Fall has been a great a music season in Toronto. U2 was here few weeks ago on their world tour and last Saturday Tiesto was here to please his trance fans.
Although Armin Van Buuren and Gabriel & Dresden duo are my all time favs, I'm quite fond of Tiesto also. His Adagio For Strings and Elements of Life are simply out of the world.
So here I was with Pavan & Sky, waiting in a mile long queue on a freezing Saturday evening, all too excited to watch Tiesto perform. The rain Gods had decided to rest for that hour and spared us from getting drenched.
After the security checks and other formalities we rushed into the performance hall and were thrilled to see the setup. The Heineken beer bar decorated in florescent green eluded us..the rest, as they say, was history.. =)
Opening acts started at 9 PM with some local DJs dishing out their work. The 1st guy was pretty good and performed for an hour. The crowd was consistently shouting out the God-of-the-night's name "TII-EE-S-TO". By the mid of the 2nd DJ, who was doing a terrible job, most of the people had lost their patience.
Then slowly the lights started dimming down and a soothing music started in the background. The background graphic screen was showing the back of a man's head. The crowd knew what was gonna happen next. We started shouting at the peak of our voices..and then finally Tiesto appeared on to the stage.
He starated off with a fast beat from his new album Kaleidoscope which got the fans into a frenzy and started their trance moves in a religious fervor. He continued with other songs such as Back In Your Head (feat Vancouver based Tegan and Sara)and Escape Me and other songs from the same album. All these numbers were thumpingly awesome, but my favorite was Century. The music is fast and its lyrics is very catchy. It goes like:
Hello, can you hear me??
Now put you hands in the air..for the century
I'm sure its gonna be a super hit.
The atmosphere was electrifying. It was not just the out-of-the-world trance music, it was also the amazing graphics that was making it more fun. Just when we thought the last molecule of ATP (the energy molecule)had been burnt, our bodies would automatically start dancing again, as if it received an energy boost from the music.
The hot dogs we had before entering was long gone. We had taken regular breaks to drain down a Sprite or Coke (we were dancing back & forth, of course).
The 2nd half was even more fun when he started belting out his older classics such as the Adaigo and Elements of Life. The fans went berserk on these two. He also played his some of his songs we had heard in ASOT (A State of Trance, Armin's weekly trance radio program).
We had lost track of time. But bodies were totally exhausted and were begging for some rest. The party went on till 3 AM. Then the music started slowly mellowing down and Tiesto said few good words, thanked us and bowed out. All of us were shouting in our hoarse voice for him to play for some more time. But it went in vain.
We half-heatedly walked out of the venue, caught a taxi & came back home at 5 AM. But the night was an experience to remember.
Here's a link to an Internet version of Kaleidoscope: http://www.myspace.com/tiesto. Hope you'll enjoy it!
