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Ultra Music Festival 8 Review!
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| LiquidX |
Alrights. Its Sunday night and no review to be posted. I was lazy enough but it appears everyone it's just lazy. haha
Anyways here it is. I have some pictures but I will post them some other day.
My friends and I arrived a little after 2 PM. Its the first time Ultra holds a festival in Bicentennial Park. Having been there the week before for GG I was really skeptical on the deal, besides all the competition and the bashing alike.
I have to say that I had 0 problem getting in. Ofcourse, it was 2 PM, the flock of people were just starting to get in. Entrance was the quickest Ive ever been to. And yeah, I did manage to get my Camera in, I even saw a bunch of Camcorders in.
Anyways. On to Boarding the festival.
I get in and Im amazed at the size of the first tent. Biggest Ive ever been to. Then Im surprised by the way it was all organized. Best so far. Time-slots were on time. I dont know what else to say.
Eddie Halliwell <<<<< So underated. !! cant wait to see him again
I saw Adam Bayer<<< WoW
Sef Fontaine<< WOW
Donald Glaude<< Like always.. Great!
part of the killers<< GREAT !!
darren emerson<< some crazy stuff!!
The prodigy<< CRAZYYY !! great act!! got some live footage
Paul van dyk<< On touch!!! Great as always.. just that he was better last year
Oakenfold<< Dont know.. He was screwed by the sound system
My favorites Carl Cox & Friends << I was in Awe!!
Techno Stage << Thing was going off all day!
House tent << Gotta give it to it!
Main Stages were sweet.. Just sound systems were screwed!!
Ultra.. do what you did, with the sound system of last years, and Ultra 5's Line up back @ Bayfront Park, best Ultra ever :-)
Ultra surprised me. I have to say.. Free DVD was given away.. No other complains, besides the dirt.. gotta do something serious about it!!!! |
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| DarkAngel |
| Good review, Felipe. Glad you had a great time. Can't wait to see pics, since I've never been to Bi-Centennial Park before. |
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| nfekted |
| Felipe ur so right, Eddie halliwell is so underrated man. Great freaking set he threw down. He threw in Incognition and Playground(nu-nrg rmx) which are freaking great. Like I posted earlier, Ultra surprised me. They did good this year. I can't believe I almost didn't go lol. Let me just say this. I can't wait to go next year. Techno Stage was best imo, was banging the whole day. Aside from some technical difficulties from like, 2 stages(main two stages), everything went right. Dj's were on time and the set ups were awesome. |
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| DarkAngel |
| Since Bi-centennial is reputed to be smaller compared to Bayfront, were there any problems with overcrowding? |
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| LiquidX |
| quote: | Originally posted by DarkAngel
Since Bi-centennial is reputed to be smaller compared to Bayfront, were there any problems with overcrowding? |
Not really.. Walking to and from places was way easier. Didnt have to walk through passages to get from one place of the park to the other.
The only crazyness was getting out. Took easily 15 minutes to get out the park moving like 3 feets per minute lol.. but since ultra people are cool there was no pushing. It was damm cold too! |
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| nfekted |
| yea it was cold, but if you got into the tents it was ok :) No overcrowding problem. Jesus I wanna see what the total number of people there were! Insane. |
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| Coastie |
| House Tent was banging all night, Carl Cox was off the chain blew my mind crowd was really lovin it. Benassi was also sick. But my fav by far was pvd played some good tunes including the other side. Ultra did its job again this year and presented a great festival. Liqour lines were a lil long at night and they ran out of certain stuff but oh well liqour is liqour. Overall i give ultra an A |
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| Dan1584 |
First of all... Bicentennial Park is ty compared to Bayfront, but there are positives and negatives about both venues, but anyway...
Got there when it opened and the day went by fast! Here is who I saw and in the order I saw them:
Junior Sanchez
He played mainly mainstream music that has been remixed, and you know what...? I actually got dancing pretty good, the crowd definitely was into it. Music is about having fun and he definitely entertaining... but once he dropped a remix of The New Radicals "You Get What You Give" I left before I vomited, lol.
Eddie Halliwell
Didn't impress me... Was kinda bored, though some of the songs were entertaining. I left early from his set.
Infected Mushroom
My favorite Electronic Dance artists of ALL TIME... This was my 3rd time seeing them live but my first time seeing them at an open air venue. They ing ROCKED IT!!! They thankfully played 4 new tracks (from their upcoming album) and I must say they were bad ass!!!! Lots of energy and the crowd was eating it up. Duvdev's vocals were decent and the live guitar added a lot of energy. I loved the live version of "I Wish." I was pissed that their guitarist showed up late AFTER "Suliman" finished b/c that track has such a great guitar section, but Erez covered it by using an electric-guitar synth. Want to see the tracklist? Check out my thread: INFECTED MUSHROOM TRACKLIST - UMF8
Darren Emerson
I walked by the HUGE Carl Cox & Friends tent and heard Coburn - "Give Me Love (Lutzenkirchen Remix") and I went nuts! So I stuck around but the rest of his set didn't really impress me that much.
Nic Faniculli
I have heard good things about him, so I went to check him out. I stayed for about 4 songs and my overall judgement was that hey was pretty decent, but he didn't keep my attention fixated on the music, more the crowds energy.
Eric Morillo
I caught the tail end of Erics set. He played a track I heard at Global Gathering, dropped by Deep Dish that has vocals saying "we will party all the time" good track! He finished off with Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Angello & Ingrosso Mix) which rocked the crowd. From what I heard he was pretty good.
Paul Oakenfold
Ok, where do I begin? His songs sucked for the most part, the speakers got all ed up and the bass went bye bye, then the showed was stopped... I left and came back later and surprisingly he was playing some semi-decent stuff but thankfully the misery ended soon enough.
The Prodigy
I love their CD's... but live, IMO, they didn't bring their songs to life like I had imagined they would have. Maybe it's just me but I was disapointed. Ieft in the middle of the set, not caring whether I missed some of my favorites (and fan favorites) like "Voodoo People" or "Smack My Bitch Up".
Junkie XL
I caught his last two songs, the last one being the totally awesome remix he did of The Editors - "Camera" ... Junkie always puts on a decent show, I'm sure the rest of his show was good.
Sander Kleinenberg
I saw his first two songs then Paul van Dyk left because my friends were cold and wanted to go to a tent where there was some body warmth, thus I couldn't judge whether or not I liked his stuff :( Bummer, because I wanted to see him.
Benny Benassi
I caught the end of his set and I really liked what I had heard. Good energy, little boring at times but it was a decently good tail end of a set. I would check him out again to get the full experience.
Paul van Dyk
First of all I am NOT a fan of his, BUT last year (at Ultra 7) he played an amazing set and totally got me pumped to see him this year. Well... I stayed for 3/4 of his set and I was TOTALLY bored. Last year he was all about the melody and intense tracks... this year he sounded more like a techno, electro, tech-trance DJ. There were some trance moments but I was disapointed heavily.
BT
I got a text during PvD from a friend who was at the Breaks 01 Stage and BT was on, she said he was rocking the crowd so I left PvD (thankfully) and caught the last four songs of BT's set. Thank god I did, he totally made me move like no one else did that night! He pumped up the crowd so much, such a good entertainer!
I stucked my head in at a couple of tents throughout my transitions from stage to stage to see if anything caught my attention. A few people worthy of passer-by-metion was Carl Cox & Danny Tenaglia. I heard one song from each and they sounded decently good.
ANYWAY...
Overall, I had a great time (as usual)... Got annoying with all of the people (as usual) and all the retards on E just made me laugh and feel embarrassed for them (this coming from an ex-drug user myself). Good music, good vibe, good everything. I spent way too much money of food and water but whatever. I miss Bayfront Park but Bicentennial was ok. I'll be going to next years Ultra (of course) and keep the tradition going. |
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| Mattivi |
| ultra sucked cause i wasn there flexing my muscles and showing all of u TA's how i can pimp it, oh well, next year |
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| gax |
| ne one happen to see Dj Dan, Bad Boy Bill, Donald Glaude? |
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| nfekted |
| quote: | Originally posted by gax
ne one happen to see Dj Dan, Bad Boy Bill, Donald Glaude? |
I caught some of Glaudes set while i was waiting for my friend to get out of the bathroom(which took a while btw, lines were longggg!)
He was rocking that thing nastayy! Putting on some dark evil lol! |
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| MJM420 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mattivi
ultra sucked cause i wasn there flexing my muscles and showing all of u TA's how i can pimp it, oh well, next year |
hit up space afterhours you can join the rest of the muscle heads flexing on the terrace.
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