Well this gig turned out to be all the best i hoped for and all the worst i feared from Villalobos & Luciano two weeks ago.
I got to the party when Sneak had just started and the place looked empty as hell - they'd moved the booth layout a bit from last time so there was more dancefloor space, and removed the rear speakers so it was more "concert style". Felt rather cavernous to start, but once people showed up it worked really well. The sound was much better than the previous party, and this time i actually had to use earplugs so it must've been a lot louder too.
But anyway, back to Sneak, he rocked it. Seriously, that hour or so of hearing him play made the crazy cover charge and drinks costs completely worth it. He played better tracks in 10 minutes than Villalobos & Luciano played all night at the previous gig. How sad that it had to end, because Carl Cox was boring with boringsauce. I admit i'm not big into techno so maybe i just didn't appreciate it, but it wasn't even techno with hi-hats and a bit of bounce like V&L - it was plodding straight line chug-a-chug techno. I danced all the way through because the crowd was great and i liked the vibe, but man oh man that music was infuriatingly dull. Later on Sneak came on for some back-to-back and it was like "hey, this track's kinda funky" - turn around it's Sneak - "where the fuck did the hi-hats go?" - turn around it's Carl. Eh, whatever. Everyone else seemed to be digging it. The thing that really sucked is when the lights came on at 5am with no encore. Seriously, guys? I can't remember when i left the last party, but i definitely don't remember the lights coming up that early. That led me to getting stuck in a longass coat check line and losing the people i was with, and blah. In the end i took the shuttle bus downtown and went out for coffees with a random (Tim Horton's afterparty - yeah!) so it all worked out, but it did feel a bit abrupt.
All in all, i did enjoy myself, though overall probably less than at Villalobos & Luciano. The sound quality was better, Sneak was amazing, the people and vibe were equally awesome, but Carl was a big disappointment musically and the early ending kinda sucked. Still, so happy to see thousands of people out at an "underground" rave, i really hope they can keep doing them.
I got to the party when Sneak had just started and the place looked empty as hell - they'd moved the booth layout a bit from last time so there was more dancefloor space, and removed the rear speakers so it was more "concert style". Felt rather cavernous to start, but once people showed up it worked really well. The sound was much better than the previous party, and this time i actually had to use earplugs so it must've been a lot louder too.
But anyway, back to Sneak, he rocked it. Seriously, that hour or so of hearing him play made the crazy cover charge and drinks costs completely worth it. He played better tracks in 10 minutes than Villalobos & Luciano played all night at the previous gig. How sad that it had to end, because Carl Cox was boring with boringsauce. I admit i'm not big into techno so maybe i just didn't appreciate it, but it wasn't even techno with hi-hats and a bit of bounce like V&L - it was plodding straight line chug-a-chug techno. I danced all the way through because the crowd was great and i liked the vibe, but man oh man that music was infuriatingly dull. Later on Sneak came on for some back-to-back and it was like "hey, this track's kinda funky" - turn around it's Sneak - "where the fuck did the hi-hats go?" - turn around it's Carl. Eh, whatever. Everyone else seemed to be digging it. The thing that really sucked is when the lights came on at 5am with no encore. Seriously, guys? I can't remember when i left the last party, but i definitely don't remember the lights coming up that early. That led me to getting stuck in a longass coat check line and losing the people i was with, and blah. In the end i took the shuttle bus downtown and went out for coffees with a random (Tim Horton's afterparty - yeah!) so it all worked out, but it did feel a bit abrupt.
All in all, i did enjoy myself, though overall probably less than at Villalobos & Luciano. The sound quality was better, Sneak was amazing, the people and vibe were equally awesome, but Carl was a big disappointment musically and the early ending kinda sucked. Still, so happy to see thousands of people out at an "underground" rave, i really hope they can keep doing them.
