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Well..I'm always willing to give someone like PvD the benefit of the doubt as the sound system at club space was not as crsip as I last recalled. Add to the fact that I had just got off the plane to miami for and didnt get much sleep the night before. That being said, I was a bit more critical of the set.
As far as Space, IMO I think had Edgar V would have opened rather than Oscar G it woulda built up a better vibe to when Paul got on. The tracks Paul played were great, but the set was inconsistant. This harmonic mixing concept I use in my own sets makes me a bit critical of the transitions. Ferry Corsten keys all of his tracks and arranges them based on tracks with compatible keys that when the next track mixes in, you feel an energy lift. None of the transitions I recall were in key and it just seemed like he was tossing out random tracks he thought would work, He has ableton to beatmatch for him as well as rework the tracks with his own percussion lines...but with that I felt he could have done much better than was presented.
As far as the tracks themselves. I heard maybe 2 or 3 I never heard before that blew me away. The rest of em were stuff he's been playing or tracks that didnt phase me at all.
I've seen him 17 times and he can and has done much much better. The following were the most memorable as at the end of the set I was completely blown away.
Club Hyperia - Houston - Oct 2001
Meltdown 4 - Dallas - Nov 2002
Club Blue - Dallas - Aug 2003
Club One - Dallas - Oct 2004
Club Space - Miami - Mar and Nov 2005
There were others that were good, some okay...the main reason I gave Paul such a harsh review was because well..both gigs were at Space and Ultra, and they were mediocre sets rather than mindblowing ones. Now the man that DID blow me away was Ferry Corsten at Sky. That was some serious shit.
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