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BASS: DJ Dan, Ed Rush & Optical play ‘Popsicle’ at Bill Graham

Skills lined up a huge cast of House, Trance and Drum & Bass talent at a big club rave on Saturday, April 1 at San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Center, where DJ Dan, Doc Martin and Ed Rush & Optical smashed the turntables at the ninth annual Popsicle, an 18-and-over event.

Popsicle, which ran from 9 pm to 4 am, included three large stages with over 20 of the world’s top electronic dance music DJs. Event organizers served up plenty of food (including vegetarian) as well as full bar service for those 21 or older.

Fresh off their monster sets at the Winter Music Conference, Ed Rush & Optical headlined the Drum & Bass stage, along with Black Sun Empire, Evol Intent, Noisia, Fury, Bicolas and others, with MC Colonel holding down the mic.

On the Trance stage Blank & Jones, Rank 1, Signum, Perry O’Neil, Deep Voices and Thomas St. John churned out fast dance beats.

Meanwhile on the House stage, DJ Dan (pictured above by BPM Smith) blew the arena up with one of his lucid Progressive House sets. Other DJs spnning House included Doc Martin, who’s been recently jumping from club performances in Los Angels and New York City, Richard Vission, Colette and Carlos Alfonso.

For further information on upcoming raves in the San Francisco Bay Area check out the Skills Web site.

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