That's great. We have a Day-3 review thread with 8 of 9 posts from someone who wasnt even there....and pics of previous years......

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Originally posted by drewz926 chris liebing, gui boratto, and dubfire tore up the grove today...

Deepak, Ida, Guy Gerber and Dubfire had the sets of the day imo. I'm torn between Ida and Dubfire for best of the day. Today was BY FAR my favorite day. Liebing and Hawtin were also good, but I had issues with both of them. Liebing got monotonous just hammering basslines non-stop for 90 minutes, could have stopped with 60, and Hawtin had too many soft points followed by huge bombs, and if you were over on the side of the tent closest to the Hilltop Arena, all that you heard was Boyz Noise during the quieter moments.

I thought Gui Boratto was...not good. I've seen him before and I was disappointed. Even when he played his remix of Paradise Circus, the transition in was bad and the transition out was, too. The set had ZERO flow.

Also caught the first 4 songs of Chromeo, who I didn't really enjoy. They remind me of LCD Soundsystem, who I also don't love, as well as 80's style Prince with the guitars and all. Went back to Nico Jaar, who I've also seen before and this time may have been worse than the last. It's just too fucking slow in the middle of your day. I guess it's good that Gui's all over the place set was before rather than Liebing's, but I have no idea how the scheduling/programming was done this year. Digweed's position yesterday was awful, too (Sander van Doorn -> Digweed -> Above & Beyond, REALLY?).

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this weekend made me realize yet again that trance is at it's worst. everyone who is big/famous enough to play these kind of big festivals are re cheesy as fuck minus sean and simon. mat zo was good too.

Sick 3 days. Thought today had a little more today than yesterday.....I don't think that space could fit much more, had to have been like 40k people there

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Originally posted by Neonbeats Sick 3 days. Thought today had a little more today than yesterday.....I don't think that space could fit much more, had to have been like 40k people there

that.s what i was thinking. they eventually have to upgrade if they wanna keep up or even get close to that of ultra. but where?

Typing this from my phone so gonna keep it brief... I thought today was insane and def had a much better time than yesterday. Hardwell>EDX>Woods back to back was so much fun. Tent was definitely hot as hell but the crowd was loving it... smiles all around...great vibe! Armins set was solid. Was a bit out of gas by that point but hung around for a high energy set... fireworks were a nice touch but why no lasers? Didn't get into afrojacks set so went back and caught the last 45 of G&D. Honestly athough the show was pricey I was pretty stoked about the $3 waters and $5 red bulls. Not raping people with like $10 waters prob saved a few people trips to the ER.

And I'll have to say that Afrojack started out his set nicely and the crowd was going wild. Water being sprayed and glowsticks being thrown in the air, then he got way too mainstream.

I don't care if trance is at its worst (it is imo) but walkin around from stage to stage was annoying becauseeee... What is up with this SHM sounding crap all the time? I feel like every house track sounds the same. Before it was about that whiny crap (pon de floor, etc), now it's about the SHM sound. Honestly. I don't care if house gets 10x more popular than trance, i'll never get into it. I felt as though every house DJ played the same fucking set, just in a different order wtf.

And i WISH more trance like this would come out today. I'm so surprised this is new and not from like 2001:

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Originally posted by Burak14 that trance is at it's worst.

ALL TIME LOW!!!!!its so sad!

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ugh iam in desperate need of new legs and feet ahhhhh but the pain was all worth it

super 8 and tab- not bad, played a predicatable producers/sing along vocal set...was ok

ida- mmmmmmm she is so god dam sexy, oh yea her set was good also

liebing- fuckin murdered the place hands down...hard banging techno had the crowd by the balls

gabriel & dresden- i knew exactly what they were gonna play and just went and saw them anyway, it was fun to just hear all their songs from back in the day

snoop dog- guy got paid to stand on stage and talk a bunch of gibberish with hip hop and 80's pop music in the background
unreal, but he was def saying some funny stuff

armin- caught the first 25 min of his set, opening track was ok but after that it was blah...they did have some really cool visuals and fireworks tho they went all out...i heard he did better later on but i just wassent feeling his begining

hawtin- killed it

now i hate to be a negative, but here's something that really really pissed me off (listen up made event)
why the hell was the volume soooooo low in the begining of the day for the trance guys?...on sat for zack,mat zo and the first half of sean and simon it was very low, yesterday for super 8 and tab it was the same thing and that tent was pretty packed when they were on, but meanwhile sunday school tent the volume was loud all day long..def something you should look into next year, just cause its early on dont mean its right to keep the volume that low, we didnt pay money to hear low music...come on guys

and another thing i felt next year all 3 tents should be the same size...no need to keep switching it around with line-up's/day's in order to fit everyone

other than that iam very happy i went all 3 days, everything went smooth def worth the price...probly the best e-zoo to date
thanks alot to everyone i saw i had a blast

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Originally posted by Burak14 that.s what i was thinking. they eventually have to upgrade if they wanna keep up or even get close to that of ultra. but where?

they are limited by space...i mean they did move the stage back this year but by time the headliners were on the crowd was up till the red bull tent

i suggested bigger tents for sure and all the same size, only problem would be they would be too close together and it the sound would bleed
if they can find a different way to locate the tent's so they wont be too close togeter, but yet be bigger at the sametime that will def help them next year...other than that besides central park i dont see many more locations in nyc that could hold that crowd and yet be in a good enuff location where anyone can get to it by walk,bus,train,drive etc

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