Cosmonautics Day from Atmosfera

By now-established tradition, 12 April in Russia is not only Cosmonautics Day but also the day of progressive music. Every year on this day the DJs and musicians who champion this style get together and throw a party.
This year the Atmosfera label, which works to promote such music in Russia, put on a very good party at the club Gorod. All the DJs and musicians representing the label took part. Despite it being a workday (the party was held on a Thursday), more than enough people showed up, though half of them sat around in the bars and the dancefloor filled up only at rare moments. Absolutely every DJ played very high-quality, beautiful progressive house/trance. The Russian musicians working in these styles were a real delight. Performing at the party were: Caffe, Kosmonavtika, PPK and Alina Sequencia. Every act (well, perhaps with the exception of Alina Sequencia, who played almost at the very end of the party) managed to gather a full dancefloor of people letting loose. This worked out especially well for PPK, whose track "Resurrection" got many people out onto the dancefloor.
The DJs were, without exception, excellent. They played superbly selected music. Pasha Koreets opened the party with some very beautiful music, then the Russian Sasha — DJ Kolya — took the decks, playing rather hard yet at the same time very lyrical tracks. Then came Finist, who, after playing in his own style for about an hour, gave way to Atmosfera's chief ideologue — DJ Fonar — who, with well-chosen music, reminded the gathered clubbers about Cosmonautics Day. As always, his set was filled with "music of feelings, music of movement". And in his glasses, Volodya resembled an android from a science-fiction film. And DJ Grad closed the party with a magnificent selection of progressive music built on a broken rhythmic foundation.
In conclusion, it must be said that the party was a success. On the whole it was very fun and homely. Had this party taken place on the weekend, twice as many people would have come. And one can't help being glad of the fact that Russian clubbers (for the most part) have finally come to love a style like progressive house/trance.