yesterday was one of the better ultras i have seen in the past years. i like the openness of the stages. you could get much closer to the acts. i got there around 4.30 or so. walked around for a bit and then went and saw erick morrillo. damn good show this guy puts on. i wish i would of stayed late enough at space the other night to see him up on the terrace. he was pretty good. after him we just sort of walked around the stages and checked everything out. we were trying to find a schedule. we walked over the break02 tent and check the end of icey and some of jackall &hyde. we tried to watch oakenfold a bit but looked like he was having technical difficulties so we left. break02 tent had the nice place to use the restroom by the fence. that was a major plus since the bathrooms were ridiculous. after jackall, we went over to the 2nd main stage. got some grub and listened to the killers finish. then junkie xl came on. he plays the same shit every year almost but it is still nasty. and then there was sander. i thought he could of been a little better ut the dvd dj stuff was pretty nice. and he got the place jumping after "THIS IS MIAMI" the speakers on the left side of the stage took a little hit and seemed real bad throughout junkie but got a little better for sander. after sander finished we went over to check BT. his set was quite nasty. he can throw some crazy breaks and gets real into it. except for the damn stage people tripping over the cords at one point, he was a great way to end the night. overall it was a good ultra.

p.s. that dvd is quite weak

had an awesome time. spent 1/2 of my night in the house tent and the other half in line at the bars. what a fuckin mess to get tickets and then ur drink. all i can say is WOW. lasers owned me.

and oh.. Told you guys it was not going to be empty

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Alright alright...time for someone to post a real review with pics? I know you guys got some out there, maybe even video to be uploaded to youtube.com?

Anyone go to the after party at AAA? I'll write a review later...tired.


And I might be going to the V1RAM party tonight...not sure.


By the way...just to get some people pissed....

I was not....not at all...impressed with Morillo.

quick review:

-ultra surprised me this year. it was better than some of year's past
-Techno Stage was in my opinion the best, it was bumping the whole night
-House Tent was also banging the whole night.
-The technical difficulties persisted from Oakey to Pvd. That gets me pissed. I think one of the speakers blew during Junkies set. Why does he keep playing the same stuff over and over????? Inexcusable IMO.


will post more later.

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Fucking House Tent was hot alll night benassi was sick, cox also blew my mind, and pvd was also sick.

By far house was the best to me though banging bass all night

Yeah it was a much better Ultra that I expectd. the venue was better than i thought too. I got there pretty early and Infected Mushroom was awesome. Checked out DJ Hyper, grayarea, burufunk adn they were all fantastic. BT did throw down a nasty breakbeat set, with girls losing their clothing and everything...lol Oakenfold had problems with the system, not sure if he blew something but there was a 15 minute gap of silence and a speaker was blown after that. I was just waiting for prodigy and had to sit there for him. Didn't stay for pvd.

I got there early so I had no problems but apparently the will call line was like 2 hours by 3pm. That sucks.

does anyone kno what the video taken during pvd will be used for?

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Originally posted by punjabi does anyone kno what the video taken during pvd will be used for?

um next years dvd maybe?

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Originally posted by raven848 I got there early so I had no problems but apparently the will call line was like 2 hours by 3pm. That sucks.

Yeah. Thank god I had my tickets ahead of time, however the two friends of mine I was with had willcall...like I'd wait for their asses! hah. They did have a freakin 2.5 hour wait though.

Oh and when I got my tickets at will call for the carry on....they printed me an extra ultra ticket and an extra carry on ticket. However...by the time I realized what had happened, it was too late to scalp 'em damnit! hah.


Well lets see...I got there uber late so I'll review who I saw

Morillio:

Eesh. So...I was really looking foward to hearing him spin...considering i've heard a LOT about how nasty he is.

Average.

Okay, so his track selection was good. Played the Ian Carey dub of that "Say what you want" track (one of my favorites at the moment....however it got old after hearing it like 4 times in one day haha...actually no..it still tore the crowd up everytime...). But ah....IF HE FREAKING CUT THE TRACK AND FADED IT BACK ANYMORE I WAS GOING TO JUMP ON STAGE AND MURDER HIM. Sorry, like yeah, it hyped the crowd the first few times...but christ! Come on! Sure you could argue that maybe Angello and Ingrosso loop too much (which is wrong...you can never loop enough like those guys) but whatever....anywhoo...

Jackyl and Hyde vs Dynamix II: Not much to say here. They always tear it up. This time the sound system sounded a bit better too (compared to ultra last year). Oh, and David Noller got pissed at the stupid MC dancing around and shouted something and he moved out of the way.

DJ Marky: HOLEH CRAP! He tore it up, i'm not a huge dnb head unless it's live, something about the vibe ya know? But damn, he was killer and the MC's were on the mark.

Pendulum: sick, sick sick. I wish their set was longer. Only thing that sucked was that only one member was there? I heard somewhere that they only dj individually...can anyone confirm this?

Prodigy: Sick for what I heard, too many fuckin people for me and I didn't feel like fighting my way to the front. Sound system sounded a bit low for some reason? Aparently the mainstage had some problems from what I understood.

OakeyOMGLOL111: Skipped. Not a fan. Mer. I have his new cd...haven't listened to it yet.

Sander fucking K: Always a pleasure. First time seeing him do a DVJ set and I love the concept. His mixing was of course flawless...maybe minus his mix into "Say What You Want"...but it's freakin sander...I got over it in like....4 seconds haha. His set was great! The opening track was killer and that "This is Miami" track?! WOW! CROWD WENT BONKERS! If there were a bonkers-o-meter that ranged from Ben Stein to 10? It would have been at Christopher Walken...because Christopher Walken is awesome and commands that you have more cowbell....ANYWAYS....yeah. "This....is....Miami" Great moment, on par with the moment at global where corsten shot off the foam. Good stuff!

Carry on!:

Sound system was joygasmic....way better than any stage at ultra by FAR (in my opinion).
Visuals were great....at times a little unusual and disturbing...maybe I would have thought differently if I wasn't sober...but whatever hah

Zabelia (excuse the spelling): He just jumped up in my top 5...his set was fucking insane! Perfect set progression and he even creates breaks in his beats via the loop functions on the CDJ's! Great stuff. I mean, the concept of doing that with the loop buttons isn't that foreign...I mean hell, I can do that if I wanted to, but his PERFECT sense of time was intense!!!!! It takes perfect timing to capture beats that well.

The Orb (I think it was the orb, although I thought the Orb was a live performance and not two DJ's...so if it was the orb...here's my review, if not...its a review of two horrible dj's...:

HORRIBLE. FUCKING HORRIBLE. SO BAD I WANTED TO CRY. Sometimes It's just me being a DJ when I hear people mess up a bit...but holy fucking christ they couldn't mix two tracks without trainwrecking MULTIPLE times...yes....multiple. If they were mixing and were off, they'd do...A FUCKING SPINBACK. EVERY TIME. This drives a sober man, especally a sober DJ insane. What the fuck. Please Orb...if you're going to play at ultra....or in Miami...or shit...ANYWHERE....please mix propper? KTHXYBYE.

Sandra Collins and....some other dude at some point I guess. SICK. WOW! First time seeing Sandra live, and she tore it up and made great use of the new Pioneer mixer (gotta get me one of those!!!). Great set progression, loved/was shocked when she threw down the Thin White Duke Remix of "what else is there", since its a little old.

RITM: ...no words. Sick...sick...sick. They always are and they always will be the sickest live act. Oh...and Bunny could use a diet, his ass weighed WAY more than expected in that ball thing when it came my way haha.

not a huge fan of Tanaglia...not his skills, but his style rather.

All in all, ultra was great this year...pictures to come soon! Hopefully someone out there uploaded some video...that'd be pretty sweeto.

maybe I'll bump into some TA's next time? Hope everyone had some good safe fun....well, not TOO safe.

Carl Cox blew my mind! Best performance I have ever seen from him. The speakers at the live stage and the main stage were blown which kind of ruined it for me when PVD & Sander Kleinenberg came up, otherwise it was awesome!

Anyone got a tracklist for PvD? would be much appreciated!