I agree, the set was so good especially for a Boston 2hr set.

Cant wait to see him in LA Halloween

I had a really good time -- pvd on point as usual ~~ some of the tracks I remembered...

Inkfish vs David West - Aftermath
Marcos - Cosmic String
Cosmic Gate - Billingual
PVD - Wir Sind Wir
DJ Danjo & Rob Styles - Duende (Signum Remix)
Josh Gabriel - Alive
Randy Katana - In Silence (Txitxarro Mix)
Sam Sharp - Deep
PVD - For an Angel
Second Sun - Spell (Paul van Dyk Remix)
Robert Gitelman - Children Of The Sun
Marcos - But For A Day
Active Sight - Out Of Or Lives
Ron van den Beuken - Endless

... encored with Jonesey - Independance (Stadium Mix)

see everyone tonight in DC!

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quality freakin night. pvd was spot on. mixing was great, sound was booming to the max. Tons of people there having a good time. Good to met some new faces and some I haven't seen in a while. I had to go to dentist this morning so I missed rise.

Keep the good times coming!

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Ehh, not all that special... its the same stuff he's been spinning for the past month & half - 2 months, like exactly.

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Originally posted by Coup Vlad wins. Flawless victory.

thanks for the review rory!


see you in a few hours

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Originally posted by Vlad Ehh, not all that special... its the same stuff he's been spinning for the past month & half - 2 months, like exactly.

i hope that you were at least there to make this unqualified statement. there were at least two songs played that none of you could name right now that were awesome. i don't think his sets sounded like this two months ago. this was not a sensation-tracklist-only set. eg. no summer dream, and a couple new tracks. just because you heard some songs in powerzone or something does not make them stale!

anyway, i loved it. i think it was as high energy as 2 hours in a club with pvd can get. i was mad pissed off about the bullshit happening in the lines outside, and the club was overly packed, and yes, the kid who through the glowstick needed his ass BEAT.

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Originally posted by umes23 i hope that you were at least there to make this unqualified statement. there were at least two songs played that none of you could name right now that were awesome. i don't think his sets sounded like this two months ago. this was not a sensation-tracklist-only set. eg. no summer dream, and a couple new tracks. just because you heard some songs in powerzone or something does not make them stale! anyway, i loved it. i think it was as high energy as 2 hours in a club with pvd can get. i was mad pissed off about the bullshit happening in the lines outside, and the club was overly packed, and yes, the kid who through the glowstick needed his ass BEAT.

heh woulda loved to have seen pvd just wallop another idiot like he did a few years ago

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Originally posted by Vlad Ehh, not all that special... its the same stuff he's been spinning for the past month & half - 2 months, like exactly.

yeah we all missed you and your positive vibes...

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Well thts Vlad


Wow so PVD_S11DJ your coming to Glow tonight for PVD

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Current jamming to these Top 5

1.The Grower feat Corey Andrew - Move Your Body (Jesse Garcia Remix)
2.Carl Kennedy - The Love You Bring Me - (Roger's S-Man Vocal Edit)
3.Louie Vega & Jay Sinister Seal feat. Julie McKnight - Diamond Life (Accapella)
4.Offer Nissim feat Maya - Perfect Love(Offer Nissim Perfect Club Mix)
5.DJ Brizi feat Selma Hernandes - Remedios (Relight Orchestra Remix)

Man, I wish I coulda been there. Seeing PvD in my old hometown would be so sweet. DA MAN!!!!!!! I hope you all had fun!

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Originally posted by Vlad Ehh, not all that special...

So says the man who has Sander in his custom status.

I had an alright time. It was relentlessly hard, blisteringly fast, and in my opinion, monotonous.

This was my fourth time seeing Paul van Dyk at Avalon, Boston. I remember Paul van Dyk used to mix into the opening dj's set, starting out around the ~130 BPM that he was given to work with, and over the course of the first 1/2 hour to 1 hour he would build things up to his more familiar pace. I used to love that first hour of music. It was still completely and uniquely PvD sounding and he was stretching himself out of that little comfort zone of peak-time bangers that he has so many of.

Nowadays he skips right to the peak time material from the start. His set starts completely full-on, and it ends full-on. I know alot of people really enjoy that, so I'm not saying that it's inherently bad or that anyone is wrong for liking that. I am, however, saying that I personally love Paul van Dyk's ability to build things to a frenzy, rather than what he did last night, which was just to launch directly into that frenzy.

I still had a generally good time though. I really like the last few songs he played; a lot of them really were quite beautiful and made me smile, I will always love hearing "For an Angel" in a club, and "Murder was the Bass" was genuinely sick.

I can't believe someone threw a glowstick up and knocked the tonearm off the record. I saw it happen, and it was like in slow motion to me....oh jeez. I wouldn't have minded if Paul just whipped it right back at the kid who tossed it up, lol. He handled it well and played an awesome encore song.

I hate Avalon when it is too crowded, but I think the trick is to stand on one of the steps leading down to the dance floor if you want just a little space to dance. The steps are good because they are a clearly defined space which require people to be blatantly rude in order to move you from. Basically, once I secured a space on the bottom step next to the actual dance floor, everything was good. But trying to stay on the dancefloor itself was a nightmare. Way too many sweaty, tipsy guys in tank tops.

Also, I hope some of you made it out to Steve Porter at Rise afterwards. That was a blast! Some of the songs I remember:

James Taylor - Shower the People (Agent 001 Remix?)
Steve Porter - Vodka Cranberries
Ferry Corsten - Rock Your Body Rock (seriously sick breakbeat remix!)
Armin - Blue Fear (amazing! came out of nowhere with this one, and it was just nuts!)

Encore:
Rob Base & DJ E.Z. Rock - It Takes Two (lol, this was awesome, ol' skool hip-hop to the fullest)

Over all, it was a good night. Paul van Dyk was a 6/10 when the crowdedness is factored in, and Steve Porter at Rise gets an 8/10.

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