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Above and Beyond @ Roseland Review and TL (pg. 5)
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| DJ_Rafnel |
Personally with the whole getting shut down thing. It sucks that people would boo and stuff. I mean come on. You got out of your house, to see some of the best DJs in the world do their thing for you. You have to understand that they flew 16+ hours or some odd number just to play for you. I think people should really appriciate this stuff more you know?
Anyway, as far as the Cosmic Gate/Claud9/K&A thing(thanks for mentioning that too, i do remember Grrreat now)
Im throwing something together real quick and ill upload it ASAP, hopefully it will show everyone just how similar those songs sound lol. I can't even believe it myself. |
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| MeLLyMeL |
| quote: | Originally posted by nhjason
The booing only started after Roseland turned on the lights, which was after several minutes of the crowd cheering after A&B's set. So, I can't believe that A&B would take that personally.
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this.
I mean the crowd was all zombied-out. Of course they didn't want it to end at 4 am! Bollocks. |
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| EnigmaT |
I was disappointed in both the Fedde & A&B set. I'm not really a fan of Fedde le Grande's style of house so that was no surprise. It felt like A&B played no high energy tracks throughout the entire night. Just a bunch of overplayed low energy trance tracks from there label.
I still had lots of fun despite the music because Roseland is my favorite venue being in costume is always fun.
It's good that the party ended early. They might have been forced to end the party after that girl had the seizure/OD & put us all on lockdown like the Love incident. |
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| DJ_Rafnel |
Alright heres the file with a play by play:
I only used claud9 and cosmic gate because i don't own the K&A track. However i did take a youtube vid and matched both songs with it to see the results. Same key. Same bassline.
Keep in mind also, i did no editing what so ever. Just threw both tracks in the CDJs, beat matched them and Pressed play at the same time.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/bdwa4k
1. Once the bassline hits (Around 7 seconds in) i have the bass on Cosmic turned up, and Claud9 turned down.
2. At around 17 Seconds in i switch the bass. Giving Claud9 the bass turned up, and Cosmic Gate Turned down.
3. Switch again around 35 seconds.
4. Cut Claud9 volume completely at 45 seconds.
5. Cut Cosmic and bring Claud9 back in at the end of the clip.
Interesting right?
Honestly, both are good songs. So i have no complaints. Just found it really interesting. |
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| Excess |
| err whoops. still pretty ridiculous lol |
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| cl0wnz0r |
| quote: | Originally posted by EnigmaT
I was disappointed in both the Fedde & A&B set. I'm not really a fan of Fedde le Grande's style of house so that was no surprise. It felt like A&B played no high energy tracks throughout the entire night. Just a bunch of overplayed low energy trance tracks from there label.
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just some clarification: before everyone continues bashing how A&B played, please remember that this was the Anjunabeats Volume 7 launch party for the USA (i think its on Ultra Records here) even if it was advertised as a halloween bash by made. for those that haven't had the pleasure of listening to vol 7, once you do, you will see why they weren't playing 136bpm+.
i think i might be the only one who really had an excellent time, hahaha. i even got a thumbs up from tony and jono for my vol 7 tshirt on the side of the stage. |
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| yumpop |
| quote: | Originally posted by BradMiller
I was at Paco so I can't really comment on the set, but in A&B's defense it's pretty much entirely up to the promoter / club who decides how long their set will be, when the show ends or if they even get to play an encore. I'm always surprised when they won't allow atleast one more song, but the reality is that once the bar closes there's no more money coming in and every minute they're losing on security costs. Lame I know, but unfortunately it's the way things are..
Glad to hear Zack and Fedde rocked though! :) |
This is what most likely happened. It isn't the first event that closed sooner than expected. I have seen A&B more than a few times. That isn't how they would close out their set. If you take into consideration that their set started a half hour late and they were supposed to be on for a three hour set, we missed at least a half hour of what they planned. It looked to me like it was more of Roseland and/or Made shutting it down.
| quote: | Originally posted by EnigmaT
It's good that the party ended early. They might have been forced to end the party after that girl had the seizure/OD & put us all on lockdown like the Love incident. |
This. I saw a few EMTs in and out of there the whole time. Depending on the reason for the other calls, that girl would have put a big wrench in it. I hope she's ok though.
We had a great night. Zack was ing great and Fedde killed it. People had high expectations of A&B because of how great the music was before they went on. About the 21+, it isn't going to happen. They would not have been capable of pulling a full venue on 21+, based on seeing how many 18-20 yo there were. I also think the people you chill with are a big factor of a good night, that's why I make sure there are always super awesome people around me that want to have a good time. :D |
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| DJ Drei |
The night was good glad I was hanging with good friends last night so that saved the night for me. The 2 openers were just OK ….. don’t really care for their style and music choices and them playing for like 5 hours was way too much IMO. By the time Above and Beyond came on I was so drained and out of energy I needed a few Red Bulls to pick me up .. but at $8 a can man …WoW
Above and Beyond was great last night. Nice tracks and great mixing. Only wish they played way longer. Have some cool pics on my mysapce page.
See you all next time :) |
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| EnigmaT |
| quote: | Originally posted by cl0wnz0r
just some clarification: before everyone continues bashing how A&B played, please remember that this was the Anjunabeats Volume 7 launch party for the USA (i think its on Ultra Records here) even if it was advertised as a halloween bash by made. for those that haven't had the pleasure of listening to vol 7, once you do, you will see why they weren't playing 136bpm+.
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Album launch parties don't necessarly mean that they only spin tracks off their new album. Take Tiesto for instance. Can you imagine a set at Hammerstein where he spins only Kalidescope tracks. He mixes them up for the first half of his set then bangs out his last 2 hours with stuff that has nothing to do with the album.
So many DJs have fantastic radio shows loaded with all these promos. (including Above & Beyond) You know they have the music. But instead of hearing these new different sounds we're stuck with the same overplayed tracks. |
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| RoBDaWG |
Time of my life... I loved it, GREAT vibe in there all night.
I'm sure the venue shut them down and wouldn't allow an encore...
Will post more later...
EXCELLENT night! |
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| tedbarresi01 |
| they played for 2 and a half hours how can u back that up? if they could only play til 4 they should of came on when the clocks turned back. |
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| euphoria |
| quote: | | Originally posted by MeLLyMeL The fuked up section on the left side of the stage smelled like Pepperoni Pizza when I was leaving - don't ask. :wtf: |
Could it be because they were serving food in that area lol?
| quote: | | Originally posted by JBar PS If you're gonna wear wings, take care not to smack people in the face every time you turn. |
YES!!!! I got poked in the eye, and that was the final straw for me.
The closing time of Roseland was beyond A & B's control. Whenever there are two headliners shorter set times are to be expected, but I was expecting them to be on till 5AM but I guess they wanted everyone out of the venue BY 5AM instead.
| quote: | | Originally posted by DJ_Rafnel It sucks that people would boo and stuff. I mean come on. You got out of your house, to see some of the best DJs in the world do their thing for you. You have to understand that they flew 16+ hours or some odd number just to play for you. I think people should really appriciate this stuff more you know? |
Not only that, but Tony was feeling very ill and still stuck it out to play for us anyway. |
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