Pangaea - w/ Chromaotne - REVIEWS

[BrettFromTibet]

i thought this was a great party... big respect to the people involevd in making it happen.

Great party space! Comfortable venue with couches in the back room.

Great sounds levels! in the legal limit. kept the cops away , and everyone's hearing - is here to stay! yay!

Great Art, VJ projections and deco! Chromatone's video was off the hook. eye candy abounded.

Great trance! Great opening and closing sets with classic flow. Chromatone played the most wonderful set of PSYCHEDELIC GOA TRANCE I have heard in almost 5 years... it sounded crip, clean, clear, exhilirating and impeccable... truly mind-blowing stuff. massive respect to this man.

Great people! thanks for sharing the moment.

THANK YOU!

[Floating.Point]

~Excellent party~

Everything was great, but I especially loved the chill room. Especially when Ahsan (sp?) was dj'ing. Anyone know if he has a website or any contact info?

I took one of my roomates and it was his first time at anything like this. I think some doors were opened in his brain.

Anyone have any pictures?


Special thanks to those who were involved with making Pangea happen.

~~love and peace~~
Ryan

[monki]

This was the most fun I have had in a downbeat/ambient room ever!

Great sense of comfort.

Fractalien did a amazing job! WOW... yay for those didj tracks that went full circle! ;)

Luke and Ahsan played good tunes.

I didn't spend much time in the main room, but the bit I heard was bassssssssssssssssssgooooood

Great job everyone!~

Aris

yo ryan i keep seeing you around, man.
from the infamous bus 96, to parties like enosa and pangaea.

eek!

hi!

[SySquee]

this was as good as it gets for me. i walked the night with perma-grin due to all factors coming together perfectly. we had initial doubts about the space, but through setup, we were able to find an energy in it that contributed much to the event. I felt that the music smoothly traversed the different styles of psy and that the dj's/producers were doing there very best to give us a wonderful audio experience.

the visuals were a great addition, thanks to chromatone for going above and beyond for us on this. His style blew me the hell away and I just wanted more and more, truly some of the most rocking music i have ever heard.

thanks to patrick and sen and others for pulling together a great downtempo room. throughout the night at least 40 kids must have been in there multiple times. the decor was thick and nice and i loved the on-desk dj.

HUGE THANKS to The Urban Soul. They were the most accomidating and chill space owners i have yet to meet. they did everything we wanted and asked if we wanted more from them. completely proffesional and willing to deal with difficulties, taking care of sound levels and everything. we couldn't thank you guys more.

Also, thanks to Byron for setting up the sound so nicely. It was a mixed stack, but through much eq'ing and slight compression, as well as splitting the speakers up over several mixers, he was able to tame the highs on the mackies and give us a beautiful sound for the night.

Metatron opened up beautifully, nice mellow tunes to warm the space, and Amanita masterfully brought the energy up. Jamey was rocking it, i really enjoyed hearing all the new tunes. Amber was everything that i hoped for, great smiling morning psy from an incredible, strong woman in our community. thanks for ending the night perfectly.

tear down was fast and easy and the chillout time at the house afterwards was heaven.

f.y.i. we were not only able to pay chromatone and investors, but paid ourselves back as well. a super success in our book and we are super stoked to throw another soon.


I WILL HAVE A LINK TO SOME PICTURES SOON...

[SySquee]

http://portland.tribe.net/tribe/27bd28c0-61da-4327-a28d-a08b205e47af?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tr ibe%5B27bd28c0-61da-4327-a28d-a08b205e47af%5D&r=10288

PICTURES OF PANGAEA IN PHOTO ALBUM

[BrettFromTibet]

Originally posted by Floating.Point
~Excellent party~

Everything was great, but I especially loved the chill room. Especially when Ahsan (sp?) was dj'ing. Anyone know if he has a website or any contact info?

Ryan

Ashan can be contacted on here, he goes by the nickname "liquida".

[Floating.Point]

Originally posted by monki

yo ryan i keep seeing you around, man.
from the infamous bus 96, to parties like enosa and pangaea.

eek!

hi!


Ohhh shit~ stalker!! EEK indeed!!@!!

haha j/k. who are you exactly?

:)

[liquida]

that was definitely one of the smoothest trance parties I've been to, with about as close to an ideal venue as I've seen for that size. all the art was great, but I really dug the macabre psychedelia paintings in the ambient room. anyone know whose art that was?
the ambient room was so cozy, that was some of the most fun I've had spinning. I was really disappointed to see the ambient room get jipped on sound, tho that always seems to happen. we were still able to rock out, but it just shows that ambient rooms are an afterthought with many folks.
and hey ryan, yes, I'm ahsan, I don't know if I know u..? but ya, thanks for the kind words. it's funny, I don't think I've ever gotten as many positive and negative comments for the same set. but if I was to play a set that a mass of trancers were all into, I'd be bored outta my gourd. I don't have a website, I'm on tribe and my email address is below.
cheers,
-a
twilight_marauder@yahoo.com

[waater]

Originally posted by liquida
the ambient room was so cozy, that was some of the most fun I've had spinning. I was really disappointed to see the ambient room get jipped on sound, tho that always seems to happen. we were still able to rock out, but it just shows that ambient rooms are an afterthought with many folks.


Actually, I found the sound in the ambient room to be the best in the whole place!!! For me, the sound was too loud out in the main room & not enough bass..yet there were plenty of bass cabinets...As per the chillroom, it seemed almost womby & crisp..sounds were sparking from here to there...it was wonderful.

I had a pleasant experience, the music was good..., I especially liked jamey & amber's set..as these were the only 2 djs we were able to catch during our time of arrival....we had some snags here & there..but it all ended up working out in the end. As per Chromotone...I had heard him before a few times..but i t had never really caught my ear too much, I thought to give it another chance......it was OK n' all..but I am just not one for a bunch of loops that is at full throttle 24/7 with a bunch of cheezy samples (don't get me wrong, I do like my cheese, though I am more of a Brie/Camembert sorta guy). There were actually some tracks that had it going somewhere..but instead..he decided to throw a sample in a t a moment that had a feeling of going somewhere..then bam! back to reality..telling you what you already knew from sound, tone & interpretation through a voice from some movie that he'd liked...thankfully, I found sanctuary within the chillroom.


Chillroom: You were all amazing, Patrick, Ahsan & Herbie & the other guy who was playing earlier b4 Ahsan...quite tastey tunes I must say..thank you for your wonderous sets..they truly put my mind int he path it needed for that journey down.

Overall, great party! Lots of fun. The decorations were fab..people were trancendental, inspiring & wonderful, the ghetto Buddha rocked it..as well as all the wonderful paintings that I was able to see in the chill room upon my wake...;) even found a nifty skull & xbones pin to remember the party by.

thanks!
w~

PS::: Here is a link on some cheese if anyone would like to do a little research (http://www.cheesesupply.com) ::: :D

[wingnut]

Sadly I didn't really have a good time all the way through, but that was for personal reasons only. The party itself was lovely! Great music, in both rooms, comfortable and well set up. The blacklights and art were beautiful. I was glad to see that there was a good diverse crowd there. Sometimes at psytrance parties I feel out of place being a "raver" because it seems like everyoneand their cousin is a total organic-earthtone-hemp-chakratic-hippie type (nothing against that -- I identify with the culture quite a bit myself, but when EVERYONE looks and thinks the same it's too much), but Pangea had a good amount of diversity to it. I was glad to see very young and old people, ravers, rockers, hard partiers and rare partiers... I like a party where I can spin glowsticks one minute and then meditate in the ambient room the next. :) Just a bunch of people going out to have a good time with some good music. I think/hope that everyone felt welcome.
Also very cool that the venue was a -tattoo palor-!! Sweet!
Wish I'd been in a better mood so I could have gotten a full experience. Being around friends and friendly people really, really helped though.

<3 wingnut

[Synergy]

All of the art in the chill room was done by the owner of the Urban Soul, Peter Bogdanov(i think i got that right!). Go to www.theurbansoul.com for contact info.

As for the sound in the chill room, ahsan, i gotta say that the downtempo room is far from an afterthought for me or us. though there were sound issues, i believe that patrick and i did everything we could to come to an agreement and work with the issues, as far as me even suggesting to go home and bring my sound. there weren't 4 mackies as planned, but the mackie industrials sounded beautiful to me and the other cabs were for monitors mainly. I do understand though how lame it is when things don't pan out as planned. A few days before the event, i was told that there would be several more house-system speakers in the main room, those were not there. I truly feel, especially from being there through soundcheck, that had we not used those extra mackies in the main room, it would have sounded like crap. Instead, i felt that it was mostly warm and nice in both rooms.


I had one of the most amazing times this night and I thank all of you for it. I saw so many new and smiley faces. The space worked better than we thought possible and no one was hurt and nothing was damaged.

thanks all, we will see you soon.

greg

[liquida]

my comment on chillrooms as an afterthought wasn't directed at this party specifically, it's just what I've seen again and again. long after the flyer is printed, venue chosen and planning under way, usually a week or 2 before the event (sometimes a couple days beforehand) we'll be approached to put a room together when it's realized that there is in fact the space for it.
but ya, pardon me if I did sound bitter, it was definitely a comfortable setup in both areas. I've just seen and heard of too many instances where sound that was destined for the ambient room is snagged for an uptempo system that's usually already adequate.
-ahsan

[waater]

^^^

seems to be an reoccurring effect within portland parties :P
not very healthy

you all need some props, yo!
and your names deserve some flyer space. :D

loves
w~

[Synergy]

i do agree. i think that downtempo is the most important genre we have. it covers all things, from nothing to full on beats. it is the glue that holds the event together. people need the beauty and intensity of slow grooves and ambient textures to fuel there mind's creative needs for the night.

g