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| Originally posted by julien2 Every 5 years or so there's a new fire department chief. He always wants to clean up the clubs/events and is very strict on legal capacity. Then he just stops giving a crap and becomes a col bleu. |
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| Originally posted by Bertuzz exactly there was the exact same situation in 2004. Insane lineup, luckily that year I had VIP and got inside in 5 minutes. Missed 2005 for the tiesto/bennassi fiasco. 2006, 2007, there was barely any lineup at all. Then all of a sudden, 2008, huge lineup. Was the demand really that much increased this year? The DJ lineup was fairly similar to 2006 (add ferry, minus Deep Dish, add Calderone). I guess the n00bs come out in droves for the big names; Guetta, Armin |
I can't believe all the negativity.
I had a blast. This was my 3rd Bal and I'll bet my left n right nut that I will be back.
I really had no problems this year with anything. Well the sound was a little iffy but other then that everything was good. There was even a laser in the trance room ! haha.
Ferry Armin Menno = AWESOME
I even enjoyed the house room, because it was actually good house. I know everyone will call Guetta cheese, but he can rock the party. I guess I like cheese house, the good euro ibiza shit. Nissim was fuckin great too. The guy is a beauty haha what a mess but a good dj nonetheless.
Yeah VIP is where its at people for Bal, sometimes it helps to shell out a few extra bucks and not be a cheapo and listen to people who know a thing or two about these events, i told many people get VIP and that is worth it and far too many times I've heard "its not worth it". Well is not waiting in line for 3 hours not worth 30 dollars ?
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| Originally posted by zeKsg I was actually talking to a lot of random people, and they didn't even know many of the DJ's at all. I think there is A HUGE chunk of people coming in just for the party. A lot of people have no clue of what DJ's are playing there... |
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| Originally posted by mizza318 Well is not waiting in line for 3 hours not worth 30 dollars ? |
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| Originally posted by Bertuzz hindsight is 20/20 regardless of vip or not, someone that comes and waits 4.5 hrs to get into a show (AlexXDude) that he/she paid 100$ for DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. come on, give me a break. |
I was getting about 15 calls an hour about tickets on sunday!!! At 2pm I was sold out and stopped answering the phone... I was at the party and my phone kept ringing for tickets... wtf.
Alot of people decided to go at the last minute which brought things over capacity...
fucking kids man, i had these tickets for almost 2 months.
I got all nervous most of the day Sunday prepping to be up for so long; I never know how long the body can take being up for so long moving without anything but water, determination and caffeine but I did it 
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Anyhow, VIP was the best thing I could have done. From getting in line to hitting the dance floor took a grand total of maybe 10min. Two people in our group didn't get VIP and it took an hour to get in. On our end, security wasn't too thorough, they were more concerned about what I could hide in my white fro and didn't even check my wristlet.
The decor was substandard, this is only my second BeB but is it too difficult to ask for more lights and some more decorations. The stained glass they had above the booth in the tech-trance room was hardly ever highlighted with lights so you couldn't even enjoy that. the lights on the side of the room would have nicely complimented an insane laser show but unfortunately the organizers weren't particularly concerned with the ambiance. In the short time I was in the house room, it looked better imo. I wished for more...I think the blah theme also made it hard for people to dress up in costumes.
Insomnia - Good, always love seeing a female DJ rip it up behind the decks
Infected Mushroom - Made me wish I didn't get there so early. Not my type of music and quite honestly they shouldn't have been in such an early time slot. I sat down in the VIP area then hoping for it to be done. Would have stayed in the house room but one person in our group would go off at a time, we would wait for them to return then someone else went off and it just ended up that we heard a majority of their set.
Ferry - Started early and it sucks he went right after such a fast paced group. He was at a disadvantage having to go after IM and knowing he had to open up for Armin. Anyway, I wasn't a fan of his set at all. He played some good stuff (Don't Look Behind You 
(track I was hoping he'd play) but I never really got too into his set. I was borderline disappointed.
Armin - He started out his set with Arnej - They Always Come Back which I f*cking love!!! I didn't think my energy levels could spike up that high at 5am but Armin kicked my ass like I would never have expected. Markus Schulz is my absolute favorite DJ and the first 45 min or so of Armin's set had a Markus written all over it. He transitioned to playing some banging tracks. I know some didn't expect him to play that hard but what they hell else is he supposed to do from 5am - 9am??? Carte Blanc (Cosmic Gate Remix), Back to San Francisco (??? remix / rework), La Guitarra, Brazen, Perfect (blanking on the mix, not Agnelli & Nelson), older tracks I don't know what they are called but love were just nuts 
. When I didn't think I could dance any more he threw down some nasty tribal sounding mashups of As the Rush Comes and Rapture it was ri-damn-diculous!!!
I will admit the bass messed up the speakers baaaaaaaaaadly, there was a point where I felt my ears would start bleeding but luckily they are fine 
. Armin broke the speakers...
Menno - Like everyone else he couldn't play a traditional Menno de Jong set but dear god did he bang it out proper. He played some great up tempo trance tracks and had a toooooooon of energy. I was looking forward to him spinning the most since I've never caught a live set from him and he definitely didn't disappoint. By this point in my night my body was just crying for rest, sat in the VIP area for a bit but the music had me at my feet quickly. Plus going on straight adrenaline I KNEW the longer I remained inactive I would shutdown quickly.
Overall, great night imo. Came up with 4 other people but fortunately chatted with a ton of people (pretty much ALL TAs) and had fun. Lately, I've been "eh" about going out but BeB was just fun in almost every way so that was refreshing to say the least. Definitely looking forward to next year although I walked in able bodied and now I feel like a cripple (slightly limping because I re-injured an old injury dancing 
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| Originally posted by ZraW Any1 know the name of the track that armin played that kept repeating "What the fuck" loll? |
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| Originally posted by chimera66 Ferry - Started early and it sucks he went right after such a fast paced group. He was at a disadvantage having to go after IM. |
Well, since the monkeys cannot be trusted to run Bal en Blanc properly, perhaps it's time to move this thing to Olympic Stadium or something.
'Arrived into the party around midnight after a massive line-budding 
Caesar Romero was dropping bombs after bombs in the House Room, driving, chuggy tech house that had that floor hopping right from the start. I wanted to pace myself for the night ahead but he almost did me in in that one hour I got to dance to. Terrific set, one of the best I've ever experienced, actually.
Cedric Gervais' set was a huge surprise as I had the bar lowered considerably for him, based on hearing him only months back. Gervais continued right where Romero left off but with more vocals. A suprisingly edgy and sexy set altogether.
'Didn't catch Chris Willis as I deliberately went over to the Tech side for about 30 mins and danced to some Ferry Corsten techno (yes, I know he plays trance).
David Guetta should spend less time doing curls and poses and more time actually doing his job, that is bring in some actual flow to his sets. This set was crappier than the turd I heard from him two years ago, and yes, it reminded me of being in an oversized nightclub, indeed. No flow, piss poor tracklisting and too cheesy all around. Yes househeads, we have our own Tiesto-nothing-but-the-hype dj too
Offer Nissam was better than what many are saying on here, imo. Lots of smooth, uplifting tracks and he brought that floor back from the Guetta debacle. I enjoyed this set more than his '07 one.
For his timeslot, Victor Calderone delivered. I didn't find his set to flow well at times but there were some seriously delicious minimal tech house tracks.
Overall, Bal en Blanc was nothing special: Guetta, the horrendous bathroom situation, heavily speculated overselling (and the resultant overcrowding) - all those things kinda killed it for me at times. If it weren't for the great crew of ppl I came with and the solid beats being dropped by those not named Guetta, BeB would've most certainly been a disappointment.
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| Originally posted by Cyberflow Offer Nissim dropped nice tracks but he wasn't able to beatmatch them proprely o_0 ? |
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| Originally posted by Passskal Calderone owned bal en blanc 14. |
MY EARS ARE STILL RINGING!!!! anyone else experiencing ringing still?
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| Originally posted by Enigmatik I agree. This is how I would've liked the time-slots: Insomnia -> Wizz -> Menno -> Ferry -> Armin and closing with Infected Mushroom when everyone starts falling asleep cuz those guys could wake up the dead. |
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| Originally posted by Neo Hacker or maybe just not book these guys. They were the only "out of track" DJs this year. Last year it was Second Sun. Ferry, Armin, Menno, Wizz and Insomnia usually play uplifting and 136-140 bpm. IM goes up 140 and I think it was totally off the flow. I'd have prefer having Nick (Pilon...) instead of these guys. The flow would have been much better. This has nothing to do about my love for Trance, but rather the flow of the night. |
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| Originally posted by ZraW BOOK ANOTHER DJ FROM HOLLAND ! |
There are a lot of known DJs out there who would have made the trick
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| Originally posted by Neo Hacker Not Tiesto. John Askew would have been great...and I wouldn't mind if it was Above & Beyond again, I totally love these guys. There are a lot of known DJs out there who would have made the trick |
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| Originally posted by ZraW svd again ! |
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| Originally posted by zeKsg SVD fucking owns, the 2 times i saw him in the past 4 days. MAN I swear I almost liked him more then Armin... He really fucking owns with his new Supernaturalistic sound. |
to Bertuzz and others worried about noobs:
If you guys went onto facebook and looked at the 3 event details for beb14...i duno bout u guys but i realized something from the confirmed guests list..there were alot of ppl in there that i knew from high school that did not have the slightest clue as to wtf music is..they were the type into hiphop and shit..and they would have 1 friend who knew armin which would end up influencing the others to join in and go to beb..so yea trust me the noobs did jam the hell out of it and there were a ot of underage 16-18 year old girls/guys...they should seriously start checking IDS plz!! I mean going from hiphop to beb? or going to beb just for 2 big names (armin and guetta)..blah ppl like this should be rejected at entrance..
and thats my two cents.
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| Originally posted by SandSt0rm to Bertuzz and others worried about noobs: If you guys went onto facebook and looked at the 3 event details for beb14...i duno bout u guys but i realized something from the confirmed guests list..there were alot of ppl in there that i knew from high school that did not have the slightest clue as to wtf music is..they were the type into hiphop and shit..and they would have 1 friend who knew armin which would end up influencing the others to join in and go to beb..so yea trust me the noobs did jam the hell out of it and there were a ot of underage 16-18 year old girls/guys...they should seriously start checking IDS plz!! I mean going from hiphop to beb? or going to beb just for 2 big names (armin and guetta)..blah ppl like this should be rejected at entrance.. and thats my two cents. |
BEB has already built their name and the massive is known to be one not to be missed by most ppl in the city.
Above that it seems they have capacity issues every year. so they obviously do not have problems with filling the place.
If their strategy is to try to attract the masses by booking ppl like Guetta and AVB, I question why?
85% of the ppl go for the party and 90% of the guys go for the pussy. These ppl could care less what the music is as long as they are playing electronic music and not country, they will show up for the event because it is established.
Why not book some DJs that are more appropriate for a big room !!
dude kids being at parties are what montreal is about... its always been like that, at every god damn club man, this thing won't change tomorow morning, its part of the 'lax rules we have here.
I disgaree about the big names, if you don't have shit, you won't be able to attract flies.
You need to bring a few djs with familiar names to bring those who are not in the scene but will able to recognize a familiar name like david guetta, ferry corsten, infected mushroom...
and offer was not mixing at all, he just slammed the cds and cut right thru, most of the time i was there he wasn't even fadeing out.
spin laden: dude i can't believe you liked offer, i thought you were leet, always smashing bal en blanc and what it represent... and yet you praise the worst "dj" of that night.
an insightful question would be,
"spin what were you on?"
Tech Room
Ferry Corsten:
Ferry Corsten - Fire
Ferry Corsten - Beatiful
Ferry Corsten - Into The Dark
Jan Johnston - Let The world Fall Apart
Breakfast - The Horizon
Seth Hutton - Don't Look Behing You
Georgia - Ode To 99
Eon - Pocket Damage
Lemon & Einar K - Anticipation
Oceanlab - Sirens of the Sea (A&B Club Mix)
Andrelli & Blue - Imagine (Mike Nichol Remix)
(Mike Shiver's Catching Sun Mix)
Andre Visior & Kay Stone - Something For Your Mind(Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix)
Sander Van Doorn - Pura Vida
Gouryella - Gouryella
System F - Out of the blue (violen edit)
Embrace - Embrace (Ferry fix)
System F - Exhale
Armin Van Buuren:
Arnej - They Always Come Back
Sia - The Girl You Lost To Cocain (SVD Remix)
Arno Cost - Apocalypse
Marcus Schossow & Sagstad - Crepuscolo
Funkagenda - What The Fuck
Dash Berlin - Till The Sky Falls Down (Dub Mix)
Veracocha - Carte Blanche (Cosmic Gate Remix)
Markus Schulz - Perfect
Ernesto Vs Bastian - Thrill
John O'Callaghan - Big Sky(Agneli & Nelson Remix)
Markus Schulz & Andy Moor - Daydream (Ronski Speed Remix)
Cosmic Gate feat. Denise Rivera vs. Nenes - Body Of Teksha (Filo & Peri Mashup)
Peter Martijn Wijnia pres. Majesta - Not The End vs. DJ Shah feat. Adrina Thorpe - Who Will Find Me (Acapella) (Armin Van Buuren Mashup)
GTR - Mistral
Breakfast - The Sunlight
Fragma - Toca Me (Inpetto Remix)
ATA - Blue Skies
Simon Patterson - Smack
4 Strings - Take Me Away (Re-ward remix)
Kyau vs Albert - Megashira
Glenn Morrison - Circles
Dior - Emotions (2nd emotions remix)
Gareth Emery - More than Anything
Leon Bolier - Ocean Drive Boulevard
Armin Van Buuren feat. Susana - If U Should Go
Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes -Tribal remix?
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