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Review: Sasha@Guv/Lawler@Skybar (pg. 5)
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| Blue. |
| Which track had all the fear and loathing samples? Sasha dropped it at like 7am. |
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| magikb |
omg.. what a night i tell ya....wicked night out for sure...
sasha who?? lawler definitely stole this show...i have never been a huge lawler fan and the times i have seen him before i would say were average at best.. last night/this morning he was on fire.. i just couldn't stop moving and needless to say my legs are paying for it today.. :)
Until the damn law whores had to come shut it down... :whip:
i wasn't ready to stop dancing yet... but i guess it was for the best...but what a buzz kill that was :(
anyhow.. TOTA's and Non-TOTA's that i was out with.. thank you so much for making this an even better night for me.
Colin (the_sauce), Masis, Laura, Cam, Chris, Nick and Mike(the lurkers of TA).. it was really good to be partying with you guys again.. I have missed you soo much!
Chris and Rodger.. Rodg.. happy birthday hun.. and it was great partying with you again.. seems like it has been forever.
Milos.. i had a wicked time.. but young grasshopper.. you will learn, starting next weekend :p
as for the rest of you (too long of a list and i don't want to miss any of you) You guys truly are the best.. TOTA rock! :D
anyhow.. back to the afterparty i go! :)
pics to follow later |
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| Special K |
WOW
Definitely the best night out I’ve had this year and far and away the best time I have ever had at the Guvernment.
Got to Guvernment after 3am just in time to catch the last few minutes of Sashas first main room set. Shortly thereafter Lawler came on and did his thing for around two hours. Playing big rooms warrants playing big tunes and Lawler played some big big tracks last night. He didn’t waste too much time warming up and was pretty much hammering that room right from the get go. Sasha came back on at around 5am to close out the room. Stuck it out in the main room for a good 30 minutes or so and didn’t mind the music Sasha was playing. But once ‘Reflections’ came on I took that as my cue to leave the main room for the rest of the night (lol I HATE that track with a passion). Now if the night had stopped there it still would have been a good night out for me, but that was just the beginning of the sheer insanity that was to take place.
The morning really took off for me when I got to Skybar and Lawler came on to start his sunrise set. Steve’s Skybar set was more up my alley than the main room set. It had that same slow funky build his last set here in March had that I loved and from there he gradually started to pick up the pace and in no time he was rocking out the chunky yet still funking funky block rocking house beats. Steve played for around an hour and a half before Sasha joined him in the DJ booth and this is where it really started to get mental.
Much to the surprise of everyone on Skybar for the next two hours Steve + Sasha went back to back to close the party out. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing / hearing. I didn’t know if their sounds would work together but I thought that they sounded and played pretty well together. For the first time in an incredibly long time I can honestly say that I thought Sasha threw down an awesome set (on Skybar). None of that trancey progressive house music, just straight bassy vibed up party house music. And then of course, Lawler was Lawler. Hammering out that chunky future funky dirty house sound that if you ask me no one pimps as good as he does. Big big basslines all morning from the man like and Lawler.
It looked like Steve + Sasha were having a blast up in the DJ booth as well, I don’t think i’ve EVER seen either of them as animated and happy behind the decks. They were jumping around like crazy, clapping their hands, singing to the music, playing with the crowd etc. It was great seeing them having as much fun in the DJ booth as we were on the dancefloor. And by the looks of it people were having just as an amazing time on the dancefloor as Steve and Sasha were having in the booth. Skybar was GOING OFF all morning. Really good party vibes up there last night with a very up for it crowd.
The morning just kept on getting better and better UNTIL the fun police decided to show up to shut the party down just before 10am (thanks to the once again annoying islanders and their noise complaints). One of the officers was giving Steve a hard time over the volume of music and Steve was unfortunately forced to shut off the music completely. Boooooo to the police and the islanders. BUT good on GUV for throwing this party last night. That was one LEGENDARY party that I wont be forgetting anytime soon that is for sure. |
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| DJ El Kay Dee |
| quote: | Originally posted by Special K
That was one LEGENDARY party that I wont be forgetting anytime soon that is for sure. |
dunno bout u but im gonna be telling my kids about it....fukin insanity |
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| Sly_Guy |
well, the hype leading up to this party was huge, and going in, I knew I had to curb my enthusiasm because I've seen too many nights like this where the guvernment packs it's main room to the point where things cease to be fun, and just end up annoying. And getting on the guvernment floor around 11pm, I was happily surprised at the 'late arriving crowd', and was able to get my groove on for the first segment of the night. Caught the ending of mark oliver's set, but wasn't overly impressed, but I still wanted to take advantage of the room before the club got silly.
Paolo Mojo hit the decks and almost instantly won me over as a fan. He had a very unique vibe to his set, a deep, groovy tribal. Not the thumping kick my ass all over the floor tribal we all showed up to see from lawler, but definately dirty and groovy, and well paced for the timeslot. Couldn't ID any of the tracks although I was feeling each beat one after the other in very positive fashion.
About the time Sasha logged onto his fancy new computer was about the time the guvernment became intolerable. There was literally no room to breathe, and although this is expected, I was still awestruck by managements lack of decency in capping the room at a sensible number. The crowds were so bad it took at least 20 minutes to refill water, the smoking lounge which was the only access to outside air was completely logjammed with people, and very unpleasant to be in. As a result of the crowds, I staked out a seat behind the booth [which was set up on the stage], and didn't stand up from 12:30-4am. Musically, Sasha was decent at this time, it took him some time to get going, and for the first hour or so, his set seemed to 'chuggy', and lacked any kind of direction or any appreciable energy. But closer to the time Lawler was slated to take over those decks, Sasha kicked it up a notch and was in terrific form balancing melody with bass like only a handful of DJs in the world can still do.
Lawler followed, and didn't waste any time attacking the crowd and continuing on the set sasha had built. Hard driving electro with fierce jabbing basslines were prevalent for the beggining of his first timeslot. but I soon tired of itting still and sweating my ass off, and only barely managed to hang on to my motivation to stay until 4am, when the drink was opened to the guvernment crowd to gain access to the skybar.
Ventured up to the skybar shortly after 4am, and this is when the night took a turn for the spectacular. I swear, just reaching the skybar was a relief in itself, a break from the surging heat of downstairs, and room enough to feel comfortable with your dancing neighbours. Manzone and Strong were playing a set I wasn't at all impressed with, light tribal, with an excessive use of Gwen Stefani vocals, which crossed the boundary of being tedious to annoying very quickly. Towards the end they picked it up a little, sensing the large crowd gathering in anticipation of the meyhem lawler was going to unleash upon us.
Lawler comes on at 6am, and blows the crowd away with a huge set. Electro at it's very best, lawler played house, with very heavy glitchy electro goodness, the exact type of music I'm feeling most right now. Although I love what Lawler was playing, it's still rare to find a DJ who can play the style without treading into too experimental waters, and Lawler's set gave me a great appreciation of him as a DJ by being able to throw down an almost purely filthy electro set, without annoying the crap out of people with bleeps and bloops. I was eating the music up, and with the additional reserves of energy for sitting down in the guverment for several hours straight, I was going harder than I can remember in recent history.
Sasha came up to the skybar at some point, I was going too mental to truely notic until I heard some trance elements in the choons being played. I looked up, and saw sasha and lawler going nuts themselves over a build up of a track sasha had put on. I had my doubts about those two spinning in together with they're extremely contrasting styles, but once sasha compromised slightly on the melody, the set turned out to be very unique, and reminded me a Sasha and Digweed experience, where Sasha provides the melody and Lawler provides the groove. [albeit lawler's sound it much more sharper and harder than digweed]
No one I think on the skybar wanted this party to end, and even at 9:40 in the morning the club was still at least half full, and I don't think there were many people who were left were willing to leave before the DJs did. But then the local authorities made an unexpected and most unwelcome stop, and shut the party down. Now I'm not familiar with the noise by-laws, but if you were going to complain about a party, wouldn't it make more sense to do that at 4am instead of 10? Or if there were gonna bust the club for drugs, you'd think they'd make an effort to find some?
But sadly, that party came to a close, right after lawler jumped on the mic and thanked and praised the crowd for coming out and partying as hard as they did. This had the makings of one of those really special parties where the DJs themselves are having just as good a time playing as the crowd is listening, and I have no doubts that if it were possible, Sasha and Lawler would have played far past the 10am scheduelled end time to appease the hungry crowd.
So all in all, a great night, once you got out of the guvernment main room, and well worth the meagre $15 cover charge. Special thanks to all the TAs in attendance, I may show up to a party alone, but I'm never by myself when you kids are around. |
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| oleshka |
e that Sasha sure has some talent... beautiful tracks, beautiful mixing, I love it! and I'm going to pick me up some Sasha basics-GU13, northen exposure, what else?
but unfortunately my vodka redbulls did not pull long enough for me to enjoy Lawler's set too much. I was a gonner by like 4:30. How'd you guys stay on your feet for so long(expect for the obvious)? |
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| DJ El Kay Dee |
| quote: | Originally posted by oleshka
How'd you guys stay on your feet for so long(expect for the obvious)? |
alot of people slept and came later on in the night.... |
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| che |
| quote: | Originally posted by oleshka
but unfortunately my vodka redbulls did not pull long enough for me to enjoy Lawler's set too much. I was a gonner by like 4:30. How'd you guys stay on your feet for so long(expect for the obvious)? |
The music my friend, the music!! |
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| Sly_Guy |
music is all that's required.
I can't drink and go to a party. I become too lazy/clumsy/slow and tire far too quickly. |
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| halo20 |
| I badly want to see pics of the boys back to back... |
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| DJ El Kay Dee |
| quote: | Originally posted by halo20
I badly want to see pics of the boys back to back... |
ie. sasha in his Ray Bans with a cig in his mouth as hes playing with the mixer???
can u say PIMP????? |
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