TranceAddict Forums (www.tranceaddict.com/forums)
- Canada - Montreal
-- disapointed with montreal
Pages (4): [1] 2 3 4 »

disapointed with montreal

Some of you may say I'm full of shit some of you may say whatever but for a city that says they are all about house music and tech house and techno I'm surprised no one is out to see a legend. At work

Re: disapointed with montreal

quote:

Originally posted by Maher Daniel Some of you may say I'm full of shit some of you may say whatever but for a city that says they are all about house music and tech house and techno I'm surprised no one is out to see a legend. At work

I really wanted to come to this but was helping out martin at UN. Excellent night.. Hopefully by now the club is more full? Chez Damier and Jimpster is more of a saturday-type booking IMO. It would be more appreciated by the saturday crowd..

I think we've been spoiled in Montreal for the last year and a half.. there's just way too many quality acts being brought and people can't go to them all.. I'm gonna go see another legend tomorrow night for the 13 percent party.

I really wanted to go but the storm made the drive up really unfriendly. As soon as I saw Jimpster's name on the bill I said it's going to be amazing, and it's going to be really slow. I don't see the Saturday crowd going for that sound at all, but at least there would be a guaranteed audience.

Also, Garreth Emery at Circus most likely took a lot of the friday crowd away, he's got a huge following cuz he's played a few times at Circus the last few years.. I'm sure Circus was rammed to the tits last night.

i'm not suprised, fridays at stereo have been hurting for a while now...think its proof new strategies must be implemented.

build your night on local talent and profit maher. Pandering to the whims of a few will never work, it has been proven over and over in Montreal.

quote:

Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay build your night on local talent and profit maher. Pandering to the whims of a few will never work, it has been proven over and over in Montreal.

agreed. if you have internationals EVERY single weekend obviously theres going to be disappointment because there's just not enough people in this city that like this music and / or that can go out every weekend. people gotta pick and choose and right now we're spoiled with all the parties / djs that we have access too.

quote:

Originally posted by b-ran i'm not suprised, fridays at stereo have been hurting for a while now...think its proof new strategies must be implemented.

Carlo Lio's now a friday night resident who I'm sure is relatively cheap cuz he's almost local.. and while it wasn't sold out full, the dance floor was bumpin. I agree with you though, moar Ostrich, Maher and Stereo Collective nights.

quote:

Originally posted by corjay9 Carlo Lio's now a friday night resident who I'm sure is relatively cheap cuz he's almost local.. and while it wasn't sold out full, the dance floor was bumpin. I agree with you though, moar Ostrich, Maher and Stereo Collective nights.

yeah thats maybe the one exception. and of course richie but he's richie... the lesser known names here are having trouble for sure

I know they don't play deep house, but both of these guys are known for mostly the deeper side in terms of their productions. Deep House has almost never drawn in an afterhours setting, hell they don't do that good in normal bars/clubs either. Nothing new.

I personally love the stuff, but it is like the scarlet letter here.

not enough hulk pill smashness or something.

HAHA i agree with everyone and the club was actually nicely busy i was not ranting about that i was talking more about all the peeps that say ohhh we never get any good quality house music !!!!! here it is and there you are not thats all

i felt like ranting last night and chez and Jamie played such amazing sets !!!!

quote:

Originally posted by b-ran i'm not suprised, fridays at stereo have been hurting for a while now...think its proof new strategies must be implemented.

Since they opened.

Deep house on it's own in an afterhours is a brave venture. Factor in a Friday and it's a double whammy. I had my heart set on this night, and wanted nothing more than to see it succeed, but previous experience taught me otherwise. When Jimpster tried to play deep at Espace Reunion during normal hours the crowd wasn't into it and he had to pump it up. I applaud Ostrich for trying though.

i bet you anything damier played that hardrive track.

quote:

Originally posted by WittyHandle Since they opened.

yeah which has been...a while now, no ? jimpster's set at espace was really good from what i remember. really nice guy too. super bummed i missed last night, im sure the music was of really high quality. fuck.

i wonder if people ever have conversations with the vending machines.

i wanted to come to this too but had work at 7am, chez damier is the shit!

quote:

i wonder if people ever have conversations with the vending machines.

i think ive seen this lol

Friday's @ stereo are not as good as they used to be. Way too many buena note people arrive there and at 6 am the place is half empty :s

quote:

Originally posted by b-ran jimpster's set at espace was really good from what i remember.

I didn't say it was bad. I said the crowd wasn't reacting well to the deepness he tried to put on at first so he pumped it up a bit. They gave a better response from there.

quote:

Originally posted by WittyHandle I didn't say it was bad. I said the crowd wasn't reacting well to the deepness he tried to put on at first so he pumped it up a bit. They gave a better response from there.

haha wow dude you're seriously misreading what im saying. the problem with the internet. i was just saying it was pretty good from what i remember, my own personal memory. i wasn't writing it in response to what you wrote.

i edited my quote cause i realized i copied the whole thing which was the misleading thing i guess

quote:

Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay i wonder if people ever have conversations with the vending machines.

haha i didn't have a conversation but i definitely punched / kicked one once when it ate my money and didn't give me water

Entirely possible I misunderstood your post. Grey skies take their toll.

where are the days where saturdays use to be deep house @ aria with residents like maus, fred everything and nic b

they managed to mix deep and techy and funky to form that perfect blend where its not just wah wah sounds all night and it stays interesting...

house djs: wether your techy, deep, funky wtvr: mix up your shit. no one wants to hear the same beats over and over all night

my 2 cents

and for christ sake if the place isn't a sausagefest play a vocal or 2 so that we can see some tits.

quote:

Originally posted by djlemeir mix up your shit. no one wants to hear the same beats over and over all night

Amen!

I arrived at around the time of the original post, and was surprised at how dead it was, but it filled up pretty nicely by about 4:00.

I was in town on business, and although I didn't have anyone to go with, I just couldn't turn down a chance to go to Stereo.

Although Chez Damier's mixing left a little to be desired, he was dropping some serious bombs on the crowd. I was very pleased to hear warm, Detroit-influenced house grooves, almost shining out of Stereo's hallowed speakers. I was the guy with the tucked-in dress shirt (I basically came straight from work), dancing my ass off with a huge smile on my face near the front left speaker. As someone lives in Toronto and who doesn't get to hear music in Stereo very often, I think I may have been a smiling a lot more than your average Stereo-goer that night.

I gave Jimpster about 45 minutes, but he didn't pick it up fast enough to keep me interested, so I left because I was extremely tired from a very long day. I'm sure he picked it up, because I have seen Jimpster play very well before.

Some of the tracks of the night goes to:





Both by Chez Damier.

As an aside, speaking to the viability of Friday nights at Stereo in Montreal, I was at Rouge before I went to Stereo, and not a single person I talked to had even heard of Stereo. To me, this was not only disappointing, but also seemed a little concerning. The fact that no one had even heard of Stereo to me indicates that Stereo's promoters should be doing a little better job about getting the word out.

Powered by: vBulletin
Copyright © 2000-2021, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.