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Victor Dinaire @ Avalon
February 29, 2004 10:50 AMby
You just know you’re a trance junkie when you go to club and see familiar faces, like some kind of bizarre family reunion each time one of you favorite DJ’s is playing in town.
This time around, our local hero Victor Dinaire took the wheels @ Avalon for a spin, pumping out the finest in trance music of the moment.
I arrived at Avalon just a moment after midnight, very thankful for no lines because of the sub-Siberian weather that’s been sweeping over Gotham as of late.
Polite doormen and bouncers made our trip indoors quicker; cordiality always makes the night just a tad better! Cheers to that!
Hopping on promptly at 2am after a great tech-house set by Rich Woods, Victor was ready for a fabulous four-hour flight that no one wanted to end!
Starting off with In Trust We Trust’s track, Mark Norman’s “Overkill,” Vic began the night with a bangin’ bassline; nothing like some hard trance to get your ass movin’ on the dance floor!
Soon afterwards the vocal trancer and unforgettable tune of 2003, “Holding Onto Nothing” by Agnelli & Nelson sent the crowd into a frenzy, hands in air, shouting out the lyrics “Standing in the rain, twisted and insane, we are holding onto nothing!”
Towards the middle of his set, Victor, in signature style, added a dash of techno to the batch, including some tunes like Igor S. - “Boomerang” and Marco V vs. Jens – “Loops & Tings Relooped” that just made the night grind harder and deeper.
Aside from our fellow Dinaire-junkies, the crowd was quite eclectic. From the diesel-parading and belly-ring exposing Sound Factory spillover to the tourists that didn’t know what they were in for when they stepped through the doors of Avalon, nothing mattered at all during Vic’s set.
Unanimous smiling faces all made it clear that music truly is a universal language.
Speaking of smiling faces: the dancers on stage, as always, added to the entertainment.
Quite the attraction, the girls danced very carefully, not letting too much sweat stream down their tiny bodies for fear of their little yellow, smiley face nipple-pasties sliding right off. What a sight!
Throughout the night there was quite a party going on in the DJ booth. At any given moment one could see a parade of pretty party-people energizing Dinaire with some infectious antics. In this performance, Victor was visibly more animated and charged than usual.
As 5:30am rolled around, the crowd began to thin a bit, and Victor knew it was time to pull an Emeril on everyone. He kicked it up a notch with Nu NRG’s – “Dreamland” and had the floor stomping all over again, BAM!
Towards the end of the night, Victor dropped a few of the tracks he began with, including Mark Norman’s “Overkill” and Agnelli & Nelson’s “Holding Onto Nothing.” The night had gone full circle indeed, in one of Dinaire’s best performances as of late.
