HARD Haunted Mansion 2009

[nbvcide]

haha, your story seems to have little to no recollection of a good four-six hours, but i'll take your word for the rest of the evening..

(i thought you joined us for that shroom session though, hmm)

[SDsoldier7]

the board does'nt need a full review of the after party. plus, those six hours are hard for me to recollect.

[nbvcide]

i'm kidding with you fool lol and i wasn't talking about afterparty, i was just saying that you seem to have a better recollection of who the hooker was groping on the way to the car than you do of anything after the first hour of HHM.. TITS FOR DAYSSSSSS!!

keep stealing my material, and i'll start remembering all those things you don't..

[nbvcide]

here's a nice little Major Lazer clip:


Crookers:

[nbvcide]

Originally Posted by Botrocker

Thats sucks about last nights guests. I was really hoping I was wrong and you guys would have gotten the Ducksauce show that we deserve.

didn't A-Trak drop most of the Ducksauce stuff anyway?

wish i coulda caught some of Mixhell and Rimini, don't know where i was when they were on.. Buraka Som Sistema was DEF better at Coachella this year..

i've heard mixed reviews about 2ManyDJs though, i loved it the first night, not so much the next night.. i think Headstruck called their friday performance the 'worst set i've seen in ten years'..


listening to my Crookers recording.. remembered one of my fav/unexpected moments of the weekend.. "Why Don't You Do Right" (the 40's song covered by Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit) mixed into an awesome remix of Benassi's "Satisfaction".. i'm gonna see if i can run this bootleg by sin or kings and see if they know anyway to clean it up a little.. a little bass-y (i like that though), but as is, it's about 90% listenable now..

[guedita]

A-trak definitely dropped at least 2-3 Ducksauce songs. So effin' groovy.

Originally Posted by WhyTheLongFace

I guess I will be seeing Destructo tomorrow. Hope to thank him for making HARD a success

Neon Indian is sweeet...I think we'll be seeing them at Coachella.

[DJdharma]

Originally Posted by nbvcide

yeah, i don't know where the meetup was supposed to be, but they were all up front on the right hand side.. about halfway between the sound board & the stage, i'd guess.. it was hard to re-find them sometimes, but i could usually spot electrojan's construction hat amongst the crowd and knew that most of the crew were somewhere nearby..

I think we may have been to far forward (if there is such a thing). I was looking for nbvcide because i remembered you as being tall when we met earlier at the Adventurer.
So many people, so many costumes, so many chemicals.

[ELECtROjan]

Originally Posted by DJdharma

So many people, so many costumes, so many chemicals.

MDA = awesome

[HAMMERHEAD]

Originally Posted by ELECtROjan

MDA = awesome

whats the difference?

[ELECtROjan]

Personally I liked the second night of 2ManyDJ's because some many people rushed over to Deadmau5 and we actually had room to move and enjoy the show. Yea, their set was better on Friday but considering that it was the B set it was still pretty damn good.

and for the record
More Oizo > Less Oizo

[ELECtROjan]

Originally Posted by HAMMERHEAD

whats the difference?

the stuff I had was so pure I cant even start to explain how awesome I felt at this. It was definitely a lighter high but waaay more intense. And I didnt have a hangover or depressed feeling the next day which is something Ive gotten every other time ive rolled.

for more scientific info check out the web

[mattpach]

Originally Posted by SDsoldier7

i just remembered right now that you were at the hotel, tell me about it.

I got lost. Thanks again for your reliable directions I Phone.
Ended up in Long Beach....could have been worse...found it eventually.

I don't remember much of the night after getting to the hotel. I remember starting to black out off and on and of course the ballz. I remember everyone there but nothing specific.
It was a good night.

[Daft Fro]

Sat:

Lagged hardcore, didn't make it to pre-party, and of course missed an Osawa set for like the 3rd time, oh well....my own fault. But I finally enter 10ish, Aoki is on, Kid Sister sing'n "Right Hand Hi", grabed some h20, headed outside to meetup.

Wasn't paying fine attention to the Major Lazer set to be honest. It was all about:

BJ
MTHRFCKN
DJ

The live vocals were VERY MUCH APPRECIATED~! Thanks Vula & Slarta John for rolling to the party. Funkiest set of the year, the vibe was awesome! Setlist was perfect, nothing but big smiles, and people jacking body. Seriously want to remember the name of the dubstep track they dropped...

Justice & Crookers layed it down, was good fun. Was totally fine with jamming to 2manydjs again! And Modeselektor, dealing out the icing for all your cake right there.

Sad to hear about your night Jewface, looks like it was a crazy one for a number of boardies =\

WhyTheLongFace, was good meetn you real quick...lol, have you seen this?:

"I FEEL BAD FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT'S UP!!!" screamed one happy neon sunflower in a spandex onesie.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoasts...unted-mansion/

[zimmy1222]

MDA is a related, but different structure compared to MDMA. There is less of a come down (even though MDMA isn't that bad, it's the pills that get ya *shudders*) and it's more hallucinogenic than MDMA. Less body high, more visual & mental high. sorta like 2C-B/I I guess...

[zimmy1222]

Originally Posted by Daft Fro

WhyTheLongFace, was good meetn you real quick...lol, have you seen this?:



http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoasts...unted-mansion/

I lol'd...most definitely.

[Brochella]

What a great party. The outdoor stage was orgasmic on Saturday night. Every act was on top of things, especially the Jaxx and Modeselektor. Highlights of the night for me for sure. I hope more youtube vids of Basement Jaxx surface. What an epic moment it was when they played that drawn out version of Do Your Thing at the end of their set (or maybe it just seemed drawn out because of the drugs...). It was seriously gospel status. Me and my buddies were raising our arms and shaking our hands like we were in a baptist church in the south. Beautiful stuff!

[TooMuchFun]

Does anyone have a video of when Flat Eric made an appearance during 2ManyDJs Sat. set? I can't find it anywhere. It was during a song that wasn't cut dick or lambs anger...

[Daft Fro]

Originally Posted by ELECtROjan

best costume ever.

yes! lol, I remember seeing a mysterious yellow being in the background, then was just like omg, and ran over to her to give her big daps. Glad someone got a pic.

[Devin the Dude]

ughh.. that was SO not the best costume of the year.

i totally forgot about Justice dropping Why Can't We Be Friends?.. that was amazing.

[ELECtROjan]

my.sat

After an enjoyable Friday music and meeting Wes, Alex, and Sean at the Vagabond, I went into Saturday excited about the special guests, meeting up with others from the board, and most of all seeing Basement Jaxx. Pregaming with friends from USC around 8, the plan was to leave at 8:30 to catch Buraka and/or Osawa and then get in contact with some boardies for my first real meetup… An hour and a half later we still hadnt left yet, the girls were being lame, and the night had not gotten off to a good start. After heading over the non existent line of the night before now stretched 5 blocks and I soon realized that there was zero chance I would get to see either artist. Moving quickly the line ended up only taking 25 min, I run into nbv and sd right when I get in and then I realize we had arrived at the time I dreaded most, Steve Aoki v. Major Lazer. I don’t like Aoki and I really don’t like Major Lazer. I don’t know what it is, but the whole Caribbean electro and my brain don’t just don’t like each other. Ive tried three times and its always a fun.fail. With my friends, who had already made me late, being lame and not wanting to get close, I texted feather and devin the following

“left side in between the two projectors, tall white kid in hard hat with drawing on it and a orange reflective vest”

5min later I ditched my friend, dropped my candy, and met up with the crew. This decision will forever go down as one of the best of my plur career.

With 30min to kill before the Jaxx took the stage, we all sat around talking, getting to know each other and trying to put faces to tags. As a pretty socially conservative person (I like to party, a lot, just usually only with people I know) this meetup and the whole internet friends thing at first weirded me out and I was a little hesitant to really get personal. But as I mentioned previously there is just something about these kind of activities that brings out the best in people and within minutes of seeing the great connection everyone had at the meetup I was comfortable, relaxed, and for the first time I was enjoying the night. After ML exited the stage we got up and led by featherjaxx moved our way closer to the JAXX.

For me there are two scenarios that can make a set fun; being with someone that knows the artists well or being with a group that knows nothing at all and just goes with it. Having listened to Singles over the past month and then being incredibly dissapointed with their recent mixtape, I had little expectations for the set and just wanted to hear “Wheres Your Head At.” At 11:35 the guys entered the stage, one wearing the funniest beard/wig and pirate hat ive ever seen, and the other in a witch hat / costume. Leading with “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and dropping it into Red Alert the Jaxx had set a tone on the dancefloor that would last for the rest of the night. From dirty dirty dubstep, to their remix of Queen, and adding in their original tracks like “Good Luck” and “Romeo” the set was high energy and got the floor moving. And the singers were amazing! The females voice in person sounds even better then it does on the album and the male offered the best rapping and mcing Ive seen from a dj set by not talking over the music and adding fill when the music was low. The guys finished their set with “Wheres Your Head At” at which point I picked my face off the ground and proclaimed to the entire crowd with “ So I guess the guys know how to DJ also.”

Moving back to the meetup spot we caught the beginning of Justice which after 5 minutes was already better then last years entire set and then moved inside to see Crookers. Catching a fun set that featured the guys dressed as Steve Aoki (As Steve Aoki and Diplo were chilling right behind them haha) and one that was much more ravey and had Phra (tall bald guy in Crookers) handling the decks most of the time the selection was solid but i wish theyd played more of the hits. One of the funniest moments of either day was when Diplos dancers pulled the Borat bathingsuit girl on stage who proceeded to flash a great pair of tits and an awesome body for a good 20min to the crowd. The sound system was insane inside which made it all the better as the beat dropped and my insides shook. After an hour or so it was so hot that we moved outside and met up with the crew again. With half of us having seen their set last night and the other half curious we moved to the very front of 2ManyDJ’s and witnessed them play a similar set to the night before that was on point, well mixed, and featured some new Oizo tracks among others.

After 2ManyDJ’s the masses once again flocked to Deadmau5 leaving the HARD stage pretty open. After 20min or so we explored the Expo hall that was packed but without music as the set up for the mau5 was talking place, walked through, ran into Gaspard from Justice and So-Me from ….. yeah? said hello then went outside to see Modeselektor close it out. Id listened to podcasts before and wasn’t too impressed so I went in without any real expectations. And how oh how that would change. Playing a high energy set that the crowd was lovin, the energy was awesome and made for a great set to close out the two days of incredible music. Add to that the Fantatsic Nobodies “Alien Autopsy” which included a dissection of a fake alien body and the guys proceeding to pull put its inners and throw them into the audience (in reality it was spagetti and rolls of toilet paper) The spagetti not so much, but the tp made for an awesome visual and added a dimension to the show that brought the stage into the audience as the rolls unraveled and flew all over the place. At 2:57am (daylight savings time) the sound guys cut the speakers but left the monitors on behind the stage. Pissed off and wanting to keep playing the guys turned their monitor speakers to the audience and kept playing haha. Then when attempting to say goodbye the sound guy cut the mic which brought a sour ending to an otherwise perfect set.

Joined up at the Adventurer of the after party and got to meet Andrew and Matt so that was fun. Buying beer at Food4Less on Century Boulevard at 6am was an experience in itself. Sorry for the long review but the night was trully one I will never forget. For those of you that were there it was awesome getting to meet u and for those that couldn’t make it I look forward to seeing you all in the future. Ill try and post some pics when I get home and im working on a post of the best music from the weekend on the blog.

for the first time in my life i experience plur first hand. and it was awesome!

[ELECtROjan]

Originally Posted by Daft Fro

yes! lol, I remember seeing a mysterious yellow being in the background, then was just like omg, and ran over to her to give her big daps. Glad someone got a pic.

haha on facebook page this is listed on the person talked about how some creepy guy recognized the costume... yes alex, that was you

[SDsoldier7]

nice meeting ya too Russ.

[Daft Fro]

Originally Posted by ELECtROjan

haha on facebook page this is listed on the person talked about how some creepy guy recognized the costume... yes alex, that was you

lol, what? That's not very nice, considering I wasn't wearing a costume on sat....

[ELECtROjan]

if your in la this would be pretty cool to go to

CEC Speaker @ UCLA: Speaker Panel - A-Trak, Skeet Skeet, Destructo

[ELECtROjan]

Originally Posted by Daft Fro

Sat:

WhyTheLongFace, was good meetn you real quick...lol, have you seen this?:

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoasts...unted-mansion/

hahaha oh wow

"The crowd reading and chanting the words on the screen at the HARD stage outside was probably the closest we've been to the Third Reich, with Justice glowing a giant oversized crucifix over the DJ booth. From the back it was all you could see."

Third Reich reference and French djs hahaha

[SDsoldier7]

Originally Posted by Daft Fro

lol, what? That's not very nice, considering I wasn't wearing a costume on sat....

i think he has you mistaken.

[SDsoldier7]

DjDharma,

I didnt get to meet you. I did have a jagger shot or two. thank you, hopefully we can meet in the future.

[Devin the Dude]

ughhh.. i hate coming home from raves and realizing that the real world is not reflective and shiny.

[ELECtROjan]

ha did anyone see the couple dressed as Bert n Ernie making out and giving eachother lightshows?

[WhyTheLongFace]

Originally Posted by Daft Fro

WhyTheLongFace, was good meetn you real quick...lol, have you seen this?:



http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoasts...unted-mansion/

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH

I said that shit??!! ahahahahhaha