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nice to meet you too bec except you ran away in the middle of the conversation?
i had fun, moshic was awesome, not sure about the dj just before him, he kept changing styles going from mad progressive psy to shit electro and stuff, dunno why. nick sentience was ok, only saw first few songs, big change in music styles. i thought it would be better having nick sentience at the raja ram afterparty and antix at this one, it would make more sense musically, but oh well.
review from itm 
One of the highlights for me at my first Earthcore last week was Israeli progressive trance maestro Moshic. I caught the tail end of his set in the heat on Sunday morning in an unfortunately empty main arena. I liked what I heard so when I saw he would be at one of the after parties the following week, along with Nick Sentience, I knew I couldn’t pass it up.
I got to the venue a bit after 11 meaning I missed Virginia L’s set of mnml snds but apparently it had the raver kids shuffling and twirling their hats away so it must have been good. Walter Juan was on the decks playing progressive house, and there was a decent sized crowd for that time moving away. I didn’t get into all the tunes he was playing so I was eager to see what the next dj had to offer. My mate told me Mantrix was not playing so that meant Nevin was up next I believe. He started off great, some nice progressive psy trance got things going but after a few tracks he would change it to more electro-tinged house. Why??? Everything was going so good…A few times during the set he changed the music style which I didn’t understand as I couldn’t see any difference in the crowd reaction. Oh well. At least it gave me time to appreciate the visuals on display, which seemed to be snippets from some documentary about the earth and geology, which I found cool since I’m studying geology at uni so I got to annoy people by pointing out useless facts that they’ll never need to know about.
At 1am it was time for Moshic and after a nice atmospheric intro he got things going with some deep trancey tunes. The crowd had built up a bit by this time, it wasn’t packed or overly full but it didn’t look too empty. There could have been a few more people dancing but as with every time I’ve been to room there is just as many people at the bar as on the dance floor. Moshic built his set up quite nicely, until around 45 minutes in it was pumping away. The bass lines and beats were brilliant, sometimes I had to just stand there saying “faaarrrrk that’s good”. He also used some accapellas, playing middle eastern style chanting vocals over the top of tracks, which added another element to the sound. Moshic managed to change the vibe and tempo a few times in his set which was nice but sometimes it feels a little flat building up to a peak then dropping the energy level a bit but that’s just me. I really enjoyed the music, I absolutely love the style of his tunes so I might have to add his album to the christmas list. The only other negative I could add is that when you play a set of all your own stuff sometimes it can sound a little ‘samey’, but when the music is that good I can forgive him!
I decided to check out the side room a couple of times and as I had no idea who any of the DJ’s were I thought it could be interesting. Unfortunately for me they were playing the scourge of dance music at the moment, electro house. This stuff is a plague infecting the minds of clubbers everywhere, seriously. Case in point: Small group of people dancing away in side room, dj playing generic electro house tune, then mixes into ‘Get Yourself High’ by the Chemical Brothers and after about 30 seconds EVERYBODY STOPPED DANCING. WHAT? After that he mixes in another generic electro house tune, even worse than the first one and people start coming back to the dance floor! How can you dance to that stuff over Chemical Brothers?? It was a black night for dance music. Ahem. Well anyway back to the review!
With another removal off the line-up, this time of Ben Evans and Blinky, that meant at 3:30 it was time for Nick Sentience to step up. The crowd had dwindled slightly towards the end of Moshic’s set but when Nick came on it rejuvinated a few people it seemed. Nick changed things straight away launching into some hard house which was quite a change from the deeper progressive trance. The tunes came hard and fast, including some remix of the tune from the Citroen dancing robot car ad which I thought was kinda cool. Some of the other tunes I didn’t quite get into. Sometimes the beats would sound great and full of energy and then some cheesy 80’s sample would come in and ruin it for me. We couldn’t stay long so unfortunately I missed the rest of Nick’s set, if it was anything like the set recorded for JJJ recently I knew he would have played some psy trance towards the end which was a shame but ah well there’ll be another time I’m sure.
It was a fun night in the end, it was much better for me to see these guys in a rocking club atmosphere compared to empty arenas in the heat and I am eagerly anticipating the next album by Moshic.
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