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| quote: | Originally posted by marcusus
I'd say J00F pulls a mix of crowds: those that dig the trance, and those that dig the psy, so that can double up some numbers.
IM these days are at rock band status, so they'll pull numbers easy.
I don't know that these two artists are a good way to judge how well psy is liked in TO. |
It isn't at all because the Guv only books IM as far as psy goes. This was the first time Joof played there since 2000, and alot of his gigs here before this one have had small draws unless it was at a big event with a few other known headliners. The Guv will maybe bring Astral Projection or Astrix once a year, and that's about as far as they go for psy, so for the most part, that's all this city knows for psy, unless you're an actuall psytrance head.
There's still the other psy trance parties that happen once a month I think, possibly bi-monthly events, with a headliner, and it usually doesn't draw any enthusiasm, even though there's some really good acts that come here.
I remember years ago (2003), Joof was here in Toronto @ sound emporium, a week after the Guv's huge anniversary event, and most TA's that were going out that night opted to go to see Scum Frog instead. Joof through down probably one of his best sets ever in Toronto, and there was a crowd there of about 50 ppl.
It happend again when Joof came here in April 2005 at another club and there was about the same amount of ppl there, and again, most TA's opted to go see some other House dj.
So right now, it's hard to say how much psy is like in Toronto, probably because they're not exposed to it enough in larger venues like the Guv. I would not be a psy fan if I were to judge the entire genre based on what IM plays, because they play very different from what others in the same genre play (which includes Goa, because everyone considers it the same genre anyways). Some ppl only like to go to events that are at big venues. I think it would be a lot easier to see how well psy is liked when these artists come on to the Guv as the only headliner of the night there, and with another headliner performing at a different venue, to see how well this genre is liked. If you get just as many ppl there as you would for a regular trance dj, then hey maybe ppl really do like psy, but they just don't get enough of it yet.
Personally I would love it if the Guv got other acts here. Human Blue would fucking destroy the Guv.
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