Sasha Sunset Cruise 2012: Review / Track IDs

I'm REALLY excited to write this one!

James Teej, Sasha, and Thugfucker respectivelyPhoto: Dan Frey

I was fortunate enough to be on the Sasha's Never Say Never 4th of July Sunset Cruise this year, and I'm quite confident it was probably best party I've ever been to.  For those of you new to this scene, this was the 2nd annual (I think?) Sasha Sunset Cruise on the 4th of July in NYC.  Picture a night partying with 200 of your closest friends with some of the best DJs in the world on the decks.  On a superyacht.   In the Hudson.  Under the fireworks.  There's really no question why this is one of the most magical and coveted EDM events on the calendar.

For the record, I wasn't technically with "200 of my closest friends." I boarded the yacht knowing 2 other people, but I left as friends with what felt like the whole boat.  You just can't even imagine the positive vibes out there...totally overwhelming how warm and inviting everyone was.  This is really what it's all about folks.  Just all walks of life coming together for one amazing celebration.

This year we were on the Lady Windridge, a 170' beast of a luxury yacht that has been used several times over the years down at WMC for Sasha / Digweed parties.  Everyone got to the Chelsea piers around 4, we boarded by 5, and cast off by 6.  Of course the music started at 4, however.

James Teej warmed up the party during the boarding process, with Thugfucker coming on shortly after casting off.  Teej came back on around 7:30, then turned it over to Sasha shortly before sunset.  Overall, the mixing was fairly free-flowing though; and by the end of the night, all of them were essentially going back to back, which was faaaaaaantastic.  Ever wonder what happens when 4 phenomenal DJs are going track for track trying to pull from the depths of their record boxes? Its a beautiful thing.  I would kill for the entire track list, but I'm sure several of them were private edits / unreleased.

Now that I got the basics out of the way, time for a TON of track IDs and some videos from the evening.


Teej led it off with some great tracks that unfortunately I couldn't ID, so I'll go straight into Thugfucker's set.  They dropped this bomb off of Life and Death, which was obviously very appropriate given the lyrics:


When Sasha came on...christ.  Well I'll just post a couple that he played...



When they were all going back to back, here's a couple that were played:




I'll leave you with a couple videos from the evening. Don't mind me going nuts in one of them. FYI the track in the first one is Dekay ft. Nunu - "Farewell to Planent Earth (Mano Le Tough Remix)." Get on it.


^fireworks!


^Sasha closing the party with his mix of Hot Chip - Flutes off of the upcoming Invol3ver album.

For the record, the after party was at Le Bain and was absolutely fucking mental as well, but thats for another post. Thanks to Mad Not Mad, Sasha, James Teej, and Thugfucker for a phenomenal night.  I'll definitely be back next year!

Cheers,

wins1o