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Review: Bal En Blanc 16
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| DGREG |
| ok, i still havent slept but i will give my consolidated review with more to come when i scrape my brain off the floor. First comment is... SPEECHLESS. Sander ripped the place apart, then ferry brought out his deeper darker side that we all want to see and then MARKUS MOTHERING SCHULZ took over the world! This guy is the best i have ever seen and this was the best set i have ever heard him throw down. Despite coming on at 7am to a lot of really maxed out people he squeezed every last drop of dance out of the entire crowd. Hard, dark, funky i dont know what to say other than i may have gone into cardiac arrest more than once during his set and it was literally an out of body experience. Markus is #1 and that is that, nobody in the world can hold a candle. Thank you BeB, SVD, Ferry and most of all Markus Schulz i will be processing this for weeks to come, i pray that the sets were recorded, lifechanging stuff....Oh and i snuck my camera in so have tons of material to share, but that will have to wait until i can function. |
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| Brian Blanc |
Tech, tribal and diva house ruled Bal en Blanc. Trance in the pants also.
David Morales, need we say more? Whomever said negatives about David's set at Sensation should remember he was spinning at Millennium ;)
Bal en Blanc is the major leagues and David brought out his Louisville Slugger for this one (dirty thoughts, lol)
Short review, yes, but still longer than Mr Marcus007's :) |
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| Marcus007 |
| My review is coming... tomorrow! |
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| Brian Blanc |
Kaskade_-_Live_at_Gansevoort_Beach_Party_WMC-SAT-03-28-2010
http://load2.me/?3lSkKsTY
He surprised me, very good set. I have posted the set again because my Carl Cox link was not working as Spin Laden pointed out in the other thread
Enjoy, breeders :) :) |
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| ZraW |
I really enjoyed Sander set ! It was pretty energetic
I really disliked Ferry Corsten set, and so did many others from what I saw/heard.. nobody was dancing.. to me he killed the vibe
Good thing Markus was next cause this guy is a king. BEST.SET.EVER
The set was intense from start to finish, bombs after bombs... |
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| robbiej |
| markus... last hour.. what a freak. |
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| corjay9 |
It was my first Bal en Blanc, I heard about the crazy line ups. We got in line at 10:45 and we were inside and ready to party at 11:20pm. That was awesome.
First off, decoration, pretty weak IMO. It felt bare, and nothing like I've seen from years past. The LED screens were pretty ing sweet in the house room, I especially liked watching the DJs up close on the screen. The Boombox got better and better, during Schulz, I was thoroughly enjoying it. At first I was thinking, whatever this thing's alright, but definitely got better as the night progressed.
Caught a little bit of Wizz and Insomnia, and liked what I heard.. for about 15 minutes while we waited in line for the bathrooms and bought some drinks at the bar in the trance room. Then we headed over to catch Ceasar Romero.
Ceasar laid down some seriously thumping tech house, some prog, and some techno, and some latin flavored tracks, The vibe was AMAZING and the house room was PACKED for Ceasar even at midnight, while there was about 200 people in the trance room.
I knew this would happen, LMFAO came on stage and totally killed my vibe with their obnoxious songs, beats, and hair. Seeing the words "I Am Not A Whore" flashing on the screen made me wanna throw up all over the place. I left quickly, and refused to even listen to IM, so we hung out for a little a little.
I'm not a trance fan, and neither are any of my friends but I went to BeB with an open mind. We all got into the trance room for SVD, and.. we couldn't do it. The bass was way too muffled, and overpowered the highs, I dunno maybe we were too close to the back where it seems the bass overpowered, but I just can't do 140-150 bpm, too fast for me and my friends. We weren't feeling it, so at 2am we went to see Guetta.
I didn't enjoy Guetta. The dance floor was way too packed, and such a commercially crowd pleasing set full of cup cake remixes and mash ups galore, the LAST THING I wanna hear is a ing Coldplay sample. He'd play a nice track then smother it with lame commercial samples. At this point, I was pretty down for some reason. My stomach was feeling weird, and I was wondering if I'd even be able to last the whole night.
After an hour and a half of Guetta, we hung out for a bit till Ferry came on. I wanted to give the trance room another try... once again, I thought Ferry's tracks within the first 20-30 mins were too cheesy so we left and went to hang outside in the hallway for an hour, just talking and chilling, watching the sluts walk by. These two stunning broads wore the tiniest string thongs I've ever seen, saw a gay dude dressed up at Tatonka, and a really sexy tranny, I had to give it a double take to make sure it was not a chick. Talked with some strangers, the drugs were really kicking in now and I was having a blast.
We got into the house room for 5:30 and Kaskade was on. I've checked out his productions before and hated it, cheesy vocal deep house, I deleted it off my computer immediately.. but GODDAMN what a set! He dropped some dirty tech house, big room prog house, I thought his mixing was top notch, his mash ups were cool, and holy some of his drops were just massive. I couldn't stop moving, and didn't want him to stop. Highlight tracks were Burujava, Soms, and I'm not gonna lie I enjoyed I Remember, you guys.. I just hugged one of my girl friends, and we just danced slowly and sexy.
Ana Paula came on, and I was feeling it, some cool tracks, but one second I was surrounded with chicks, and the next second it was ALL gay dudes. Some guy touched my ass and I got ing pissed.. watched 15 minutes, and decided this let's give the trance room one more shot.
Markus Schulz drew me and my friends in. FINALLY some trance I was feeling, some of the tracks he played, my god such deep churning growling basslines, punchy kicks, and just a techno-ish dark sound? Some insane tribal basslines too, WOW... Even the vocal tracks he played, I LOVED. My friends, all house heads, agreed that Schulz slayed the ing crowd big time. Such raw emotion, fantastic mixing, song selection, and the flow of the set was just incredible. The boombox was finally going haywire, the lights flashing, when he played "Hold that sucker down" I lost my , I dunno if it was an edit, but the kicks were much more bassy, and he sped it up a bit prolly to around 135, but KKK what a drop! I was really happy he played the whole track.. finally got to hear one of my favorite tracks on a big system. I was ready to leave at 9:45 and my friends were like "No this guy is way too good let's wait till he's done." so we stayed till 10am. 2 hours and 45 minutes of intense dancing, I will go see Schulz again that's guarenteed. Is it possible he played a Pryda/Cirez D track? one song just sounded so familiar, sounded so much like the Prydz sound.
Overall, great night.. such friendly people, lots of eye candy, the gays were a little intense, danced like a mother****** for almost 10 hours. I didn't even take all the candy I had brought with me, didn't need to, so I'm not too cracked out today. I read only one person got arrested, thats great news. I did see a few guys getting rolled out on stretchers though... I think the strobes in the house room gave one guy a seizure, I saw him barfing and then he blacked out on the floor. Hope everyone is okay. |
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| oldskool94 |
| Nice review Corjay - candid and raw. You basically confirmed why I chose to sit out my 1st BeB since 2004. Well, wmc killed me too, but that is another story. ;) I simply refused to be subjected to the fromage overload this year. I would def have loved to lose it to Schulz's dark, moody set though. I long for the years where Deep Dish closed the party with a 4-hr epic voyage. |
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| PvDGeek |
| hey ! if someone streamed the feed from ah.fm and can post somewhere that would be appreciated. cheers |
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| Mr Moss |
| looking at the tracklist.. schulz put a lot of his own bootlegs and edits in there, does he do that often? it is a tight mix though |
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