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Oakenfold Review
This will be short.....NOT IMPRESSED. I've somehow never seen him before, and i can tell you that im in no rush to see him again. I can't recall him playing a single new hot trance track. He played alot of stuff from last year. Whats even worse is when i walked in around 1-115, he was playing what seemed like a rock song. He definitly sucked.
When Tong took over at 3, the music definitely improved. That is until around 4 am when he decided to play some 50's prom type song. It was really strange to say the least. Unfortunately i had to leave at 4am, so i don't know how tong closed out. ALthoug it did sound promising.
I agree with jerZ. Of all my times seeking Oakenfold, this was by far the least impressive. He threw down 13 tracks over 1 1/2 hours (start the hating now), with a lot of the repeated stuff from last year - Roman Hunter mix of Faster Kill, Alfa - Sarcosant, The World Is Mine, Dirty South vs. Evermore, Gabriel and Dresden - Dangerous Power, Thomas Bronswaer. This pales in comparison even to other sets of his from '06. The mixing was at least good, but it was nothing like the old days. He also seemed to be in and out of the sets also, talking with people behind the booth and then running back to do something. I hate to say this, but it almost felt like watching a faded sports start on his last legs. Oakenfold rating: 3/10
Tong: much better, but not the best I've heard from him. He had a few very fresh but old school sounding tracks in the beginning. The Supertramps track is very fresh and stuck in my head. Another track with breaks and a rave-style piano riff was sweet as well. He got very prog-techy after 4 AM. Tong rating 6.5/10
Obviously, much of the crowd was there for Oakenfold, as the vibe went through a freeze frame and slowly trickled down afterwards.
Overall rating on the night: 5/10 (and not worth $40).
to tell the truth i was impressed by pete tong, i left at 4:15 or so and up to that point he played some good tracks and mixed much better than i thought he was capable. i like djs with some level of crowd interaction and he did that much better than oakie...oakenfold will never be the way he was in the late 90s and i didn't go expecting him to be. he entertained me for the hour and 45min he was on the decks (i'm never tired hearing the world is mine or dangerous power) but to spin for such a short period of time doesn't make much sense since he was the "headliner." like SebringVandit mentioned Oakie was half there, he spent a good amount of time talking and taking pictures with the people on stage which i thought was a bit much but whatever. probabaly not going to go hear oakenfold spin again unless it's damn near free because the cost doesn't correlate with the level of entertainment.
Wow...so glad I didn't go to this. Oakie has really sucked the last couple of times I've seen him. I keep hoping he'll re-find his mojo, but I guess I'll have to wait a little longer for that to happen. Was it packed? Were people into Oakie?
last night was the greatest suckfest in all of electronic music history
or perhaps the worst DoWellFest, whatever
by the gods, not even tiesto made my soul ache this much
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| Originally posted by Hassassin last night was the greatest suckfest in all of electronic music history or perhaps the worst DoWellFest, whatever by the gods, not even tiesto made my soul ache this much |
He's too mainstream now...his music style of today & yesterday so to speak, are almost polar opposites, as far as trance & dance music goes. Yes dance music is constantly evolving however usually with time your DJing skills should improve not regress.
He's actually a nice guy but he seems a bit too Hollywood for dance music..unless of course Hollywood actresses singing hooks in trance/house songs is in our future :-( Oh wait he already did that
Re: Oakenfold Review
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| Originally posted by jerZ07002 This will be short.....NOT IMPRESSED. I've somehow never seen him before, and i can tell you that im in no rush to see him again. I can't recall him playing a single new hot trance track. He played alot of stuff from last year. Whats even worse is when i walked in around 1-115, he was playing what seemed like a rock song. He definitly sucked. When Tong took over at 3, the music definitely improved. That is until around 4 am when he decided to play some 50's prom type song. It was really strange to say the least. Unfortunately i had to leave at 4am, so i don't know how tong closed out. ALthoug it did sound promising. |
I really think he's tired and burnt out with DJing. If you compare him now to even 3 years ago, it's different. My friend who I was with also immediately said 'he ain't the same, just look at him, doesn't seem into it'. Also, when he did the Myspace thing a few months ago, he looked dead tired like he was ready for bed. I mentioned that this was like watching a fading sports star, it's clear he's getting by on his past and name recognition. Perfecto has eroded to where there's nothing left besides him, and almost all the tracks he spun last night have been worked in better by the likes of Armin and PVD. He's clearly gone off on his own path, but alienated his core audience in doing so. (Perhaps this also explains the Norfolk and Dayton club gigs - can go to cities where people largely don't know better.)
Well I'm not surprised by the reviews and SO GLAD I didn't go (even having a comp). I knew he was only gonna play for two hours. His set at Trance Energy sucked and his set at Cameo during the Conference was awful. Old tunes and trainwrecks. I was not at these events they were recorded.. I can't believe he still gets $40k for a two hour set. 
I stayed until 3 am. He is another one who just could care less and needs to pay his rent. He wasn't mixing after he wrecked the second mix in his set. Seemed to just cross fade really slowly and crank the base high. Also Studio sound system is very very week. All of the music stoped during the second song when oaky tried to crank the system a bit.
Seriously, do any of you actually expect a good set from these two? I have no idea how any of you picked this over Diggers. At least he cares about what he does enough to actually beatmatch.
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| Originally posted by Groundhog Boy Seriously, do any of you actually expect a good set from these two? I have no idea how any of you picked this over Diggers. At least he cares about what he does enough to actually beatmatch. |
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| Originally posted by pyro264jb I went to this to here the newest trance records on a big system. He played new bad records and the system was weak at best. Oaky delivers here and there. |
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| Originally posted by pyro264jb I went to this to here the newest trance records on a big system. He played new bad records and the system was weak at best. Oaky delivers here and there. |
Oakie been a strange little f*cker ever since he did MTV
well got there early cause i didn't wanna stand in line forever like the past couple times, so got there at 12 and walked right in which i was somewhat epecting given digweed @ pacha.... paid my herrendous $40 (X2) and got in to find about 100 people at max in the small room cause the main room wasn't open yet. the best part of the night happened about 2 minutes later. i just get in and i hear the guy next to me call out my name, so i turn around and it turns out its my friend from the UK which i haven't seen since ibiza 05'!! it was so random that he would be there and it was such an awesome surprise cause i haven't spoken to him since the last time i saw him. he just came back from the conference and i was spending the week here in NYC......
got in the main room and liquid todd was on the decks playing a pretty sick warm up set! every track was better then the next and he was playing alot of techy trance along with some house. oakey started at 1:30 to a half capacity crowd and he started pretty hard and i thought it was gonna be a good set and i would get my money's worth. sh*t was i wrong!!! after he played about 3 good tracks he completely lost himself, his set had no flow, even though his track selection was ok, i saw him near the decks for about 2 minutes altogether!! he was too busy doing coke and talking to all the people in the dj booth, the sound guy @ studio was behind those decks alot more then he was! he never gave a shit and he obviously didn't wanna be there, his mixing was non existant, he fucked up the bass almost everytime, trainwreck after trainwreck, just absolute sh*t! 
makes me think that his show on sirius is pre-recorded in his hotel room or by somebody else... and he only played for an hour and a half! (which turned out to be good cause i couldn't take it anymore
Tong came on at 3 and i was really anxious to see what he was gonna spin since he seems to be a totally different DJ everytime i see him, plus he spins with ableton (i think) so i was really looking forward to it. And it wasn't gonna be hard to top chokenfold's shitty performance. He played a pretty good set, very electro and only played a couple recognizable tracks. he started off slow but then picked it up quickly and it was very enjoyable even though alot of tracks were kinda bland and didn't stand out, but the energy was there and he kept me moving which is more then i can say for oakey. he played this awesome tracks with vocals that sound from some track in the 70's but i can't ID and i would love to know what it is. maybe a new Sharam production?
left around 5 cause i was just exhausted from working 28 hours in 2 days!
Shame on everyone here (slaps your hands) for going to this and missing the DJ clinic put on by Digweed a few blocks north.
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| Originally posted by PvDoBseSSioN well got there early cause i didn't wanna stand in line forever like the past couple times, so got there at 12 and walked right in which i was somewhat epecting given digweed @ pacha.... paid my herrendous $40 (X2) and got in to find about 100 people at max in the small room cause the main room wasn't open yet. the best part of the night happened about 2 minutes later. i just get in and i hear the guy next to me call out my name, so i turn around and it turns out its my friend from the UK which i haven't seen since ibiza 05'!! it was so random that he would be there and it was such an awesome surprise cause i haven't spoken to him since the last time i saw him. he just came back from the conference and i was spending the week here in NYC...... got in the main room and liquid todd was on the decks playing a pretty sick warm up set! every track was better then the next and he was playing alot of techy trance along with some house. oakey started at 1:30 to a half capacity crowd and he started pretty hard and i thought it was gonna be a good set and i would get my money's worth. sh*t was i wrong!!! after he played about 3 good tracks he completely lost himself, his set had no flow, even though his track selection was ok, i saw him near the decks for about 2 minutes altogether!! he was too busy doing coke and talking to all the people in the dj booth, the sound guy @ studio was behind those decks alot more then he was! he never gave a shit and he obviously didn't wanna be there, his mixing was non existant, he fucked up the bass almost everytime, trainwreck after trainwreck, just absolute sh*t! makes me think that his show on sirius is pre-recorded in his hotel room or by somebody else... and he only played for an hour and a half! (which turned out to be good cause i couldn't take it anymoreTong came on at 3 and i was really anxious to see what he was gonna spin since he seems to be a totally different DJ everytime i see him, plus he spins with ableton (i think) so i was really looking forward to it. And it wasn't gonna be hard to top chokenfold's shitty performance. He played a pretty good set, very electro and only played a couple recognizable tracks. he started off slow but then picked it up quickly and it was very enjoyable even though alot of tracks were kinda bland and didn't stand out, but the energy was there and he kept me moving which is more then i can say for oakey. he played this awesome tracks with vocals that sound from some track in the 70's but i can't ID and i would love to know what it is. maybe a new Sharam production? left around 5 cause i was just exhausted from working 28 hours in 2 days! |
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| Originally posted by SebringVandit Tong getting on the mic at the end of Oakie's set was my favorite part also LOL. If I could have been back there again, I would have booed like Yankees fans on A-Rod. I wouldn't be surprised if the Sirius shows are pre-recorded and touched up by some producer or engineer. That 70's vocals track that Tong spun was probably Supertramps 'Goodbye Stranger (One Night Stand Mix)' - a white label according to the Essential Selection tracklisting from a few weeks ago. For good Oakenfold (back when he would still be into it and all), here's a good clip to check out. I was actually there for this set - at Space Miami during WMC '04, and it was probably one of the best Oakenfold sets I've heard. He dropped this tune and Man with No Name - Teleport as encores (no joke), and included an updated version of Orange (his Lemon re-rub from the Goa mix), a few 90s tracks, the u2 Beautiful Day remix and some stuff from the Creamfields CD. It was a great set, and everybody left the dancefloor when Sandra Collins came on afterwards with some progressive. Oh yeah, and the man spun for 3 hours that night - still short by NYC standards, but double the 1 1/2 hr joke from this past weekend. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeDQff9m4LM |
I was wearing a sorta white shirt, in teh center of the floor towards the left side. Next time, feel free to just say what's up.
Yeah, that night at Space was awesome - one of my highlights from WMC that year, puts this past weekend to shame.
tiesto space 03 set was killer also
Umm yeah , I havent been out in a while and didnt roll in till about three. I went to meet my cuz from cali. I guess I missed the whole Okie fiasco , luckily. Pete Tong was mediocre as well . Last time I saw him at crobar he was much better. I ended up leabing around 5 also. Not worth the money!
honestly, i just can't believe you ppl even wasted your money.. especially you nils! shame on ya, boy! next time amma git da hose!
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| Originally posted by LuNaSeA honestly, i just can't believe you ppl even wasted your money.. especially you nils! shame on ya, boy! next time amma git da hose! |
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