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  • November 15, 2011 at 5:06 pm #9900
    djsubculture@gmail.com
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    Sounds like an excuse for me to go to Vegas. 😎

    November 16, 2011 at 6:16 pm #1002154
    D-Jam
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    We’ll have to see. I’ve seen this discussion come up elsewhere, and most simply felt that if Pauly D and other non-DJ celebrities get to be resident DJs in a city, then it will never compare to Ibiza.

    Personally, I don’t think it’ll happen. Vegas in my book is simply the #1 vacation spot for douchebags and Jersey Shore wannabes. I never see the musically-minded all go off about Vegas the way they do about Ibiza, Fabric in London, and the WMC. Ibiza is also different because of the beaches, loose drug laws, and especially of how wide a music scene I’ve heard coming out of it. In Vegas it’s still about celebrities and big name DJs who play popular music.

    I think LV is going the direction NYC did in the past. Like when Sasha and Digweed had their regular residency in NYC back in the 90s. We’ll just have to see how this grows.

    November 17, 2011 at 3:28 am #9973
    eros
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    I’ve heard mixed things about it….granted from die hard trance purists who feel that Americans don’t understand that type of music. I think that’s a bit unfair considering they have guys like Christopher Lawrence and Nicholas Bennison.

    Personally I hope it does evolve as it can only be good for the scene, but I agree with D-Jam I think it’s for the likes of the new Tiesto & Guetta and all about commercial appeal for the masses rather than catering to purists.

    November 17, 2011 at 6:39 am #9979
    mr_john
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    Yeah.. Pauly D’s residency is strange. Although it is at the palms which strikes me as the place for people like him.
    Honestly I don’t think it will ever come close to Ibiza.
    I just hope it helps the “real scene” and not the guetta scene. Say no to hip-house.
    Seeing Markus Schulz had a residency there was refreshing although I’ve no idea what he plays live.

    November 17, 2011 at 1:41 pm #9997
    Phil Morse
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    Say no to hip-house.

    God I feel old – I remember hip house first time round (late 80s)

    November 17, 2011 at 5:13 pm #10008
    djsubculture@gmail.com
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    I used to like Hip-House.
    [media=youtube]X2zNvBNTnHg[/media]

    November 18, 2011 at 1:22 am #10019
    DJ Stone Crazy
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    Orlando folks used to talk like this back in the 90s. Not necessarily the new Ibiza. Still, heads did swell. After Rolling Stone magazine did an article on the EDM scene, everybody and their grandmother wanted to be a DJ. Yet, you should see some of the dudes who used to be big in our town. No more can they charge ten dollars at the door and expect a crowd. Not even at a bar. If Las Vegas is the new Ibiza, that means I won’t have to pay a European company in order to play my MP3s. (No offense, Phil.)

    November 18, 2011 at 3:08 am #10020
    DJ-ST
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    Phil Morse, post: 9993 wrote: God I feel old – I remember hip house first time round (late 80s)

    don’t worry, i still remember (and like) Fast Freddy, Sundance, Doug Lazy, etc…..sigh!

    Concerning LV…while EDC definitely rocks the house there, I’m not so sure about the “regular” nights in terms of an EDM crowd…

    November 18, 2011 at 4:39 am #10021
    eros
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    In fairness to Pauly D , he was a DJ with a regular residency before he became famous.
    He caught a massive break sure but good luck to him I say.

    November 18, 2011 at 5:50 am #10029
    Phil Morse
    Keymaster

    Ibiza is a mystical place, something I don’t even think Vegas’s biggest fans would claim for it!

    November 18, 2011 at 6:08 am #10033
    DJ Stone Crazy
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    I did some reading on this. Las Vegas is just in it for the money. After the scene dies down AGAIN, EDM DJs will be shown the door.

    November 20, 2011 at 5:27 pm #10127
    D-Jam
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    I can’t look at any of this new stuff as “hip-house”. The sound will always be the late-80s/early 90s” thing in Chicago with my ears.

    As for Pauly D, I never heard of his LV residency until Jersey Shore, and those residencies in LV will end the moment MTV stops calling him. People who run to see him are only celebrity chasers.

    November 20, 2011 at 6:41 pm #10131
    DJ Peixinho
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    About the Vegas scene, Mixmag has an article in their site named as ‘What happens in Vegas…’.
    Here is the link: http://www.mixmag.net/words/features/vegas

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