aside from a few piss pour mixes the track selection was excellent

highlights of the set for me:

02 armin vs. m.i.k.e. - pound
03 vercetti - in control
08 carl b - all day
09 primolux - the wall
10 dark alliance - genetic
25 john o'callaghan pres. mannix - mercury
27 ID
28 ID
49 ID
54 ID
56 ID
57 ID

27 definitely NEEDS ID - best track of the set!

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I didnt catch most of the set, but from the apperance of the tracklist, Tiesto loaded this one up with twice as many of his own songs as he did last year. Im not saying playing your own music is bad, and at an event as big as TIC², its certainly necessary, but I dont see why he had to paly his own songs for a full 1/5 of the set (possibly a bit more or less). I tuned in around song 51 and found all the songs I had heard from that point on good except for a few exceptions, most notably
58. Marcos - Just for a Day.

The best song I heard was 60. Dark Alliance - Vibration. Tiesto threw in some really nice effects in on this tune by stretching out the time and some other nice work. This was a nice dark tune I wouldnt have expected from Tiesto.

The mixing was average to good, but as Ive said, I only heard roughly 10 songs. I was bit put off by his use of Universal Nation as a closer (let the song die already), and he didnt really build energy throughout the end of the set. He cut off one song at one point and really played a weak (though good) song before the guy from DJMag presented him with his award. But from what I heard, it was a decent set, a bit better than average as Ive heard from Tijs over the last 3 years or so. Tomorrow's set should be an interesting listen.

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let me sum it up in two words: crap/hype

i saw a video stream of it, and thought it sucked, and not because i'm a tiesto basher, i'm going off the track selection...it's as if he took his tracks mixed it with the new stuff and called it a night. The only good part was Suburban Train, I like how he actually incorporated the choir into that one, because it made sense....it wasnt overdone, but the rest was just hard trance nonsense, that made u just want to tuneout or fall asleep ... The set had no personality..especially that its like 70 tracks...I mean if you want an event like this to be really special, you rack it down to say a 20-25 track set....and make it three nights, that way you dont compromise quality with quantity....instead he chose to make his set less personal, and threw around 70 tracks at everyone which was a bad idea in general, you have so many people there/a festival environment...your set just becomes a plethora of everything thrown in, just lacks structure. To me this was a money making scheme at the same time, with a merchandise booth...i mean jesus, at least try and not make it look like ur a sellout.

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Originally posted by Remiks let me sum it up in two words: crap/hype i saw a video stream of it, and thought it sucked, and not because i'm a tiesto basher, i'm going off the track selection...it's as if he took his tracks mixed it with the new stuff and called it a night. The only good part was Suburban Train, I like how he actually incorporated the choir into that one, because it made sense....it wasnt overdone, but the rest was just hard trance nonsense, that made u just want to tuneout or fall asleep ... The set had no personality..especially that its like 70 tracks...I mean if you want an event like this to be really special, you rack it down to say a 20-25 track set....and make it three nights, that way you dont compromise quality with quantity....instead he chose to make his set less personal, and threw around 70 tracks at everyone which was a bad idea in general, you have so many people there/a festival environment...your set just becomes a plethora of everything thrown in, just lacks structure. To me this was a money making scheme at the same time, with a merchandise booth...i mean jesus, at least try and not make it look like ur a sellout.

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I don't know how people can review this without actually being there. I'm sure everyone who was there had a great time.

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Originally posted by stamper I don't know how people can review this without actually being there. I'm sure everyone who was there had a great time.

how r u sure? he is one dj that i never want to see again can someone shoot him

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Originally posted by sleepydragon how r u sure? he is one dj that i never want to see again can someone shoot him

haha, bad experience?

ive never heard a good set from him
i feel that if it wasnt for his older productions he would have never made it he is riding of the success of those tunes.
As a dj i wouldnt put him in the top 50 never mind number 1 and im not just saying that for no reason what so ever. Its cose he genuinly is a crap mixer and all round dj even his track selection is very poor he always slows the set down to often never has any real energy in them

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I think Tiesto is bi-polar....

He was mixing horribly (or should I say, he was lazy. Beatmatching was there, but it was just a beat match, fade over) the first two hours, the third hour his mixing did a 180 and was awesome, then after a live performance at the end of that hour, his mixing became lazy again...

Like, WTF? He obviously can mix great when he doesn't want to be lazy....why does he have to be so lazy sometimes.

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Originally posted by sleepydragon ive never heard a good set from him i feel that if it wasnt for his older productions he would have never made it he is riding of the success of those tunes. As a dj i wouldnt put him in the top 50 never mind number 1 and im not just saying that for no reason what so ever. Its cose he genuinly is a crap mixer and all round dj even his track selection is very poor he always slows the set down to often never has any real energy in them

Well I spose each to his own. The people in the "tracklist" thread were bitching cos his set was too fast, you can't please everyone. And I think to be able to structure a 6 hour set is near on impossible. But yes his mixing was very poor.

silly people here, go search a live somewhere

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