As if closing 2024 and ringing in the New Year at Anyma‘s groundbreaking Sphere show wasn’t enough, the next stop on our NYE adventure that night took us to the newly expanded LIV Las Vegas. We were expecting a Tiesto set, but instead we got a ticket to the hottest show in town where Anyma decided to take his Sphere afterparty.
On December 28, 2024, LIV Las Vegas re-opened after a several month hiatus where the club expanded and upgraded within a year of its grand opening. Industry experts say the upgrades give LIV LV the most sophisticated nightclub effects system in America. They call it a “spaceship experience” with two massive moveable truss circles that change the entire look of the club, synchronized with CO2 jets that create crazy visuals. It required a rewrite of the local fire code to accommodate! The expansion also included expanded areas for patrons so the capacity could be increased. This was the epic venue for a once in a lifetime show.
Tiesto had already taken the decks by the time we arrived, as the Sphere show ended at 130am and it took some time to make the trek over. Upon arrival, the scale and grandeur of the club is on immediate display. It’s like Hi Ibiza, but it’s ritzier and newer and much bigger than the OG LIV Miami.
Tiesto was playing an assorted of recent hits and some remixes of his classics, but the music started to shift towards more melodic and deeper sounds. I was surprised as it was more like his VERWEST alias but harder hitting. Then I remembered that he was scheduled to play the Sphere with Anyma on Jan 1, Zamna Tulum, and Space Miami in January. Tiesto has been working on some more underground sounds! Then things got even better. Suddenly a distinctly melodic techno track came on and the screens all around the club (they are everywhere) started showing “Anyma” on them! We looked to the front and Anyma had arrived and had taken the decks to play B2B with Tiesto.
He had not announced any afterparties for the Sphere show that night so this was a real treat and a first-ever b2b between these titans. Anyma played a bunch of tracks that he had not just played at the Sphere and they were just as intense and incredible as the Sphere show. He did, of course, throw in quite a few of the hits from the Sphere show as well. All told Anyma probably played about an hour to 90 minutes, and it was hard to tell whether they were trading off tracks or just letting Anyma play for a while. There were some tracks in there that felt like they were either Tiesto tracks or they were Anyma remixes that were tributes to Tiesto. Eventually Anyma left the stage and Tiesto finished things out until around 5am. It was absolutely a night to remember!