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[Review] Fri. 2/20 Jaytech and Above & Beyond @ Pacha
exhausted. i had a grnd time and more to follow overall jaytech needs to headline sometime in nyc soon. packed house all the way though that renix of silence. overall 9/10 overall. more to come when i awaken.
a nice night. got there around 10:20 so I could catch jaytech's full set. I thought he might be dropping some mellow intro tracks to start out his set but even at 10:20 he was rocking the place and he kept doing just that all the way to the end of his set. he kept the crowd pumped and moving thruout. with a set like that, jaytech needs to headline and there's no doubt about that. that set by itself was worth the night.
I was hoping he'd drop pyramid but he played the dinka remix instead, so that was cool.
a&b's set was good as well. wouldn't be bad if they played a bigger venue next time although last night wasn't as overcrowded as I've seen before.
grrr
just got back a lil while ago... all my friends passed out but i am *still* wide awake, so i figured id post on here...
so we were supposed to get vip and bottles in the main room. However, (after waiting forever to get in & get the bottles) it turns out that our reservation was for a table in the upstairs of the club, the "rap room".... however when I asked the hostess, she informed me that I was not allowed to go downstairs b/c they were two seperate parties. wtf??????????????????? We get 3 bottles and we cant go downstairs???
I did sneak downstairs, but now I know why ppl hate pacha
long ass waiting time + "separate parties" + shitty service = fail.
Above & Beyond were fucking nasty tho.
1. jaytech's set was really good apart from a couple of trainwrecks. i walked in as he was playing Pepe's Garden...which really pumped me up!
2. above & beyond's set was horrible...i understand that it was an anjunadeep launch tour but where the fuck was the trance? they could have played some at least...all in all...disappointing set...no energy, no structure, no direction. waste of money.
i caught 4 of jaytech's set's last tracks or so - and that was probably the highlight of my night. lol. A&B's set sounded like it was stuck in warmup mode. They came on around 1:20am, and by 3:30am they were just barely entering the 136 / 137 BPM zone. Most of the tracks they were playing had a laid-back, groovy, housy vibe to them - which is cool to start out with, but they filled most of their set with them. I left between 3 and 4am because i started falling asleep lol.
Pacha packed the shit out of itself too, i mean wow I couldn't spend 10 seconds dancing without someone bumping into me while trying to pass through. That was the first time I've seen the club split into 2 separate parties like that - they always have the upstairs hip hop room, but I've mever seen them check for special wristbands just to let you down to the main floor.
1. Jaytech definitely did one hell of a set and started the night off proper. Only heard him make one mistake (when he pressed the wrong button on the CD-J), but he recovered incredibly. Sucks that he's all the way in the land down under, so we might not be seeing him as often as we should. Other than that, he was f'ing nuts, and I'm actually pondering the trip down to Glow to hear him again.
2. I love Above and Beyond and have been a huge fan of theirs for many years now. However, I was hoping for more banging trance, as it seemed their set dragged on for the first few hours (still dropping some nasty ass tracks in the process). But I'm glad they picked it up after playing Air For Life. And hearing In Silence and Get Off played out brought some great memories. Nevertheless, I had a great time.
It's almost 10:00 AM, and me and Sam are going through my liquor cabinet and finishing everything we can get our hands on. Sikk???
i TOLD you yo jaytech was gonna be sick!
haha seriously, love the guy. super friendly and great track selection, a lot of his tracks, Sugar Beats, Terminal6. just total pwnage the whole way through.
above and beyond not breaking 128 for 3 hours? fuckin awesome.
agreed, it started to get a liiiiittle bland later on, but man I can't really complain that much as i've been in love with the whole anjunadeep sound for a while.
good stuff.
OMG!!!
I don't remember last time i had this much fun. I think the music was great. You complain too much people!!! 
It was nice seeing all the TA's again, especially Jason and Sam ... loved dancing and singing along with you Sam =)
Kelly and Wai - i love you girls ... i really do!!! Thank you for not let me smoke and for making the night just perfect ... i always have a blast partying with you. HAHAHAHA you were so funny last night ... you crazy chicks were trying to hook me up with Wai's guy!!! lol *HILARIOUS*
whatev sam i was right along with you, jaytech killed it! honestly between the two sets i enjoyed his best and could have listened to that all night 
. anyone who saw me during his set must have seen how much i bugged out especially to his tracks nemesis um um um i do love that track. i've been all over anjunadeep lately so for me jaytech opening followed by above & beyond playing their housey tracks was quite nice. i didn't mind that the bpms stayed on the lower range of things for the majority of the evening because at the very least we listened to something different.
above & beyond did close out with their standard tracks as everyone wanted to hear which i thought was nice. i was so surprised by the number of people still there to the bitter end. that room was packed 
!!! went downstairs at the beginning and tried to do it again but too many people to even try moving through...really wanted to hang out with some but couldn't make it through. i hate paying for a table but at least we had the space.
anyway, loved hanging out with everyone upstairs, what an awesome fun bunch of people! sam aka samantha's dance must go up on youtube 
. running into markus schulz was a surprise, cool guy and i think it was nice to see a big name dj out enjoying the scene even though they are not playing.
night as a whole like i said before 9/10 because of everything only negatives were the 15min i lost my phone plus i was not feeling it when some random bitch tried to help themselves to our alcohol. very uncouth and a low class move to waltz up to someone's table where you know you are most definitely not invited and attempt to help yourself to other people's stuff. oddly enough last time a&b were here the same person did the very same thing. anyhow like i said a minor blemish on an otherwise awesome night.
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| Originally posted by StanVoid i caught 4 of jaytech's set's last tracks or so - and that was probably the highlight of my night. lol. A&B's set sounded like it was stuck in warmup mode. They came on around 1:20am, and by 3:30am they were just barely entering the 136 / 137 BPM zone. Most of the tracks they were playing had a laid-back, groovy, housy vibe to them - which is cool to start out with, but they filled most of their set with them. I left between 3 and 4am because i started falling asleep lol. |
I also had no problem with a&b's set. their cd1 of the last anjunabeats comp played out exactly like the jaytech set, nice and housey with trax like professional killers & not a lot left, and I was actually hoping they would plug more of that housey sound into their set instead of their usual full on trance, which is also good by itself of course. I totally love the anjunadeep sound & I'm glad they played more of that. this set was also a tour for their new anjunadeep cd which has a lot of that sound. komytea-electro house is dead, nice 
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| Originally posted by kadomony above and beyond not breaking 128 for 3 hours? fuckin awesome. |
Jaytech kind of reminds me of Remy. I f*ckin loooooooooovvved his set
wasnt expecting A&B to play like that for long but shit i thought it was amazing. enjoyed the night overall i was feendin bad for party like this.
Pachas organization can be so ridiculous sometimes but i like the club as it reminds me of my older days goin to Soundfactory with my bro
goooood tiiiiiimmmmmee????
Thats why tonight will be epic trance. JOC/Tommy/Eco...cant beat that
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| Originally posted by Grazi ... OMG!!! I don't remember last time i had this much fun. I think the music was great. You complain too much people!!! It was nice seeing all the TA's again, especially Jason and Sam ... loved dancing and singing along with you Sam =) Kelly and Wai - i love you girls ... i really do!!! Thank you for not let me smoke and for making the night just perfect ... i always have a blast partying with you. HAHAHAHA you were so funny last night ... you crazy chicks were trying to hook me up with Wai's guy!!! lol *HILARIOUS* |
just got in
my review is...
jay-tech for president
proper proper prog great opening wow
above and beyond came on and started right where he left off
i really enjoyed the begining of their set lots of good prog
but when it came time to bang it out with some trance they played a very commerical/predictable set
besides katana-in silence,super8 & tab-delusion,their remix of silence
and maybe about 2 or 3 other songs
it was pretty much a average set from them, nothing mindblowing
over all it was deff a fun night out the crowd on the main floor was cool...lots of cute girls shakeing their coolies
vip was deff fun for the time i was up there
great seeing everyone
some nice trax dropped last night including jerome isma ae-smile when you kill me (dark knight, anyone? ; ), max graham remix of jerome isma ae-vila nova (the vocals are annoying on this track but that max graham bass was sssooo sick & smooth on the speakers 
), and I believe the jerome isma ae/daniel portman remix of professional killers at some point. quite a bit of jerome there, awesome producer
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| Originally posted by kadomony i TOLD you yo jaytech was gonna be sick! haha seriously, love the guy. super friendly and great track selection, a lot of his tracks, Sugar Beats, Terminal6. just total pwnage the whole way through. above and beyond not breaking 128 for 3 hours? fuckin awesome. agreed, it started to get a liiiiittle bland later on, but man I can't really complain that much as i've been in love with the whole anjunadeep sound for a while. good stuff. |
Videos on the first page
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| Originally posted by coolestrl VIDEOS: |
Awesome review guys. I wish Jaytech would be @ WMC :'(
Coolest - what camera is that?
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| Originally posted by MeLLyMeL Coolest - what camera is that? |
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| Originally posted by coolestrl Canon SD 750, best camera ever, both for photos and videos like these, good sound as well, youtube kills the quality, but u can see the hi-res version of the video's on youtube as well, so u'll know what im talkin about |
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| Originally posted by coolestrl Canon SD 750, best camera ever, |
took so many awesome videos over the last 2
Amazing night. Jay tech was sick, got to talk to Markus for a while (interesting guy....lol...very funny with the "I break-dance in Bed-Stuy!) and A&B was great. Def a different feel, but its nice to hear soemthing different once in a while. They still threw in the ol skool trancetastic tracks that I wait once a year to hear, so I loved it! I Looooved even more that Paavo and jono were there...so freindly and Paavo even did his signature "hand rub" for us....he amuses me!! and jono for some reason was like "arent you canadian??) lol good memory, even tho I technically am American!! haha!
best parts of the night were all my girls being together on one spot!! Grazi you are the funniest chick EVER and your stories make me laugh til tears come out! haha! Megan I am so happy to see you my love, and KELS!!!! <3 <3 and of course Wai, who made sure that after my hell week that NOTHING went wrong friday...she is the shittt!! Love seeing the boys as well, the philly crew (you boys are ALWAYS partying it up proppa!), andrew (thanks for thinking of me with the ferry article and white trash...you are one of those irreplaceable friends!), sam, erica, mike, CHOLESTEROL (you smell so good haha!!!), etc....
Only minor negative was the skank who feels like its her prerogative to come take a bottle off of OUR table for a drink. I asked everyone at my table if they had offered a drink and got a resounding "hell no." On other occasions, has it been noted from different people that this girl has done the same to them. If you do, in fact, have your own drinks, I am SURE it is not hard to stay at your own table (or are you not wanted there, either??)....... Do not come over where you are certainly NOT wanted, nor will EVER BE. Really classless and if she ever reads this, next time I will NOT be so polite.
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