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man, it's been a fuckin fantastic weekend. chillin with ta's at mantra, then BBB the next day 
first of all, right as he got on the decks the sound system fucked up. so we sat there in silence as the tech tried fixing it by light of a cellphone. hilarious. but his set was pretty agressive. josh was calling it "techno" on MN and i can see where he was coming from on that. lots of dark tech-house and the like. his tricks/effects sounded great. i FINALLY realized how to backspin  ... transitions were spot on the whole time. scratching was amazing without being pretentious.
a couple things i didn't like: mixing EP - proper education into EP - proper education. you know how there's two main breakdowns in the original? he mixed out of the second breakdown into the first breakdown so people could, i dunno listen to the verse/chorus again? overdid it a little there. at least mix in a different remix or something. also while his effects sounded great, he went overboard on the delay. i swear every other song was doubled up or 3/4 delayed before the breakdowns or during transitions. meh.
and the closing dj was ABSOLUTELY SHIT. worst "dj" i've ever heard in my life. in fact, here, i'll post his tracklist:
Sander K - This is Miami (dripping in off-the-beat, overdone delay and flange)
*trainwreck of the worst kind, quickly slaps the fader over, grabs the mic and says "GIVE IT UP FOR BAD BOY BILL!!!! (i hope nobody heard that!!)"
Fedde le Grand - Put your hands up for detroit (which we heard three times, from three different djs, in three different stages)
andy i'm glad loren didn't die pics to come soon
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on a side note, devast8 was the first dj i met when i moved to milwaukee. seems like a good guy. i remember he was using final scratch and i started a convo up about ableton. he says, "oh? you're a dj? you got a nickname man??"
