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I arrived at Stereo around 4:00am with my friends Vy and Ryan. The line-up for guestlist was quite long and after waiting 30 minutes I just went to the regular lineup and saw Dominique inside. I proceeded to coat check my jacket and head upstairs. As soon as I was at the bottom of the main room dance stairs I could tell the place was already packed, as I came up the stairs my assumptions were proven to be true. It was around 4:30am and the place was packed, people already going nuts on the dance floor. On my way to find a place to sit I bumped into pumpkin and blondeelicious, I’m glad you remember my name now Scott. I managed to sit on a box on the left side railing area and immediately noticed this guy lying on across the two leather couches at the end. I thought he was dead, no seriously I just thought he was really messed up. I contemplating getting security but I figured why ruin the guys fun so I just let him be. About ten minutes into my arrival I saw Ron (Mindflip) sit down on the stairs near my location, I waved at him and he came over. He told me the music had been hard since the very start, and hard it was. Personally I don’t like branding music since most DJs don’t specify their own music as a specific genre, but if I had to throw down my opinion of it I’d say it was very hard house, almost tech-house.
For those of you that know me, I normally spend all my time on the dance floor, rarely even stopping to hydrate myself. I find at Stereo on big nights I can’t really find room to dance until later on in the evening/morning Hence, I was content listening to the beats and watching the dance floor. I’m a journeyman of the afterhours, hitting up all the different clubs with no real bias, but whenever I’m at a higher vantage point looking down at the dance floor at Stereo, usually Morales nights, I am overwhelmed with a feeling of a sense of family. If not a family, a community that is so intertwined that we are all there for one purpose – to dance. It is truly something unique to Stereo and sometimes Aria, I never see that at Circus, perhaps I could just call it “Vibe”.
I noticed Elie and his dream team on the dance floor, but I didn’t want to lose my spot on my box since I knew I wouldn’t be able to dance anyways. Eventually, Elie passed by where I was sitting I followed him onto the dance floor. Nice meeting you Megan and I think Jeff. I still didn’t manage to dance until almost 6:00am, Vibe was laying down the beats HARD. He started the night out with hard beats, as I said in my perception tech-housy, with tribalism. His transitions were quick and he only teased the crowd for a few moments before giving them what they wanted. I despise DJs that never peak their transitions, it’s like a tease that goes no where. Towards the end of the night Vibe explored more anthem-like songs with lyrics that sent the crowd, including me, crazy.
It was definitely another successful night by Blended, I love the logo btw, it was a pleasure to see JF out on the floor as usual. Another great thing about Stereo is the fact they don’t close at a given time, at 11:20am I asked JF when they were going to stop, he told me from noon to 1pm. Vibe ended up finishing around 1:07pm. There was still a large contingent of the crowd remaining and it spilled into Stereobar. I don’t know when they automatically moved coats back to Stereobar, but ingenius. Now I’m inclined to just stay at Stereobar since I don’t want to wait for my coat upstairs AND I don’t have to pay coatcheck again. Nice. I don’t know who started the spinning at Stereobar but I do believe Malick, Blended’s Prodige, came on after and he was simply disgusting. I guarantee you he will drop bombs on the 31st, I almost wish I was there but I am going to be at Circus for Creamer. I left Stereobar at 3:30pm, my friends had left at 1:30pm but only Loretta and Sabrina that I knew from the board were still there.
Apparently each club had a good showing of people, women and music. Only in Montreal.
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