Genesis got me stoked for more
One week ago, at Friday March the 26th, the first party in a while of Genesis was held in Paradiso. Genesis is a party, held by Beesmunt and The Walk & Rogerseventytwo, of whom I’m sure you you’ve heard before. At this night’s show, there were some fantastic artists you were able to witness! And by that I mean listening to people like Boombass (Cassius), Jackson (Warp), Breakbot (Ed Banger Records), DSL (Ed Banger Records) and of course your hosts Beesmunt and The Walk & Rogerseventytwo!
First thing we saw when coming in was Boombass behind the decks, which automatically meant that we were unfortunate to miss Beesmunt playing. Boombass played a lot like the Cassius style is. A bit of French Touch House, mixed up with some Tech House and besides that also some bangers like Green Velvet’s “Turn It Up” and Hey Today!’s “Talk To Me”. His mixes were quite fast and abrupt, which didn’t always turn out to be good. All in all his DJ set was pretty decent. It had some fresh tunes mixed with some old bangers, yet sometimes it lacked a bit of smoothness.
After Boombass we went to see Jackson play in the room upstairs. Jackson’s style is a lot rougher, which attracted me in a very good way. He has nice breaks and raw sounds. Besides a lot of his own tracks, also from his Smash album, he also played some new electro bangers like Boris Dlugosch’ “Bangkok”. While shaking his head, his long hair quietly waves in the air, as his banging music is heard, giving him total mysterious impression. Jackson had a great set, almost perfectly mixed and if you ever have the chance to see him perform, you should check him out.
Back in the main room of Paradiso, the one and only Breakbot was playing! The French guy played a fresh mix between old classic “Ed Banger” electro tunes and unknown, new and exciting stuff. While constantly tapping on his feet, the music he plays has a great impact on the crowd and people seem to enjoy the music very much. Yet Breakbot wasn’t wearing any headphones at all, using his Behringer midi-controller and laptop to mix his tracks.
In order to end this night, The Walk & Rogerseventytwo played a lot of fine tunes, of which also some of their new tracks. I was told though that their first album won’t be released yet, but an EP will come instead. Although slightly disappointed with this news, it didn’t affect my night that much, seeing as residents played a great set. They had a lot of smooth transitions along with some great tracks of genres like French House and Electro.
Looking back to the first edition of Genesis in a while, I can proudly say I had a great night. A big crowd attended, all consisting of good people who looked like having a good time, shaking their booties. I enjoyed lovely music and partied until about 5 in the morning and thank the hosts for a good organisation. Let’s hope for many Genesis editions to come in the future.
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First edition…? Come ontvangen man. Third time or something! Nice review though… Too bad I couldn’t make it.
Sorry, was meant to say first edition in a while. Will edit it, thanks!
It’s funny, I enjoyed Jackson’s set a lot too, but I didn’t hear any of his own tracks and I’m pretty sure I was there for like 80% of his set. We talked to him and interviewed him for our blog as well and he mentioned that his DJ sets seem to work out for the best with the crowd in the end because he doesn’t play any of his own stuff haha.