I got into set a little before 10:30pm after a short trip from our hotel which was very convenient about this year's Dig Deeper set instead of having to travel all the way downtown on the first night of the conference again. Danny was playing his usual deep and chill housey beats to start off the night. I was quite worried when I stood in the middle of the dancefloor and heard how brutal the sound was at the time. The bottles on the back bar adjacent to the Dj booth were rattling with how overpowering the bass was on the system. It just sounded like the music was going to sound terrible on this system. To my relief and Danny's too (I swear he was offering sexual favors to the sound technician) the sound got MUCH better once the bass was turned down on the master. Danny continued to pace things gently with deep and sexy grooves and alot of percussive tech house. It was almost sounding like straight up tribal house for a time.
Around 1130 or so some funkier beats started making their way through the speakers as the dancefloor and most of Set began to fill up. I personally like to hear the warm up stuff that Danny plays so I was there as early as possible and this seemed like a good idea seeing that Set had a much smaller capacity than Pawn Shop had the previous 2 years. Danny started picking up the pace with some funky bombs and groovy tech house beats but nothing too over the top just yet. He was setting everything up at the right time like he pretty much always does. He soon started to get that goofball sinister smile he gets when he really knows he's got the crowd's attention now and was going to really let the chains come off.
Around midnight or a little after, I could have sworn I heard Science Department's - Repercussion or at least a remix of it. The original was on one of my favorite cd's of all time - Digweed's Bedrock cd. It was quite a nice thing to hear on your first night of the wmc. Not too long after this Danny played this track that sounded very similar to New Order's Blue Monday. I have no idea what it is but would certainly like to get my hands on it. He would mix in a vocal track here and there and really got the crowd going and started picking up the pace towards the peak time techno bangers that he is known for. All of a sudden Danny drops one of the nastiest acid house tunes I've ever heard and the dancefloor really starts to go wild at this point. He plays a more tracks of this nature and the crowd is completely into it and Danny is completley getting into his set and the mixing is spot on as it was all night. He has transformed Set from a classy and tame club that it was at the beginning night into an all out party frenzy with the peak time music that now was coming out. It was on like donkey kong! Techno bangers with trippy melodies and heavy basslines tested the sound system of Set and in my opinion it sounded really good. He would drop a funky track in the middle of the techno to make it even more bearable with the harder music. Tracks like Yellow Sox - Zig Zag and Len Faki's remix of Par Grindvik - Do Us Part rocked the dancefloor. He continued to provide a techno thrashing to the dancefloor for the next 2 hours or so and needless to say the music was badass and dirty. Around 4 or so he started to cool things off a bit and drop funky dirty grooves with a sick breaky tune mixed in here and there. He finished things in classic Danny style by playing GU 27 Miami classic Unit 4 - Body Dub (Tiefschwarz Remix) as well as playing Inner City - Big Fun (Simian Mobile Disco Remix) and a few weird yet cool beats such as Alter Ego's Gary and a few rock tune originals here and there. It was the best Danny Howells set for me ever because it brought that signature WMC miami Howells vibe that he can create along with mixing in the newest and nastiest Techno and tech-house grooves mixed with Funky and really fun house beats. It was a mixture of everything with excellent programming and mixing the entire night - Can't ask for anything more than that. Set had a really cool light display including a non-tacky laser. See you next year!
Trainspots:
Science Department - Repercussion (Remix??)
Yellow Sox - Zig Zag
Ananda Project - Where The Music Takes You (Pasta Boys Dub)
Timewriter - Handsome Machine
X-Press 2 - Musik Xpress(Skylark Remix)
Mile Caro, Frank Garcia - Deadsouls (Radio Slave Remix)
D. Ramirez, James Mowbray - Time Fades Away (Daniel Stefanik Remix)
Mr. G - Custom Made (Josh Wink Remix)
Par Grindvik - Do Us Part (Len Faki Remix)
Marco Bailey, Tom Hades - Blast
Radio Slave - Grindhouse Tool (Dubfire Remix)
Gregory Treshor - A Thousand Nights (Dubfire Quiet Storm Remix)
Unit 4 - Body Dub (Tiefschwarz Remix)
Inner City - Big Fun (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)
Alter Ego - Gary
Goldfrapp - Happiness
:D :) :) :)
Clovis
Sounds baller... good to see him playing Dead Souls and that Stefanik remix
GUBostonDubs
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Originally posted by Clovis
Sounds baller... good to see him playing Dead Souls and that Stefanik remix
He played alot of really sick new sounding stuff. Last 2 years I knew much more track IDS
MindShifter
word, i didn't recognize a single track til about the last hour or so, ing howells :D
DiegoParra32
i'm glad someone else enjoyed it as much as i did ;).
GUBostonDubs
quote:
Originally posted by MindShifter
word, i didn't recognize a single track til about the last hour or so, ing howells :D
He was playing a good percentage of vinyl so I think alot of them won't be available digitally for awhile :(
GUBostonDubs
quote:
Originally posted by DiegoParra32
i'm glad someone else enjoyed it as much as i did ;).
best dj's in the world
1. Howells
2. Burridge
3. Farina
imo of course ;)
DiegoParra32
yes on howells number one. my bad luck though did not allow me to see burridge though and farina. :(
GUBostonDubs
quote:
Originally posted by DiegoParra32
yes on howells number one. my bad luck though did not allow me to see burridge though and farina. :(
My friends saw Farina do a Mushroom Jazz set on a boat cruise and also on that lineup was Dj Sneak, Dj Heather, Justin Long, and Jason Hodges among others. I had a gig Friday night otherwise I would have been there!
MindShifter
quote:
Originally posted by GUBostonDubs
best dj's in the world
1. Howells
2. Burridge
3. Farina
imo of course ;)
i'd agree with 1 & 2 they usually go back and forth for me (typically depending on who i saw last)
iammesol
quote:
Originally posted by nrjizer
the best encore I've heard in a WHILE!!!
GUBostonDubs
Im dying to know what that track was that sounded like Blue Monday was :whip: :whip: :whip:
