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Originally posted by tachyon spent most of the times after his set looking after basix21 from causing mischief and eradication of qbh's property (and premises)

hahah what did he do

wow, what a weekend. thanks heaps for all the sasha-goers that came a lit up altitude afterwards, man with a red face dancefloor go boom say what?

IMO sasha should stick to DJing in the traditional vinyl/CDs sense. He just looks to me like he's checking his email up there - the computer/maven combo thingie would perhaps be workable if he had cox's energy behind the controls (or at least a pulse) but combine autopilot ableton mixing with the 'standing in line waiting to board a flight' expression on his face half the time, and blah.

Nice to hear the Flying Doctors - We Make Contact same mix that's on a mix I've posted up on my blog go off, sounds superb on a big system.

When I saw him at Fabric last year, he played a number of classic tunes - Apollo 440's Liquid Cool and FSOL's Cascade spring to mind, but there seemed to me much less a 'celebration of sasha's sound' and more of 'ooer, whats this, a university diploma from Uganda for $200, hmm, delete that'

overall a great night, great to see all the usual suspects out in force - join the prog side scotty!

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top night

good to see some familiar faces there early before the main event. didnt get a chance to catch keitel unfortunately.

heard most of chables set and wasnt really impressed, i think for a warm up set he played to many big tracks and the set didnt really flow often going from electro house to elctro prog. i tihnk he should stick to producing for the time being.

then the time had come for the man, SASHA. got off to a decent start and had me moving. towards the middle of the set he was a bit flat but as top class dj knows to do, he just dropped a big ass bassline which ripped through the crowd. his last hour and a half would go down as one of the best Ive seen. had some really chunky basslines but with a funked up feel about them.dont know what to call it really...played a bit of prog..electro prog even and dropped the vocal tracks when they needed to be dropped...remember the vocal tracks are the ones u gotta work towards to get the crowd roaring imo.

thanks to mark for letting us come backstage and have a talk to sasha. he was in a very good mood which was good, he was happy, i was happy..thats all that mattered

and thats sasha for another year, the master.

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Originally posted by PauLie_C whats wrong with electro??

Yeah wicked night. Gav was great as usual to start off with, but then Chable came on and was all over the place really. Played a few okay tracks, but the set really didn't have any flow or structure at all. He played the warm-up set for Sasha last year as well and was actually pretty good from memory (played his more typical prog / breaks style), but I think the consensus this time round was that he "sucked balls", am I right?

As for Sasha, man he had me hooked by like the 3rd track. Probably the toughest I've seen him play and I can't remember him letting up for even a second - pretty much tough, stabby prog music for the entire four hours. Probably the best set I've heard from him yet, overall. Not an awful lot of variety over the four hours, but shit - why mix it up if what you're playing works so well?

But yeah, it was a great night and it was good to catch up with all the TAs who were there too.

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Originally posted by tachyon had an awesome time still, spent most of the times after his set looking after basix21 from causing mischief and eradication of qbh's property (and premises)

Haha, yes there was a bit of late night mischief to be had, but it was all under control I think.

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I had high expecations of Sasha and he didn't deliver nowhere near as good as Digweed did. His set dragged on and only started banging it out towards the end - I think that's the only time I heard some noise from the 'quiet' crowd. The vibe and atmoshpere was lacking big time as well as poor crowd turnout, which was surprising.

Good times were had nonetheless.

Nice to see you TAs there. Virginia, you're the best.

Nikko, you little groupie . You better email me the pic of you guys with Sasha.

HAIL DIGWEED!!

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Originally posted by AnitA HAIL DIGWEED!!

pfft, bow to sasha 'the man like'!

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Originally posted by AnitA HAIL DIGWEED!!

this post needs emphasis

sasha was great in Sydney, but he didn't blow my fucking mind like 'the man like' Diggers!

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Originally posted by sLiCk_NiCk heard most of chables set and wasnt really impressed, i think for a warm up set he played to many big tracks and the set didnt really flow often going from electro house to elctro prog. i tihnk he should stick to producing for the time being.

*Cough* Cirez D - Knockout & Cirez D - Re-Match

Loved it when sasha played westbam - old skool baby and Huggotron new track..wicked!

Had a better time at Digweed by far!

Caught the last few tracks of Gav .. Awesome. He should have warmed up
for Sasha

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Originally posted by Renegade "sucked balls", am I right?

... You took the words right out of my mouth, James
At least I didn't want to throw fruit at him

Electro and Chable just don't mix. Quite disappointed and quite stressful as had to stop various TA's from killing themselves during his set.

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Originally posted by tachyon spent most of the times after his set looking after basix21 from causing mischief and eradication of qbh's property

... what did Andrew do?? Please tell

Only stuck around for the first hour and half of Sasha, when I left his
set started to get a bit tougher nice pumping basslines.
Heard he really thumped it Spewing I missed the rest but was dead tired

Good to see the TA's in force, as always

Thanks Virginia your a "Star" .. LOL! You crack me up.

Sorry I missed your call Nikko, I was cleaning the house and sorry
to Millson for missing your set, don't know what happened there .. hope
you went well.



EDIT* where the hell was Jules??

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Originally posted by vitamin v ... what did Andrew do?? Please tell

suffice to say that his predicament that night was interestingly in the same ballpark as that boost juice mission i had the day after solarstone @ room last year!!!

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Originally posted by vitamin v Only stuck around for the first hour and half of Sasha, when I left his set started to get a bit tougher nice pumping basslines. Heard he really thumped it Spewing I missed the rest but was dead tired

being 'tired' is no farking excuse

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Originally posted by tachyon suffice to say that his predicament that night was interestingly in the same ballpark as that boost juice mission i had the day after solarstone @ room last year!!

So basically he ended up at Flinders Street Station .... ?

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Originally posted by tathi being 'tired' is no farking excuse

Would you rather I fell asleep on the couches at the back like you do,

babe?