Just got back from a Sasha show tonight and was searching comments on Lemmy to see if anyone else saw his latest tour. I just saw Sasha and Digweed a few months ago and hands-down, it was in the top 2 or 3 shows I have been to in the last couple of years. (Kids are older now, so my wife and I get to see everyone we either wanted to see now or saw 20 years ago. Just met Rabbit (Rabbit in the Moon) in person a couple of weeks ago too!
To someone else who seems to know the music genre: The Sasha show was tonight was horrible. Easily in the top 5 worst in the last 25 years. The same beat for 5 hours straight with hardly any variation or creativity. It was the worst of the worst house music, and was half-wondering if 90’s euro-techno was going to start at some point. It would have been a major plus if so.
I had to elaborate so much because it was that bad, but also extremely uncharacteristic. I expected progressive house/trance or something at least more Sasha’ish at a minimum. It wasn’t the venue: They capable of hosting top-tier shows.
Is this a known thing about his solo shows? The venue was mostly dead as well: Probably only 20% of what we saw for Sasha and Digweed at the same place. Given the lack of a crowd, I am just super curious about what others know that I don’t.
I’m not sure, I’ve seen Sasha solo and it was great, maybe just as good as when I saw digweed. Similar sized crowd for both I would say.
So maybe he was just having a bad night, but I don’t really have an explanation on why Sascha put on a bad performance or why the crowd was small.
However I’m in Australia, not often we get to see digweed or sasha so when the opportunity arises it’s always a sold out show, and maybe that atmosphere makes a difference to the set, that’s all I can think of
Cool, thanks for the feedback. It was just such a weird show, I had to ask.
The venue we were at just got a new sound system and it’s kinda nice. My wife and I hypothesized that since Sasha and Digweed are on tour anyway, they might have just paid Sasha to do a live sound system test while he was in the area. Turning a system test into a “show” may have just been a good way to offset his price. (I am somewhat of an audiophile so I know it’s hard to tune and test large systems. TBH, that is exactly what the night sounded like in hindsight: A 5-6hr audio test.)
Just got back from a Sasha show tonight and was searching comments on Lemmy to see if anyone else saw his latest tour. I just saw Sasha and Digweed a few months ago and hands-down, it was in the top 2 or 3 shows I have been to in the last couple of years. (Kids are older now, so my wife and I get to see everyone we either wanted to see now or saw 20 years ago. Just met Rabbit (Rabbit in the Moon) in person a couple of weeks ago too!
To someone else who seems to know the music genre: The Sasha show was tonight was horrible. Easily in the top 5 worst in the last 25 years. The same beat for 5 hours straight with hardly any variation or creativity. It was the worst of the worst house music, and was half-wondering if 90’s euro-techno was going to start at some point. It would have been a major plus if so.
I had to elaborate so much because it was that bad, but also extremely uncharacteristic. I expected progressive house/trance or something at least more Sasha’ish at a minimum. It wasn’t the venue: They capable of hosting top-tier shows.
Is this a known thing about his solo shows? The venue was mostly dead as well: Probably only 20% of what we saw for Sasha and Digweed at the same place. Given the lack of a crowd, I am just super curious about what others know that I don’t.
I’m not sure, I’ve seen Sasha solo and it was great, maybe just as good as when I saw digweed. Similar sized crowd for both I would say.
So maybe he was just having a bad night, but I don’t really have an explanation on why Sascha put on a bad performance or why the crowd was small.
However I’m in Australia, not often we get to see digweed or sasha so when the opportunity arises it’s always a sold out show, and maybe that atmosphere makes a difference to the set, that’s all I can think of
Cool, thanks for the feedback. It was just such a weird show, I had to ask.
The venue we were at just got a new sound system and it’s kinda nice. My wife and I hypothesized that since Sasha and Digweed are on tour anyway, they might have just paid Sasha to do a live sound system test while he was in the area. Turning a system test into a “show” may have just been a good way to offset his price. (I am somewhat of an audiophile so I know it’s hard to tune and test large systems. TBH, that is exactly what the night sounded like in hindsight: A 5-6hr audio test.)