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Well, since the monkeys cannot be trusted to run Bal en Blanc properly, perhaps it's time to move this thing to Olympic Stadium or something.
'Arrived into the party around midnight after a massive line-budding
Caesar Romero was dropping bombs after bombs in the House Room, driving, chuggy tech house that had that floor hopping right from the start. I wanted to pace myself for the night ahead but he almost did me in in that one hour I got to dance to. Terrific set, one of the best I've ever experienced, actually.
Cedric Gervais' set was a huge surprise as I had the bar lowered considerably for him, based on hearing him only months back. Gervais continued right where Romero left off but with more vocals. A suprisingly edgy and sexy set altogether.
'Didn't catch Chris Willis as I deliberately went over to the Tech side for about 30 mins and danced to some Ferry Corsten techno (yes, I know he plays trance).

David Guetta should spend less time doing curls and poses and more time actually doing his job, that is bring in some actual flow to his sets. This set was crappier than the turd I heard from him two years ago, and yes, it reminded me of being in an oversized nightclub, indeed. No flow, piss poor tracklisting and too cheesy all around. Yes househeads, we have our own Tiesto-nothing-but-the-hype dj too
Offer Nissam was better than what many are saying on here, imo. Lots of smooth, uplifting tracks and he brought that floor back from the Guetta debacle. I enjoyed this set more than his '07 one.
For his timeslot, Victor Calderone delivered. I didn't find his set to flow well at times but there were some seriously delicious minimal tech house tracks.
Overall, Bal en Blanc was nothing special: Guetta, the horrendous bathroom situation, heavily speculated overselling (and the resultant overcrowding) - all those things kinda killed it for me at times. If it weren't for the great crew of ppl I came with and the solid beats being dropped by those not named Guetta, BeB would've most certainly been a disappointment.
Last edited by Spin Laden on Mar-25-2008 at 08:52
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