  We present the experimental realization of a compressible blue detuned
crossed dipole trap for cold atoms allowing for fast dynamical compression (~ 5
- 10 ms) of 5x10^7 Rubidium atoms up to densities of ~ 10^13 cm^-3. The dipole
trap consists of two intersecting tubes of blue-detuned laser light. These
tubes are formed using a single, rapidly rotating laser beam which, for
sufficiently fast rotation frequencies, can be accurately described by a
quasi-static potential. The atomic cloud is compressed by dynamically reducing
the trap volume leading to densities close to the Ioffe-Reggel criterion for
light localization.
