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Originally posted by Ortemy What are u ppl talking about ???? Ferry is amazing! If they get him to play at a house-prog party of course the crowd responce won't be that good, but every show I've seen from him starting in 2003 - he was tearing the place apart.

werd. I'm sure I've seen him *at least* a half dozen times in recent years and I've never seen a disinterested crowd while he's behind the decks!

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Originally posted by TheVrk this is too true.... montreal is not a trance town like TO is....

this is so true...Mtl def digs Techno more...I still remember the Armin@Aria gig this summer and how the crowd reacted when he dropped the 1st 2 tracks of his set that night...The crowd literllay stopped dancing...Only people moving were the fans in front rows...one could clearly see the dissapointment on Armin's Face...but from that point on...He showed evrybody what he can really do behind the decks as he spun Techtrance for the rest of the set and blew Aria's roof...

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Originally posted by TheVrk this is too true.... montreal is not a trance town like TO is....

Aria is expecting 1700 based on advanced sales for Infected Mushroom who are going on in about 30 minutes from now.. care to retract that statement??

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Originally posted by Funkyfun this is so true...Mtl def digs Techno more...I still remember the Armin@Aria gig this summer and how the crowd reacted when he dropped the 1st 2 tracks of his set that night...The crowd literllay stopped dancing...Only people moving were the fans in front rows...one could clearly see the dissapointment on Armin's Face...but from that point on...He showed evrybody what he can really do behind the decks as he spun Techtrance for the rest of the set and blew Aria's roof...

hmm i was at every Armin gig at aria except the very first time when the club opened... the only thing that could explain this is if it was a techno dj playing before him and then armin drops a slow track right after... really understandable.

people go litteraly crazy when he's over here and I have video footage to prove it.

but its true that toronto gets more trance nowadays, and its better like that. How many times can you listen to the same tracks over and over? One trance act a month is enough imo, because there's not that many known names out there and there's not much new trance tracks.

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Originally posted by crazedcanuck Aria is expecting 1700 based on advanced sales for Infected Mushroom who are going on in about 30 minutes from now.. care to retract that statement??

respectfully: no. infected mushroom is not ur typical trance,
but goa/psy-trance.
i never meant it as montreal not liking trance at all,
just that it is not nearly into trance as TO is

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Originally posted by crazedcanuck Aria is expecting 1700 based on advanced sales for Infected Mushroom who are going on in about 30 minutes from now.. care to retract that statement??

Let's be fair, Infected Mushroom is a psytrance group and not epic trance like Ferry. Those two styles may be *loosely* related, but I think Montreal can best be explained as "liking it hard", and Infected Mushroom is hard like techno.

Having said that, Ferry is OK... I don't think I've heard any truly *brilliant* sets from him, but as others have already stated, the contest is about popularity, not skill. I mean, you're going to have thousands of people voting on that poll who have spent maybe 20 hours of their entire lives listening to dance music, and just list the only 5 DJs they actually know as their top 5.

I wouldn't bash Ferry too much though, he is leagues above Tiesto and some of the other garbage that gets thrown into the top 100. At least he is *somewhat* representative of what the trance scene really is.

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Yeah Aaron, my post was more of a shot @ the fact the #6 was being used to promote him.. much like the #22 was being used in another DJ event thread.

I've seen Ferry a bunch, and he's a good DJ, and a great producer... but this whole ranking thing is a little pathetic IMO.

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Originally posted by crazedcanuck Yeah Aaron, my post was more of a shot @ the fact the #6 was being used to promote him.. much like the #22 was being used in another DJ event thread. I've seen Ferry a bunch, and he's a good DJ, and a great producer... but this whole ranking thing is a little pathetic IMO.

Haha I hear you man.

Incidentally, I think that they should book me, I happen to be the #2483 top DJ.

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the dj list is not about who is the best technical DJ, it's about who the masses like, so ultimately no one should be surprised if a DJ that has sub par skills is high on the list. The majority of the ppl voting for that are not considering how well a DJ can program or mix (or necessarily even recognize it), they are looking at who plays fun music, who has been marketted well, who is recognizable.


ferry is mediocre at mixing, but has some great and fun productions. as soon as i heard 'rock your body' i thought 'wowza, this is great- edm that is so accessable you could play this at a hockey game or in a comercial- ultimately, that good for the scene' IMO he has contributed a lot to the scene for someone who hasn't been around for too too long as a DJ.


He usually has the crowd excited at his gig in TO, altho he is not always on. 2 years ago at the guv 6 year he was quite flat and the crowd was not feeling it, but most other nights i've seen him he has played fun sets.