Oh yeah, as for spring awakening this past weekend.
Friday - Got there just in time for schulz and his set was awesome. Main stage sound was kinda shitty though, muddled and bass heavy. Feed me was okay, but his set really suffered from the sound quality so went and checked out bingo players for a bit. Didn't exactly push the envelope but kept the crowd going. Eric prydz was amazing, first time I've seen him live. Tiesto was crap obviously, but played adagio for strings and silence as we were leaving so I hung around and enjoyed ten minutes of classic bliss before he started playing dubstep or some shit. After party at markus was amazing. Played his usually 30-60 min of big room songs and then a couple hours of classics, IDs, and remixes and got real weird with it. Really enjoyed it until he had to leave for his flight to vegas
Saturday - 8 games of rugby on 3 hours of sleep LOL
Sunday - Being exhausted didn't help here lol. Ferry corsten and Arty were great, they know how to tear down a dance floor with tons of bass and accessible music without resorting to mainstream 128 big room crap. Watched dillon francis with some friends, not my cup of tea but still pretty good. Everyone cleared out after that for nervo or something so I got to enjoy Big Gigantic with a relatively small crowd, was awesome and funky. Kaskade closed out pretty well, first time I've seen him and it was solid.
On June 19 2014 00:30 decafchicken wrote: Sunday - Being exhausted didn't help here lol. Ferry corsten and Arty were great, they know how to tear down a dance floor with tons of bass and accessible music without resorting to mainstream 128 big room crap. Watched dillon francis with some friends, not my cup of tea but still pretty good. Everyone cleared out after that for nervo or something so I got to enjoy Big Gigantic with a relatively small crowd, was awesome and funky. Kaskade closed out pretty well, first time I've seen him and it was solid.
Ferry Cortsen is incredible live. Probably one of my favourite people I've ever seen with the exception of A&B and the New World Punx (which lets be honest is half cortsen already aha), So jelly you got to see Schultz though. I've never seen him play solo, but I've heard from a friend with connections to the EDM scene here, that he's coming back soon to do an open-close set at Guv before it closes :3
Man, with all the stuff on social media about EDC LV I've become so sad I couldn't go back this year Though it sounded like they were going to do some sort of live stream this year!
Edit: That Aries mix is also incredible. Wow. Just embodies what I love about Trance/ Prog. House so well.
On June 19 2014 00:30 decafchicken wrote: Sunday - Being exhausted didn't help here lol. Ferry corsten and Arty were great, they know how to tear down a dance floor with tons of bass and accessible music without resorting to mainstream 128 big room crap. Watched dillon francis with some friends, not my cup of tea but still pretty good. Everyone cleared out after that for nervo or something so I got to enjoy Big Gigantic with a relatively small crowd, was awesome and funky. Kaskade closed out pretty well, first time I've seen him and it was solid.
Ferry Cortsen is incredible live. Probably one of my favourite people I've ever seen with the exception of A&B and the New World Punx (which lets be honest is half cortsen already aha), So jelly you got to see Schultz though. I've never seen him play solo, but I've heard from a friend with connections to the EDM scene here, that he's coming back soon to do an open-close set at Guv before it closes :3
Man, with all the stuff on social media about EDC LV I've become so sad I couldn't go back this year Though it sounded like they were going to do some sort of live stream this year!
Edit: That Aries mix is also incredible. Wow. Just embodies what I love about Trance/ Prog. House so well.
Dying to see NWP! Me and my buddy are thinking about doing the Groove Cruise in January just to see it (they are the only listed act so far lol). And yeah markus is always great and he loves chicago. He's fond of the Guv as well so I guarentee you he'll be putting on an epic set there before it closes.
On June 19 2014 13:09 DukE_ss wrote: Just when I thought Austin wasn't going to be quenching my thirst for shows:
Maor Levi & Jaytech 6/21 Booka Shade - 6/22 Jeremy Olander - 6/28 Heatbeat - 7/12 Adrian Lux - 7/19 Dusky - 8/1 Cosmic Gate - 8/7 Fergie - 8/8 tyDi - 8/16 Hernan Cattaneo vs Nick Warren w/ Guy J - 8/31 Paul Oakenfold - 9/5 Sean Tyas - 10/17
So excited for all the dirty tech/house coming this way!!!
Nice! Already saw maor levi and jaytech this summer both were solid. Maor is all over the place from stupidly heavy on the bass to incredibly melodic lol. Jeremy is great, I think he's actually here this weekend not sure. Would love to see heatbeat, i missed them a couple weeks ago. Dusky will be at electric forest so i'll catch him there. Cosmic Gate is coming here with andrew rayel for a pretty big show so I'm excited for that. Super fucking jealous of sean tyas, don't think he's been anywhere near the midwest or at any festivals here for a long time.
Super8 & Tab is playing on friday, I'm tempted to go but the thought of playing rugby tournament the next day at 8 am on 3 hours of sleep sounds pretty awful T_T On the brightside, Jerome Isma-Ae and Ilan Bluestone just announced they're coming here soon, super fucking excited for that show.
Next weekend is Electric Forest!!! I'll admit the lineup is kinda shit compared to the last few years but it's really unique with ton of deep house/techno and a few big names I'm excited to see. One of the huge group camps is gonna have an all night trance party as well so that should be pretty cool.
I really hope suckley puts up his set closing out the basscon stage...psy/tech trance dj closing out a hardstyle stage, he must have gone crazy up there.
Tiësto A Town Called Paradise PM: AM Recordings 1.0 Just shit
One of the difficult things about reviewing a Tiësto album — apart from actually listening to it — is that there are only so many ways to describe rubbish. However, on the Dutchman’s fifth album he’s made it slightly easier by delivering 14 identical piles of crap: lumpen trance that stomps on your will to live like candy ravers in furry boots, and breakdowns that feel like jumping off a cliff. Which it might seriously drive you to do. Then there are the singers bellowing ‘empowering’ lyrics Gwyneth Paltrow would consider trite. Speaking of whom, this is all so awful it makes Coldplay’s collaboration with Avicii sound inspired. Produced with apparent contempt for anyone’s ears or intelligence, it’s lowest common denominator bullshit of the most cynical kind. But the most galling thing is that like some evil alchemist Tiësto will somehow turn this trash into millions of dollars.
To be honest I find most of his old stuff to sound almost identical aswell, not that I don't like it but generally albums tend to sound the same all around. I guess it's about taste, I hate big room house but am generally OK with everything else
On June 24 2014 03:12 Jer99 wrote: To be honest I find most of his old stuff to sound almost identical aswell, not that I don't like it but generally albums tend to sound the same all around. I guess it's about taste, I hate big room house but am generally OK with everything else
Erm what do you mean by old stuff? His stuff from 2000-2008 is some of the most beautiful well made music I've ever heard (not to mention his epic dj sets) and in no way generic. If you don't like trance then yeah I can see you not enjoying it but definitely doesn't all sound the same. Just sucks he's gone from such amazing stuff to cranking out as many generic top 40 pop hits as he can to make an extra $
Ah thought you were referring to the album in general. Anyways, both songs are fairly distinct to me, elements of life has a hint of the melody from adagio kick in around 2-3 minutes.
Listen to red lights, wasted, and let's go in a row and then compare.
ahah so Simon patterson is a total boss. His set from EDC:
Apparently he was so drunk (or just really into it?) that he didnt remember playing it and is asking people on twitter for the track names xD
Man though, I'm rather upset that I couldnt get all of next weekend off to go to Digital Dreams, and to make matters worse, apparently single day tickets are an abhorrent price of $150 (the two day ones are $220)... I was really looking forward to seeing Dash Berlin, Patterson and a ton others..
On June 24 2014 03:12 Jer99 wrote: To be honest I find most of his old stuff to sound almost identical aswell, not that I don't like it but generally albums tend to sound the same all around. I guess it's about taste, I hate big room house but am generally OK with everything else
Erm what do you mean by old stuff? His stuff from 2000-2008 is some of the most beautiful well made music I've ever heard (not to mention his epic dj sets) and in no way generic. If you don't like trance then yeah I can see you not enjoying it but definitely doesn't all sound the same. Just sucks he's gone from such amazing stuff to cranking out as many generic top 40 pop hits as he can to make an extra $
Really Tiesto had a lot of ghost producers during his hay day and even to this day really. Even from the start with Kamya Painters, Benno De Goei & Tiesto, and Gouryella, Ferry Corsten & Tiesto. Tiesto producer wise didn't do much with just himself. Now his sets are a different story.
Don't get me wrong, ghost producers/producing is somewhat a common theme in the electronic genre so I'm not ripping Tiesto for it at all.
On a side note Booka Shade and really all the DJs from Sunday night freaking killed it from start to finish!!
EPT
![[image loading]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqowTJsCAAI7U36.jpg)
![[image loading]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqpeUfACcAED3Pp.jpg)
![[image loading]](http://s3.amazonaws.com/electricforest/2013-lineup.jpg?v=1)
