1. Take one spacious building.
2. Add a hundred trance thirsty lunatics
3. Put in a lovely large system, not too large though (Which sounded as good as any other I’ve heard this year)
4. Mix an eclectic mix of tunes slowly for about 4 hours, throw in a live band with Violin, xylophone and guitar backed up by pumping base lines and funky percussion, the band were great!!!
5. So… about 2am once all your guests have met each other, sat by the fire in the garden, had a few reasonably priced drinks and talked to each other your party should have risen to a new level where all the smiles and human interaction have built into a big fat squishy vibe…perfect!!!

6. Now add some pumping trance tunes, dare to be different, allow your DJ’s to play psy trance, uplifting and techno in the same set if they like…in fact they can play Patagonian harp music for all we care as long as it kicks and the bass is pumping. We had DJ Peace and his own mix of trance styles…he played 2 1⁄2 hours of which 90% was his own material and the place rocked. It really made the night special for us…90% of the people there had never heard a note of Paolo’s music (Peace) before last night but the crowd loved it, the place rocked…you can’t beat the first time you hear new music right? …The excitement and anticipation as the sounds wash over you; you can understand why the Beatles spent all that time sorting out the blue meanies …

A massive thank you to all at the 491, they are the magic ingredient that you can’t buy in the shops…a creative bunch of lovely people who set up a perfect space because they love it!!!! For us lucky people to party in…Thank You All!!!!

I’m excited about going back already!!!
You can keep your top ten DJ’s and your early bird savers…this is where the Spacedout tribe wanna be. If you love your music, you should come on down and check it out. As I fuzzily recollect, one of the first sets was played by DJ X…(names!!! - sorry). He played great and had the room pumping with some nice uplifting melodic trance. Get in touch and we’ll add your name to the review!!!

So…a perfect night…I loved it…10 out of 10 apart from when I got home and found one of our Spacedout Kats had knocked over a glass of milk, which then poured through our modem. Oh! Well, I thought I may be cut off from the world but I can listen to my tunes still…tried switching on my new lovely speakers and nothing… the switch was broken!!!

So it’s headphones for a few days, my neighbours are going to be so pleased!!!!

That’s it…no internet, no speakers, the only thing left for any self respecting space cat to do is to climb into his oxygen tent, plug in the intravenous drip and have some groovy psychedelic dreams… hey and don’t forget take your positive energy from your party and infect the world with it through the week…why not!!!!

Till next time Space Kats

Smokey Beckham the Spacedout Kat

There are a few pics from the night on http://www.spacedout.us/

More on 491 Gallery at http://www.491gallery.com/