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Electric Daisy Carnival 2011 @ Las Vegas Motor Speedway June 24th - 26th (pg. 195)
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| Cool1g |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jim Carson
Sounds like a good time.
I had dinner with one of my friends Tuesday night in SD and she said that she waited about 1 1/2 hours for a shuttle to get there from the pickup spot on Friday night at 7pm and 3 hours to get home from when the party ended at 6am. So she waited until about 9am in the morning in the Vegas heat to get back to the hotel. Sounds about right for a good party. ;) |
the people that left early on friday nite for EDC did have longer waits.... we had no wait at 1am. getting back at the end of friday night was a mess and we ended up taking the 1st shuttle we could to another hotel then taxing it back to ours. took about 1:45 i think total time.
Sat night again no wait going to the party around 11pm and coming back it was about 50 minute wait to get on the shuttle and another 50 minutes to get back due to the traffic. they added more shuttles for Sat and Sun nights to help things. And Pasquale came out to hand out water to all the people waiting in the shuttle line at the end of Sat night. |
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| Jim Carson |
| quote: | Originally posted by drEamer
i caught his set at EDC......alot off hip hop/ top 40 stuff he plays...is that normal? |
Laidback Luke gained notoriety in 2007/2008 for his abundance of remixes of Top 40 tracks. He also received scorn from techno purists and minimal junkies. As a remixer and producer, I admire his work. Him and Swedish House Mafia have done a lot to push EDM forward. |
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| mar46017 |
| quote: | Originally posted by modthispny
he played for 3.5 hrs at avalon on sat now, towards the end it was amazing...very hard stuff. |
A little too hard imo. Haven't been to Avalon for a while. Gonna try to continue not to go. Rather take the drive to Vegas/Marquee every week or every other week as I've been averaging lately. FML
At least I have a Q Card that gets me +1 in for free. :toocool: |
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| drEamer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jim Carson
Laidback Luke gained notoriety in 2007/2008 for his abundance of remixes of Top 40 tracks. He also received scorn from techno purists and minimal junkies. As a remixer and producer, I admire his work. Him and Swedish House Mafia have done a lot to push EDM forward. |
well i was digging it...so he must be doing something right...LOL |
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| Neonbeats |
| Laidback Luke ing blows and is an absolute joke. He used to at least crank out some decent productions, now he's basically a fratboy dj. |
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| MelBeat |
| I think he did fine at Avalon. House with a strong beat. I'm OK with that. |
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| DGREG |
| quote: | Originally posted by Neonbeats
Laidback Luke ing blows and is an absolute joke. He used to at least crank out some decent productions, now he's basically a fratboy dj. |
100% agreed. I would pay to not have to listen to him. |
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| DjWoody |
| Any links to the other sets? |
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| DGREG |
| Anyone know if sirius recorded the Swedes? Not finding it anywhere. were they dbags and request that it didnt get recorded? |
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| you and me |
| quote: | Originally posted by DGREG
Anyone know if sirius recorded the Swedes? Not finding it anywhere. were they dbags and request that it didnt get recorded? |
i know the swedes get a lot of hate here but really? what about above and beyond? they didn't get recorded either.
plastikman saved my friday. what a performance. |
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| darthseph |
| quote: | Originally posted by Neonbeats
Laidback Luke ing blows and is an absolute joke. He used to at least crank out some decent productions, now he's basically a fratboy dj. |
Congrats on stereotyping his fans. Just saying.
I ask you to provide a more technically skilled DJ, regardless of whether you like his track selection and style choices. I don't rag on people for their tastes, but if you don't like him that's fine by me. Try to stop the negativity though please. I'm no fratboy and have probably known of Luke longer than most anyone here in the States. He's one of the coolest DJs and one of the nicest and most humble people I've met. Plus, beyond that, he's an extremely skilled turntablist and was well known for doing real live mashups, before he got into doing triple drops he tends to do today. Likewise, I've rarely seen a DJ that can match his passion and energy at the decks.
You must dislike a ton of the DJs out right now as well. Luke's the one that popularized the style back in 2007 and 2008, and its only grown thanks to SHM, Afrojack, Chuckie, and so on. "Rocking with the Best" or "Be" or "Ambition" or even "Riddim" all became huge because of his efforts.
If you don't like his style, that's cool. If you don't like the fact that Dirty Dutch is a sound style that combines Hip Hop/Top 40 and House or Electro that's cool too. Those are your choices, but I still challenge you to find a more talented DJ out there. The only guy I've seen that comes close in another style is James Zabiela when he wants to get experimental.
Maybe you can explain to me what makes him an "absolute joke." If you think it is because you don't like his music, I hardly say that qualifies. Typically an "absolute joke" is something I'd see used to describe someone like Tijs Verwest (Tiesto) or David Guetta for selling their albums out to Hip Hop and Top 40 moguls in an effort to break into mainstream American audiences. That's an absolute joke. That and their general attitude that they deserve everything that their fame now brings them.
I've not seen Luke doing that. Sure he does mashups, but he has done that for years. If you thinks it is new, you need to see what he used to due. Then again, you may not have realized that he did it back then, since he did it with mostly house and techno. like I mentioned above, he's also really humble and really interested in his fan base.
Does he cater to the big crowds at times with the Hip Hop/Top 40 mashups? Certainly, I don't doubt that at all. Believe me I heard my fair share of it at EDC, and the ensuing day and night club activities after EDC. He wasnt' the only one for sure. I've yet to see a DJ move a crowd like him though. Above and Beyond, Richie Hawtin, Umek, JoC, Patterson/Tyas, and Green Velvet did not. Neither did the bit I caught of ATB, who relies heavily on his old stuff. As a DJ, I can't see how you say he is a joke. As a producer, I can understand as he's often over a production if he doesn't finish it in roughly 4 hours. That's why he tends to not work with vocalists (at least in the past). I'm just confused of how he is a joke.
But hey, to each their own. You and DGreg don't like him or his style. I don't like Skrillex or the entire Dubstep movement, but it sure isn't stopping the masses from loving it, and it continuing to sell.
If there was one thing I heard way too much of at EDC, it was dubstep. My prediction was true, and even my friend made the observation over the three days... "I think I heard a dubstep track played at every stage." Sad day for the progressive and tech focused elements of the culture imho. Melody is a fairly missing element in a lot of dance music today, and event the most well known melodies (SHM - One) are simply when compared to things from the mid-2000's.
| quote: | Originally posted by DjWoody
That's why I liked his XS set! What I heard from him, he dropped ZERO HIP HOP / TOP 40!!! I'm sure he probably played it early on his set, but when I got there, he didn't. He did played other burned like Alice Deejay & ATB's Don't Stop, but they were his new remixes and the crowd was eating them like Free Big Macs! lol |
He did play some of the current Top 40 mashups. The Cee Lo Green "F**k You!" remix/mashup was hilarious. He also played the Swizz Beatz - "It's Me Bitches" (Metro bootleg.) My feet were absolutely dead by about 45 mins into his set so I took off. Glad to hear he pounded house later though. |
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| Cool1g |
| quote: | Originally posted by darthseph
If there was one thing I heard way too much of at EDC, it was dubstep. My prediction was true, and even my friend made the observation over the three days... "I think I heard a dubstep track played at every stage." Sad day for the progressive and tech focused elements of the culture imho. Melody is a fairly missing element in a lot of dance music today, and event the most well known melodies (SHM - One) are simply when compared to things from the mid-2000's. |
by our estimate, around 80% of the djs we heard played at least 1 dubstep song :whip: |
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