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My review of the night:
Got in around 3:45 and it was already rammed to the tits, had a hard time finding a decent spot on the left so I found my comfort zone on the right hand side. A lot more gays then I thought would be there, also a lot of older people. I must have seen 10-15 people in their 40s, including a group of 4-5 40 year old moms that didn't look like crack head party animals haha. A lot of nice young chicks too.
Tone Depth was still on and he was hit or miss for me, he was alternating between melodic and dark prog, wasn't feeling it much. Some songs were just great but I was really looking forward to Sasha taking the stage.. I've seen Tone Depth just tear it up before, it's gotta be hard opening up for Sasha haha.
Sasha opened up with a brief ambient intro and then opened with Lee Burridge & M. Dekay - Wongel, I've always wanted to hear that track at Stereo and it immediately got the crowd bouncing around. He played tech house for about 20 minutes then slowly began transitioning the set by bringing in some nice melodic synth stabs infused.
Around 5:45 when everyone's peaking on E, here comes the dreamy trancy prog house he's known for. It was refreshing to hear the melody that we so rarely hear at the Temple. People were loving it.
My favorite part of the night was from 7:00-8:00 am, deep thick techy basslines and just awesome piano riff samples, brass, that one track with the indian scales made me go ape shit. At 7 Sasha had me locked in for the long haul, I was ready to stay till the end. The dance floor got a lot more comfortable around then, and I didn't leave my spot on the floor for an hour and a half. Just terrific..
Around 7:45, a pumping classic house track just mixes in and the crowd just errupts bringing the energy levels back up to the max. He then started to mix it up nicely, some tribal techno blending into some dirty evil sounding prog, Digweed style.. around 8:45 just throbbing techno tracks.. We ended up leaving around 9:45, I was fully satisfied with my night.
I'm just so impressed.. his mixing was just spot on, unlike Marcus I don't think he was all over the place. I thought when he made the jump into a new direction sound wise, it was built up slowly and the transitioning of his set was super smooth. He's a master using his effects, the sound was just incredible all night.. the sound was also just perfect, slowly getting louder then dipping with the energy of the set, then pounding at the end. The programming of his set was probably the best I've ever heard. It truly was a journey, and from 7-8:45am I didn't leave my spot on the dance floor to smoke, grab a drink, piss or just walk around to look at chicks. He had me locked in.. Best set I've seen at Stereo so far.
I feel bad for the people who told me they're not going because prog isn't their thing. I don't listen to much prog anymore, but he only really played the dreamy trancy stuff when everyone was tripping out, which was fitting. I was plurring it up, and he got real deep soon after. Absolutely no cheesy prog whatsoever either.. I have a hard time believing I'll see a better set at Stereo in a long time. Sasha's set just beats out Layo & Bushwacka's from back in November as my favorite set.
Question: 4 microphones hanging in front of the speakers.. recorded set?
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Corjay - Spring Funk '14 [Downtempo Funk / Jazz / Disco / Deep House]
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