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Review: Dj Ampz Only @ Purple Room, Fri. Jan. 16/09
Amazing night of trance and house in one big bundle of goodness. Thanks to all I met!!! Amazing people on this forum!!!!
I hope you all had a good time like I did. Dj Ampz killed it! Starting with classic trance into house/electro house. Ending up with prog into trance again!!!.
Song of the night for me, too many to name. but what I can remember... silence into Chakalaka!!!! or murder was the bass!!!!
Crowd was great. No pushing or bad manners.
dJ 8/10 only because he had to play some cheese songs for the "rev" crowd.
Trance addicts 100/10!!!!
10/10 night for me!!!!
See you all at A&B!
Re: Review: Dj Ampz Only @ Purple Room, Fri. Jan. 16/09
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| Originally posted by Inrush Song of the night for me, too many to name. but what I can remember... silence into Chakalaka!!!! or murder was the bass!!!! Crowd was great. No pushing or bad manners. |
Awesome night! Wicked tunes!
I was tired, but still got into it wicked. I had to sit down for awhile near the end after I had 7 redbulls and felt tired/edgy if that makes any sense lol. I was still into it but I had to sit down. Totally not like me I know, but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do.
Some freakin amazing tunes that brought back so many memories since I started partying in 2003, wow, it's been awhile! So many hands in the air moments and singing out loud to the song with other people haha. Loved it.
On another note.....
MIND BLASTING!
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| Originally posted by Yohan only one question matters though. was Chi there? |
Wow. I can't believe how much trance Barry played. And I can't believe how well the room reacted to it. **In your face, disbelievers.**
Long review ahead; I hope it's useful.
Great night, which actually started in Guelph at Veronica's place at 2 in the afternoon. Many drinks were consumed and much fun was had. Thanks to Cale, Veronica, and her friends/room-mates for the good times (and Cale for the JAGERBOMBS!). Barry picked us up and we all went to Rev. Then he got set up and played classic trance until midnight. WONDERFUL. Around 11:30, the room was going NUTS. He played stuff like Purple Haze - Adrenaline, Darren Tate - Winter [Max Graham Sidechain], Young Parisians - Jump The Next Train [Kyau & Albert], and even Tiesto - Suburban Train. Many many more classics were thrown down and the room LOVED it. He was mostly playing requests, but somehow the set ended up flowing really well and I danced my ass off.
At midnight, Barry started playing the usual house/electro stuff (he opened with a cute little deadmau5-esque robot voice opening bit, which included the phrase "no I will not play fucking tiesto" despite the fact that he had already played some. Oh, the irony...) Anyways, I secretly wish he would retire all of those mainstream mashups/mixes, especially "jump around" and "thunderstruck", which IMO are terrible. The only good one I remember liking was the "Smack My Bitch Up" one. But the mainstream crowd eats that shit up like candy, so I can see why Barry keeps playing it. He played a bunch more electro, which was good... some dirty stuff, some questionable older overplayed stuff (Toca's Miracle [Inpetto Mix]?? Isn't everyone sick of this by now??), a remix of Deadmau5 - Slip which I found rather disappointing, but also some really great ones (Wolfgang Gartner - Flashback!) He kept not being able to find the CDs containing the music he wanted to play, which possibly contributed to the hit-and-miss-ness of this portion of his set. The crowd wasn't too picky and seemed to dance their asses off whenever a good beat dropped anyway.
At some point (after 1:30), Ampz played Pjanoo (always a useful track to pivot around when switching genres) and started palying 130 bpm new school proggier trance stuff. Played Delerium - Silence [Remix], Wippenberg - Chakalaka, Oceanlab - Miracle [Michael Cassette Remix], Above and Beyond - No One On Earth, and a few other epic tunes that I forgot. He ended off with the Paul Van Dyk remix of Underworld - Born Slippy. Perfect again. Happy happy happy trance in my pants.
Mixing was perfect except for one or two tiny slip-ups at the start of the night, and a few mis-timed (late) mixes which were probably due to Barry spending so much time searching through his binders of CDs for the right tracks, and getting them cued up last minute. Despite this, his beatmatching was never off; Ampz can perfectly beatmatch any two tracks in 5 seconds, or so it seems. Barry, your enormous CD collection needs ctrl+F. :P
The levels were good, not at all deafening like when Tim plays; almost a bit too quiet at the start (when the trance was playing and the room started filling up, I almost felt that the volume needed to go up a little.) I only needed my earplugs once or twice for particular songs when the highs were not EQed well and were coming through way too strong. I really do believe that the purple room sound system sounds MUCH cleaner and better when it's not cranked all the way to the red. There is a lesson to be learned here for some of the other purple room residents who crank shit WAY TOO LOUD in there. 
It was great to meet Ben (Inrush) and his girlfriend (Nicole, I think.) I had a wonderful time destroying the dancefloor with you guys. There were a few other new faces there from TA and elsewhere; I'm braindead right now and can't remember any of your names. *I FAIL*. Eventually I will learn. *sigh*
Cheers to Cale, Veronica, Barry, Aaron, Tammy, Dan, Mada, Marina, and everyone else (all the people I'm forgetting. UGH). You guys *made* the night.
Cheers also to Veronica's friend Sarah, who tagged along despite not being an EDM fan and still managed to stay in the purple room for most of the night. I hope you had a good time!
Special thanks go to Dan for driving me home so Barry didn't have to, and his friends (Christina and Amanda, I believe) for having an incredibly AWKWARDLY HILARIOUS conversation with me on the drive home.
Great night. Now for sleep. ^_^
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| Originally posted by Playa24_7 MIND BLASTING! |
Re: Re: Review: Dj Ampz Only @ Purple Room, Fri. Jan. 16/09
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| Originally posted by Yohan lol. trance is forbidden! only one question matters though. was Chi there? |
lmao@pic
Who's Chi?
When I played there maybe a year and a half ago there was this crazy older oriental dude dancing around......is that Chi?
If so, that guy was awesome!!!!!
Here's are some pics....
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| Originally posted by Playa24_7 MIND BLASTING! |
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| Originally posted by DJ_Elyot |
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| Originally posted by cammaxwell Who's Chi? When I played there maybe a year and a half ago there was this crazy older oriental dude dancing around......is that Chi? If so, that guy was awesome!!!!! Here's are some pics.... |
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| Originally posted by Yohan that's him. he is like a purple room legend |
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| Originally posted by cammaxwell That guy was a blast!!! So what happened, he got banned? |
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| Originally posted by Inrush hes very touchy with women. I bet it has to do with that. I always have to push him away every time he comes up to my girlfriend because so does not like him at all |
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| Originally posted by Yohan lol. hence why he's a purple room legend sketchier than most skasians |
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| Originally posted by Inrush Dj Ampz killed it! |
OMG Chi got banned?? Say it aint so....
He used to love when I brought Sarah along 
Glad everyone had a blast, PR nights are always a blast!
haha awesome pic!
Ahahah, Veronica and I are clearly having the time of our lives. We were pretty loaded.
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| Originally posted by DJ_Elyot Special thanks go to Dan for driving me home so Barry didn't have to, and his friends (Christina and Amanda, I believe) for having an incredibly AWKWARDLY HILARIOUS conversation with me on the drive home. |
Awesome time last night!
in a proper inebriated state i got to meet a bunch of ya and put some names to faces. Pretty cool how this internet community is so close knit.
but im at work right now, so i should probably work..
Had a great time and enjoyed meeting a bunch of you.
Look forward to the next gathering at Rev
haha every pic in this thread is awesome
i need some plur trance at proom 
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