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Great Videos, thanks!!! Words cant express how wonderful last night was! Armin rocked my world!!! I'm sure I'll be grinning for weeks to come when I think back to some of the bangers he played on Sat. and how fired up I was! Crowd was great too! Only thing that sucked about saturday was that I lost my little Spinning LED sign thing. Oh well cost me 10 bux, and I can get a new one, though the bouncers harass me about it! If anyone has an mp3 of the night, ppppplease hook me up!
hey guys
ive been reading this board for a little while now and this is the first time that ive posted. i agree with everyone else on here and thought that the night was awesome.
i downloaded a few of the videos but it keeps saying "unable to download necesary decompressor" or something like that so i can just hear the sound. what are u guys using to playback the videos?
anyways, all in all a great night. what are your opinions and feelings about judge jules coming in a few weeks?
winamp...
Re: hey guys
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| Originally posted by matt167698 what are your opinions and feelings about judge jules coming in a few weeks? |
u PVD whore...u didnt even go to armin BLAH! TO U
armin suxxxxxx! more pvd please! 
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| more pvd please! |
My post from the reviews section:
Alright, so i'm back home from a wild night in Boston and at Avalon.
Overall it was a good night, but not the best, i'll explain.
Got to Boston around 9:30, missed the whole TA meetup that i set up in the first place, sorry if anyone was there looking for me but from what i saw the line was so long no one went into Jillians anyway.
Got to the club about 10:40, line outside even for guestlist (thanks to sandstorm03 for the list!) so we waited about 15 mins before we got inside. Met up with Billu in line there, good to meet another Boston-area TA. Waited another 10 mins or so inside the club before we paid, $15 with guestlist, not bad but i was told it was gonna be $10. Another few minutes waiting for the girls to get thru coat check, and then we were ready to get some drinks and dance.
Warmup DJ was only a warmup dj, was not even trying to get people moving if you ask me, just basic progressive stuff playing at like 130bpm. There were a bunch of people out dancing but i wasnt really feeling it.
Armin came on about Midnight, started off with some breaking intro track, pretty good tune actually but the breakdown was like 4 minutes and we just wanted to dance already. So after that things got rolling along a bit more. I have never heard Armin play a set this HARD in my life. It was absolutely nothing like any of the livesets i've ever heard from him, it was like banging 135-140bpm techno and tech-trance. It was lots of fun, but when you see Armin you kinda expect melodic uplifting trance! Anyway i think the critisism that he wasnt playing fast enough finally got to him and he started banging it out live.
Songs I ID'd:
Tiesto - Traffic
Motorcycle - ATRC (AvB Mix)
Armin - Blue Fear (2003 remix)
P Diddy - Lets Get Ill
Thats it, out of a 2 hour set i only recognized 4 tracks. So either i suck at IDing or Armin was playing stuff that i have not heard before.
Either way I danced my ass off for the whole night, stopped once for a drink. Floor was damn packed, lots of people out, most too scared to really dance at all they were just crowding the floor for the hell of it. A lot of cocky pushy guys who always thought they should be walking to the center of the floor, as if there was more room there to hang out. Anyway people were bumping and pushing all night, wasn't till about 1:30 that i had a bit of room to dance around.
Armin stopped about 1:50, waited for everyone to start yelling and then came on for an encore of some hard-ass techno, not sure what it was but i think it scared a lot of people there! I thought it was great, had me moving. So that went on till 2am exactly when they cut him off, mid-track mind you, had to turn the table right off and they shut down the amps so he couldnt do anything about it. So i started leaving, then heard music again, ran back to the floor and armin was playing another track but just upstairs on the monitor speakers not in the club system so it was quiet and we decided to leave.
All in all it was a good night, not the kind of music i expected Armin to play but it wasnt that bad, i just didnt understand why there wasnt more of his uplifting sound or the kind of stuff hes been playing on ASOT.
This was my first time at Avalon and overall i was impressed. The club is beautiful, its only a club and not some dual purpose warehouse so the setup is impecable, very clean, good bars, friendly bartenders and the security was also very good. Sound system was good, not great, but good enough. There are subs down at one end that i was dancing in front of that sounded pretty good, but if you've ever been up to Stereo or Aria in montreal you'll hear how much better the sound could be, and how much more the systems bang there, and they dont stop at 2am, thank god.
So okay thats it for my long review, hopefully some other TAs that were there will post theirs, maybe even a tracklist if we can get one. I think i will be going back to Avalon in the future but maybe not for the biggest names because of the crowding, and the fact that i think they are playing differently because its the USA, it seems like the Canadian clubs are more european and the DJs dont dumb it down at all.
Dam, sorry to hear some of you didnt like the way Armin played sat night. Well my opinion is that Fri night at Level, he played an amazing set for about 3 1/2 hrs and came back for about 20 more mintues and rock the house, unreal. I guess the places he plays sometimes depends on how hes feeling the vibe from teh crowd, anyhow coming up soon PVD!!!
Damon 2.0
Nice reviews !
Hope Armin doesnt make this tech-trance, techno as his new style in live sets ! If he does that there will be no difference between him and Tiesto.
I also wish Armin played more stuff from his latest ASOTS which were great !
f that...this set rocked...wtf were you on if you did not like it?
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| Originally posted by Roy123 Nice reviews ! Hope Armin doesnt make this tech-trance, techno as his new style in live sets ! If he does that there will be no difference between him and Tiesto. I also wish Armin played more stuff from his latest ASOTS which were great ! |
not to mention electric botique - heal.
IMO this party was fucking nuts. From what I recall everyone on the dancefloor was moving. There were a lot of people just watching but they were above the floor. I thought Armin's set was brilliant. He mixed it up very nicely, and didnt keep it boring like some dj's do. And on top of it,most of the tracks were pretty new.
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| Originally posted by sandstorm03 15. m.i.k.e - turn out the lights (original mix) |
He played like 30 quality tunes. Mark Norman - Overkill was one of my favs of the night, right up there w/ mono-rise. I was hoping to hear pvd - connected (marco v remix), no luck though.
tranz chech out www.shhhh.com and www.whatthefuckamisaying.com and www.imwrong.com
Ronald Klinkenberg - Monday Groove was in there somewhere, beginning i believe.
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| Originally posted by sandstorm03 tranz chech out www.shhhh.com and www.whatthefuckamisaying.com and www.imwrong.com |
hehehe. 
ive been too lazy to write a review for this night but since im bored right now ill say what i thought. it was my first time catching armin, and truthfully, my expectations were way too high. i had fun and enjoyed a good bit of the music, but armin's djing was not impressive. and im not talking about beatmatching really.... that is like the first, basic thing. i mean more in terms of the flow of his set- what he played and when he played it- it just didnt have a logical progression and buildup of energy. transitions were not spectacular either. like i said, i enjoyed it...im not saying armin sucks. but considering armin is as HUGE as he is, some criticism is definitely due. pvd is definitely a huge step above.
i am rarely impressed so much by djs mixing it live as i am with pvd and sasha. i did think armin was going to impress me but he didn't.
Thank god someone else put up an honest review instead of this 'woot Armin rocks my world all night woo woo woo' shit.
Thanks UMES23!
And that doesnt mean i dont like armin! I just think people should be a little critical with a review.
why?
why be critical if u thought everything was awesome? Nothing will ever go 100% perfect in a night but most people dont expect that. Its a club, there will always be a lot of people in there but aside from that i thought armin did rock my world...
now if u want me to be critical I can say that Tall Paul sucked the weekend before. I was blown away with how boring he was and how little he seemed to even try to get the place going. I actually went over to Axis on hip hop night...that shows just how terrible he was.
I'm just saying i think people that idolize Armin tend to say yay hes the best, whether or not he put on the best show. If you loved it then im sure you have your reasons for it and that would make up a good review, not just the obligatory 'woot'.
and
Yay! Another critical review! Never seen Taul Paul, but at least now i know one example of not being that great, these reviews are actually helpful for people who are trying to figure out who they want to see or where they want to go, so i'm really happy when someone takes the time to do them.
Thanks,
-Dan-
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