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REVIEW: Bal en Blanc 2010
Tired as hell.
SVD: I love him but last night's set had no flow at all.
I thought this BeB would kinda meh cause of the first few sets. But when Ferry Corsten came on, he took the show. I had goosebumps for like half his set. Amazing dj and vibe.
Markus Schulz was pretty good as well the last hour except the last two tracks was amazing! Perspective space mashed up with sweet dreams. Hale Bopp - Der litte raum(sp?), Cosmic Gate - Conciousness Wowwwww
the house room was not good at all... didnt spend any time in there. Trance room all day, although nothing really stood out for me. Mostly i just had fun with good friends 
i will never forget the things i saw in that co ed bathroom...
omgomgomgomgomg. i havent been to montreal in quite a few years but now i remember why i love it so much. bal en blanc was an insane and intense experience.
honourable mention also goes to circus afterhour. i had the opportunity to check this place out on friday night. i was expecting a shady and ugly venue but i was soooo wrong. this place is beautiful. hardwood floors, sick lighting, good sound and some of the sexiest female bartenders i have ever seen. special thank you to FunKenLouis.
i hope i can go back to montreal in june. gareth emery @ circus.
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| Originally posted by xJillx i will never forget the things i saw in that co ed bathroom... |
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| Originally posted by xJillx i will never forget the things i saw in that co ed bathroom... |
Copy pasta from the MTL section
It was my first Bal en Blanc, I heard about the crazy line ups. We got in line at 10:45 and we were inside and ready to party at 11:20pm. That was awesome.
First off, decoration, pretty weak IMO. It felt bare, and nothing like I've seen from years past. The LED screens were pretty fucking sweet in the house room, I especially liked watching the DJs up close on the screen. The Boombox got better and better, during Schulz, I was thoroughly enjoying it. At first I was thinking, whatever this thing's alright, but definitely got better as the night progressed.
Caught a little bit of Wizz and Insomnia, and liked what I heard.. for about 15 minutes while we waited in line for the bathrooms and bought some drinks at the bar in the trance room. Then we headed over to catch Ceasar Romero.
Ceasar laid down some seriously thumping tech house, some prog, and some techno, and some latin flavored tracks, The vibe was AMAZING and the house room was PACKED for Ceasar even at midnight, while there was about 200 people in the trance room.
I knew this would happen, LMFAO came on stage and totally killed my vibe with their obnoxious songs, beats, and hair. Seeing the words "I Am Not A Whore" flashing on the screen made me wanna throw up all over the place. I left quickly, and refused to even listen to IM, so we hung out for a little a little.
I'm not a trance fan, and neither are any of my friends but I went to BeB with an open mind. We all got into the trance room for SVD, and.. we couldn't do it. The bass was way too muffled, and overpowered the highs, I dunno maybe we were too close to the back where it seems the bass overpowered, but I just can't do 140-150 bpm, too fast for me and my friends. We weren't feeling it, so at 2am we went to see Guetta.
I didn't enjoy Guetta. The dance floor was way too packed, and such a commercially crowd pleasing set full of cup cake remixes and mash ups galore, the LAST THING I wanna hear is a fucking Coldplay sample. He'd play a nice track then smother it with lame commercial samples. At this point, I was pretty down for some reason. My stomach was feeling weird, and I was wondering if I'd even be able to last the whole night.
After an hour and a half of Guetta, we hung out for a bit till Ferry came on. I wanted to give the trance room another try... once again, I thought Ferry's tracks within the first 20-30 mins were too cheesy so we left and went to hang outside in the hallway for an hour, just talking and chilling, watching the sluts walk by. These two stunning broads wore the tiniest string thongs I've ever seen, saw a gay dude dressed up at Tatonka, and a really sexy tranny, I had to give it a double take to make sure it was not a chick. Talked with some strangers, the drugs were really kicking in now and I was having a blast.
We got into the house room for 5:30 and Kaskade was on. I've checked out his productions before and hated it, cheesy vocal deep house, I deleted it off my computer immediately.. but GODDAMN what a set! He dropped some dirty tech house, big room prog house, I thought his mixing was top notch, his mash ups were cool, and holy shit some of his drops were just massive. I couldn't stop moving, and didn't want him to stop. Highlight tracks were Burujava, Soms, and I'm not gonna lie I enjoyed I Remember, fuck you guys.. I just hugged one of my girl friends, and we just danced slowly and sexy.
Ana Paula came on, and I was feeling it, some cool tracks, but one second I was surrounded with chicks, and the next second it was ALL gay dudes. Some guy touched my ass and I got fucking pissed.. watched 15 minutes, and decided fuck this let's give the trance room one more shot.
Markus Schulz drew me and my friends in. FINALLY some trance I was feeling, some of the tracks he played, my god such deep churning growling basslines, punchy kicks, and just a techno-ish dark sound? Some insane tribal basslines too, WOW... Even the vocal tracks he played, I LOVED. My friends, all house heads, agreed that Schulz slayed the fucking crowd big time. Such raw emotion, fantastic mixing, song selection, and the flow of the set was just incredible. The boombox was finally going haywire, the lights flashing, when he played "Hold that sucker down" I lost my shit, I dunno if it was an edit, but the kicks were much more bassy, and he sped it up a bit prolly to around 135, but FUCKKKK what a drop! I was really happy he played the whole track.. finally got to hear one of my favorite tracks on a big system. I was ready to leave at 9:45 and my friends were like "No this guy is way too good let's wait till he's done." so we stayed till 10am. 2 hours and 45 minutes of intense dancing, I will go see Schulz again that's guarenteed. Is it possible he played a Pryda/Cirez D track? Fuck one song just sounded so familiar, sounded so much like the Prydz sound.
Overall, great night.. such friendly people, lots of eye candy, the gays were a little intense, danced like crazy for almost 10 hours. I didn't even take all the candy I had brought with me, didn't need to, so I'm not too cracked out today. I read only one person got arrested, thats great news. I did see a few guys getting rolled out on stretchers though... I think the strobes in the house room gave one guy a seizure, I saw him barfing and then he blacked out on the floor. Hope everyone is okay.
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| Originally posted by corjay9 I'm not a trance fan, and neither are any of my friends but I went to BeB with an open mind. We all got into the trance room for SVD, and.. we couldn't do it. The bass was way too muffled, and overpowered the highs, I dunno maybe we were too close to the back where it seems the bass overpowered, but I just can't do 140-150 bpm, too fast for me and my friends. We weren't feeling it, so at 2am we went to see Guetta. |
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| Originally posted by chinamon now i wish i waited in those huge lines and used those washrooms instead of walking back downstairs and using the one in foyer area that had nobody in it. |
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| Originally posted by chinamon the bass bins were at the back of the room so the bass will obviously be heavier if you are closer to them. the sound was great at the front. svd playing 140-150bpm? sounds like you dont know how to count your bpm properly. lol |
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| Originally posted by chinamon omgomgomgomgomg. i havent been to montreal in quite a few years but now i remember why i love it so much. bal en blanc was an insane and intense experience. honourable mention also goes to circus afterhour. i had the opportunity to check this place out on friday night. i was expecting a shady and ugly venue but i was soooo wrong. this place is beautiful. hardwood floors, sick lighting, good sound and some of the sexiest female bartenders i have ever seen. special thank you to FunKenLouis. i hope i can go back to montreal in june. gareth emery @ circus. |
disoriented Chinamon lol
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| Originally posted by malek Nice seeing you again man. Funny hearing you saying you didnt know what to do disoriented Chinamon lol |
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| Originally posted by chinamon hahaha great seeing you again as well. i hope my pics turned out okay. when are you posting yours? you should've seen how "slow" i was on sunday afternoon. i just felt like DUH. |
was the second half of asot450/beb trip and after asot and two nights of clubbing in was pretty tired. Beb was just unbelievable though. Sander is amazinggggg love this guy, everytime we've seen him he just bangs it out so hard with that sander grin on his face, so sick. Was planning to check out the other room during ferry's set as he plays pretty trancy for me, but after his second track (right back) couldnt leave. Tracks like beautiful and brain box kept me there as well! Markus fucking schulz is just a choon machine. always banging and keeping it trancy. he knows how to play to a crowd =) Sied van riel didnt seem into it at the start, but he changed that up quick. his first track was the bottle, what a fucking monster. A few repeat tracks, but all of them were tunes i couldnt get enough of. he closed with for your love, a tune i never thought id hear, so amazing. The french people know how to party, met a lot of amazing people, already waiting for next year's BeB.
--boombox was insane
Re: REVIEW: Bal en Blanc 2010
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| Originally posted by I_Am_Vince SVD: I love him but last night's set had no flow at all. |
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| Originally posted by xJillx i will never forget the things i saw in that co ed bathroom... |
I love that Chinamon had a OMGOMGOMGOMG moment.
It has been a while.
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| Originally posted by xJillx i will never forget the things i saw in that co ed bathroom... |
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| Originally posted by Mgz btw was there 2 different rooms with 4 different acts at the same time or it is just one big room, cuz I were looking for the trance room with the boombox thingy for the whole time and didn't find it until Ferry set, was so confused and disoriented |
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| Originally posted by She_Fitz I love that Chinamon had a OMGOMGOMGOMG moment. It has been a while. |
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| Originally posted by Intangible WHAT?! It was one HUGE room with 1 stage on each side... I do not understand how you could miss the boombox :S It started up when Sander came on. Ps... omg wow <3 |
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| Originally posted by Swamper lol...yup. |
My Bal en Blanc experience was amazing from the minute I woke up at 6am until the minute I passed out at home Monday night.
The trip down was incredible. Great music, great weather, great company. Could not ask for more. I was so full of excitement and anticipation. The 6 hours flew by. Got into the city around 3 and had some time to explore the city. It was my second time in Montreal and never have I felt more at home somewhere. I need to seriously consider moving to Montreal. I love the overall vibe, the people are so friendly, and the city is beautiful. Went for a huge walk and to the Centre Canadien d'Architecture - thank god my admission was free as half the museum was closed off. Dinner was amazing - Montreal pizza is to DIE for.
We arrived at BEB around 10:15. I could not believe the energy buzzing around the entrance. Seeing everyone dressed in white and everything coming together was unreal. I was really impressed with how organized they were and everyone working there was really friendly. I could not believe coat check was $5.00. The whole process (for VIP) went by really fast.
Walking into the room was incredible. I could not believe how HUGE the room was. I actually thought that it was going to be two separate rooms - seeing both stages in one room was awesome. And when I thought things could get better I received one of the best surprises of my life... Jason was there! (Mr.Leno).
We went over to the house side to check out Ceaser. I enjoyed most of what I heard. Nothing to write home about but still a fun way to warm up the night. He started to loose me by the end and chase out a bunch of friends so we headed over to Infected Mushroom for their last few tracks and WTF!!!!!!????? I would rather ram needles into my eye then ever listen to them again. And I can't believe I never noticed they were under giant mushrooms lol.
There was a lot of hype for Sander. I had only seen him once before (a couple years ago) and I didn't really remember my impression of him. I really did want to give him fair chance.... but I was REALLY disappointed. I found there was no flow and it never really went anywhere. I didnt like many of the tracks and there was no 'trance magic.' I took off around 3 for a little break and to check out Guetta.
I had no idea what to expect from Guetta except for 'cheese.' I could not believe how packed the house side was compared to the trance side. Everyone really seemed to be loving it. We stayed around for 3 or 4 tracks. I found his build ups went know where but his mixing was pretty impressive. I had a hard time really getting into it, but catching him play The World is Mine was pretty awesome Headed back for the last couple Sander tracks with only one thing on my mind... Ferry.
I am pretty sure I just experienced the happiest three hours of my life. I had seen Ferry twice before and knew I was going to be blown away... however I could have never been able to prepare myself for the epicness and magic that occurred. I have never felt more emotionally connected to music. I was so fucking happy and in love. I could not stop dancing or smiling or even have a second to put my brain together. It had the perfect combination of epic trancey uplifting moments and harder more edgey dance your ass of moments. He played harder than any other time I have seen him. And watching Jason fall in love with Ferry made me so ridiculously happy. This was by far one of the best sets I have ever heard. And people who have seen him countless times said it was the best they have ever heard him play. I heard the 3 tracks I needed to hear and sooooo much more. It scares me to say that I now have a trance DJ in my top 3.
After Ferry I was so torn apart that I needed a break. I didnt really want to listen to any more music. I knew that nothing could even come close and I just wanted to relive the moments in my head over and over again. I really wish Ferry had the 7-10 slot, I think that would have been the perfect time for his epicness. I drifted around between hall way conversations, Ana Paula, and Markus Schultz. I watched Ana Paula from the VIP area and the crowd was in a full out riot. It was a gay party like I have never seen before. I enjoyed the part that I heard. Had a bit of tribal influence and was pretty fun to dance around to. I had a hard time getting into Markus Schultz, I started to warm up to his sound but all that was on my mind was Ferry Corsten. I decided it was time to do my last round of people watching, buy my t-shirt, have a little rest and say my goodbyes. I think I left just after 10.
The car ride home can not be described in words... Ok... Ill try a few words... Almost running out of gas (and worried Jill); 43 reasons why I love Kotsy; reasons why we love everyone else; hours upon hours of laughing, howling, crackling, giggling, squealing...; the boys never accepting 'no' as an answer... Oh wow... hahaha. Thank you to you 3 for wrapping up such an amazing experience in such an epic way.
In conclusion; I do wish the line up was better but Ferry Corsten, the vibe, the experience, and the friends made this one of the best parties ever. I would not change a single moment of this trip. I went into this trip ready and willing to re-open my mind to trance. And while I did have the BEST trance moments of my life I will still remain a househead. Ferry Corsten is and will always be 'the only acceptable trance.' Thank you to all the TAs who made the trip down, you all made the party ridiculously fun. And thank you to Montreal, I can not wait to make a couple more trips down this summer <3
For 3 weeks now I have had completely amazing and magical party experiences (BEB definitely takes the gold) - I am almost afraid to party again... how will the upcoming parties even compare?
Side notes:
- I have never seen so many beautiful people in my life. How are there so many beautiful people in montreal? Why is it SOOOO much more beautiful than toronto? I really need to move to Montreal.
- I can not even begin to describe how amazing the Godskitchen Boombox is. It is a must see for every clubber. It just got better and better. I had so many 'oh my god I can not believe I am seeing this' moments.
- I love the Easter bunny
- The party vibe in Montreal is so different. I noticed this last time I was there as well. I love it.
- I could not get over the fact that there were 15,000 people there! Thats the size of some entire towns. Walking through the crowd to move from one side to the other was such a wild experience. A sea of people that never ended. All dressed in white. All having the time of their lives. Leaving the party room to see hundreds and hundreds of people fill up all the halls was unreal.
- Amazing that a TA lurker was able to pick me out of the crowd. (You were really nice, you should make the transition from Lurker to Poster )
- I would NEVER spend money for the VIP upgrade. Not worth it. While the line was almost non existent for us, the line up for regular admission was not that bad. The line up for the washroom was insane. There were only 2 stalls in the girls washroom and a line always all the way out the door. I found it much faster to use the washroom for the 'regular' folks. I looked around for a second washroom with no luck - hopefully I wasn't missing a hidden one. The VIP areas were nothing special. I found there was less room to dance at times than on the dance floor. But I did enjoy the little baggy for my coat check ticket lol.
- I really wish I had gotten a massage - but spent all my money on my shirt.
- Water and all liquids were extremely expensive...$6.00 for a water, $8.00 for a juice
- The security guards were so friendly - I really wish Toronto could follow this.
- All the guys were really nice. Didn't run into any creepers or 'touchy' guys. A nice change compared to the average Guv night.
- PEOPLE WERE NOT PUSHY!!! Wow. This was so refreshing. Everyone was really good at respecting everyones space. There was no plowing through people and people were always so apologetic if they ran into you. Even at the very front of the trance room you could always move around and dance. AMAZINGGGGG
- I did see some serious sketch (the washroom stands out for one) and some scary incidents on the dance floor - but it was not nearly as sketchy as some of the Guv parties I've attended.
- Felt really sorry for Kotsy loosing his wallet - but what a champ for being able to move on and still enjoy the party to its fullest.
- I found it really fun to be surrounded by French people. It really helped create that feeling of being in a totally different part of the world. Everyone was really nice when I asked them to speak english (one of the very few french phrases I can say). And guys with French accents are sooooo sexy.
- Time went by SOOOOOOO fast
- I can't believe this is over 
^ Nice review.
Did anyone check out Morales?
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| Originally posted by Mgz btw was there 2 different rooms with 4 different acts at the same time or it is just one big room, cuz I were looking for the trance room with the boombox thingy for the whole time and didn't find it until Ferry set, was so confused and disoriented so just listening and dancing to random artist in the beginning, and the one with the MC guy was BORINGGGGG |
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