Now that im settled back into reality here my lil WMC experience.....
Came in Wed afternoon....Met up w/ a few friends......hit a few hotel parties, heard some good music, met some cool people and got VERY drunk........tried to see some of the big names but some of those required a pretty expensive cover.....so we skipped out.....too much good FREE music out there
Thursday was the Heavy Rotation night at the Wave hotel.....My friend who i met up w/ was throwing it.....Unfortunantly i missed his set...Good music all night.....The most memerialble were
Pleasurebox (live PA) prog trance....awesome set....and
Jonathan Ojeda....very nice upbeat tech house....Spent the rest of the night Bsing w/ the Pleasurebox dudes and their crew....
Friday.....hmm....oh yea.....hit up a local's place for a mini BBQ downtown....Spun some tunes, ate some good food (made by yours truely), and just chilled for the remainder of the day....It was a nice change of pace b/c we needed a lil break from all of the chaos...
Fri night we agreed to meet up w/ that same crew at Nikki Beach (the Radio1 nite).....I didnt get out until much later so i missed everyone and decided to make my own party....Met tons of people and chilled there all night.....Walked in as Donald Glaude was playing the "Pump up the Jam 2005" tune....what a great time to walk in......the place was going insane...
I was extremely impressed w/
Donald Glaude.....i was upfront for his entire set...awesome dj....had the place going crazy....Saw some other good djs....had no idea who they were though....
Sat we hit up Ultra....I got there at 2 right as Donald Glaude was finisheing his set......I made the mistake of bringing my camera...So i had to wait till my frienda arrioved w/ their car to stash it....I could hear the main stage though and i heard all of
Infected Mushrooms set.......Too bad i couldnt actually see them cuz they were awesome.....and what better way then to end the set w/ "Cities of the Future"....
Well after a while, my friends arrived.....took us forever to get in....but as i walked in i was overwhelmed w/ all of the diff arenas blastin music....I lost everybody and just wondered around.....met more people....and even more people.....the vibe was unbelivable....1000's and 1000's of the coolest carziest people were all around u......
I must admit though.....I wasnt all that impressed w/ the Headliners....
Ferry Corsten - Some of his tunes were ok....nothing out of the ordinary....
Oakenfold - much better than Corsten, but his mixing was nothing great.....decent tunes though....
Junkie XL - This guy was the best of the headliners....never heard oif him before but his mixing was really good and some of his tunes kinda cool....
TIESTO - #1 DJ my ass....he wasnt horrible....but nothing diff from what ive seen form any other DJ......his set started off way too slow and his mixing blew hard.....I could do better...hehe....I took off for the other arenas ha;f way thru that impotent set....
I made my way over to the DnB arena right as
Adam F and Craze were playing behind a sick ass MC.....Much smaller crowd but i was feeling alot of energy ....Their set was awesome.....
Then i was sucked over to the Breaks arena.....Was hearing some wicked tunes......turned out the DJ's who were playing were some guys i met earlier in the week....they invited me to another party but that was on the same night as sross's so i declined....but man did they blow me away....it was a tag team of
DJ Storm & Trevor Rockwell.....they threw down one of the best sets i had heard while i was in Miami....i picked up a CD from one of thier gf's....congratulated them on a wicked set....it was def quality
I satyed at the breaks tent until we left caught
Freq Nasty and Hybrid.......but i founf my new genre.....hehe...guess.....yea breaks.....
Oh yea....caught the end of
Rabbit In the Moon....cool show...too bad we caught the end.....they always put on a freak show
Sunday i just went out partying w/ everybody who was staying at my hostel....We had an international vibe going...i think we had at least one person from every continent out w/ us....pretty cool.....but thats the vibe in Miami during the WMC's....Its a big time international thing....but everybody is cool as fuck
My fav thing about the WMC was it had the coolest no bullshit vibe....everybody i came across was really cool and very friendly....i made TONS of friends and almost doubled the #'s in my cell phone...Its like u dont even need to come down w/ friends b/c at the end of the trip u will have made so many....
Im most def coming down next year....I suggest anyone who hasnt gone b4 do whatever u can to come down....rob a bank, still candy from a baby, sell an organ (just not a kidney or liver....you will def need those
) u will have a great time....And u really cant beat the music....its everywhere....and Ultra, OMG, what a ****ing event....
Welcome to dance music heaven....
