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Review: James Holden @ System
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| TECHno addict |
Just got home, in DEAD.
First party EVER sober (no drinks, or ANYTHING) and had a ing blast!! Good seeing you groovin on the dance floor Jon, your girlfriend seems like a wicked chick! Didnt get to stay for all of Holdens set, but what i heard was excellent. Gotta work in 4 hours, so its off to bed for me. Nice seein the usuals, and meeting a few newbies (too tired to remember names right now). And thank you to Christina, Margaret, Beh, and the rest of you for making Atena's first "club experience" a memorable one. Im off, hopefully i have enough energy to put into tomorrow with MARCO IN VEEEEEEEEE!!!
Gnight. |
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| Endlesswave |
Glad you guys had a blast! Sorry I couldn't make it as to prior arrangements for a friend's bday. I was trying to find a way to get out of it but it never happened.:( Alas I WILL party w Jon and co again...;)
See you all at Marco ing V.:D |
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| infinity HiGH |
holden owned me
"...do what you want..."
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
night! |
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| Tordan |
| I wasn't really feeling the first hour of Holden's set so I kept going back n forth between the main room and the breaks room. But half way into his set Holden picked up the pace and I couldn't stop dancing. Deko-ze came on after him and took the party to another level. No surprise there... TOTA owned Systems yet again. :) All-round awesome night. Marco V tonite!! wooohooooooo.... |
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| E2EK1EL |
HOLDEN was really good! Best Prog Set I've heard
Thanks for those who came out ... see you next week for the TA Christmas party!
FULL LINE UP AND DETAILS TO BE POSTED ONCE THE FLYER IS DONE! |
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| DJ_Science |
| I had a blast. I really enjoyed James Holden's set and I finaly can put a face to some of the names from this board. Now i head to bed for several hours... |
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| ryanparks |
It was great to see some familiar faces last night! Tara, Matt, Ryanm, Jarek, Liam, Rich, Tremblay, Nat, canuk and JOHN! (sorry to anyone i missed)
Here are some photos from last night. More can be found at the usual places. www.ryanparks.ca & www.systemsoundbar.com
- ryan |
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| AmbiguousBliss |
| Wow, you all looked fantastic last night! Glad to hear it was a blast. :) |
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| rubyriva |
looks and sounds like a GREAT time! really wanted to hit this party, but couldn't make the trip up.
wanna see holden...
glad you guys and gals had fun!
:) |
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| Nalin |
to tired to read whats above so my opinion is maybe something that someone else pointed out:
holden's set was very well done; of course all of us who went to see him (i should think so anyway), love his sets when they turn into 'melodic progressive' the sound he is so famous for, nothing really needs to be said about that part of his set because he always does an absolutely amazing job in picking the right tracks at that phaze of his set
What i thought was odd and more importantly less enjoyable was that he warmed up for too long with prog/deep house in relation to how much time he spent with all (i assume at least most if not all) our favourite part - the 'melodic progressive' holden sound which he tucked at about the last 3rd of his set.
Now don't get me wrong, prog/deep house is great and has its place. I liked it and all. But it's still a lot less satisfying then his 'progressive melodic' sound your anticipating. Thus the first 2 hours were spent while enjoying the prog/deep house (for me at least) torturously in huge anticaption for my favourite part - the part he makes everything so deliciously melodic. This in itself need not neccessarily be bad, because if you're chasing the prize for that much longer, then when you finally get it, it's that much sweater. So with this I expected that when the best part of his set started (last 3rd) that it would go for a long time, certianly significantly longer then his first part. But it didn't!! It went what around half the time he took to build up.
Based on the fact that he warmed us up for 2 hours torturing us in anticipation for our favourite part and based on the fact that when the dj in line after him took over Holden had a sort of surprised look on his face, i think its quite possible that Holden thought he would be spinning longer then he did (maybe no one told him someone would spin after him/some sort of miscommunication, these kind of things do happen, rarely, but they do).
That's the only explantion on why he would warm up so long and give us relatively little of our favourite part. Or the alternative explantion is that he was so into his set, and we all know that Holden really gets into his sets, that he lost track of time.
In either case I think (maybe i'm being too generous) its a relatively innocent mistake, who's ever fault it was, as long as it doesn't happen again for a long long time!
If this is the case, I 'forgive' holden cause happens, and after all he did give us a mammoth dose of the 'melodic progressive' we love most when he was at koolhouse last time with not much warming up.
Essentially, a very good set (hello its holden?!) with the only problem being that the dosage of the best part was way too little!
I'll die if he tortures me like this again! Haha, you get my point.
BTW, question, can anyone ID the first track holden played when his set started to get bangin' - you know the first amazing 'prog melodic' track played. Its the one that has just 2 delicious different sequences of whistling/flute-is sounds repeating over and over with of course good percussion in the background. This track is so amazing arggh!! I've heard it before but I coudln't ID it. I'll be eternally greatful if someone ID's it. |
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| TECHno addict |
| @ work right now......2 hours sleep lastnight......somebody kill me PLEASE! |
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| Skipper |
LOL @ Jeff
You say that every week.
I heard Holden once at Lotus...I can't get over how young the guys looks/is. |
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