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Originally Posted by mephisto
Btw, is there any live reviews for W&W and Aly and Fila? I'm wondering whether it's worth booking an out of town trip to them either of them.
W&W played here fairly recently, but it was at a ****ty venue that I almost never go to so I passed on it at the time.
I caught them at Tomorrowland in 2010 and I thought they did a great job, they play alot of their own productions, but also a very techy / melodic style. I always thought they had very tight mixing and good transitions overall (IMO similar to Sander van Doorn in terms of editing / transitions), but I heard a somewhat-recent set from November where the mixing was a bit off from them - perhaps one of the duo is a much better mixer than the other
I also caught Ingrosso a couple of weeks back - I know there were some positive reviews for him here - my experience was a little more on the medicore side. He put on a pretty good performance and the production quality was a bit higher with fireworks and etc, but overall, a little too festival-ish for the 1200 capacity venue (lots of long breakdowns with big sections of silence for people to applaud, even dropped the Skrillex remix of Benassi's Cinema), set was very much pre-programmed in Ableton, I listened to his set live from Glow in Washington earlier that day and it was almost track for track (in the same order as well), so that might have taken away from it a bit as well. Also, it was extremely crowded and the crowd was... for the lack of a better word, douchy. The big names such as SHM, Guetta, Armin, Tiesto seem to draw a more pushy / less enjoyable crowd to shows in my city at least (as in people who go for the sake of going to something popular, rather than for their own enjoyment). Didn't really feel like I got good value for my money at $60 for the ticket.
Is anyone going to any of the ASOT 550 parties? I bought one of the early VIP tickets for the show on 31-3-12 in the Netherlands and I've been looking at flights recently - I bought tickets for 500 last year but never ended up booking the flight and just selling my tickets online.