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| quote: | Originally posted by Clublifexx
After 3, Above and Beyond opened up the cheese and played every single one of their old vocal tunes. I have a HUGE problem with dj's who do that. Heard these damn christmas singalongs 1000 times over now, ruins a set when you stuff so damn many of them in. Play a couple, no problem, not each one of them almost back to back. For the record they were: cant sleep, noone on earth, good for me, touch me (not theirs but cant stand it), far from in love, satelite, alone tonight, surrender, breaking ties, sirens of the sea.
A sad discography is what it was.
Anyhow I realize some people are there for that, I guess it is better to have them slapped together at the end so you can escape if need be.
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Pretty much bang on. Almost exactly how I felt about A+B's set
To put it mildly, their set was so damn PREDICTABLE. It's like every gig they play, they go on about an hour so of all of their vocal trance hits. Do they even bother to work on a decent tracklist anymore? That above listing of their vocal trance is almost exact same list I heard 3 years ago at Guv.
I really tried to keep an open mind, because I respect these guys so much as producers and I know that they can play better than this. Well, my opinion of them as DJs right now are so low that they'd have to work hard to merely disappoint me but eh. 
It's not that the abundance of vocal trance that was the main problem; it's just total lack of variety. All uplifting epic trance. Like every track had like 5 min hands in the air breakdown. This is like, total lack of effort. Anyone can play a set full of own productions because it doesnt take much thought into thinking of a tracklist or programming.
Can someone tell me the different between Paavo, Jono & Tony's style of DJing? I cant tell.
Mind you, I only caught their set from 145 to about 230 and from 330 till 430 so I suppose they could have played one or two techy or some other trance other than uplifting trance. I am a bit disappointed that I missed In Silence (Txitxarro remix) because that would have had my hands in the air. And tracks like this shows me that A+B can really play good trance like they used to pre 04.
I challenge Above and Beyond to play a set without their vocal trance productions. I'm going to bet it'll be so hard for them to do so now, because it's like every gig they play, the crowd expects a lot of vocal cheese. Like Armin, they can no longer control their own tracklists which to me is very sad.
Paavo (such a nerd!) and Jono looked like they were having such a good time. I thought the booth monitors were going to fall off and crack some Skasian's head open. LOL.
The vibe was simply incredible, despite the total crowdedness. I thought I was in a prison/slave ship or something and couldnt breath at times. But I love seeing people totally into trance like last night.
I'm very glad that many of you had good times last night, especially for those of you seeing Above and Beyond for the first time. Was good seeing many of you (esp those that made out to Vola on Fri night) for a weekend of trance. 
Thanks to those who dropped by Acid Lounge and seeing me spin for a bit. It was my first time spinning there and I had a good time, despite having no clue how to play. Special thanks to Barry and Sasha for the opportunity, and Jason for ensuring that I had no problems on my end.
PS: Kinda disappointed that I missed Jaytech which was basically the whole point I was going to Guv in the first place
PPS: Forcing myself to stand through that bombardment of vocal cheese was like one of the hardest thing I've done. I'd rather have my balls be trampled on by an elephant.
PPPS: Thank God for Aleksandra. Her set was only thing that made musical sense the whole night. No really bloopy stuff, but lots of proggy and groovy house with funky bassline. Really loved her set.
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| quote: | Originally posted by chinamon
not true. i say "ugh"
but i am a tranny. |
| quote: | Originally posted by kotsy
lol colour me retarded |
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oh girl 
I aplogize if it was anyone of you guys, but i doubt it becuase this guy was dressed up like 50 cent. 
it's been too damn long
