What a week. First, let me apologize for the late post, the lack of posting this week, and very likely total lack thereof over the next week and a half. To keep up with assignments, I had to sacrifice sleep for not one, not two, but four days. I don’t ever recommend doing such a thing. Life gets really weird, and not even in a good way. Hallucinating is not as cool as I thought it’d be.
It’s currently quite late here in the city, and I’m sitting in my school’s cafeteria looking like a hacker with all my electronics. The janitor is giving me some pretty dirty looks so I’ve gotta make this quick. Some new stuff, some not so new stuff, but all worth cranking I promise. Use these bangers wisely.
Last night was honestly the most fun I’ve had in a long long time. I woke up smelling of six thousand sweaty bodies, entire body sore, hangover as well as a bangover, ears ringing, money gone, many missed calls, and a handful of amazing memories.
My friends and I ended up at the Vancouver Convention Center around 8:45 or so, just in time to throw back another RedBull and make our way to the very front of the intimidating mob of people. Sultan and Ned Shepard were the first (technically second since we missed Dre Morel’s set) to take to the stage. Halfway through their set, they pulled out a guitar and a synth-tar and continued to play arguably some of the best House music of the night. A few minutes later they were joined by vocalist Nadia Ali. Twas le awesome.
After the trio’s set, the reason that I purchased a ~$100 ticket in the first place took to the stage. Avicii opened his unfortunately short hour and a half set with Swedish House Mafia’s latest track, Save The World. Not a bad start. Throughout his time on stage, he played a handful of new tracks and remixes and was even joined by Nadia for a few moments.Avicii’s set was cut off too soon as the household named Frenchman, David Guetta, took to the stage.
I really don’t mean to bash, but there wasn’t very much DJ’ing going on for the majority of his set. On another whiny and negative note, the Kryomen robots’ suits were lost on the way over. Don’t get me wrong when I complain about all of this; the guy’s a great entertainer. There were bright flashing lights, tons of bass, beeps and boops, and he even stood up on the equipment table and held out a Canucks jersey. The whole set just didn’t seem very innovative to me. It almost seemed like he just hit play on a pre-made megamix and paused every so often for the six thousand person crowd to yell out the lyrics to Memories and Sexy Bitch. Nonetheless, it was still a great show. Definitely one of the best electronic shows I’ve ever been to, and by far the biggest.
Now, hands down, the best part of the night was the afterparty. We all had a feeling that the surprise DJ would be Avicii since he tweeted earlier that week that he’d be doing two Vancouver shows. Little did I know that we’d end up being about an arms length away from the ever smiling and fist pumping Swede. We had the best seats in the house as we got to see the man at work uninterrupted for over two and a half hours.
Don’t you dare hesitate on buying a ticket when he comes around to your city. You’ll be thanking me when you’re covered in sweat, sore all over, slowly crashing, ears ringing, money disappearing, getting separated from your friends, but smiling from ear to ear.
I think sleep is calling me,
Grant.
This isn’t a video from the night, but you get the idea. It’s an amazing set in decent quality.
Sultan & Ned Shepard – Deeper Underground
Tiesto – Century ft. Calvin Harris (Sultan & Ned Shepard Remix)
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It’s currently quite late here in the city, and I’m sitting in my school’s cafeteria looking like a hacker with all my electronics. The janitor is giving me some pretty dirty looks so I’ve gotta make this quick. Some new stuff, some not so new stuff, but all worth cranking I promise. Use these bangers wisely.
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