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can Melbourne support a night like Altitude@dendy?

well???

some thoughtful discussion please...

if it can work...we'll c what happens

To be honest no. There are a couple of reasons 1. is that hard trance
& NRG have pretty much a strangle hold in melbourne.
I think melbourne likes it hard & bangin. also tech is so good in melbs

i really dont think trance is at it's best atm with all the crap coming out. Even if we did i doubt i would go. Not many play and only a few who do do it good. Steve Strangis & Dave Begic are 2 who do it great. If any of u saw their Vs set at TransAtlantic u would agree.

i doubt melbourne will ever have a all uplifting trance club/night and we will just have to wait once a year to get the big int's


just my opinion

its good to see people appreciated their set at transatlantic...

i remember the days when dave and i used to listen to commercial music and cheesy house music

i remember the first time dave come with us to the docks..it only took him 15 minutes to realise trance is THE music

we'll c what happens..if the night in sydney can work..then a night in melbourne can work

Well the night in Sydney definitely works

I was a little worried that the turnout might be low, but the Dendy was absolutely packed! Pretty sweet that a party can out-grow it's vene on the first ever night

hey Tsunami One i tend to agree with you on some of the points you brought up about melbourne not being ready for an uplifting trance club with the scene here leaning more towards the harder and housier type of nights but i think we need to take a more optimistic look on the issue.

I reckon that with all the endless clogging of hard nrg and house music melbourne clubbers are forced to listen to everytime they go out that they (or should i say we) would welcome a uplifting trance club with open arms. Not only would it be a nice change, but clubbers would experiance what they experianced at Two Tribes 2002 (if they went) which ofcoarse was HIGHLY succesful.

Also (by the way im not having a go at yah ) but how can you say that trance is not at its best at the moment. That is a very geralised comment your making especially if your only listening to tracks that nova play like "Ian Van Dahl - Will I" and "Sophie Eliis Bextor - murder on the dance". thier are SO many great tracks at the moment! just to name a few:

Solid Sessions - Janeiro
Solar Stone - Solar Coaster
Viframa - Cristalle
etc...

The only REAL problem that is holding this back is that someone needs to get the balls and actually take a risk. Their is such a large market for it and im highly certain that it would be successful if the idea was implemented. But ofcoarse who is that person gonna be?

Yes, a melbourne version of sydney's altitude would be great here and yes i feel it would work. By the way congrats to all you sydney altitude people, by the sounds of things it sounded like a highly successful night.

cyz

stipsy the Steve Strangis vs Dave Begic set @ TransAtlantic reminded me why i love trance so much and why i go to parties. For the love of the music.

discitelli i agree there are some great tracks being released but only a few have really caught my eye . I guess im a very hard person to please. i'd love for a trance only night to work something different from that hard style crap (IMHO) buti dont think we will get one anytime soon. Small steps first maybe a uplifting trance room at future events?

will see if one an get started up..but it will only happen if everything is in the right place...venue etc

Stips, my advice is that if u have the opportunity to start a night like altitude, go for it.

Sydney seems quite similar in music styles to Melbourne, too much hard house, too much "hard trance," too much funk/breaks/house. There seems to be a massive market out there for trance nights, why else would thousands of people turn up to events like PvD and TT?

If done properly, it will be a resounding success...

I, for one, would love to see a trance night in melbourne. As long as it is at a decent venue, it will attract the right numbers and people.

I'm sick of bubble and hk. ZOS is pretty close to uplifting, but not exact - but it's a good venue.

Hopefully such a night will get up off the ground and start making all of us melbourne TA's proud. I'm even willing to put some time into this to speed things up if the need arises.

Fingers crossed...

Yeah if you were thinking of starting it yourself Stipsy, then you've got a few people around here who'd be willing to heavily promote it for you.

I'm not sure the scene's big enough to support a weekly event but you'd definately fill the joint if you made the night bi-weekly or monthly. Also, I'm not sure that restricting it to pure uplifting trance is the best idea in the world (assuming you want to at least break-even): I'm thinking a crasher-esque type playlist, so you aren't restricting yourself purely to trance, but it would still form the basis of the night (i.e. anthem after anthem).

As for venues, well I'm sure you know more about how this works than I do, but I'm thinking something Rosati's (especially when you get the sunrise through the skylights ) or Billboard are quite accessible as well as being semi-decent venues to hold such an event.

Anyway, I'm just talking shit off the top of my head I think. Hope it helps.

Oh, and when I say "accessible" I mean that they should be possible to hire out (I'm thinking the Sunny-Side Up parties at Rosati's and the underage events at Billboard that the guy in the year below me was able to throw at Billboard).

Still though, I'm not really an expert on throwing events (suprisingly) so I'm not sure how much use this is going to be.

Yeah if you guys had the oportunity to do something like that i definitely would run with it. It'd grow and grow......

if you build it they will come (folds into the lotus position and chants over and over again)

i think for something like that to work..it would have to be on the first or last weekend of every month...so a monthly event..it can definetely work...the right venue and the right djs and theres a big chance of a sucessful event.

Well I would go. At least once. Maybe.


Nah it would be good, a bit of variety, and because it wouldn't be as hard as other music on in Melbourne it might be easier to try and convince friends to come with me! There's not much I can do to help though, but I'm up for it.

Re: can Melbourne support a night like Altitude@dendy?

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Originally posted by Tsunami One stipsy the Steve Strangis vs Dave Begic set @ TransAtlantic reminded me why i love trance so much and why i go to parties. For the love of the music.if it can work...we'll c what happens

it's reading stuff like this that really amazes me.. i mean all i did was what i know and love and that's play some stuff that really moves me .. what can i say really im pleased that our set touched a few people that night, and to the bloke who works up in sydney.. that sounds like a good idea! more contact might be needed here hehe.

-dave

I reckon it can be done. A monthly night would be just about right -- with a reasonably small-sized venue (not QBH, not a matchbox), and the right promotion (you can count on me to work my arse off for this one). They tried at Evolution for about a month to do a weekly Saturday night, but it died -- maybe because Evolution is seen as too teeny-bopper?

We only need to recall Steve vs Dave at Transatlantic to see what it could be like. The fact is that SOOOO many people like trance: I've converted many mates to the real stuff after they've been to Twister/Cheers and heard Ian van Dahl...

Let's do this, folks. I'm also with whoever mentioned the crasher-style playlist -- harder stuff (tech-trance etc) as well as uplifting

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Let's do this, folks. I'm also with whoever mentioned the crasher-style playlist -- harder stuff (tech-trance etc) as well as uplifting

hell yeah a trance night in melbourne, monthly, something nice and intimate yet at the same time big epic, and fulfilling just like the genre.. venues are a new question.. i don't mind room too much my self, although i am not too sure on what kinda finances permit stips to go ahead, he's got my support!

trance music all night long

Wh0rd Dave

An Uplifting Trance night is a fantastic idea, even start it off as a monthly event or a one off event to begin with.

When i started playing out a while ago, (1st gig was in December 2000) This was around the time when NRG/HardHouse was big, so it was hard for ppl like myself & Dave to get out there, because this sound had pretty much grabbed the Melbourne dance scene by the balls

In some way i felt i was forced to play a more Harder Type of Trance sound as well as uplifting. Around that time it was disapointing to see ppl walking away from a dance floor when good tracks where being played.

But in the last year or so its been different, and alot better in terms of good Trance music Also what I realized from the set that Dave & I played @ Transatlantic that maybe nows the time that Melbourne is ready for a regular night, or a event in support of the Trance movement eh?
Stipzy, uv got my support
Dave, luv your work
everyone, thanx again for the feedback & support again guys.

ok my 2 cents worth
of course there is room in melbourne for an event such as this:
many people are sick of listening to nrg and the like...
i think if an event was held in melb like this, many ppl would return to uplifting trance and get away from the hard nrg being played...

um a major reason y i think it will work is because there is nothing like this out there, and with steve and dave djing (if they do)
this will attract many people and if the venue is right it most definately will work.

i think it will add a bit of variety to melbourne, also a bit of spice
im all for the idea, its brillent
lets hope it works

yeah i agree, NRG, and all other genres have been hammered to death around town. i do not even go out anywhere besides the big parties because i just won't really listen to any thing besides trance.. call me narrow minded i don't care.. it's what i love

yeah inacoma, steve and i do DJ, hopefully more often than not.. we'll do our best to put on a good show wherever and whenever it may be!

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Originally posted by DaveBegic yeah inacoma, steve and i do DJ,

i aware of that, i was just saying if the line up djs for the new night were you 2,
this alone will get the crowd in

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i was just saying if the line up djs for the new night were you 2, this alone will get the crowd in

wow that's a really nice thing to say .. i suppose all thats left now is to start going ahead with the planning.. anyone else cold by the way? :-)

mate it's so cold here a polar bear just walked past wearing a jumper..

the night can work....now its off to the drawing board to start the planning

stay tuned for details

WOO HOO!!! TRANCE NIGHT IN MELBOURNE!!!

Come on fellow TAs, let's make this happen

*Disclaimer: I know nothing about making these things happen or work, but am entirely willing to bust my arse to get it up and running. PM me for another pair of hands*

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