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Sensation Black arrived last night and it looks like its here to stay. Pretty much everyone was wearing black and with that, it was a pretty cool effect, actually. There wasn't much chatter on TA here about Sensation; TA is such a small community indeed, hense the arrogance from balenblanc 
In all fairness, you guys do a lot of work behind the scenes and last night it all came together impressively. I tip my hat to you, balenblanc.
If you look at the first few pics in that other thread, you'll notice how sparse the crowd was. I arrived at 10PM, hoping to catch all the house beats before leaving earlier than usual. Speaking of beats, this is how I rated the djs:
DJ Malik: I was expecting a set entirely different from the download that was posted on here and also from the House-Pacifique radio show Friday night. While he did add some muster to his set, I did manage to hear a few tracks from that TA set, and it wasn't an energetic opening set, imo. I thought his track selection was average at best. In all fairness to him, there wasn't much of a crowd to work with. 7/10
Pablo Ceballos: excellent set, some tribal, some prog, some dirty stuff all around. On this night, who needed Chus.. he was that good. 8.5/10
Roger Sanchez: S-man delivered big, imo. He dropped some big house hits from the past few years, did some mash-ups of his own productions and generally created an electric party vibe up in the Centre Bell, yo. 8.5/10
Rank 1: started off the set well with some tech house, which led me to optimistically believe he would keep the funky beats going. That didn't happen He dropped Deadmaus' Faxing Berlin, first time I heard that in a big room..overrated track, imo.
The latter half of Rank's set was all trance and this is where I tried to do the Mizza trance hands but to no avail  . I didn't mind listening to the set high up in the rafters, however... a nice effect with all the laaaazzzzerrrrss. I just can't dance to it. 6/10
Armin: This is the closest I've ever gotten to AVB but by this point, the trancehead mosh pit was unbearable so I listened to a few tracks from the back. I really can't give him a rating here since I left shortly thereafter, but what I heard was a giant meh. He also had the volume up to max in the beginning.. killed everyone's ears.
Marcus, I think I saw you with a bunch of groupies.. are you like, 6'2" or something? At this point, I was a broken legged mess anyways. I will make a point of introducing myself at Black and Blue, considering the rest of TA doesn't go to massives anymore 
All in all, it was a successful night for Balenblanc. By about 1AM the dancefloor was jammed packed, almost to Resolution-like proportions, so it was a definite sellout for sure. And the house djs delivered, even moreso than I expected. However the lineup should have been flipped-flopped, as the trance sets killed the dirty, sexy Montreal vibe, imo.
Setup: 8/10, some decent laaaazerrrs
Music/Vibe: 9/10 until Rank 1. After that, 7/10
Women: 69/10 .. just as good as Balenblanc, I'd say.
Sound: 9/10 considering the logistics.
Overall: 8/10
Pros: most showed up effortlessly this time (after 12AM) and the dancefloor was bearable too; the shisha waffling to the ceiling of the arena; paramedics were very efficient, though I seemed to see them almost every 30 mins on the dancefloor.
Cons: Centre Bell turns off its cold water from the fountains this time, and of course bottled water sales increase; some ppl need to shower before they go out - simple as that; concession stands were selling only chips and crap like that.. where are the sandwiches, the fruits, the powerbars 
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| quote: | Originally posted by Ravemontreal
Once I took a piss in front of everybody at Stereo. Put the garbage under the mixer, and did it right there while people were dancing and screaming. people thought I was playing with the mixer but I was playing with my zizi. |
| quote: | Originally posted by Enjoy
a classic from the aria days:
me: are you on TA?
girl: uhhhh... im on speed
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Last edited by Spin Laden on Sep-04-2007 at 18:21
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