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So here comes the rant from an incorrigible clubber 
First, the venue.
Never been to Circa before, so I was curious to find out what this place was all about. Huge place. Took a while to get my bearing and figure out where everything was. Saw bits of all the decor. Pretty nifty.
Decent sized main room. Actually, kinda reminds me of Rum Runners in London, and I like that place. Definitely has a good modern club vibe, but keeping underground feel. Sound system is actually pretty good. Despite the loud volume, I didn't feel any ringing in my ears. Staff was very friendly.
Then the bad. Speakers only at front of the room, and none at the back. This means front speakers have to be used for the entire room. Meaning, very fracking loud in the front. Spent most of the time in the back of the room where the sound was fine. A bit too much bass though. At times, the vibrations from the bass was restricting my throat and I had trouble breathing at times. Also, a bit of distortion from excessive bass, esp cranked at high volume.
The lighting... OMG I wanted to throat punch whoever was doing the lighting. Constantly flashing lights even from the start. I do not need a fracking seizure. Key to good lighting IMO is to blend in with the music, but there was very little of that. Maybe I'm used to jayx1 standard of lighting, but the annoyance from lighting ruined a lot of my vibe.
The little lounge with dentist chair was pretty cool, but could have used few speakers to hook up the sound from main room. Then it would have been a pretty cool chillout/rest place. Also, only one kind of beer. WTF.
No wonder Circa is going bankrupt. They can't even get the basics correct.
Jeff Button
IMO the guy who has the hardest job of any event is the warm up DJs. He is the one who sets the tone and vibe of the night. And if he sucks, then the night can suck real bad.
It was a treat to be able to make it into the club by 11 and catch an hour of Jeff's set. What a surprise to hear the classic Jeff Button sleazy prog. It's got a warm, lush and vibrant feel that is so groovy.
It was one of best warm up sets I've heard in a while. He started off with low tempo, groovy prog and gradually build it up. A lot of warm up DJ play a lot of fillers just to not get the energy up too high. But Jeff's set not only had gradual build up of energy, but there was a purpose in that set. Definite storyline as he weaved his magic. You can't help to slowly jive a little. Excellent job.
(No, I'm not kissing Jeff's ass because I consider him a friend and a colleague lol. He gets a earful of criticism from me whenever he asks for feedback lol)
Nevio
Srsly. Pretty much complete opposite of Jeff. So random. Very little flow. Little management of crowd's energy.
And trancey prog? Are you kidding me? Did this guy figure out who he was opening for? Like Karlo said, ok set for opening up for a trance DJ,but not Lawler. Jeff left him with a perfect track for him to take his set into groovy prog or more techy stuff, but this was just not right.
He killed my vibe totally. After 30mins of his randomness, I'd rather shred my balls on a blender. And you are not cool for playing that Braveheart remix. I sobered up listening to this crap. lol. I'd rather have listened to Oliver McGregor again. LOL.
Alright. Enough bitching about this guy
Steve Lawler
Lawler started at 2, which was an hour late. Oh well. Why can't some DJs ever be on time lol.
Because of Nevio's suckiness, I felt that Lawler took about 45mins to build up the vibe again. I kept waiting for Lawler to get into some serious tribal, but it never really came, except for 20min spurt in the middle of the set.
I came for Lawler to bring it up to the next level. Instead, what I got was typical Comfort Zone/Gallery tech house stuff. Not what I wanted from Lawler. My excitement slowly faded away as I realized that oh well... it just not going to happen. No animalistic jungle fever ass shaking tribal. No bongos and drums beating my face like monkeys having frenetic sex.
I think in this case, Lawler knowing Toronto a little too well might be a disadvantage. Don't get me wrong. He played a very solid set, if you are into the Toronto sound. But if I wanted to hear Toronto tech house whatever, I'd go listen to Carlo Lio or other locals who can do the same thing.
Although I liked last hour of his set, where he started to play more... interesting stuff. I dunno. I got fed up with same funky bassline for like an hour straight. More variety please.
I came for the Lawler magic, but I didn't get it.
Thank goodness for friends, because otherwise, I would have had a really shitty night.
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| quote: | Originally posted by chinamon
not true. i say "ugh"
but i am a tranny. |
| quote: | Originally posted by kotsy
lol colour me retarded |
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