Dada Life
Laidback Luke
Benny Benassi
Afrojack
Swedish House Mafia
Above & Beyond
Armin Van Buuren
Tiesto
Kaskade
Dirty South
Deadmau5
Cosmic Gate
Feed Me
Sub Focus
12th Planet
Skrillex
Nadastrom
Two Fresh
Rusko
Pretty Lights
Nero
Steve Aoki
Adding these because I’ll be seeing them on NYE:
Fedde Le Grand
Porter Robinson
Hardwell
R3hab
Madeon
Bart B More
I started to think about the significant ones - even that list is too long! Here’s a couple, though.
THE SUGAR HILL GANG (@Creamfields many years ago - I nearly cried. I shook hands with Master Gee!)
Public Enemy
Carl Cox
Sven Vath (I was NOT prepared for Sven Vath!)
RONI SIZE/Full Cycle
Plump DJ’s
Orbital (Oh yes…)
Chemical Brothers
Dave Clarke
DJ Yoda
Krafty Kuts
Faithless
LTJ Bukem
Jazzy Jeff (Desperate to see him again - I saw him pre-DVS…)
We used to travel the UK every weekend going to clubs. Summer time was amazing - festivals left, right and centre! Creamfields, Homelands, Global Gathering - those were awesome weekends…
Amon Tobin
Mogwai
Bonobo
DJ Krush
The Roots
Mike Patton & Rahzel
Muse (not such a big fan, but live, WOW!)
65daysofstatic
Daedelus
Flying Lotus
Harmonic 313
Africa Hitech
Dorian Concept
Blue Daisy
Akira Kiteshi
Eprom
DJ Tigerstyle
Nosaj Thing
Martyn
Vex’d
Ikonika
Limewax
Evol Intent
Tech Itch
Venetian Snares
Squarepusher
Stanton Warriors
Booka Shade
Adam Beyer
Andy McKee
DJG
A Perfect Circle
Converge
Cult of Luna
Horse the Band
Beecher
Dillinger Escape Plan
ahhh I could go on for ages… so many good memories
when i was like… 9 i went to a rave and saw Crystal Method with Darude and (insert 20 other rave djs) it was awesome. other than that everything else has been post hardcore bands. but borgore is coming here, bet your ass im going to see him.
Squarepusher [my 1st time at glasto, he absolutely smashed it up. Couldn’t even understand what I was hearing at times…]
Prodigy
Doves
Whitest Boy Alive
Andy C [Renegade Hardware night at coronet, power cut halfway through his set left the floor silent for about 10 mins, people started to leave and then this one green laser came on from behind his head, and he dropped [i think] Vault - Pendulum. I was going berserk
Bands:
Faith No More (Angel Dust Tour)
The Prodigy (Fat Of The Land Tour)
Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dreams Tour)
Babes In Toyland
L7
The Gossip
Wolfmother
The Streets
La Roux
DJs
Richie Hawtin Dj set and live
Carl Cox 3 decks rave set back in the 90’s
Lenny Dee
Loftgroover
Dave Clark
Micheal Mayer
Tiefschwarz
Modeselektor live
LCD soundsystem live
Hotchip live
Soulwax
2manydjs
Derrick Carter
Green Velvet
Dj Sneak
Gemini
Jeff Mills
Lauren Garnier live and Dj
Plump DJs
Freddy Fresh
Miguel Migs - Nice guy. Plays good and nice music selection. Rasmus Faber - I opened for him had been a good friend ever since. We’ve been to gigs 3 times in the last three years. Kaskade - Have seen him perform 3 times and will see him again this December. Nice guy to talk to. Very down to earth. Tiesto - Seen him perform twice. Nothing great about his performance though. Ricky Stone- played closing set after him in 2004. Niel Hinde (Lisa Marie Experience)- Opened for him in 2001. Alchemic Storm aka Stéphane Schweitzer - Opened for him in 2007. Nice guys with good skills and nice selection. Julius Papp - Very technical on his mixes and performed very well. Good track selection too Andy Caldwell - nothing speacial. Simple tracks and mixes David Morales - The super commercial/mainstream guy. Nothing great on his mixing skills though. Sandy Rivera - played some cheesy tracks Boy George - One hand on the mixer/turntables and the other hand holding the headphones during the whole set because of his big hat. Funkagenda - Plays good tracks and technically good. Laidback Luke - Performed really well Louie Vega - Very, very clean mixes and well selected tracks Steve Aoki - Really annoying piece of sh*t! Ferry Corsten - One of the best trance DJs I’ve seen perform. Satoshi Tomiie - Nothing special about his skills. Very deep selection. Ian Carey - His whole set sounds monotonous. Olav Basoski - Good track selection and clean mixes.
Here’s my (not quite complete) list with some comments in no particular order…
Carl Cox
Above & Beyond (met them back stage; nice guys)
Ferry Corsten (met him)
Axwell
Sander Van Doorn (from the booth)
Garath Emery (from the booth)
Felix Cartal (from the booth; 3 times total)
Donald Glaude (from the booth; this guy is sick)
DJ Dan
Robbie Rivera
Jachim Garraud
Funkagenda
Go Fish
Kai Alce (significant local)
Brett Mauro (significant local)
Groove Armada
Calvin Harris (twice)
Mat Zo
Felix da Housecat (from the booth)
Orbital
Bloody Beetroots
Toddla T
Freq Nasty
Diplo
Eric Morillo
Fedde Le Grand
Sander Kleinenberg (from the booth)
Miss Nine
Joachim Garraud (from the booth)
Bassnectar (from the booth)
Afrobeta (from the booth)
Rabbit in the Moon (from the booth)
Markus Schulz (from the booth; also he took a picture of me & armin because I didn’t recognize him at first)
Nero (met them; really nice guys; only dubstep set I’ve enjoyed)
Sasha (once on Live, once on CDJs, once on Traktor + CDJs)
Cassy
Eric Prydz (from the booth)
Sven Väth
Boys Noize
Pendulum
Crookers
steve aoki (met him; he’s a disaster)
laurent garnier (from the booth)
john b.
aphex twin
Andy Moor (from the booth)
Bart B More
Josh Wink
Busy P
Dada Life
Laidback Luke (several times; once from the booth)
Benny Benassi
Afrojack
Swedish House Mafia
Armin Van Buuren (met him)
Kaskade (from the booth)
ATB (from the booth)
Cosmic Gate
Skrillex (it was free)
Nadastrom
Rusko
Jazzy Jeff
Young Guru (<150 person venue after the Jay/Kanye concert a couple weeks ago)
Flying Lotus
Squarepusher
Adam Beyer
Steve Porter (from the booth, twice; he remembered me the second time)
Deep Dish
Steve Lawler (a couple times)
Paul Oakenfold (from the booth; talked to him backstage)
Mr. C (wound up hanging out with him at a house party and trading bottle shots of stoli for cigarettes…best night I’ve been to, hands down)
And a lot of locals.
hmm lets see if I can remember everyone
A-Trak
Axwell, Ingrossio, and Angello (as SHM)
Robbie Rivera
Bassnectar
Skrillex (I didnt want to see him but I was at lollapalooza with some friends and they wanted to)
Roger Sanchez
Porter Robinson
Wolfgang Gartner (his sets are actually really boring after seeing him once because it seems like he played all the same tracks from when I had seen him a year ago)
Avicii
Fedde Le Grande
Sander van Doorn
deadmau5
tiesto
armin van buuren (definitely the best performance Ive seen)
MSTRKRFT
r3hab
Chuckie
Diplo
Laidback Luke
Afrojack
Sidney Samson
Pendelum
Underworld
Steve Aoki
David Tort
eric prydz
Carl Cox
Ferry Corsten
Martin Solveig
Kaskade