Amnesia has won the award for best global club in recent years and, in my opinion, deserves it judging by this great party that I attended.

Amnesia is near a motorway so I had to wait for a bus to get there. I arrived at about 0h45, with already a big queue to get in. About 20 minutes later I was in and Gareth Wyn was already playing in the main room. Gareth’s set was a very good one, pumping the crowd to what was yet to come. Gareth played some remixes of classics such as BT’s Flaming June and his own productions, much to the delight of the (great) Amnesia crowd, ready to listen to some trance.

Amnesia has a couple of nice features: the DJ booth is elevated but it has mirrors in the rear, so you can see the whole DJ hardware etc easily. And it has a fantastic equalizer (that truly represents what is going on) below it. When I looked at the mirror I immediately noticed PvD’s setup: the 2 laptops, the APC-40, the XONE 3D mixer and the 2 Axiom MIDI keyboards were already ready to go!

At 2 AM came the moment I have been waiting for: Paul van Dyk’s performance. I actually expected for him to play later on, but that would mean Eddie Halliwell would kill the crowd first with his banging trance, so this was a great decision. PvD played for 3 hours, in yet another epic set which consisted of 3 different parts: in the beginning it was mostly PvD’s new productions (kicking things off with the 2009 remix of “For an Angel”), then a bunch of crowd pleasers (like Underworld’s “Born Slippy”, Alter Ego’s “Rocker” or New Order’s “Blue Monday”) and to finish, Time of Our Lives and Home, sang live Johnny McDaid (Vega 4′s singer). 3 hours flew by as Paul played “Kidsos”, 4 String’s “Into the Night”, “Zombie Nation” with “We’re Alive” lyrics and even “Flaming June” (with “The Other side” vocals). Great stuff! Johnny McDaid being there just made things even better and the whole club sang “Time of Our Lives”, which is always a great track to hear live.

At 5 AM Eddie took over and obviously, he did not disappoint in bringing amazing banging tunes, with a couple of epic breakdowns for good measure, such as a some remix of Binary Finary and Sander van Doorn’s Remix of “Spaceman”, by The Killers. The crowd went nuts for the 90 minutes Eddie played. I am not sure at what time Sasha played, if he actually did, since the main room was REALLY busy as soon as PvD started and nobody left afterwards… Sasha joined the main room to say hi to Eddie during his set, so I am not sure if he actually played in the other room or not.

After Eddie, Gareth Wyn returned to finish off with Flaming June (yes, again) and a couple of tracks more, constantly pointing to his watch (maybe telling the people to go home?) and at 6h45, that was it.

Unbelievable night. Great atmosphere in a great home, awesome music and I never thought Trance would be so much fun in a club- maybe because I am from Portugal and no one cares about Trance here… but this was just incredible!

Here are some pics:

Amnesia – Cream closing 24sept09

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