J0C was really shit. His set had no flow and structure, his mixing was poor, and his playlist was rancid. Another case of a DJ undeservedly gotten to where he has via productions.

John Askew was pretty decent. Especially the second half of his set when he started bordering on techno. Does anyone know what the track was after John Askew - Fuck Private Ryan (We're Dancing) ?

PvD was also quite decent. There were a few really good sections in his set, but he also kept bringing it down with some really really shit trance like beautiful things, linking people, nby etc. But in a place like Passion I suppose he has to please the rave gimps. His set's do look to have shown some major improvements recently, and now having seen it first hand I am convinced he does still 'have it' when he can be arsed. Definitely quite a random set in the end but one I enjoyed nonetheless.

Bagguley started with Voco Me which was quality. It was wishful thinking that he might actually go on to keep up the pace to which he had set himself, but alas, no; he proceeded it immediately with shit fanny trance. I soon left.

And yea it was definitely too hot. I hardly see how sweaty fat men without tops on brushing past me adds to the atmosphere but each to their own. Plus the crowd we're rank, rude and annoying. It was good to see some of you again though, it's been a while. A good night.

Last edited by DJ Mikey Mike on Sep-04-2005 at 17:02

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O'Callaghan was appalling, he didn't appear to know any of the tunes he was playing as each transition was incredibly disjointed.

Askew was quality, playing some decent tech goodness and it was a bonus to hear Shaker live.

PvD for the most part was banging, easily the best set I've witnessed first hand from him this year. Thankfully his set wasn't completely made up of fluffy anjuna/armada wank like it has been recently. Unfortunately he still sticks to the pattern of finishing on a trio of his worse productions.

Stuck around to see if Bagguley could impress, his first track being the flim flam mix of voco me was decent. But unfortunately some vocal armin wannabe gash followed and I set about doing one home. I should really have stayed a little longer, at least then I wouldn't have murdered a squirrel on the return journey.

On another note, that MC prick should be shot. MC's have no place in this type of music. If I was Passion management I'd tell him to fuck off to a club playing Jungle or Happy Hardcore or something. What effects my blood pressure the most was the fact that this twat was speaking all over the breakdowns of some fairly thumping tracks.

Anyway, enough of the ranting! I had a decent night all in all, even though the majority of the crowd was completely lifeless.

Last edited by sykadelik on Sep-04-2005 at 17:26

nice photo of his ableton screen in there. it looks busier than sasha's, not that thats saying much though

The look on my face in that second picture tell's you everything you need to know about O'Callaghan's set.

I got a look at his Ableton screen too, and I could only see 2 channels on it. I am not sure how much use he makes of it but yea from that picture it does look like more is going on than what Sasha does with it. I did keep hearing various samples all night though. In particular I swear I kept hearing the melody of Angello/Ingrosso - Yeah in various places..

yeh him and sasha both seem to use it for equally pointless things.

cool pics...

re: ableton. was pvd using ableton primarily..or was he using decks as well?

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Originally posted by dj_helen_k cool pics... re: ableton. was pvd using ableton primarily..or was he using decks as well?

Just Ableton and a mixer, he didn't touch the vinyl/cd decks once.

I'm not sure what to think of this really. Not using ableton myself I don't know how much effort is required to mix in a software package like that.

sounds very interesting....

he seems to be using various tools for mixing these days, like Final Scratch, then moving on to Serato Scratch etc.....

i have seen ableton in use, and i must say its an awesome tool for on the fly mixing.....so many things you can do with it that you cant do with cd's or 12's....

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Originally posted by dj_helen_k so many things you can do with it that you cant do with cd's or 12's....

I'm not to up on the whole Abelton thing really, so I am going to ask.... like what exactly?

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Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike I'm not to up on the whole Abelton thing really, so I am going to ask.... like what exactly?

you can do stuff like "remix" tunes on the fly, add samples, play around with soundforms and synths and shit.

binkun has produced a pretty sweet electro set that shows off a lot of what ableton can do

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