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-- Miami Music Week is now over. Your thoughts about the parties and other things?
Miami Music Week is now over. Your thoughts about the parties and other things?
Lets start with a big thanks to Keano and Massive Events for booking crazy DJs for both nights. My highlight was Aly and Fila who drop a sick tech-trance track that sounded very simliar to Paul van Dyk - Tell Me Why.
There are literally millions of story I can talk about it right now but lets hear yours.
pvd at mansions played an amazing set . and the visuals were sickkkk
every single party i went to vastly exceeded my expectations!
went to the markus & friends / toolroom knights at the last minute. went up to the terrace thinking sander was going to suck fuckin balls cuz well thats what he does these days and HOLY SHIT i heard him drop the craziest set ive ever seen him play before. played nothing but techy ass shit, no queer vocal trance, actually played to the terrace and the toolroom sound. his productions blow ass these days but my god the guy is still an amazing dj. you just gotta take him away from the cookie-cutter trance crowd. i just pray space brings him back on the terrace sometime this year!!!
All beatport parties I went to were good. Only complaint was that at times they would only let VIP people in through the front and even those with the beaport card were told to make the line.
My first Anjuna party and it rocked. I haven't danced and jumped that much in a while. I'm planning on attending it again next year.
SHM masquerade motel party rocked too. I hope they learned their lesson with the overselling tickets. They are planning on bringing back the party next year. My turn off throughout the party was watching people overdose on their stuff. I literally watched this one guy lay unconscious, while their friends were hysterically trying to revive him in tears. Disturbing stuff that dampens the mood really.
Other than that, SHM had everyone tranced in the beat.
I wish I would've made it to more night time parties though, and vary the sounds a bit more. Like the Cadenza & Bedrock party.
Every party I went to was so so sick. Beatport parties were awesome. Cadenza pool party was sick. Sunday School was perfect. Dam I wanna do it all over again.
unbelievable time.
i did my best to check out all types of parties - trance, house, techno. everybody threw down some great sets and the vibes were amazing all around.
i'm sure we'll get some overall review threads/posts coming after everyone is done recovering.
will post plenty of pictures and videos as well. already in withdrawal..
The parties were great, but what made it for me this year, were the people who I stayed with.
Amazing friends.
PLUR.
Everything had great vibe,tunes,people! Ready for next year!!
Well I made it through this time!
I must say I respect anyone who can do this every year.
I am in real good shape but even this week my feet, legs and back hurt from standing +14 hours a day dancing, walking, etc.. all with limited sleep each night.
During some parties I had to find a place to sit to rest my body some but I got back up and continued.
I missed Sunday Ultra and Sander K @ Shine, because I had found out my flight got canceled Monday morning due to the MIA fuel farm fire and I had to work on getting back home. I wound up having to fly into the next closest Airport to my house and was about 14 hours later than I wanted to get back home, but I made it back safe.
I am all unpacked and laundry all done, and back to a normal schedule Wed.
I enjoyed the music this time! I stayed away from alcohol and junk food and had so much fun this time.
I must say the longest point was Nikki Beach, then Cameo, then Freak Tikki boat, then Friday Ultra after a 3 hour nap.
smaller parties were better, too much shit is getting overhyped and overcrowded (hot natured @ pickle anyone), tikki parties are still your best bet even though they're expensive, oh and chip clips are the key to a good week.
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| Originally posted by Acton The parties were great, but what made it for me this year, were the people who I stayed with. Amazing friends. |
+1000 on that one. People, people, people.... So great to meet and hang out with awesome, like-minded people. Too many names to mention but you know who you all are.
---- that's not to say that the music didn't contribute a little, too. 
cause, HOLY HELL! it was sooo good this year. Like Pat said, the parties exceeded expectations. Will get into more detail if we throw out a party/review thread or whatnot, but nearly every dj I saw was on point.
Only 357 days left, lol.
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| Originally posted by MdTechno I must say the longest point was Nikki Beach, then Cameo, then Freak Tikki boat, then Friday Ultra after a 3 hour nap. |
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| Originally posted by Neonbeats lol that's insane. I hope you had help. |
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| Originally posted by PatMcGroin are you crazy? thats the norm. if you cant atleast go on one long binge like that then dont even bother coming down for the week. |
easily one of the best weeks of my life...
The loft I rented was amazing. Im going to rent the bigger one next year dammit .The group i brought had an AMAZING time, its all about the people that you bring. You choose to let one "downer" come and they can ruin the whole trip!
I met lots of new people this year that I loved hanging out with (Hi andy!!)
Cant wait for next year. 
Loved hearing all the different accents. Miami beach reminded me of Ibiza. Can't really explain why, maybe just all the messed up people walking around.
Absolutely loved the freaki tiki. The funktion one system was so sick. Met a ton of cool people on the boat that we kept in touch with at various parties.
SSFD was a little weird at first, but it turned out to be a great time.
Little dissapointed that I missed Nick Warren/Dave Seaman, but after the marathon of the Luciano Pool Party>Bedrock>Freaky Tiki>Pete Tongs pool party, it was sleepy time.
Glad I picked Sander at Shine over Sasha, it had been a few years since I last saw Sander and he was absolutely destroying Shine.
This was my 8th ULTRA / UMF week. Arrived Thursday ...met up with some friends hung out at C-Level at the Clevelander for several hours. Then got ready for the Anjunabeats party at Ice Palace...music was amazing!!! by 7am I had gone 24 hrs without sleep since I drove in Thursday morning.
Friday ULTRA day 1 ... ssssiiickkkk...
Saturday, Beach day, ..which actually worked out because I layed out by the Masquerade Motel -SHM the whole time ...so I got to listen to the whole show for FREE...SSIICCKKK ...danced on the sand which was awesome. Then went walking on the Beachwalk and ended up at a bunch of hotel parties like the Surfcomber Party.
ULTRA 2 was AAMMMAAAAZZZIIINNNGGG...it was the day I had the most Energy so I was dancing all over the place.
By the time ULTRA day 3 / ASOT 500 Arrived my feet were so swollen I could hardly get them in any of my shoes. my body was aching...I was def feeling OLD ..I danced but kinda wish ASOT party was on Saturday rather than Sunday because by Sunday I had already been dancing since thursday 12 hours a day, hardly no sleep, ... So I was def more Chill.
Another Great time in Miami in March. I will say though I am def miss the way ULTRA used to be, a lot of the workers now are complete DB's ..the girl searching my bag threw out my gum ..I really had to restrain my anger at that point.
I think the workers have a habit of treating everyone like they are one drugs which bothers me since I dont.
I miss Bayfront park ...I loathe Bicennial Park.. its impossible to dance on a million little rocks. I think I would really rather dance on the sand at the beach.
I beg to differ on sander sunday. I regret not going to the pickle that night. that was pure puke. And i've been a sander fan for a while, holding on regardless of the crap he's been tossing around for a while. Just to catch 1 good show out of him here and there. that one kicked the bucket for me. If that was a crowd of true old sander fans they would be throwing rocks and drinks at him. I even saw at least a dozen people in front giving thumbs down at some points.
The crowd was having a good time for most part but they are just clueless(got asked at least 6 times who was up) We were just shaking our heads in shame and disbelief. dancing to the ok tracks that were thrown in from time to time in hopes of him turning it around, knowing it was unlikely. i'm not gonna dance to crap to encourage him to play more crap. which is what everyone was doing. 
I could go on but I think I will leave it at that. that's enough rant.
to Petey : We shoulda started hanging out a long time ago. It was fun. We both have that nonstop mentality even though we should stop at some points. Maybe next yr. we should bring along someone who doesn't have as much energy to encourage short breaks 
...not!
And to everyone else. Thanks for making it a good week!
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| Originally posted by PatMcGroin went up to the terrace thinking sander was going to suck fuckin balls cuz well thats what he does these days and HOLY SHIT i heard him drop the craziest set ive ever seen him play before. |
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