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Review : John Digweed @ stereo
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| KrinKer |
I should start from the begining. Quebec city 9p.m. I was getting ready for that night but something was wrong, i wasn't as pumped up for that night as i should've been. The drive to montreal was pure bliss, driving to the sound of Dubfire's afterclub mix and chating with judy while axx was sleeping. We got into montreal @ about midnight and went straight to a friends place. We then decided that we should grab a beer on st-laurent street. After our ( 2 ) beer where finished we headed directly to the sound sanctuary. I must thank thank Maxx herbet for the quick entrance. As i was climbing those stairs i began to understand why that place is renound all over the world( yeah it was my first time @ stereo )
We decided to go directly on the dance floor and to my surprise it was packed ... already and it was only 1.30 am. Ken shiu was dropping some seriously sleepy beats too hypnotic. We spotted a place near FHB418 on the dance floor. @ 2 the master has had enouhg of ken shiu's sleepy beats. But he continued in the same direction sleepy hyptonic ... and it wasn't loud enough. He kept on dropping beats like that for about half and hour and then ... something happened. The master had decided that the journey should begin now ........................ with Anarcrusan - In my mind. Everybody felt it, the journey had just begun and everybody was listening to our guide. He continued dropping beats but as the journey was going on i realised something he was dropping some hard beats, never have i ever thought that the master would drop such hard beats on us.
After a couple of hours dancing on the floor i decided to take a look around that magnificent club. Finally stoping at the right of the dj booth where i could see the master and his follower completly under his speel. I watched for a couple of minutes the master working on the big sceen. He was operating the mixer ecxatly like a surgeon would operate a patient, slowly, steady and alwasy looking at it just to be sure that if something goes wrong he's there to put it back as fast as he can. But watching him working the the mixer made me realise something, The master is not human, he is a robot programmed to bring us deeper into the progressiv sound. Another thing struck me while looking @ him, the Master is Shy??? Never did he give a confident look @ the dance floor like any other dj would do. he was looking @ the crowd waiting for them to tell him if he's going the right way. As the journey's end was coming faster and faster the gems where pilling onto each other those are the ones i spotted
Pqm - You are sleeping ( dave from dallas mix )
Trisco - Musac ( ??? new mix )
Sultan - Wadi
Sultan and the greek - Stephanie Vezina ep
Anarcrusan - In my mind
After about 5h into the journey the sound began to fade out, the master was done and so was i. But for the first time the master gave a confident look to the dance floor. As everybody was applauding him he knew that this would be a night that everybody would remember for a long time.
I was done, my body was in complete pain, and so was my mind for going throught this journey. Knowing that nobody coul go after the master and be as good as he was ( sorry brian ) we decided to leave. As i stepped foot outside the sound sancturay I didn't knew what to think after that journey and the weather seemed like it was exactly what i should've been it was grey, cloudy and cool. As axx and pascal where dropping beat never a moment as profounf and beautifull has what i heard during the night the sun began to shine and i was begining to understand what i had experienced....
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| KrinKer |
Thanks
I was feeling poetic !!!
lol
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| Special K |
Some other tunes that I spotted:
The JC and SK mic of that Dub Pistols tune
Alex Dolby - Psiko Garden
Wally Lopez - Factorizando
Amber - Anyways (Steve Poter mix 2) Last tune of the night
Astrom - Deep
Saints and Sinners - Pushin Too Hard
Echomen - Perpetual (some mix that ive never heard before)
Tide of Dreams - Prophets of Sound (Brancaccio and Aisher mix)
And he played some tune that sounded like a Holden/Gwill Morris production. Possibly the new Ogenki Clinic track?!?!
I thought Ken Shiu played an alright set. It wasnt mindblowing or anything like that but he got some smiling faces out and grooving on the dancefloor so I guess as a warmup DJ he did his job.
Diggers took to the dekcs a little past 2am and played for around 5 hours. I thought he KILLED IT! He dropped alot of different sounds covering a wide variety of the dance music spectrum. Besides those few tunes that Krinker and I spotted, most of the tunes that he played were tracks that I had never heard before in my life, he played the freshest music on the planet. He dropped some really crazy ass tunes with some of the maddest basslines I had ever heard in my life. INSANE!! Digweed had the crowd going nuts and had them right in the palm of his hands from the moment he took to the decks to the moment he handed things over to Brad Copeland. He built the night up perfectly and by the same token tore apart like only he knows how. I couldnt stop myself from jumping around to his beats. Pure crazyness from the beginning of his set to the end of his set.
Brad Copeland came on at around 7am or so. This was my first time seeing Brad Copeland play out and I must say that he definately impressed me. Just as Digweed had finished ing us all up with his beats, in came Brad Copeland to us all up some more. Great tunes from the start of his set to about the time they booted everyone out of the club which was at around 8:30 or so. (anyone know the name of his first tune *i think*, the lights came on in the booth and Brad was going nuts to it as were most in the crowd, one of the best tracks I heard that night). I definately cant wait to hear more of his sounds.
So yea fun times were had @ Stereo. That was my first visit to the highly acclaimed Stereo and it definately wont be my last. Some really really really good tunes provided by Diggers and Copeland, a great party vibe and a KILLER soundsystyem made for one of the best nights out ive had all year.
The only downer of the night was the heat in that place, I dont think ive ever sweat so much in my life (besides Summers End last year)
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The night however still gets a 10/10 from me!
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| ACA2000 |
| man i wish i could have stayed til the end, i was just too tired. i did however get to see digweed 2 nights in a row which was very sweet!! |
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| discojoe |
| hes a ing crazy dj. spinning such filthy dirty beats. glad you guys enjoyed it. must have been nuts to hear it on a good sound system. |
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| morsy |
| real house music...i WANNA TAKE TO THE DEEP DARK JUNGLLLLE |
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| DJDan-B |
| Amaizing night, i was pleased with prog-sounds :tongue2 |
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| Special K |
| quote: | Originally posted by Special K
anyone know the name of his first tune *i think*, the lights came on in the booth and Brad was going nuts to it as were most in the crowd, one of the best tracks I heard that night
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Chable & Bonnici - Ride [Alternative Route]
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| bcope |
| first tune was sander's remix of appleton-"thats how the world goes" |
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| Special K |
K but you still dropped 'Ride' right?!
thats the tune I was asking about!!!!!!!!!
or am I imagining things here...!!!
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| bcope |
yep...3rd tune if memory serves me correctly...
i think it went
appleton-thats how the world goes(sander k)
habersham/numinous-rhetorical question(chris micali)
ride
junkie xl-dont wake the sleeping policeman(sander k)
hybrid-true to form
benz and md vs. eberius-sound 84
way out west-killa
creamer and k-storm
unknown-unknown(matthew dekay)
bt-sunblind
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