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Sasha & Digweed : Delta Heavy (pg. 11)
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| corjay9 |
My review of the night:
Got in around 3:45 and it was already rammed to the , had a hard time finding a decent spot on the left so I found my comfort zone on the right hand side. A lot more gays then I thought would be there, also a lot of older people. I must have seen 10-15 people in their 40s, including a group of 4-5 40 year old moms that didn't look like crack head party animals haha. A lot of nice young chicks too.
Tone Depth was still on and he was hit or miss for me, he was alternating between melodic and dark prog, wasn't feeling it much. Some songs were just great but I was really looking forward to Sasha taking the stage.. I've seen Tone Depth just tear it up before, it's gotta be hard opening up for Sasha haha.
Sasha opened up with a brief ambient intro and then opened with Lee Burridge & M. Dekay - Wongel, I've always wanted to hear that track at Stereo and it immediately got the crowd bouncing around. He played tech house for about 20 minutes then slowly began transitioning the set by bringing in some nice melodic synth stabs infused.
Around 5:45 when everyone's peaking on E, here comes the dreamy trancy prog house he's known for. It was refreshing to hear the melody that we so rarely hear at the Temple. People were loving it.
My favorite part of the night was from 7:00-8:00 am, deep thick techy basslines and just awesome piano riff samples, brass, that one track with the indian scales made me go ape . At 7 Sasha had me locked in for the long haul, I was ready to stay till the end. The dance floor got a lot more comfortable around then, and I didn't leave my spot on the floor for an hour and a half. Just terrific..
Around 7:45, a pumping classic house track just mixes in and the crowd just errupts bringing the energy levels back up to the max. He then started to mix it up nicely, some tribal techno blending into some dirty evil sounding prog, Digweed style.. around 8:45 just throbbing techno tracks.. We ended up leaving around 9:45, I was fully satisfied with my night.
I'm just so impressed.. his mixing was just spot on, unlike Marcus I don't think he was all over the place. I thought when he made the jump into a new direction sound wise, it was built up slowly and the transitioning of his set was super smooth. He's a master using his effects, the sound was just incredible all night.. the sound was also just perfect, slowly getting louder then dipping with the energy of the set, then pounding at the end. The programming of his set was probably the best I've ever heard. It truly was a journey, and from 7-8:45am I didn't leave my spot on the dance floor to smoke, grab a drink, piss or just walk around to look at chicks. He had me locked in.. Best set I've seen at Stereo so far.
I feel bad for the people who told me they're not going because prog isn't their thing. I don't listen to much prog anymore, but he only really played the dreamy trancy stuff when everyone was tripping out, which was fitting. I was plurring it up, and he got real deep soon after. Absolutely no cheesy prog whatsoever either.. I have a hard time believing I'll see a better set at Stereo in a long time. Sasha's set just beats out Layo & Bushwacka's from back in November as my favorite set.
Question: 4 microphones hanging in front of the speakers.. recorded set? |
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| Aaron C. |
| quote: | Originally posted by corjay9
Question: 4 microphones hanging in front of the speakers.. recorded set? |
After reading that review i very much hope so. |
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| corjay9 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aaron C.
After reading that review i very much hope so. |
Turns out they're slot tweeters, I just never noticed them before.. so chances are it wasn't recorded. I would love to re-live that set again.. I`ve given all his latest recorded sets a listen throughout the week, and what Sasha played last night was just completely different. His song selection and sampling, and effects and edits, priceless. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| This is the problem with Sasha these days - you never know what you're going to get. Seems he plays differently for different territories. When he was out in Oz last year he was reportedly playing it extremely melodic and trancey, but whenever he's in the UK he seems to revert to trend-chasing tech. |
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| enydo |
When he was here in Atlanta he opened with some boring tech, built up to some really nice prog-peaktime jive climaxing in Schiller - Ruhe [Humate Remix], and then brought it back to boring tech-crap territory before disappearing completely from the venue.
Was honestly really disappointing, he did not seem to be enjoying himself. :( |
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| corjay9 |
Thing is, he hasn't played at the new Stereo club but he was in town 3 months ago and got booked at this ty subburban after hours.. He did his minimum set and got the out and went to Stereo to catch Dubfire. I'm guessing he liked what he saw, because it seemed like he was just given the freedom to play however he felt.. he was up there smiling and clapping, having a great time.. I don't think it's common he does extended sets much anymore? I left at 9:45 and judging by the amount of people left he could have easily played until 11:30? We'll see..
His set had great structure.. all his tracks had a solid groove, he even played 2 progressive breaks tracks which was awesome. With some of these DJs, they need to find their groove. It took Sasha maybe about 45 minutes until he locked everyone in..
| quote: | sashaofficial:
Sasha Stereo was absolutely amazing last night. Right up there with Womb, Fabric and Space as one of the best in the world. |
http://twitter.com/#!/sashaofficial |
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| llliiillliiilll |
| i miss those days of dark prog. delta heavy tour wss amazing |
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| ambient_chris |
| quote: | Originally posted by llliiillliiilll
i miss those days of dark prog. delta heavy tour wss amazing |
+1 |
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| MSZ |
| Saw Sasha recently, I admire his work ethic behind the decks but his music doesnt captivate or resonate with me one bit. I also very much disliked involv3r. Digweed can still lay it down for me. |
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| Kilixpree |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vigvogniasty
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thanks! |
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| Guest |
| quote: | Originally posted by MSZ
Saw Sasha recently, I admire his work ethic behind the decks but his music doesnt captivate or resonate with me one bit. I also very much disliked involv3r. Digweed can still lay it down for me. |
WAIT DA FUK YOU WERE AT ELECTRIC ISLAND?!?!?!? |
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