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Sux he only played two hours but what a two hours it was!!!!
Go there at 12:15am or so (planned on getting there at 11:45am, but baby duties arose last minute delaying my departure ;p). Koroma on and doing a solid job. Think he was playing Air for Life (again, ANTHEMS = NONONONONONONO), and then played a track that MarcoV had his own remix of (but not too big of an issue). This was all right when I first got there. He changed up the styles right around 12:30am and thought his 40 minutes were PERFECT for a lead-in, without changing up his sit to quickly from where it was when I first got there to lose energy. SOme openers fall in that trap. Know they need to end a certain way and don't set it up for a smooth ending and when they gt to the end of their the sudden shift kills the energy. I don't know exactly what time Koroma went on or not, but I did have one friend say, "Think he's playing a too energetic right now. It's 12:30 and I brought a bunch (10+) of people with me and they are already tired!" -- again, don't want to wear out that crowd. But, still, MAJOR props on the final half hour. Transitioning into Marco V can be a tricky task because he can play a multitude of styles righ off the bat, and think it went well. Make note, Marco started off at 130bpm. 
MarcoV, what can I say. Started off amazing and fed off Koroma perfect, played amazing, and ended only two hours later. I wasn't ready for him to end!!!
Couple highlights:
Him playing Deadmau5, WHOO! I love Deadmau5! Top of my list for producers right now. Funny story to this one. Near the begining of Marco's set and he was just working the crowd into gear, Blurr and I were discussing how he should play when he opens for A&B. He was asking if he should "play like this?" referring to how MarcoV was starting off the set. My response was, "yeah, somewhat like this (insert other stuff)....just play a lot of Deadmau5, that'd be perfect!" ... not 10 seconds after I say that comes in Deadmau 5 - Faxing Berlin, lol.
Him totally shocking everyone (me, at least) and playing Loops and Tings Relooped in the heart of his set! Everyone went bonkers. I thought it was coming in and was like nah, but then the track busted out to it's main components. BONKERS I tell you! Would think that if he played it at all, it'd be an encore or something.
Anyhow, AWESOME set.
Only heard about 45 minutes of Taj's set, but I must admit he totally made me forget that Marco only played two hours! Taj set continued the energy of Marco's PERFECTLY and had the crowd going nuts. Still going nuts when I had to leave around 4am. I really, really, really, wish I could have stayed because I think it was turning out to be one of my fav Taj sets ever!!! I am sure there have been some other great ones, but I rarely get to stay too long during Taj's sets. THen again, I think will every damn set is awesome as long as you keep playing Ferry Corsten - Brain Box.
BTW, I didn't even realize Brain Box is what I know as Ferry Corsten - The Race, which is def the original name of the track (or should I say, Ferry Corsten - The Race (Official Bavaria City Race 2007 Anthem)). I love the track because the synths remind of old school racing games on the NES/SNES/Genesis!!!
For the hell of it, music video of the track and be seen here...
http://www.rotterdamracing.nl/EN/mu...ndex.asp?vid=11
Great night. Bring Marco back, for an extended set!!!
One of the highlights of my life is when MarcoV played almost 5 1/2 hours at Ten15...was only scheduled for 2 1/2-3 that night I believe. This was in 2004. Spundae Memorial Day Party (Sunday/Monday). And Marco didn't stop, security stopped him. It was after 6am!! Crowd was still crazy full too. Was hoping he'd just want to keep on playing like that night. Certainly an energetic crowd to(last)night and Marco really seemed to be into everything. Oh well. I'll blame his entourage, lol. Or maybe Marco got hand cramps for signing like 500 things it seemed like, lol.
Dave
Last edited by DaveT on Oct-07-2007 at 15:06
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