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PVD At Avalon Boston Review

What a great Night!It was much needed for me.PVD laid down techno and hard trance that had hands in the air all night....I didnt like the fact that some moron tossed a glowstick into the booth stopping the music for a few seconds.pvd looked pissed off and he tossed the glowstick back into the crowd but it didnt come close to putting a damper on the crowd as a pvd chant started.that was tech trance at its finest.He pushed avalons speakers to the max

I caught a few spots...

Lovefist - Hanging On A String (E-Craig Mix)
Ron van den Beuken - Endless
Paul Van Dyk - For An Angel (Remix)
Josh Gabriel - Alive
Dahlback and Chrome - Murder Was The Bass
Cosmic Gate - Billingual


Then went over to rise for a few hours of steve porter.


PS thanks to the guy with the bottle of greygoose who spared a few chugs of the quality vodka for me on the dancefloor

I agree, the set was so good especially for a Boston 2hr set.

Cant wait to see him in LA Halloween

I had a really good time -- pvd on point as usual ~~ some of the tracks I remembered...

Inkfish vs David West - Aftermath
Marcos - Cosmic String
Cosmic Gate - Billingual
PVD - Wir Sind Wir
DJ Danjo & Rob Styles - Duende (Signum Remix)
Josh Gabriel - Alive
Randy Katana - In Silence (Txitxarro Mix)
Sam Sharp - Deep
PVD - For an Angel
Second Sun - Spell (Paul van Dyk Remix)
Robert Gitelman - Children Of The Sun
Marcos - But For A Day
Active Sight - Out Of Or Lives
Ron van den Beuken - Endless

... encored with Jonesey - Independance (Stadium Mix)

see everyone tonight in DC!

quality freakin night. pvd was spot on. mixing was great, sound was booming to the max. Tons of people there having a good time. Good to met some new faces and some I haven't seen in a while. I had to go to dentist this morning so I missed rise.

Keep the good times coming!

Ehh, not all that special... its the same stuff he's been spinning for the past month & half - 2 months, like exactly.

thanks for the review rory!


see you in a few hours

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Originally posted by Vlad Ehh, not all that special... its the same stuff he's been spinning for the past month & half - 2 months, like exactly.

i hope that you were at least there to make this unqualified statement. there were at least two songs played that none of you could name right now that were awesome. i don't think his sets sounded like this two months ago. this was not a sensation-tracklist-only set. eg. no summer dream, and a couple new tracks. just because you heard some songs in powerzone or something does not make them stale!

anyway, i loved it. i think it was as high energy as 2 hours in a club with pvd can get. i was mad pissed off about the bullshit happening in the lines outside, and the club was overly packed, and yes, the kid who through the glowstick needed his ass BEAT.

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Originally posted by umes23 i hope that you were at least there to make this unqualified statement. there were at least two songs played that none of you could name right now that were awesome. i don't think his sets sounded like this two months ago. this was not a sensation-tracklist-only set. eg. no summer dream, and a couple new tracks. just because you heard some songs in powerzone or something does not make them stale! anyway, i loved it. i think it was as high energy as 2 hours in a club with pvd can get. i was mad pissed off about the bullshit happening in the lines outside, and the club was overly packed, and yes, the kid who through the glowstick needed his ass BEAT.

heh woulda loved to have seen pvd just wallop another idiot like he did a few years ago

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Originally posted by Vlad Ehh, not all that special... its the same stuff he's been spinning for the past month & half - 2 months, like exactly.

yeah we all missed you and your positive vibes...

Well thts Vlad


Wow so PVD_S11DJ your coming to Glow tonight for PVD

Man, I wish I coulda been there. Seeing PvD in my old hometown would be so sweet. DA MAN!!!!!!! I hope you all had fun!

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Originally posted by Vlad Ehh, not all that special...

So says the man who has Sander in his custom status.

I had an alright time. It was relentlessly hard, blisteringly fast, and in my opinion, monotonous.

This was my fourth time seeing Paul van Dyk at Avalon, Boston. I remember Paul van Dyk used to mix into the opening dj's set, starting out around the ~130 BPM that he was given to work with, and over the course of the first 1/2 hour to 1 hour he would build things up to his more familiar pace. I used to love that first hour of music. It was still completely and uniquely PvD sounding and he was stretching himself out of that little comfort zone of peak-time bangers that he has so many of.

Nowadays he skips right to the peak time material from the start. His set starts completely full-on, and it ends full-on. I know alot of people really enjoy that, so I'm not saying that it's inherently bad or that anyone is wrong for liking that. I am, however, saying that I personally love Paul van Dyk's ability to build things to a frenzy, rather than what he did last night, which was just to launch directly into that frenzy.

I still had a generally good time though. I really like the last few songs he played; a lot of them really were quite beautiful and made me smile, I will always love hearing "For an Angel" in a club, and "Murder was the Bass" was genuinely sick.

I can't believe someone threw a glowstick up and knocked the tonearm off the record. I saw it happen, and it was like in slow motion to me....oh jeez. I wouldn't have minded if Paul just whipped it right back at the kid who tossed it up, lol. He handled it well and played an awesome encore song.

I hate Avalon when it is too crowded, but I think the trick is to stand on one of the steps leading down to the dance floor if you want just a little space to dance. The steps are good because they are a clearly defined space which require people to be blatantly rude in order to move you from. Basically, once I secured a space on the bottom step next to the actual dance floor, everything was good. But trying to stay on the dancefloor itself was a nightmare. Way too many sweaty, tipsy guys in tank tops.

Also, I hope some of you made it out to Steve Porter at Rise afterwards. That was a blast! Some of the songs I remember:

James Taylor - Shower the People (Agent 001 Remix?)
Steve Porter - Vodka Cranberries
Ferry Corsten - Rock Your Body Rock (seriously sick breakbeat remix!)
Armin - Blue Fear (amazing! came out of nowhere with this one, and it was just nuts!)

Encore:
Rob Base & DJ E.Z. Rock - It Takes Two (lol, this was awesome, ol' skool hip-hop to the fullest)

Over all, it was a good night. Paul van Dyk was a 6/10 when the crowdedness is factored in, and Steve Porter at Rise gets an 8/10.

i had a pretty good time at pvd... except when someone on the balcony threw a champagne glass down to the dance floor right next to me. then some bitch throws a whole champagne BOTTLE onto the dance floor. i don't think anybody got hit though. idiots.

i had a better time at the rise though.

also met fellow boston ta sandstorm. good time.

I didn't make it unfortunately, got lost twice, once trying to pick up a friend in Cambridge, another time tryin to get to Avalon. we made it there around 12:30, guestlist closed, line like crazy outside, then a fucking bouncer tells me no shorts, even though I had worn shorts to Ti�sto. wasn't about to wear pants since I'd been sweating my balls off all damn day. glad it was a good time though.

just got Robert Gitelman-Children of the sun at satellite today....loved the tune last night

Well, I just moved from Miami to Boston about three weeks ago and this was my first "trance experience" in boston and I have to say i had a blast eventhough I do miss the 6-hour sets they usually play at Space.... I wore my VANDIT shirt as usual an went completley wild when he played For an Angel.... I took a few 50-60 sec. videos with my camera when he played for an angel and also when he played another awesomw song that im still trying to ID. Only bad things about the night was the 2 times the music stoped (I didnt see the glowstick being throw, what an idiot whoever that was).... Overall, really cool nite.... hope to meet some Boston TAs...

I know i met some ta's at rise but i'm terrible with names

Does anyonw know the name of a song that Paul played (It was in the first hour of the set) and it was pretty slow-paced (compared to the rest of the songs) and it had female vocals and a little bit of breaks in it??

Josh Gabriel-Alive

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Originally posted by GUBostonDubs Josh Gabriel-Alive

No its not that one... it has FEMALE vocals

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Originally posted by A_M_8 No its not that one... it has FEMALE vocals

Unknown-Unknown

I don't remember then

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Originally posted by GUBostonDubs Unknown-Unknown

I recorded a short video with my camera while it was playing but im trying to find where i can host it..... until then, somebody help me!!

did it sound like jan johnson or no?

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Originally posted by GUBostonDubs did it sound like jan johnson or no?

not really.... im watching the video to see if i can make out what the lyrics are saying but its really hard. i think theres a part that says "dont touch me baabbbyyy..." but im not enttirely sure...

Why do u ask if it sounds like Jan Johnson? did he play a song with Jan Johnson's vocals? if he did, tell me. Maybe i'm wrong and just didnt recognize it was her...

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Originally posted by A_M_8 not really.... im watching the video to see if i can make out what the lyrics are saying but its really hard. i think theres a part that says "dont touch me baabbbyyy..." but im not enttirely sure... Why do u ask if it sounds like Jan Johnson? did he play a song with Jan Johnson's vocals? if he did, tell me. Maybe i'm wrong and just didnt recognize it was her...

might be

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