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Official Bal en Blanc 14 Review! (pg. 10)
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| Esiotrat |
| quote: | Originally posted by chimera66
Ferry - Started early and it sucks he went right after such a fast paced group. He was at a disadvantage having to go after IM.
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I agree.
This is how I would've liked the time-slots:
Insomnia -> Wizz -> Menno -> Ferry -> Armin and closing with Infected Mushroom when everyone starts falling asleep cuz those guys could wake up the dead. |
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| Spin Laden |
Well, since the monkeys cannot be trusted to run Bal en Blanc properly, perhaps it's time to move this thing to Olympic Stadium or something.
'Arrived into the party around midnight after a massive line-budding :p
Caesar Romero was dropping bombs after bombs in the House Room, driving, chuggy tech house that had that floor hopping right from the start. I wanted to pace myself for the night ahead but he almost did me in in that one hour I got to dance to. Terrific set, one of the best I've ever experienced, actually.
Cedric Gervais' set was a huge surprise as I had the bar lowered considerably for him, based on hearing him only months back. Gervais continued right where Romero left off but with more vocals. A suprisingly edgy and sexy set altogether.
'Didn't catch Chris Willis as I deliberately went over to the Tech side for about 30 mins and danced to some Ferry Corsten techno (yes, I know he plays trance).
David Guetta should spend less time doing curls and poses and more time actually doing his job, that is bring in some actual flow to his sets. This set was crappier than the turd I heard from him two years ago, and yes, it reminded me of being in an oversized nightclub, indeed. No flow, piss poor tracklisting and too cheesy all around. Yes househeads, we have our own Tiesto-nothing-but-the-hype dj too
Offer Nissam was better than what many are saying on here, imo. Lots of smooth, uplifting tracks and he brought that floor back from the Guetta debacle. I enjoyed this set more than his '07 one.
For his timeslot, Victor Calderone delivered. I didn't find his set to flow well at times but there were some seriously delicious minimal tech house tracks.
Overall, Bal en Blanc was nothing special: Guetta, the horrendous bathroom situation, heavily speculated overselling (and the resultant overcrowding) - all those things kinda killed it for me at times. If it weren't for the great crew of ppl I came with and the solid beats being dropped by those not named Guetta, BeB would've most certainly been a disappointment. |
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| DJ_SideFx |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cyberflow
Offer Nissim dropped nice tracks but he wasn't able to beatmatch them proprely o_0 ? |
Offer Nissim was NOT MIXING !!!
i was watching him in the booth, he was doing 2 things
either put in a CD of 15 min with premix tracks and start dancing or put a CD with a single track, dance for 7-8 min, last 30 seconds of the track just put in another CD in the player and press play and open the fader and continu dancing !!!!
I have no idea why they keep on booking him (wannabe her) |
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| B018 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Passskal
Calderone owned bal en blanc 14.
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yup
the others were really not good
i was dissapointed with bal en blanc this year |
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| princesultan |
| MY EARS ARE STILL RINGING!!!! anyone else experiencing ringing still? |
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| Neo Hacker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Enigmatik
I agree.
This is how I would've liked the time-slots:
Insomnia -> Wizz -> Menno -> Ferry -> Armin and closing with Infected Mushroom when everyone starts falling asleep cuz those guys could wake up the dead. |
or maybe just not book these guys. They were the only "out of track" DJs this year. Last year it was Second Sun. Ferry, Armin, Menno, Wizz and Insomnia usually play uplifting and 136-140 bpm. IM goes up 140 and I think it was totally off the flow. I'd have prefer having Nick (Pilon...) instead of these guys. The flow would have been much better. This has nothing to do about my love for Trance, but rather the flow of the night. |
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| ZraW |
| quote: | Originally posted by Neo Hacker
or maybe just not book these guys. They were the only "out of track" DJs this year. Last year it was Second Sun. Ferry, Armin, Menno, Wizz and Insomnia usually play uplifting and 136-140 bpm. IM goes up 140 and I think it was totally off the flow. I'd have prefer having Nick (Pilon...) instead of these guys. The flow would have been much better. This has nothing to do about my love for Trance, but rather the flow of the night. |
BOOK ANOTHER DJ FROM HOLLAND ! |
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| Neo Hacker |
| quote: | Originally posted by ZraW
BOOK ANOTHER DJ FROM HOLLAND ! |
Not Tiesto. ;)
John Askew would have been great...and I wouldn't mind if it was Above & Beyond again, I totally love these guys. :) There are a lot of known DJs out there who would have made the trick ;) |
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| ZraW |
| quote: | Originally posted by Neo Hacker
Not Tiesto. ;)
John Askew would have been great...and I wouldn't mind if it was Above & Beyond again, I totally love these guys. :) There are a lot of known DJs out there who would have made the trick ;) |
svd again ! :D |
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| zeKsg |
| quote: | Originally posted by ZraW
svd again ! :D |
SVD ing owns, the 2 times i saw him in the past 4 days. MAN I swear I almost liked him more then Armin... He really ing owns with his new Supernaturalistic sound. |
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| ZraW |
| quote: | Originally posted by zeKsg
SVD ing owns, the 2 times i saw him in the past 4 days. MAN I swear I almost liked him more then Armin... He really ing owns with his new Supernaturalistic sound. |
He's at redlite with Wizz and Insomnia June 20th |
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| SandSt0rm |
to Bertuzz and others worried about noobs:
If you guys went onto facebook and looked at the 3 event details for beb14...i duno bout u guys but i realized something from the confirmed guests list..there were alot of ppl in there that i knew from high school that did not have the slightest clue as to wtf music is..they were the type into hiphop and ..and they would have 1 friend who knew armin which would end up influencing the others to join in and go to beb..so yea trust me the noobs did jam the hell out of it and there were a ot of underage 16-18 year old girls/guys...they should seriously start checking IDS plz!! I mean going from hiphop to beb? or going to beb just for 2 big names (armin and guetta)..blah ppl like this should be rejected at entrance..
and thats my two cents. |
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