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wow.. what a night.
mark knight was decent but i think he tried to stuff in too many of his own tracks. music matters a capella then the actual track later? come on, it's not that much of an anthem... i haven't been closely up to date with new music in months, yet most of his set seemed too recognizable. his style is great for the main room though, and he had me grooving pretty well for the most part.
danny T did not disappoint.. a lot of hardness and no cheese whatsoever. just like i noticed in '07 he seems to have a neverending stash of unrecognizable, raw beats designed to destroy big rooms... most of them aren't tracks you'd ever listen to start to finish, or even ever see on beatport, but he throws them all together seamlessly... the middle of his set did lose me when he got too slow paced and played some drawn out glitchy stuff. he had no problem picking things up for the rest of the night though. even with his mic monologues aside, you could tell the guy was putting his best effort in and wanted us to have a blast. just wish i had the steam to keep jumping around in his last hour
kh was terrible when i stopped by to check it out the first few times, but i actually had a good half hour in there near the end of crookers' set. they let everyone jump up on the stage and surround the booth from all sides, while crookers picked it up did some really fast cuts between their analog electro fare (they were doing dubstep and random shit before this). by the time they played a thunderstruck remix everyone up there was rocking out with arms flailing, atmosphere was INTENSE and to top it off a guy is jumping around in a gorilla suit.. one of those rare moments that only seem to happen around these hipster DJs. but still, half an hour was enough of it, and that stage was about the size of the room they should have been booked to play in :P
good moments with manzone & strong (gallery was good while it lasted, oh well), carlo lio and deko-ze as well
great night out overall, def made up for last month's mediocre LOL. crowd was a little sparse for an all access but i'd take that any day over the typical shoulder-to-shoulder fest
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