Steve Angello and The Size Matters Family Take Over Pacha NYC

As if Saturday, September 22nd wasn’t a big enough day for the Electronic Dance Music scene in New York City, Pacha made sure to end the historical day off right, having an all out afterhours affair hosted by who other then the Size Matters family. Pacha, as always, made sure they brought in the hottest names in the industry, which included Third Party’s debut not only at Pacha, but their debut in New York City all together, as well as a very familiar face in the Pacha NYC booth, Junior Sanchez. Then finally, the headlining performance of the night, who makes up one-third of the world famous Swedish House Mafia and owns Size Records, Steve Angello.

Third Party set the tone for the night making sure the crowd was fully involved and jamming out through their entire performance. Their set included some of their fan’s favorite remixes including their remix of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Otherside” as well as their remix of Sultan & Ned Shepard’s, “Somebody to Love”. Third Party was sure to play their original work with “Cicada”, which many people argue is their claim to fame, Feel, and even played a sick mash-up of Hard Rock Sofa’s remix to Marco V’s, “Analogital” with the vocals of Deadmau5’s, “Raise Your Weapon”. They made heads spin after playing another mash-up of Nari and Milani’s, “Atom” with a throwback track of the Beastie Boys named, “Don’t Sleep Till Brooklyn”, which brought an unreal amount of energy among everyone in attendance at 618 West 46th Street.

As Third Party’s set came to a close and Junior Sanchez took control of the wild party, more and more fans packed out the dance floor until it was basically impossible to move. Sanchez kept the party going, but really set the crowd off after dropping Congorock’s track, Ivory

Angello made his presents known for the people in the New York and New Jersey area, playing a show in the middle of Manhattan at Central Park, before making his way to the Pacha sponsored venue in New Jersey known as 466, just before making his way back to the city to play his third and final set for the evening at Pacha NYC.

Finally, at about 1:50am, Steve Angello appeared in the booth, greeting Junior Sanchez with a huge hug just before addressing the sea of people that made up the crowd at Pacha. He let everyone know that he intended on having an all out after party, which meant he could only play those deep and dirty afterhours beats, and until 4:30/5 o’clock in the morning he did just that, playing all base bumping tech house tracks. The Swede mixed together a hard hitting set which included Stefano Noferini’s, Fact and Tujamo & Plastik Funk’s banger, “WHO”. Angello showed everyone why he is one of, if not the top name in Dance music, because at no point in his set did he use headphones, yet each transition from track to track was absolutely flawless.

Then around 5am a couple of special Size Records guests appeared in the booth including the other Angello some of us know better as AN21 along with Max Vangeli to show Steve some love and join the party festivities. It was the that Steve Angello went off, playing all of his hits including his famous original production, “Knas” as well as his edit of the mash-up between Nari and Milani’s, “Atom” with the lyrics of Swedish House Mafia’s, “Leave the World Behind”. From there he played Sebastian Ingrosso and Alesso’s, “Calling” and of course Swedish House Mafia’s, “Greyhound”.

Steve Angello made sure that Saturday night was one that will never be forgotten staying on the deck’s until after 6:30 in the morning. He played a set at Pacha that will never be forgotten and proved to everyone who saw him either at Central Park, 466, and/or Pacha that he is truly one of the best and top DJs in the world.