In Bass We Trust

Bal En Blanc, 4/20, Montreal, Canada

Easter! Canada! White Party! Spring is here!!!!

In Bass We Trust went international for the first of several trips abroad in 2014 over Easter Weekend. The city of Montreal was simply amazing and we are planning to throw a party there in the near future. We arrived a few days early to check out the city, meet some local club owners and chat with a few notable local house DJ’s, like the amazing Ohm Hourani who originally hails from Jordan. Check him out.

The venue, the Palais De Congress was gargantuan, featuring three arena sized rooms, each on it’s own bigger than most event spaces. It just so happened we made it for the twentieth anivarsary of the event. It’s been going on a long time! The theme for this years festival, held yearly on Easter Sunday was ‘Palace of Wonders’ and Alice in Wonderland the inspiration. The building was decked out with Cheshire Cats, white rabbits, Mad Hatters, giant smoking caterpillars, life sized playing cards and scantily clad dancing Alice’s, Queen of Hearts. By the time we made it through the VIP lines and the Fulsom Prison-esque security screens, the place was already starting to fill up and the opening acts were warmiong it up. Before the night was over, more than 15,000 people dressed, all in white, many in creative costumes, would be passing through the doors.

The crowd was as massive as the building and by midnight nearly all three arenas were packed to capacity. Luckily we had V.I.P. passes and were able to walk freely to the fronts of all the stages as fast as we could walk, because it would have been quite difficult to get anywhere close to several of the acts otherwise. While we spent most of our time glued to the Carl Cox stage, but we ventured in all three arenas to catch a little of all the acts.

One arena featured mostly trance music. Headliners on the night were Adrew Rayel and New World Punx (Marcus Shulz & Ferry Corrsten). Of the great acts in support was notably Giuseppe Ottovani who had a great set.

The arena we spent most of our time listening to amazing house music was the Carl Cox and friends arena. The room opened with Monitor, an amazing duo of underground minimal house producers who are from Montreal and regularly headline at Stereo. Monitor was followed by Paskal Daze who was equally impressive. Real house music in this arena; and Nic Fanciuli delivered plenty of it. Carl came on to headline for several hours and the room closed with the techno queen, Nicole Moudaber.

The main arena opened with Domeno followed by Paris & Simo. As the crowd built, Dyro then Dannic got this up to a bouncing fever pitch. We were happy to see so many of these acts for the first time, including the next act Carnage. This man destroys. Decimates. Amazing. With the crowd bouncing, the next act came on. The feature act for the show no doubt, Hardwell. This youngster had the energy and charisma on display that garnered him the spot as the #1 DJ in the world on display his entire set. Deep Dish closed out the night and finished off any linger of hope to make it home to New York without a long nap.

Some Songs Played:

Monitor & Paskal Daze

Several Times – Mind Against

Big Ben – Ilan Bluestone

The Green Machine – Phillip Bader

Changing Steps – Gel Abril

Finder – Ninetoes

Autum Vibes – Big Lolo

Nic Fanciulli

The Tide – Mark Fanciulli (Joris Voorn mix)

Everybody Be Somebody – Ruffneck (UK mix)

Pompeii – Bastille (Monsieur Adi mix)