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Originally posted by Mgz btw was there 2 different rooms with 4 different acts at the same time or it is just one big room, cuz I were looking for the trance room with the boombox thingy for the whole time and didn't find it until Ferry set, was so confused and disoriented so just listening and dancing to random artist in the beginning, and the one with the MC guy was BORINGGGGG

the venue is one massive room with a stage at each end, divided by a small area where they sold rave stuff and massages with blue round lights hanging from the ceiling.

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Originally posted by malek Chinamon: this thing is huge, how do you do it? lol

hahaha

and just for clarification i was referring to the size of the venue. get your sick, gay minds out of the gutter.

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My first experience at beb and let me tell you, simply amazing best night of my life ... will be back next year for sure. Arrived early to ensure early entry as was recommended went smooth, pretty impressed how fast we got in considering the amount of ppl walking through the doors, no complaints Sander van doorn never seems to fail me, myself along with my buddies never left the tech room during his set, he just dropped one sick track after another for the most part Ferry dissapointed me AGAIN saw him in edmonton a couple months back and was just terrible and i mean in a cheesy way, i didnt even catch much of his set everytime i gave it a shot i felt he was just ruining the vibe. Best song he played hands down .. radio crash haha we bolted in, besides that we pretty much spent our time relaxing in the hallways during the 3 hour fluff watching the scene walk by definitly an open environment....................lol but was expected. Markus schulz BEST SET OF THE NIGHT i give him a A+ those bass lines and drops ... we danced hard for a good 2 1/2 hours before we had to head back to the halways. Sied van riel, just what i wanted to hear the last 2 hours of the rave good hard dirty drops to keep the crowd there as much as possible, i would have gave him the crown for set of the night if markus didnt steal the show. Till next year peace out montreal f**king love this place and its parties, oh ya and how could i forget ... godkitchen boombox was spectacular speechless to say the least i recommend everyraver to see it for themselves.

My first experience at beb and let me tell you, simply amazing best night of my life ... will be back next year for sure. Arrived early to ensure early entry as was recommended went smooth, pretty impressed how fast we got in considering the amount of ppl walking through the doors, no complaints Sander van doorn never seems to fail me, myself along with my buddies never left the tech room during his set, he just dropped one sick track after another for the most part Ferry dissapointed me AGAIN saw him in edmonton a couple months back and was just terrible and i mean in a cheesy way, i didnt even catch much of his set everytime i gave it a shot i felt he was just ruining the vibe. Best song he played hands down .. radio crash haha we bolted in, besides that we pretty much spent our time relaxing in the hallways during the 3 hour fluff watching the scene walk by definitly an open environment....................lol but was expected. Markus schulz BEST SET OF THE NIGHT i give him a A+ those bass lines and drops ... we danced hard for a good 2 1/2 hours before we had to head back to the halways. Sied van riel, just what i wanted to hear the last 2 hours of the rave good hard dirty drops to keep the crowd there as much as possible, i would have gave him the crown for set of the night if markus didnt steal the show. Till next year peace out montreal f**king love this place and its parties, oh ya and how could i forget ... godskitchen boombox was spectacular speechless to say the least i recommend every raver to see it for themselves.

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Originally posted by corjay9 Anyone stay to see Sied? I couldn't do it, my legs were done.

Yup, of course!!! Everyone else but 4 of us left and I couldn't comprehend leaving for him. He was RIDICULOUS! Even better than Markus!

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Originally posted by The Highroller Did anyone check out Morales?

I went to check him out and couldn't stay for longer than 2 minutes. BOOOOOOOORINGGGGGGG! He was playing some weird not-electro-but-sounded-electro-ey track. I think i'll wait to check him out properly at Fly, since there's no way I would have enjoyed his set anyways knowing I was missing Sied van Riel.

So, my review:

This was my first Bal en Blanc AND my first massive party. Had a nice dinner out at a tasty Portuguese restaurant (mmmm Sangria). After a quick white outfit photo shoot at Nada's hotel (which I'm still positive designed their bathroom to be convenient for a porno), we headed over. God bless VIP, b/c woosh, we were in immediately! I was expecting to be amazed as soon as I walked in, but I think because it wasn't rammed yet I didn't fully get the big room vibe. The openers in the trance room were really good. The house room was average at this time. Watching the videos on the backdrop was more entertaining to me than the music. So I gave up and decided to go see Infected Mushroom for the first time......and actually got some enjoyment out of it! I like old school metal (well used to be more into it) so I enjoyed hearing some fun guitar riffs. I would never pay money to see these guys on their own, but it was interesting to see for a little while! They definitely can do without their vocalist though, wow he has an annoying voice. Spent most of my time around now checking my watch and thinking "almost1amalmost1amsandervandoorn". And then the moment finally arrived...........and I was.......disappointed. I highly dislike saying ANYTHING bad about Sander EVER but lord can you say no set flow. He started out with Daisy and played hard techy goodness for the first 5 tracks or so. But every so often he'd throw in some track with either an awkward vocal or a track that just didn't belong. I really hope he doesn't play like this in May (I have faith in him though, he'll be amazing in Toronto ). Not that it was a bad set, it was just mediocre (especially considering what this guy is capable of). I honestly found myself thinking at this point that Bal en blanc was an average party. Up until the end of Sander's set I was having pretty much just as much fun as an average night at the Guvernment.

So now it's time for Ferry. I was expecting him to throw down a really good set (I was actually expecting his to be the best set of the night) but he still managed to exceed my expectations by INFINITY. He played one of the best sets I've ever experienced live. By this point the party was in serious action. I moved from standing at the front for Sander to somewhat further back in the crowd, since I wanted to get the full massive event experience (I can stand at the front and jam at the Guv any weekend). Being back there with friends, watching the party go off with everyone's hands in the air, and listening to Ferry rip us to shreds was just something incomparable to the regular weekend partying we're all used to. By halfway through Ferry's set, he had everyone eating out of his hands. He played seriously uplifting and driving tunes. This was TRANCE trance. A lot of classics. I think I lost a good chunk of my brain when Ligaya - Gouryella came on. WOOOOOOWOWOWOWOWOW! I have never heard that track in a club before and it's easily one of the best classics in my opinion. SERIOUS EPICNESS. Hearing Synaesthesia right after this was another WOW. Too much to handle. I won't even try to attempt at describing the experience of his set anymore, but basically, best set of Bal en Blanc 2010.

Markus Schulz came on after, and started out fairly dark (mmmmmmmm). I honestly felt pretty bad for the guy, because how the hell do you even attempt at following Ferry's set. But Markus Schulz playing a bad set is non-existent so he was in the clear. This wasn't the best I've ever seen him, but he played an amazing set with a few surprises for us! Lots of dark chuggy prog trance (my favourite Markus Schulz ), as well as a few unexpeceted tracks! Nothing At All mashed up with For An Angel (WTF, he never plays that!), Nothing But You (not sure what remix, but whoa). Yes, he did play the Perspective Space but it was mashed up with Sweet Dreams as Vince said. Everyone was sitting in the hall during this moment, suckers. Overall, solid set from Markus as per usual. Will be a true shame if the rumours of him retiring next year are true.

So, now it's 10 am...the crowd has started thinning and there's beautiful sunshine flowing in through the windows in the convention centre hallway. Most of our crew left at this point and it actually surprised me that people were leaving. I thought there was like a rule that you had to stay until noon when the party ended, I honestly didn't even consider it an option to leave early (I guess 10 am really isn't all that early though...). Sied comes on, and after seeing him play at Vola last year, I knew we were in for a treat. But I DIDN'T know that we were going to be treated to the equivalent of a really expensive creme brulee. Sied was ON FIRE!!!!! He was HARD, FAST, BANGING, TECH TRANCE. Fucking relentless. His set was tune after tune after tune after tune, most of which I can't ID (damn I love it when this happens! ). At noon exactly, the lights flipped on, such a sad moment) and Sied just wouldn't stop. I walked out from his set with my mouth hanging open. Wow.

Overall, this weekend gets a huge WOW from me. Bal en Blanc was just incredible. As I said I wasn't completely feeling the party at first, but all those doubts were just blown out of the water by Ferry Corsten. First ASOT and now this? I've said it before and I'll say it again....what is my life?! <3

Random thoughts and hilights:

- finding white shoes was a pain...literally, the flats I bought gave me a serious blister (thank youuuuu paramedics and your bandaids!!)
- i love trance even more than I did before.
- loved that they had a sketchy raver shopping area...the baby soothers were kind of overpriced though IMO
- paying the extra money for VIP was worth it simply for chilling right around where Sander was before his set...and then finally getting a nice not-covered-in-sweat-from-jumping picture with him before his set started <3
- Oz's photo shoot with the balloons he stole, right in the middle of the dance floor
- Ferry Corsten is god
- Sied is an absolute monster
- so now I've been interviewed twice in one weekend...some random radio station news guy came up to us after the event around the convention centre and asked me a couple of questions about how I enjoyed the event. Thank god this one wasn't video taped and I didn't have to give a name.
- Jay Leno has been successfully converted from a house-head to a trance-head
- Sander, please don't ever disappoint me like that again.
- I highly approve of the boombox. Whoa was it ever serious! To get the full experience you really had to stand further back though, when I was at the front I found it to be nothing all the special. Some of what was being projected onto it was insane.
- damn I should have gone for a massage!
- so much less sketch partying in Montreal...but it's still there if you look closely
- final thought: I would be sad that this weekend is over.....except there is just soooo much more coming!!!!!! I love Toronto (and Montreal) 2010!

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I just died reading that Schulz dropped Perspective Space <3 lol let the hate begiiiiiiiiiin!

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Originally posted by FunkyCrew I just died reading that Schulz dropped Perspective Space <3 lol let the hate begiiiiiiiiiin!

lol are you really surprised that he dropped that? If he was a superhero, it would be his theme song!

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Originally posted by v-vaughn lol are you really surprised that he dropped that? If he was a superhero, it would be his theme song!

haha yes
my hero! <3

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I had a good time at this year's BeB, compare to last year's this one was huge in term of music, setup, coordination, etc.

Before leaving I checked out Morales, he was good indeed, but I think there was something wrong with the sound system, I didn't feel the bass AT ALL.

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Originally posted by malek But the funniest thing is seeing yesterday evening people still looking for tickets!!! I think their calendar is all wrong or something lol

Hilarious haha
Nice meeting you Malek

It was also nice meeting some TOTA, v-vaugnh, and I_am_Vince (tough I'm not sure sorry )

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Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay Maybe you had bad breath or kiss like a horse eating a pack of sugar cubes that fell on the pavement.

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Originally posted by shapes No really there was blood, coming from my asshole.

Glad I made the trip to Montreal for Bal en Blanc with the Asian Hooker!

Boom Box was simply AMAZING!




I wish I could remember anything past 8AM or so on? I don't remember how I got back to the hotel room.

Last few things I can remember is talking with Ferry while eating a pineapple and running around with a bunch of Spongebob square pants balloons lol



Also meeting Guetta was hilarious. "Wholly shit I didn't know I have an older son" in a funny French accent lol


Guetta @ the House Stage


EPIC weekend in Montreal!

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Last edited by Ozmozis on Apr-07-2010 at 02:22

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Originally posted by v-vaughn Lots of dark chuggy prog trance (my favourite Markus Schulz ), as well as a few unexpeceted tracks! Nothing At All mashed up with For An Angel (WTF, he never plays that!), Nothing But You (not sure what remix, but whoa). Yes, he did play the Perspective Space but it was mashed up with Sweet Dreams as Vince said. Everyone was sitting in the hall during this moment, suckers. Overall, solid set from Markus as per usual. Will be a true shame if the rumours of him retiring next year are true.

Nothing but You- Super8&Tab Remix

And where did you hear about Markus retiring?

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Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay Maybe you had bad breath or kiss like a horse eating a pack of sugar cubes that fell on the pavement.

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Originally posted by shapes No really there was blood, coming from my asshole.

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Originally posted by ÖZmözis I wish I could remember anything past 8AM or so on? I don't remember how I got back to the hotel room.

Dude you were a zombie lol... I remember asking you if you were alright/tired, you mumbled something lol

I left you alone, i think it was past 10am.

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