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Gabriel & Dresden @ Mansion 01/19/2008 Review
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| PatMcGroin |
| pretty damn good night. full review + pics + vids to come later. |
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| tranceman 23 |
| WoW!! G&D played better then any show for a long time! Mansion has kicked it up leaps & bounds , sound & lights big time.. Flo & karen were the only TAs i saw,Great seeing you. Saw Pam Anderson go by looking good! Cant wait for Markus. |
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| MeLLyMeL |
| quote: | Originally posted by tranceman 23
WoW!! G&D played better then any show for a long time! Mansion has kicked it up leaps & bounds , sound & lights big time.. Flo & karen were the only TAs i saw,Great seeing you. Saw Pam Anderson go by looking good! Cant wait for Markus. |
She was at Pangea in Hollywood the night before. |
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| tranceman 23 |
| If the tunes werent so good i would have hung out with her.....(Yea right) |
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| PatMcGroin |
alright so heres the review...
got to mansion around 11:45, waited in the usual will call line for 10 minutes until we realized some chick with will call just walked right up to the front and got right in. so after, we did the same. no problems, just right in. the line outside was pretty long too so im glad we got to skip it. inside of course was ing empty.
first thing i noticed was the new decorations they had. they made it look nicer. last time i was there was for benny benassi in april so its been awhile. also, im VERY happy with the smaller vip section in the middle of the dancefloor. its still there, but they moved it back so you can actually get in front of the dj booth and all. i would say they took out about 40% of that main vip section, so there was plenty of room to dance. this got me so excited for markus in 2 weeks. :D
chicco secci was dropping some nice tunes when we walked in, good opening, and the sound wasnt too loud at all, didnt even have to put in my earplugs yet. around 1am g&d showed up inside the booth, but it took em awhile to get started cuz they were setting up their macs and . but they finally started around 1:20, so 4 hour set my ass. lol. whatever, no big deal. they started off with a really old rock track which kind of made me nervous for the night, but right with second track they made me feel easy. the first hour of their set was straight bang, a lot of ids, but a couple i knew too. i loved it. then after about the first hour they kind of lost some of the energy. dunno why, just kinda stopped feeling it. we ended up leaving a little after 3 but was very happy with what we saw. g&ds mixing wasnt all that, i didnt hear any mistakes, but the transitions werent anything special either. dave dresden did seem to be enjoying himself very much. very animated with the crowd, while josh gabriel was just hiding behind his computer occasionally smiling at the crowd.
the crowd... well its mansion. there were three groups of people there, the people flaunting their money no clue with what was going on, the people ed up (there were quite a lot of people rolling) with no clue what was going on, and the few people who knew what was going on. got bumped into quite a bit, but not nearly as much as at space. plus there were actually some people who said "im sorry" but they were sober, unlike space were if someone bumps into you they give you this "ima gonna kick your ass look."
i still prefer space > mansion obviously, but mansions getting better. they totally have a new lighting system behind the dj booth and it was wicked!! the sound was still terrible, but i didnt expect much in that department.
check out the vids ima post for the lights, i got a dope 5 or 6 minute video which showcases it very nicely. the laser was also very dope.
partial tracklist (1:20-3:15ish)
1. Dirty South - The End
2. ID sick bassline video to be uploaded soon
3. Rachel Starr - Till There Was You (Gabriel & Dresden Remix)
4. Deadmau5 - Not Exactly
5. ID soft female vocal track
6. ID
7. ID ing know it video to come
8. Retrobye/Christopher Norman feat 3PM - Lights
9. Mark Knight & D. Ramirez - Colombian Soul (Dave Dresden Edit)
10. ID dope beat male vocals video to come
11. ID
12. Gabriel & Dresden vs. JFOS - Arcadia is What You Want (Dave Dresden Mashup)
13. ID guitar intro male vocals "give me for what you can"
14. ID electro track
15. Sia - The Girl You Lost To Cocaine (Sander van Doorn Remix)
16. ID female vocals "its always darkest before the dawn, deep breath"
17. Tiesto - In The Dark (Carl B (?) Remix)
pics and vids to come
overall, a good night, i had a good time while i was there. good to see tranceman, and chach sorry about the bs, guess we'll have to meetup another time. |
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| JD8180 |
| i stayed until the very end. after like 3 or so the dance floor was clearing up just enough that it was full, but everyone had their space. had a great time and towards the end of the set they played all of their old tracks, including a new remix of track your treasure down. they ended the set with dangerous power. at this point all the regular lights were on and the bouncers started to tell ppl it was time to go, but everyone was chanting for one more song. after a little bit, g&d listened and started another track which got the bouncers pissed because they had to wait more to go home. after 2-3 min into the track the bouncers just decided to kick everyone out. i didn't mind because w/e track it was didn't impress me anyway. all in all i had a really good time. don't know what any of you ta's look like so sorry we didn't meet up. see you guys for markus! |
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| PatMcGroin |
pics...
:haha: :haha: :haha: the sluts of america all spreading their legs to get backstage. :haha: :haha: :haha: |
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| RzO |
flo the first track was...
Dirty South- The End (old doors sample) great track i played it out last nite.
glad to see the party was fun, looks like i may be bringing them to palm beach around wmc time, since daves parents live here and his mom goes to my friends salon. small world lol. I will talk with them both this week and see what dates will work, but it should happen :) |
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| PatMcGroin |
| quote: | Originally posted by RzO
flo the first track was...
Dirty South- The End (old doors sample) great track i played it out last nite.
glad to see the party was fun, looks like i may be bringing them to palm beach around wmc time, since daves parents live here and his mom goes to my friends salon. small world lol. I will talk with them both this week and see what dates will work, but it should happen :) |
awesome, thanks. it was a dope show, you shoulda come out for it. |
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| deprivation |
| I think Pat summed it up well in his review. The crowd and energy started good, but died down after awhile. For me, I got tired of the electro sound they were playing. It was decent, but uninspiring stuff. It's obvious they are changing their sound and part of the reason I wanted to go was to hear what they now play in their sets. |
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| tranceman 23 |
| It was to me a good flow .The reason it lost energy was too many drinks early. |
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