E-town Rave History Parties: Nexus '96

Saturday, November 9, 1996

Nexus '96

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A Review of Nexus '96 is available

thanks to King Ron's Party Reviews and the Wayback Machine:

"This party was a much anticipated event as last year's Nexus was quite the big party. This time it was a 3-day event with the pre-party on Nov. 8 at Oasis Nightclub, the after-party on Nov. 10 at Peoples Nightclub, and the main event on the 9th at the Old Strathcona Bus Barns. A huge line-up of over 30 DJs over the three nights were set to play [...] and Calgary's very own Double D playing for the first time in Edmonton, as well as many Edmonton DJs.

"I arrived at midnight to be greeted with a massively long line-up which I was not too impressed with. But with 1400+(!) people in attendance, it should have been expected. When I finally got in, I scouted out the place. The main room was full of people happily dancing to acid and trance. The sound was noticeably loud (very nice!) and lighting was ok. What I thought was pretty original was that there were these two inflated jumping castles you could climb into and bounce around in situated at the edges of the huge dance floor. Pretty cool! As well, there was an area off to the side with a mat where the breakdancers could show their stuff.

"I really liked the way that the ambient room was set up. There were mats and rugs on the floor so people could sit or lie down. There were also couches, cribs, a wading pool filled with something, and even a bed. The atmosphere was very peaceful with candles all around, a trippy oil suspension pattern projected on the wall, and the DJs spinning beautiful ambient, trance, and jungle. Great set-up overall!

"The DJ line-up was greatly shuffled that night because of technical problems in the 2nd room which was closed when I arrived. The main room was supposed to be the 'core' room and the 2nd room the 'progressive room,' but that got switched around. DJs such as Nav, Voytek, and Pascal who were slated to play in the 2nd room were moved to the main room. Nonetheless, I was sure that Double D would still play her set.

"Mostly I stayed in the ambient room relaxing and occasionally wandered over to the main room. I wanted to save my energy for Double D. At ~2:30, Pascal came on in the main room, so I headed over to the 2nd room which had just opened back up. Lo and behold, there was Double D starting things up cranking out some glorious hardcore. I was starting to get really high off her set when suddenly at 3:05 the music went dead. I hung around hoping, praying that the technical problem would be fixed, but alas, at 4am the room was shut down for the rest of the night. Well, it was good while it lasted.

"I didn't stay much longer afterwards. It looked like Tryptomene spinning in the main room, but I didn't feel like dancing anymore. It just wasn't the same after experiencing Double D. I was an addict getting a powerful drug but was cut off before receiving a full dose and lesser drugs couldn't satisfy my hunger."

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Nov 9

Edmonton Alberta

35+ first class DJ’s take you on a journey to

Nexus

10330-84 ave

Old Strathcona Bus Barns

E-town Rave History Parties

Saturday, November 9, 1996

Nexus '96

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