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Bingo Players @Pacha NYC 3.9.12 [REVIEW]

GET UP!!!. The Bingo Players most certainty did just that on Friday night at Pacha. The club was more packed than a NYC subway at rush hour. Check out BleedHouse’s exclusive photos thanks to Laryssa HERE.  The air was thick, humid from the anticipation for the arrival of the Netherlands dynamite duo, The Bingo Players. The night was young and everyone’s adrenaline started pumping, as the Bingo Players opened their set with ‘Cry (Just a Little),’ a record hard to erase from your mind. The track that ruled the industry; pulsing through clubs, festivals, and hitting mainstream top 40 as if it were a crown to a king.

Then, with a sharp turn, we were thrown into Avicii vs Nicky Romero ‘Nicktim,’ cranking the floor up to maximum volume, while everyone belted the Justice lyrics in ‘Dance’. Throughout the night, power-house female vocals took over the room, including Nadia Ali ‘Pressure’, Deborah Cox ‘Leave the World Behind’ and Sia ‘Titanium.’ Then into the deep, dark and dirty electro house, we were given a taste of Deniz Koyu ‘Tung,’ Afrojack and Steve Aoki ‘No Beef,’ Alesso ‘Raise Your Head’ and Dada Life ‘Kick Out the Epic Motherf**ker.’

The Bingo Players are climbing up charts like they are ladders, especially with their electro-house junkie record ‘Rattle.’ Midway through the night, the track ripped hard, while the herd of people had the time of their life’s, looking as if there wasn’t a worry in the world.

As the hours were digging down deeper into the am, I somehow managed to find a way into the DJ Booth with the Bingo Players. I watched with admiration the two producers turn dials, scratch boards, tap their feet to the beat and feel an immense passion for their music. It was clearly radiating like beams right out of them. This has been a really huge year for the two of them, launching their music into the unimaginable of what EDM is capable of offering and the ability to make way into mainstream music culture.  It was great to watch them from up close, especially when they dropped their hit single ‘L’amour,’ which carries a heavy Daft Punk inspiration, with a massive, low pitch drop. Bringing to the table fresh sounds back to back, such as their unforgettable record ‘Mode’ and then into Ferry Costen’s ‘Punk,’ we got a vast array of styles and sounds.  As the end of the night approached, Afrojack’s new smash ‘Can’t Stop Me Now’ had the crowd going rowdy and wild!

“You’ve been f*cken amazing! Thank you NYC!” said the Bingo Players as they encored their set by throwing down ‘Rattle’ for the second time, having the clubbers still pounding the floors. Everyone was left gasping for air after an endless night of dancing. The Bingo Players succeeded in having hundreds of people ‘Get Up’ and not wanting to come back down. As my ears were left buzzing, I knew this was the first of many times ahead I would be seeing their talent rock the floor and break through airwaves around the globe!

-Brooke Forman

Photo Cred: Laryssa via strictly.com

Review: Brooke Forman

This entry was posted on March 14, 2012. It was filed under Uncategorized and was tagged with .

  • Steve

    Cmon that was the most watered down poppy EDM set I ever heard.

  • Dave

    Steve, I agree 100%. We need people who actually know what they’re talking about to give reviews. We all love the music, but if you’re going to be a critic then be objective and critique when appropriate. Bingo Players are among my favorite producers, but that show sucked.

  • http://www.bleedhouse.com jonka

    Steve and Dave,
    What were your complaints about the show?
    Too mainstream music wise or other…

  • http://www.mydancehits.com/ Richard

    Seriously it was insane!

  • Dave

    “Cmon that was the most watered down poppy EDM set I ever heard.” – Steve

    That pretty much sums it up. I want to see more originality and creativity in our djs live performances: play more of your own music, play more of the newest music that you’ve “found” (i.e. producers we haven’t heard, stuff not on the beatport top 30), and take some chances with new mash-ups for music that isn’t yours. It has become too easy for great producers (the bingo players fall in this category) to have “lazy” live shows in their mixing and track selection. I do not mean to single out the Bingo Players in this respect either and I understand that all of our great djs play hundreds of shows a year. I just want to see this great music genre that I love keep evolving and improving.

    The crowd at Pacha NYC will go crazy for anything, their enthusiasm does not neccesarily indicate the quality of a show.

  • Steve

    Dave put it pretty perfectly. Basically this was a Dayglow or Barstool Blackout set, aka a joke.

    People who know and appreciate EDM know that this was a very poor showing by the bingo players.

  • Evan

    100% Agreed with everyone here.The overall set was very plain and I have heard so many of those songs played OVER AND OVER AND OVER again. As long as there’s a crowd, loud music, and lights, Pacha will seem awesome but that doesn’t necessarily mean the set was good. My favorite Producer is still Thomas Gold, he reworks so many things before his gigs and you can almost always expect to hear new stuff. Glad I’m not the only one who felt this way.

  • http://electrifymag.com Kyle

    If you’re gonna post a review, don’t water it down like the Binno PLayers’ set. Yes the crown had great enegery, because the vvenue was packed like sardines. All the songs ive heard too many times before. I WISH they had the humility to play remixes of their own music. Maybe Apsters remix to When I Dip, or mixing in Kid’s at the Bar edit of cry just a little. Their were a few technical problems, and they messed up badly with the mic.