorrow. So im sure i missed a bit. but i couldnt relive it all at once my brain would hemmorage.
thank you all it was a great vacation.
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oh ya also the music was amazing (even though i couldnt participate much.) Vish you are a true professional. You just got up there and took control. really the crowd was following youre every command. You gave back alot of energy to a crowd who was giving sooo much to eachother as well as to us artists. i missed alot of konflux running around getting my head straight afterwards but what i heard was clean funky and without cheese fun ride down as well. there will still be some flux face right? ill get to work. OOOOZe so ya i played with these guys last summer and loved it but damn they are on a whole new level now i can in my opinion say they are by far my favorite american trance act so far. this weekend made that apparent. Also collaborating with nick brent and oozers this week has been great atlanta is gonna be pleased by the tunes we worked on while here.
One thing i noticed with the lineup here was the attitude. there was no im gonna rock your world because i am great attitude amongst the artists. it was a humble display of talent by some genuinly positive people.
yup.
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maybe i should sign again ....ya why not
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Posted : Apr 23, 2008 05:04
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WOW! - Thanks so much for the compliments you guys!!! this means so much to us all and is sure to make us work even harder to make it all soar even higher!
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FaceHead
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Posted : Apr 24, 2008 06:07
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we are all gushy inside by nature
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@ktif
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Posted : Apr 24, 2008 06:40
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@ktif
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Posted : Apr 24, 2008 17:10
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eww nick! keep your gushiness away from me! you might want to grab a towel so you dont make any stains
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