Mauro Picotto @ Sonar 13.03.03

Asteroid · #1 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 03

Whadda wiked nite it was!! It's gone off! The atmosphere was absolutely amazing! We were 'avin it large! The tunes were banging! I'm still a bit shaken and my ears are buzzing. I could feel the bass literally with my guts. A mixture of funky techno/tech-house/techno was totally suitable for the club. Mauro is such a nice fellow he just couldn't resist signing the autographs!! I got my The Others CD signed and took a shit load of pictures! The mixing was so seamless it was hard to tell when the new track was on...

The pictures from last nite are up!

http://www.form-kaos.com/gallery/sho...r=1580&thumb=1

Pegasus · #2 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 03

werd

what a dope night
i had lots of fun...

i love his mixing style, so unique

DJDeeb · #3 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 03

OMG!!! That was one incredible night!!! thats all i can say :284:
Loved it. I've been wanting to hear/see Mauro spin for the longest time and he did not disapoint me one bit. Awsome set...WOW!

waimea · #4 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 03

That was exactly what I needed! Hard techno that blew my mind track after track.

Thick relentless basslines, good vibe, good lighting, drinks were flowing, dancing hard, and chilling with close friends. Couldn't ask for a better club night. Many thanks to the people who brought such amazing and original talent to Vancouver.

Good to see so many familiar faces... everyone I talked to seemed to be having a great night.

Shaun - Good seein ya as always, it must have been a nice change to not have to worry about driving.

Michelle - The Vodka and red-bull rapist!!! haha dope chillin with ya. Can I still borrow that train you were telling me about?

I just have to figure out how to install the "im sorry" flag.

Mike - Glad you made it out after all... I'll give you a ring soon.

Ernie - Nice to finally hit a club with you buddy, many more to come for sure.

Christine - Nice talkin to ya, it had been way too long since the last time I saw you. You're too polite, lol... next time I get started on a drunken rant to tell me to shut up. Thanks very much for the ticket and the cd. Your mix makes me :c-tard: .

waimea · #5 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 03

That was exactly what I needed! Hard techno that blew my mind track after track.

Thick, relentless basslines, good vibe, good lighting, drinks were flowing, dancing hard, and chilling with close friends. Couldn't ask for a better club night. Many thanks to the people who brought such amazing and original talent to Vancouver.

Good to see so many familiar faces... everyone I talked to seemed to be having a great night.

Shaun - Good seein ya as always, it must have been a nice change to not have to worry about driving.

Michelle - The Vodka and red-bull rapist!!! haha dope chillin with ya. Can I still borrow that train you were telling me about?

I just have to figure out how to install the "im sorry" flag.

Mike - Glad you made it out after all... I'll give you a ring soon.

Ernie - Nice to finally hit a club with you buddy, many more to come for sure.

Christine - Nice talkin to ya, it had been way too long since the last time I saw you. You're too polite, lol... next time I get started on a drunken rant to tell me to shut up. Thanks very much for the ticket and the cd. Your mix makes me :c-tard: .

Bret - Also been too long since the last time I saw you. I gotta get my ass down to tribeca next thursday.

Neal - What-up? I Still can't believe Mauro Picotto was your first club night. I doubt you'll find very many that compete with that.

Peter - Didn't really see you much throughout the night. Where were you hiding? That pic you showed me was looking nice.

Jay - I'm glad the ticket situation worked out for you. Bring your drums over soon, let's make some noise!

Greg - Good talking to you again... are you still willing to part with the track we were talking about?

Zhaid - Take it easy man, come round and spin sometime soon.

Dawn - Good to see ya again. Hope you had a good night.

Good times. Sorry if I forgot people, my brain is still a little battered.

peace.

waimea · #6 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 03

^^

wtf, I have no idea what happened up there.

LDUB · #7 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 03

boourns

RiCeY · #8 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 03

I personally thought Picotto was alright...I expected him to play stuff like uplifting trance or hardtrance or something along those lines and not tech-house/trance...But aside from that I had a pretty good time...Went down with good friends and met some great people! :kimmie:

oliver · #9 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 03

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Originally posted by PegasuS

i love his mixing style, so unique

what made it so unique?

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Originally posted by RiCeY
I personally thought Picotto was alright...I expected him to play stuff like uplifting trance or hardtrance or something along those lines and not tech-house/trance...

what made you think that? hes known for being "the italian techno master" and was promoted as such for this appearence.

anyways... sounds like it was a wicked show. glad sonar is actually capable of having quality, consistent sound. fuck the commodore.

narc · #10 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 03

trance is for beginners...

For future reference, Picotto loathes trance with a vengence.

Asteroid · #11 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 03

k I admit I'm not a big Picotto tune spotter but that's what I recognized out of the whole one and a half mix?? :047: :047: lol

Cave - 'Ingoma'
Frank Biazzi - 'Turbulence'
Gabry Fasano - 'Catapulta'
Umek - 'Benozal (Gabry Fasano Remix)' (this caused the crowd to go into a frenzy!!

-ak47- · #12 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 03

God I wish I went!!! Stupid beingbrokeness... OK so Picotto was sweet, but what about carola??

exergo · #13 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 03

carola was wicked...he opened for mauro in the main room..palyed from 11-12:20 and rocked funky techno with mad basslines...people were havin it large...wicked set for sure

picottos set was hard as nails....really really hard tech....no trance reallly, not even pulsar...but crazy crazy techno!!!!no funk, just hard bangers! :)

Andy Bones · #14 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 03

good all round night, thought Carola and Picotto went off!!!

Hot Karl · #15 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 03

sick ass night. carola got it started, then picotto took it home. so packed, so awesome.

**ƒORM** · #16 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 03

I see prism snapped some good pics :y: (gallery)

narc · #17 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 03

here are some pix taken from the night, all images are purposely set to low resolution to prevent unauthorized use. :284:

all photos can be found on PH1.ca soon by sunday afternoon...

houserawka · #18 (**permalink**) Mar 15, 03

this is a little off topic but haveing picotto in town made me think how dope it would be if a promoter could bring Signum . Ive always really really wanted to see them and have been let down a few times in the past. I think it would be a wicked show and a sure thing for ticket sales. If any of you promoters out there could make it happen that would be awesome!!!

WiWcHaR · #19 (**permalink**) Mar 15, 03

wow
what a great night that was
the music was so hard
i came out with bruises

narc · #20 (**permalink**) Mar 15, 03

Quote:

Originally posted by houserawka
this is a little off topic but haveing picotto in town made me think how dope it would be if a promoter could bring Signum . Ive always really really wanted to see them and have been let down a few times in the past. I think it would be a wicked show and a sure thing for ticket sales. If any of you promoters out there could make it happen that would be awesome!!!

Picotto doesn't spin trance... he USED too, but not anymore...

And there's a 1% chance that he'll ever agree to doing a rave, unless your name is ID&T or GATECRASHER. Sorry kids.

-ak47- · #21 (**permalink**) Mar 15, 03

^Why is that BTW?

houserawka · #22 (**permalink**) Mar 16, 03

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Originally posted by Narc

Picotto doesn't spin trance... he USED too, but not anymore...

thanks tips, but Picotto's style of music past or present has nothing to do with with what i say in my post. Im actually talking about haveing them here performing cause they have the same amazing level of musical talent as Picotto for writing electronica.

when i heard Picotto was comming I thought of signum would also be anouther awesome tallent to bring as a fresh act to a venue in vancouver. Ive heard from a few places that theyre live sets are absolutely mind blowing. They have made what are now classic tracks in the same time frame as Picotto made his. Are probably one of the most tallent electronic music producers in the world with a list of dozens of widely distributed records to theyre credit.I dont see why there would be little chance of them comming if theres a well known and respected production company involved thats willing to pay the big bucks artists of that kind of level ask.

Fuck haveing them at a rave commidor would be perfect.

Asteroid · #23 (**permalink**) Mar 22, 03

Quote:

Originally posted by houserawka

when i heard Picotto was comming I thought of signum would also be anouther awesome tallent to bring as a fresh act to a venue in vancouver. Ive heard from a few places that theyre live sets are absolutely mind blowing.

Signum is a great producer but certainly not the best, there's far better producers are out to choose from like:
Darren Tate, Sharpside, Tomcraft, Lange, 4 strings, Rank 1 etc

waimea · #24 (**permalink**) Mar 22, 03

^^

Loving the signature Prism :keebler: