Category: wnysor
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TomorrowWorld – 2nd Artist Announcement
TomorrowWorld is a 3-day music festival (and 5-day camping experience) nestled within 8,000 acres of expansive forests and lakes known for mind-blowing décor, massive artist line-ups, luxury camping, and gourmet food. In 2013, TomorrowWorld was the first European electronic music festival of its scale in the US and the first US festival to set a minimum age…
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Daft Punk and DJ Hype Flyer from Hyperactive 1999 in Toronto
The Syrous six-year anniversary party in Toronto was a massive event held on Saturday, September 4, 1999 at the Toronto Congress Centre near the Toronto airport. The venue was absolutely massive with 200,000 square feet of space as you’ll be able to see in video footage at the bottom. In the modern era of many…
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Freakin 1999 and 2000 in Toronto Flyers and Downloads
Halloween is always one of the largest party weekends of the year and in Toronto the Freakin events promoted by Dose and Syrous were some of the largest. Back in 1999 and 2000 at the time of these two events the attendance at the parties were bigger than most current Halloween events held in North…
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Spring Revival May 1 1999 Buffalo
On May 1, 1999 Zodiac presented an event named Spring Revival that was held at The Pier on the waterfront of downtown Buffalo and is considered one of the most memorable events for those that attended. The Pier was located right on the water with an outdoor deck where people witnessed the sunset and then…
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Phryl and Phato Present Titan April 8 2000 Rochester
This massive event was the work of Phato & Phryl joining forces to throw a massive event with the help of Skye High. Phato was one of the original promoters in New York state and Phryl was the same in Toronto. Skye High was the name of Rochester’s best record store and a vital part…
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Pop October 16 1999 Buffalo NY
This rave was the third in a series thrown by Funktion with Snap and Crackle being the first two. The event was held at the Coliseum in downtown Buffalo, now known as Skybar and D’Arcy McGee’s Irish Pub. At one time the building had a different style of club on each floor. Out of the…
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2001-11-10 State 01 Toronto with Orkidea and Armin van Buuren
At the tail end of 2001 there was a party held at The Docks in Toronto, Canada that featured a guy by the name of Armin van Buuren and he was billed third on the flyer. Armin was making a name for himself but at the time was nowhere near as popular as Tiesto at…
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FTP July 31 1999 Niagara Falls NY
The event was originally held at the Hart to Hart Furniture building but the port o potties did not arrive and they were forced to move the event across the street to what was known at the time as Center Stage. The event lost the warehouse feel the original venue would have had along with…
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Life April 22 2000 Toronto featuring Eminem
As I write this in the middle of the year 2013 there’s a lot of people who complain about the supposed explosion and commercialization of the scene but let’s take a look back at the first massive rave scene boom in the year 2000 at this event. The event was massive being held at the…
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Ha Ha Offworld Productions April 1 2000 Buffalo NY
I went digging for this flyer because a the Veld Music Festival flyer in Toronto seemed very very familiar. As I was digging through my bin of flyers I didn’t know what it was similar to and finally found it. I’m not saying that Veld copied the flyer in any way because the first Veld…
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1999-12-11 Phlux Productions Mission into Drums Niagara Falls
Phlux Productions presented Mission Into Drums on December 11, 1999 in what was a true warehouse rave. The event was held in an empty warehouse on Willow Street in Niagara Falls across the street from Wilson Farms. To enter the venue you had to walk up some old metal stairs and the event was on…
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NYE 2001 Max Graham at System Soundbar Toronto
System Soundbar in Toronto hosted Max Graham for New Years Eve 2001. System Soundbar was the place to be for progressive house, breaks, jungle, drum and bass and breaks as well from the years 2000 through 2005. Want to know more about System Soundbar? The Grid TO wrote Then & Now: System Soundbar, a great article about the…
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2002-02-23 Eye Opener Buffalo
Eye Opener was held at the Showplace Theater in Buffalo on February 23, 2002. It featured happy hardcore from Spree, Frisky & D-Minus, Kandievibes and Kandiekraver. SOS and Dose the Alien changed things up with some trance and Major Malfunction played some hard house. MC Specs had hosting duties. The event venue was packed with…
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2007-01-27 ETERNITY 2 BUFFALO
This was a part of a monthly series by Phlux Productions at Club Metroplex that used to be located at 727 Main St just North of W. Tupper in downtown Buffalo. The upstairs room featured Dj Rip vs Dj Venom, Mazi, Spero, Josh Collins, Frankie Vega, Major Malfunction and Jonah the Ghost. In the basement…