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Originally Posted by East Coast Flame
Seeing Swedish House Mafia last year was mental. One of the craziest shows I have ever seen. Personally, I prefer being in a field with 50,000 other people going nuts and watching a massive elaborate show with pyrotechnics/fireworks/lazers/video screens than being in a basement with a couple hundred people watching someone spin records....but that's just me.
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And that's exactly it. It's all a matter of personal preference. In my opinion the best set I've ever seen was Carl Cox spinning some beach/latin/laidback house on a small beach in Cannes.
With festivals you do get the crazy amounts of people, pyro, lazers, video screen but in order for all that to go smoothly you also get prerecording sets, boring mixes, and a healthy dose of songs you've already heard 1000x before. With the small nightclubs you don't get the crazy amount of people or visuals but since that is missing the DJ tends to need to compensate for it by playing something that not prerecorded, dropping a track you've never heard before or showing of his amazing technical skills.
Personally, I'm a fan of the later, and would take a one off show at a club like Footwork (Toronto), Stereo (Montreal), Output (NYC), or any of Weekend/Berghain/Watergate (Berlin) to a big festival any day.