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Attn Matthias

Dude i was bitterly disappointed (in paul) when i read your review of the WMC and his gigs that you saw there.

It did not bode well for his upcoming australian tour (for me nyway having spent $50+ on the ticket already).

However last night he fucking PWND me and about a about a thousand other ppl (twas a sunday night).

He hammered out the tech/uplifting trance for 2.5 hours and then for some reason dropped off the pace dramatically with your loving arms but built it up in the last hour of his set very well.

The people were going nuts to his set it was awesome. IMO was a fkn wikked set, but doesn't get anywhere near his set @ GAS 2003 which is probably the greatest set i've ever heard (and i've listened to quite a few).

Anyway just thought id rub it in a bit.


I'm not big into trance anymore but here's some tracks i managed to ID

Viframa - Cristalle (Katana's Intro Mix) [Edit]
Sherrie Lea - No Ordinary Love (KvA dub???)
Dj Shog - Running Water (Shog�s 2 Faces Mix)
Beam - On Your Mind (Sean Tyas Hard Dub)
The Drill
Kuffdam & Plant � Dreammaker (Original Mix)
Lange & Gareth Emery � Back on Track
Nautical Imagery - Distant Dream (Original Mix)
Cygnus X � Superstrings (Remix??)
Crush (Vandit Club Mix)
Stormy Clouds
The Egg - Walking Away (Tocadisco Remix)
On Your Mind
John Dahlback - Nothing Is For Real (Askesian Society remix)
Karen Overton - You Loving Arms (Club Mix)
PvD - The Other Side (Deep Dish Remix)
Timo Maas - Pictures (PvD Remix)
Deep Dish - Say Hello (PvD Remix)
Nothing But You (Club Mix)
For An Angel (Marc Van Linden Remix)
Time of Our Lives (Club Mix)
Giuseppe Ottaviani & Marc van Linden - Until Monday
Emjay - Real High
Smike & Aleix - Guarantee (Solar Mix)
Dogzilla � Without you




pics n vids n shit on ze way

Well..I'm always willing to give someone like PvD the benefit of the doubt as the sound system at club space was not as crsip as I last recalled. Add to the fact that I had just got off the plane to miami for and didnt get much sleep the night before. That being said, I was a bit more critical of the set.

As far as Space, IMO I think had Edgar V would have opened rather than Oscar G it woulda built up a better vibe to when Paul got on. The tracks Paul played were great, but the set was inconsistant. This harmonic mixing concept I use in my own sets makes me a bit critical of the transitions. Ferry Corsten keys all of his tracks and arranges them based on tracks with compatible keys that when the next track mixes in, you feel an energy lift. None of the transitions I recall were in key and it just seemed like he was tossing out random tracks he thought would work, He has ableton to beatmatch for him as well as rework the tracks with his own percussion lines...but with that I felt he could have done much better than was presented.
As far as the tracks themselves. I heard maybe 2 or 3 I never heard before that blew me away. The rest of em were stuff he's been playing or tracks that didnt phase me at all.
I've seen him 17 times and he can and has done much much better. The following were the most memorable as at the end of the set I was completely blown away.

Club Hyperia - Houston - Oct 2001
Meltdown 4 - Dallas - Nov 2002
Club Blue - Dallas - Aug 2003
Club One - Dallas - Oct 2004
Club Space - Miami - Mar and Nov 2005

There were others that were good, some okay...the main reason I gave Paul such a harsh review was because well..both gigs were at Space and Ultra, and they were mediocre sets rather than mindblowing ones. Now the man that DID blow me away was Ferry Corsten at Sky. That was some serious shit.

Re: Attn Matthias

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Originally posted by DJ_Ballistic John Dahlback - Nothing Is For Real (Mark Knight Remix) PvD - The Other Side (Deep Dish Remix)

see..now here was the thing. He was taking tracks that make great progressive/electro house tracks..and reworking em in Ableton to try to make em compatible in a 140 bpm set. Adding a PvD kick to make an originally 128bpm track fit just doesn't work very well imo.

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Originally posted by DJ_Ballistic Nothing But You (Club Mix) For An Angel (Marc Van Linden Remix) Time of Our Lives (Club Mix)

Here's the other thing. He's ALWAYS playing these at the end of his set. I'd wish he'd release the MlV remix as its almost 2 years old, but I wouldnt mind hearing him play the classic E-werk club mix.

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