Interesting, kind of hard to tell how immersive and impressive it is through video, but it looks like in real being presently there, must be amazing....
LoveHate
Wish I was there
And I am surprised todays audience is singing along to those classic songs !!
The gatecrashers crowd must be like a reconciliation of old trance fans
Because I remember tiesto dropped silence or adagio for strings at ultra recently and was completely met with blank stares
SYSTEM-J
These "90s superclub go classical" nights have sprung up around the UK like mushrooms in autumn over the last year or two. I'm not sure who got it started, but there's been Cream Classical, Hacienda Classical, Lush! Classical, The Symphonic Sounds Of Back To Basics and Pete Tong's Ibiza Classical, as well as the Gatecrasher one.
The formula is the same at every one: orchestral renditions of old classics with some token DJ providing beats in the background. The only difference is the trance clubs play mostly trance, the Haciendas and Back To Basics play more of the house hits. The crowd are mostly in their 30s and 40s, reliving the glory days. At the end, everyone who doesn't have to get home and pay the babysitter will pile into an after-party somewhere where they play the original club versions until 6am. Seems to be a guaranteed money spinner, and everyone who goes to one seems to agree they're great fun.
Even setting that aside, Gatecrasher has been a pure nostalgia event for several years now. They tried opening a new club in Ibiza sometime around 2014 geared around new music, but it fell apart almost immediately with all the promoters and DJs ditching it, and rumours that the owners were ripping everyone off financially. Since then they've been limited to putting on multi-arena mega parties, mostly around Christmas time, getting the faded old trance jocks like Alex Gold or Scott Hardwick in to belt out the supersaws.
These trance nostalgia nights are relatively common in the UK, actually. There's another one called Wax Format who have a policy of only letting their DJs play vinyl. Again, it's mostly NYE parties. There'll be one room with glowstick trance and another room with UK hard house. It's like stepping back in time to 2001, except everyone's a bit fatter and a bit balder.
Trance-M
Those Lush! Classics are very nice.
Personally I do think these tracks are much nicer to listen with an orchestra then the trance tracks above, at least I enjoy them more, especially Flamming June (@4:14) and Offshore (@4:45):
I guess I would fit Jack's description perfectly when he would have added grayer :D
LoveHate
all of those songs sound familiar in some way, its' just a little different wit the orchestral overtones, but i think i even heard some Swedish house mafia in there
but this looks really fun, and i think its something that could only work in the uk , as far as gathering enough interest for a retro symphony night of dance music, but hopefully latches onto some other area's , above & beyond have gone acoustic i believe.
even had a little duet with skrillex
SYSTEM-J
quote:
Originally posted by Trance-M
Those Lush! Classics are very nice.
Personally I do think these tracks are much nicer to listen with an orchestra then the trance tracks above, at least I enjoy them more, especially Flamming June (@4:14) and Offshore (@4:45):
I guess I would fit Jack's description perfectly when he would have added grayer :D
I'm not going to lie. Listening to that made every one of my hairs stand on end.
Trance-M
quote:
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I'm not going to lie. Listening to that made every one of my hairs stand on end.
That was to be expected. But if that would happen to me I probably could throw most of my 90's cd collection out of the window.
