So tonight i went to Ruby Skye, in San Francisco, to see Zabiela and Deadmau5. I have seen Zabs many times and always been very pleased (which is why i went tongiht). I didn't find out until alter that Deadmau5 was playing as well. I wasn't sure if he was going to do some sort of pseudo - live production thing, or more towards djing. But he had a macbook pro up and some gear...and it seemed it was somewhere in between standard dj-ing and the stuff that junkie xl does (playing his prerecorded music and controlling a single knob for high pass filter cutoff).
My friend with me is more into trance (i....i know..) and wanted to leave after 20 minute of deadmau5. I wasn't sure what kind of stuff he would play, actually, but it was his harder tech-ier stuff.
So we went to the cliff hotel for about an hour in between, had a few drinks, than walked back to ruby skye just about when zabiela was starting again. I saw about the first 30 minutes of his set which was great as usual, lost of like....sampling the music and creating mini breakdowns by shortening the sample that he was taking...if that makes sense. It was good. way too many guys at the club. The sound system there is awesome, but i wish the place was a bit bigger with more areas to chill out.
OK that's it for my review.