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omg, what a weekend.... mario, we tore montreal UP!!!! and shoutouts to Bree (sunshine79), your NY crew (Patrick and Jay), and Nick (Epicurous) and his whole crew too 
thursday afternoon, we arrive in montreal, start drinking at 1pm.... continue doing so til 3am 
new year's eve, spend all day and early evening drinking, then meet up with bree and crew, and nick and crew, and head over to celebration - get in by 11, hear the end of eddy jasmine's set (SICK SICK SICK tech house, local montreal DJ), then onto DJ Sneak (so so), then Simon P (TA, really good!), DJ Dan (first time seeing him, and was quite impressed), then our man Sander (ridiculous set, more out-of-nowhere, BANGING tracks, leaving us to only be able to ID the new fruit remix, song 2, and the whistle song), and finally Max Graham (I wasn't that impressed with him, probably just because he was playing softer than the entire night's ridiculously hard tech feel). Each set was 3 hours, and we stayed til pretty much the end (11:30am)... what a fucking party! Not only were all the sets very good, but this venue was amazing... very well-run event, AMAZING lights and sound system (although it did fuck up a little), and that place was packed - well over 10,000 people... not too mentioin, i have never seen so many people sooooooo fucked up at a party this size  
so, we walk home from celebration, crash for 4 hours, meet back up with Bree and her crew, then head over to stereo... not sure if yall are familiar with this club, but it's supposedly ranked #1 in north america, over space, and im sorry to say FLTAs, I think that's about right  This is an afterhours club, open thurs/fri/sat/sun 11pm-6pm, loved by many in montreal... it's a very basic club - one big room, 20 foot tall speaker walls in each corner, 1 bar (serving only water, red bull, and orange juice of course hehe) 2 very large massage sections (  ), and enough seating around the main dance floor for all the fucked up people to chill out. The most interested thing about this club, though, is that the center of attention is not the DJ booth - it's the dance floor, which is in the center of everything, and where everyone is always looking - why? because it has the most insane lighting system and operator i have EVER seen... there are 2 life sized trees in the room, surrounded and filled with a ridiculous assortment of lights, a gigantic disco ball, and two 2-foot diameter siren lights on each speaker wall... what really made lighting system was how it was used though - the lights were so impressively worked, and went SOOOOO amazingly well with the music, I honestly had almost as much fun just watching the lights as I did listening to the music anyway, enough ranting and raving about stereo, if you ever get a chance, check it out - i will be back there for sure
As for the music there, it was very good... 2 montreal guys spun from 11pm-5am, some really good funky/techy/tribal house, and then David Morales banged it from 5am-6pm, absolutely DESTROYING the crowd, one track after another - out of all my partying, i have NEVER seen a crowd go as apeshit as these people did this morning/afternoon in that club... this is truly an experience, you MUST go to stereo!
so, there you have it! mario and i had a BLAST, and met some awesome people (Bree, we will be talking a lot more now!!!)
Happy New Year's Everyone!!!!
And I miss my ATL crew!!
Last edited by TheKidsWantTechno on Jan-03-2005 at 04:54
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