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My post from the reviews section:
Alright, so i'm back home from a wild night in Boston and at Avalon.
Overall it was a good night, but not the best, i'll explain.
Got to Boston around 9:30, missed the whole TA meetup that i set up in the first place, sorry if anyone was there looking for me but from what i saw the line was so long no one went into Jillians anyway.
Got to the club about 10:40, line outside even for guestlist (thanks to sandstorm03 for the list!) so we waited about 15 mins before we got inside. Met up with Billu in line there, good to meet another Boston-area TA. Waited another 10 mins or so inside the club before we paid, $15 with guestlist, not bad but i was told it was gonna be $10. Another few minutes waiting for the girls to get thru coat check, and then we were ready to get some drinks and dance.
Warmup DJ was only a warmup dj, was not even trying to get people moving if you ask me, just basic progressive stuff playing at like 130bpm. There were a bunch of people out dancing but i wasnt really feeling it.
Armin came on about Midnight, started off with some breaking intro track, pretty good tune actually but the breakdown was like 4 minutes and we just wanted to dance already. So after that things got rolling along a bit more. I have never heard Armin play a set this HARD in my life. It was absolutely nothing like any of the livesets i've ever heard from him, it was like banging 135-140bpm techno and tech-trance. It was lots of fun, but when you see Armin you kinda expect melodic uplifting trance! Anyway i think the critisism that he wasnt playing fast enough finally got to him and he started banging it out live.
Songs I ID'd:
Tiesto - Traffic
Motorcycle - ATRC (AvB Mix)
Armin - Blue Fear (2003 remix)
P Diddy - Lets Get Ill
Thats it, out of a 2 hour set i only recognized 4 tracks. So either i suck at IDing or Armin was playing stuff that i have not heard before.
Either way I danced my ass off for the whole night, stopped once for a drink. Floor was damn packed, lots of people out, most too scared to really dance at all they were just crowding the floor for the hell of it. A lot of cocky pushy guys who always thought they should be walking to the center of the floor, as if there was more room there to hang out. Anyway people were bumping and pushing all night, wasn't till about 1:30 that i had a bit of room to dance around.
Armin stopped about 1:50, waited for everyone to start yelling and then came on for an encore of some hard-ass techno, not sure what it was but i think it scared a lot of people there! I thought it was great, had me moving. So that went on till 2am exactly when they cut him off, mid-track mind you, had to turn the table right off and they shut down the amps so he couldnt do anything about it. So i started leaving, then heard music again, ran back to the floor and armin was playing another track but just upstairs on the monitor speakers not in the club system so it was quiet and we decided to leave.
All in all it was a good night, not the kind of music i expected Armin to play but it wasnt that bad, i just didnt understand why there wasnt more of his uplifting sound or the kind of stuff hes been playing on ASOT.
This was my first time at Avalon and overall i was impressed. The club is beautiful, its only a club and not some dual purpose warehouse so the setup is impecable, very clean, good bars, friendly bartenders and the security was also very good. Sound system was good, not great, but good enough. There are subs down at one end that i was dancing in front of that sounded pretty good, but if you've ever been up to Stereo or Aria in montreal you'll hear how much better the sound could be, and how much more the systems bang there, and they dont stop at 2am, thank god.
So okay thats it for my long review, hopefully some other TAs that were there will post theirs, maybe even a tracklist if we can get one. I think i will be going back to Avalon in the future but maybe not for the biggest names because of the crowding, and the fact that i think they are playing differently because its the USA, it seems like the Canadian clubs are more european and the DJs dont dumb it down at all.
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