- With all the hype surrounding every Transmission event to date and all 16 of them selling out well in advance their 2nd episode of Anthems was to be no different. The venue, which I'd never actually been in before, was inside the former Sega World instead of under that outdoor blue cone area, and worked quite well... it got fairly hot and sweaty with the sell out crowd [of many familiar faces] partying away like there was no tomorrow but hey, you get that. Maybe due to the large number of outdoor events in sydney of late, it comes as a shock to suddenly be faced with no al fresco air conditioning. The lasers were, as Transmission always provides, 100% top class and the club was quite dark... so sweat + smoke + darkness = damn impressive laser shows.
I arrived as Martyn Allen & Marty Butler finished and Mark Dynamix & Sugar Ray [where was Leah? I'm not too sure] took to the decks. That inner part of me that just wanted to hear those great epic style trance tracks was let loose with that great Marmion - Schöneberg track. Sugar Ray and Dynamix continued with some really funky 'old skool' happy hardcore style sounds from the mid 90's for a brief moment and then dipped back into more recent stuff.
Bexta and Peewee took over the decks and blew everyone away, launching straight into Mauro Picotto's Pulsar [can't wait to see him at 2tribes], then switching over to another one of his tracks for a brief moment and then onto some more great hard trance - it was the perfect begining. At many points the pair must have been using all 4 decks to their full potential... with Cosmic Gate's Fire Wire mixing in the background with 'Dreams' and that well famous vocal 'free at last' speech by Martin Luther King Jr. added to something else I couldn't pick up. Noone could have asked for more... this was followed shortly by Rank1's pure epic trance track of 'Airwave', one of those tracks an Anthems night couldn't do without.
Between 2:30 and 4:00 it was Nervous and John Ferris's turn to blow the crowd away and continue to use many great tracks with style. The night was just amazing, things were going as well as hoped, when towards the end of Nik Fish and Jumping Jack's set the crowd was hit head-on by the voice of one of Sydney's great police officers - 'Sorry we have to shut this party down now' - at around 5:30. Unfortunate, to say the least, as i'm sure Yoshi and Mantis would have gone on to provide some amazing hard house, but it's the usual Sydney story, and what can you do... the night was still awesome and the punters loved it, further reinforcement of the brilliant impact Transmission has on the crowds of Sydney.
Until next time...