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Illuminate 1 Year Anniversary
Published
on 01/27/2014
Author
: Shelby Utter
Last Friday night marked the one year anniversary of Opera’ Nightclub’s largely successful “Illuminate” events. Illuminate has been bringing Atlanta the best talent in the EDM scene for a year now, and to celebrate they held nothing back by bringing TWO of the biggest names in the dance music scene. Trance legends Cosmic Gate, and Australian super DJ Tydi, both shared the stage and headlined the night.
The anticipation started early on as the crowd easily packed out the club. Originally, Tydi was going to kick the night off, but due to a delayed flight, it was Cosmic Gate that played first. Although unintentional, the situation played out perfectly as Cosmic Gate opened with some hard hitting, high energy bangers. The fans were loving every second of it as these guys have a MASSIVE resume of music extending back over ten years. Still, their newest track, “So get up”, got the best reactions. The German trance duo satisfied the old fans as well playing their well known classics “Exploration of Space”, and “Firewire”. The energy in the room was out of control as they wrapped up their set halfway into the night.
The crowd was chanting as Tydi took the stage immediately afterwards, and wasted no time picking things up where Cosmic Gate left off. Opening with the Walking Dead theme song and some of his newest music on his recent album “Hotel Rooms”, the energy in the room shifted into a hands in the air atmosphere. The night went on and the Australian star lifted the crowd with emotional vocal tracks, and got them dancing hard again with a well balanced mix of music. By the end of the set the room was calling for an encore, and Tydi seemed just as enthused to continue for one more song.
It was a highly anticipated night, and in the end, the DJ’s and fans both delivered. With one year under its belt, the “Illuminate” events show no signs of slowing down as incredible talent such as Myon and Shane, Late Night Alumni, and Passion Pit headline in the upcoming weeks. It’s going to be another amazing year for EDM fans in Atlanta as we look forward to having more world class talent at Opera.
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