Hope you're all doing alright. Did any of you get into crypto before the hype? Still going to events? In those err, places of social gathering called "clubs." Hopefully everyone's still alive; I'd love to throw in a laughing emoji but fuck me, things didn't half nose-dive since I last logged in. Forums were way ahead of their time.
Fucking hell, someone posted! Yeah I miss a good forum and this was my favourite. I never got into Crypto but remember hearing people buying bitcoin and selling them donkeys ago cos it was going nowhere and there were people on this board who would be legit millionaires now if they held the Bitcoin til around 2017 onwards. I always liked how on here, unlike FB, you can pick up conversations quite easily where you left off. Facebook is useful for me these days (I arrived late to the party and started DJing 10 years ago thanks to Rossy, Conway, Brid, Tom and Jess) but I owe a lot in regards to my taste in music and passion for the scene to the efforts of the people in this forum. FB just self selects what it wants to show people so you have to think through how you write a post to even get a message really out there and it self boosts when people react quickly (or hides it if no one responds soon enough). Algorithm based 'social' media. I moved to Cyprus 4 years ago and lockdown caused me to really take seriously how to start live streaming and when things opened up in 2021 my DJ career over there became more of a thing. I've just moved back to Newcastle. I bumped into Mad Chris the other day and have started seeing loads of people off this message board at some new events below. There's a resurgence in people aged 30+ (or way more) going out in the daytime because people are realising one of the reasons they left the scene was simply the cost of being up all night. They still want to see friends and enjoy new music with it not being all about classics. I was throwing little gatherings around my house originally with just DJs from around 2014 and a few people every few months became 45 people at the last one in 2019 and it had to stop because our deaf neighbour moved on so after leaving it for ages thinking we needed to find another house to do it, we got our heads together about going public and we threw a party at the Telegraph thinking no one would come and then loads did. This was the start of PROGRESS:ON which I set up with Alan Ruddick, Phil Littledyke and SoapieTW on here. It ended up at The Cut, Worldheadquarters, Archies Lab, Anthony Pappa, Richard Tulip, Scott Bradford, Lexicon Avenue (Chris Scott), Paul Thomas have all played for us and people from here came to all of those. My friends also do Early Doors Club at WHQ in a similar vein. We had a baby in 2022 which caused us to pause flying back to run those events and eventually got us to move back from Cyprus to here so will start doing these events again now we're settled. I'm on https://www.facebook.com/Nass86 / https://instagram.com/Nasser.Alazzawi if anyone wants to keep in touch on there and my youtube is https://www.youtube.com/c/NasserAlazzawiTV which has a back log of the live streams I've done from home (plus some from real events). For audio only there's soundcloud. It was this forum which helped me appreciate things like when an event gave people something to listen back to after it had happened and me and most people in here took joy in replaying their favourite nights so I've always been passionate about doing that now. Hope you're doing well mate and its nice to see someone post here. I will check back sometimes! Ps. I saw Conway the other week, he's doing well. I took a photo of his new set up / man cave - I couldn't be happier at what he calls his 'midlife crisis' its the best one I've seen!
Went to a new festival called Balaeric at Progress Centre in Manchester at the weekend. It was amazing, I feel like a new person! Tim Green b2b Roy Rosenfeld https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2101989843534347 Sasha & John Digweed https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1432378330723778 Top day, many of you would have loved it. I'll be at Early Doors Club @ WHQ on Sat 18 May. 5pm til 10:30 - quite a few from Promise go. Come join us. https://store.ticketing.cm.com/EarlyDoorsClubmay18
Hi mate! Long time no speak. Sorry for the late reply, I honestly thought no one had replied since I hadn't received any email alerts; turns out the old email account wasn't even signed in via Outlook. That's a cracking setup Conz has there! The last time I touched a deck was the CDJ1000 Mk2! And christ, yeah, the whole Bitcoin thing. I had a small pile of them in 2012 but sold them for peanuts. I did manage to get back on the boat around 2015 however and held a pile of alts until 2017 and it's just turned into an obsession from there I remember my Etherereum going through the roof late 2020 - when everything was fucked; I couldn't even go for a bloody pint I had you and a few of the lads/lasses from here on Instagram/FB but, they finally banned me and restricted my Facebook, too, where some featured now don't even work as I had the two accounts linked via Meta. Hopefully no one thinks I blocked them. I now only use Reddit and Snapchat to keep in touch with a few folks. I remember watching you streaming sets from Cyprus a while back. How is it being back? Can't beat a good North East summer eh? I really need to get my self back out to events. Kept saying it but I don't see a single person that likes electronic music anymore so, I'd have to arrive solo
Alright Keez; hows tricks? Can't remember when I last saw you. Do you still speak to any of the old clan?
Hi Lads So random to come across this, was searching if Jamie Bracken owned 'Brack Burger' when I seen the recent advert for it and a Jamie Bracken missing post from this board was the second link. Low and behold there are people posting, its like tis fate - lets sort a reunion haha Hope all are well
Carson! Old buddy old pal. I've a picture of me, you and a few other old faces on my "good times" pinboard. It was taken mid 2007 @ Cosmic Ballroom, for Junior:G - I was only going over the pinboard last week wondering where the fuck the time has went. I'll take a snap of it and drop it here. Pupil wise though, I must warn, we all look like we've just brought in 1995 It's quite a sight.
Pretty good idea Rudds! I have an account, mainly for obsessing over crypto but that's it. This would give me good reason to re-subscribe to Nitro
I came back here to look for old trance reminders/recommendations - also went the 'midlife crisis' route and got some turntables and a mixer. No trance vinyl really in New Zealand so I tried DVS. There was a Trance Classics (music not the night/event) thread here that I remember seeing years ago, but can't seem to find it now (anyone know where that went, or what it was called??). My old housemate tried to get me into crypto but it turns out he's behind bars as he's a bit of a wrong'un so it's probably for the best that I didn't take any of his advice.
