well, I went to see Pappa & Jollins last night and I surely don't regret it.
Jason opened in the main room at around 10:45 as they started letting people in the club.
for your choice of music Jason, some really nice and moving progressive with carefully choosen peaks around the set, more than enough to get you interested to stick around the main room for the whole night. Of course, flawless mixing too. I thought Jason did an excellent job setting up for Pappa, who took over the decks around 1:50. As I remember recently hearing some mixed opinions about Pappa and as I had heard myself a couple of live sets from him in which he kind of let me down, his performance at Ikon was brilliant. Seemed like he played new material, I only recognized a few tracks. His set on Proton the other day motivated me to go see him last night actually, and he delivered I think an experience very close to that. Too bad he played only less than 3 hrs...
What I was wondering as I was looking at the ground floor of the main room was where were all the devoted fans of quality music? Certainly the place was not running at full capacity. Crobar, not my favourite place at the moment, is packed to the extreme everytime some of the big names shows up there. A chance to see the local talent of Jason followed by Anthony Pappa deserves as much attention as Sasha & Digweed at Crobar. The sound system of Ikon is great, better in my opinion than most of the other places in the city, and the place offers plenty of space and three floors to walk around - the pink room, hip hop room and the sky lounge plus spacious main floor. Great venue imo. It's just that probably it could have been a little more fun last nigh if there were more people there to enhance the atmosphere and participate in the experience.....
Jason opened in the main room at around 10:45 as they started letting people in the club.
for your choice of music Jason, some really nice and moving progressive with carefully choosen peaks around the set, more than enough to get you interested to stick around the main room for the whole night. Of course, flawless mixing too. I thought Jason did an excellent job setting up for Pappa, who took over the decks around 1:50. As I remember recently hearing some mixed opinions about Pappa and as I had heard myself a couple of live sets from him in which he kind of let me down, his performance at Ikon was brilliant. Seemed like he played new material, I only recognized a few tracks. His set on Proton the other day motivated me to go see him last night actually, and he delivered I think an experience very close to that. Too bad he played only less than 3 hrs... What I was wondering as I was looking at the ground floor of the main room was where were all the devoted fans of quality music? Certainly the place was not running at full capacity. Crobar, not my favourite place at the moment, is packed to the extreme everytime some of the big names shows up there. A chance to see the local talent of Jason followed by Anthony Pappa deserves as much attention as Sasha & Digweed at Crobar. The sound system of Ikon is great, better in my opinion than most of the other places in the city, and the place offers plenty of space and three floors to walk around - the pink room, hip hop room and the sky lounge plus spacious main floor. Great venue imo. It's just that probably it could have been a little more fun last nigh if there were more people there to enhance the atmosphere and participate in the experience.....
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