Checked this place out after Guv on Saturday night.
The good:
The venue itself is pretty decent. Nice to see all the couches spread around.
The location is also a plus. It's close to a 24 hour convenient store, and even closer to a pizza pizza that opens at (I assume) 11AM.
Security seemed to be really nice
The bad:
The black lights above the dance floor. Maybe I just like a really dark dance floor now because of CZ. I felt like I was in china town.
The sound system is nowhere near as good at CZ's. It was actually pretty distorted when I originally shorted up.
I was there until 830AM and the crowd was still at a max of 50-60 people. I think they need to bring the cover down to at least 10 bucks to try and steal CZ's crowd. Once they have established themselves and have a decent crowd coming in on a regular basis, then maybe bring the cover up. As of now this place is NOT worth the same cover as CZ.
The ugly:
Ni-CD mentioned a 3 to 1 girl to guy ratio last week. This week must've been 20 to 1 in favour of the guys.
The music was weak. Chastise me if you want, but I was not impressed with the music at all. DJ Rudee (I think) was stuck in beatport's top 10 from 4-6 months ago. There was a set of about 10 tracks that I knew right away and have already been played into the ground (thus boring). I felt bad for the guy when someone came up to talk to him during a mix and he completely trainwrecked. The dj that came on afterwards was like a bad version of The Roaches. He completely killed the small dance floor that Rudee had going. At one point the volume went way up making the people I was with plug their ears for several minutes (thankfully I had my ER-20s on). Maybe I'm just used to the incredibly high standards that CZ sets in terms of music selection, but the dj lineup needs work here. I'm basing this on the first two djs, which I admit is not enough to judge the whole lineup.. but fuck, you should have your strongest talent first thing in the morning. That's primetime for after-after hours.
Final thoughts:
This place has potential, but it needs work in the music dept and a drop in cover for at least the first 6 months. I don't think anyone in their right mind would pay the same price to go to the new basement when CZ is a 5 minute drive away (unless they have a problem with zone). Just before I called it night/morning my friend Aly asked me what I thought of the place. I said it was alright. I asked her what she thought and she said the same and then we both said at the same time "it's no zone". I likely won't be returning to this place for several months or until it's established.
Originally posted by Jeff Button
my long awaited visit to the infamous Basement will have to wait, for now.
duh duh duh....
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Feb-04-2008 20:32
Halycon
Epicsketch Inc.
Registered: May 2005
Location: underneath the blacklights.....
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Originally posted by rabbitjoker
NO!
It is (the new) Basement.
Back in the day it was a club called "Bassmint" (with the stories of that place deserves it's own thread).
oh lord... those bathrooms .. ewwwww..
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