It's been a very awkward moment, we are very sorry for @hardwell. No comment! România is not like this. 😭😭😭 #hardwell, #EDMmusic #WeareSAGA, #edmmusic, #dj
Dios mío de mi vida lo que ocurrió en todo el video. No me lo puedo creer, en serio. Neta... Antes de cualquier cosa, los que crearon SAGA son los mismos de ALDA que tienen a AMF, Armin Only, y varios más. NO DEBERÍAN TENER ESTE TIPO DE PROBLEMAS, SE SUPONE QUE SON "PROFESIONALES". Se me hace demasiado extraño que pasen este tipo de problemas técnicos. Al menos en Tomorrowland lo arreglaban en 2 minutos, como pasó con James Hype. Por cierto, no recordaba ver a Hardwell muy molesto, desde lo ocurrido en la F1 en México 2017, o desde que mandó a freír espárragos a la DJMAG por su ninguneo al Dj-Productor Atmozfears en el ADE 2016. Y cuando Hardwell se enoja, sabes que hay algo muy muy horrible.
@@wisusuequisde6421 De hecho así fue, a tal grado que incluso el propio Afrojack comentó "Estoy feliz de que finalmente alguien hablara". Eso da la pauta de que SAGA Festival este año ha tenido muy mala organización
@@HAIBAKUSUNProduction Creo k Hardwell no sabia k ALDA esta detras o como organizador, no tiene ningun sentido k critike tan duramente a unos promotores holandeses. Por lo k se, ALDA tuvo problemas con la administracion d Bucarest para llevar a cabo SAGA. Es muy probable k los encargados del festival no tengan suficiente experiencia. Y lo peor d todo es k por conflicto d intereses entre ALDA y los promotores d UNTOLD, nos estemos kedando sin Armin durante la tira d años en su festival favorito. De traca amigo!
Right idk why they don't check the equipment before the artist goes on like are they even trying but this is becoming a habit lately with a lot of djs lately like it isn't that hard to check the equipment
@@dylanpajuelo8352you need a team to do that and usually it's costly so they need to be able to afford it in order to do sound check and not have a problem !
@@dylanpajuelo8352because it's Saga festival in Romania. They've been known for scams last year and what a surprise, they did it again. It's a shame that now Hardwell and many other people are going to see our country like a shithole and I'm sure he won't come anytime soon to perform again, at any festival here.
Here is the chain of events: 1. Hardwell starts experiencing problems almost immediately 2. He gives the technical team 5 minutes to fix his gear 3. 30 seconds later (not even), he slams his headphones 4. He proceeds to walk out and deliver an anti-Saga speech to the fans, cancelling his show 5. After his departure, Will Sparks performs with no problems 6. The next day, James Hype opens his set with a remix of his rant. 7. Nicki Minaj cancels her performance for unrelated reasons (Bucharest became a protest zone against economic policies in Romania) 8. After Hype’s performance goes viral, Hardwell was not amused, unfollowing Hype on his Instagram profile
@@leafsfanforever2896, each person has his/her right to perform, to be respected. Hardwell is a perfectionist, he had been upset with them before what happened to him on the stage. I like him more now.
if Saga has already not paying Hardwell do you think they would be paying Nicki or other artists playing there? think that's the main reason Nicki cancelled her show there
It's ironic how James Hype was making fun of Hardwell for that, but last year here in Brazil he did the SAME thing in Rio de Janeiro. He rant and left the crowd disappointed.
I wanted to thank you for what you did at Saga Festival, last year I won a Dj contest and they promised me to play the evening on a big stage to give me good visibility, in the end I ended up in a tent in the middle of a heat wave playing at 4pm when the festival opened at 5pm ... thanks again 💪🔥
Was this kind of story happens in every music festival in the world? I've heard similar stories like this from podcast of a musician. What a SCAM for gaining festival ads only
I’m going to be honest… but Fuck Saga festival for the disrespect to Hardwell…the crowd was amazing but that was a horrible response to him on twitter from the promoters. The man works super hard and it should have been a massive red flag when they didn’t pay him. All artist including Hardwell deserve respect.
This is why I always respect him. He will always try his very best to play for the people. As he even said, he wasn’t paid to play but he still came. But then the festival let him down by putting out all the broken equipment on stage.
They should have backup for everything, mixer, players, cables... in 3 minute everything can be replaced with proper planed backup! At the big festivals there is a whole setup next to the main setup ready to mix on it if needed! Just switch the setup!
thats pretty much the standard setup nowadays to have a backup set in case one fails. The same situation happened to Tiesto at Ultra this year but they were up and running within minutes. Goes to show how mismanaged SAGA was.
Been there, part of limited and select group of Hardwell fans witnessing the shortest set in the history of festivals. 😂😂😂 Kudos to Hardwell for respecting his fans and his work!
Wow - that was terrible. I’m a musician and have been n situations like that where you’re not well paid but you go because you love your crowd - and then if the sound equipment and set up is bad or faulty, it can really put you over the top. I’m glad he got to say his piece about what was happening and can’t believe that staff guy trying to grab him to make him move. Hardwell is a big draw and headliner - how do you NOT pay him AND have a crappy setup?! Not cool.
The guy grabbing him from behind was his manager. I once met Hardwell in front of our hotel in Poland on his Rebels Never Die World Tour and that was the exact same guy. I think he wanted to prevent Robbert from saying something stupid, I don't know. But I also know the same thing. I also had some booking without payment and the CDJs were f*cked or something similar. It really can give you the rest.
considering the fact that nicky minaj, rita ora, raye, loreen, lloyd, van buuren and many others came to the festival, he is not one of the main headliners, but i' still surprised he didn't get paid
@@bogdan755 Nicki Minaj canceled her show hours before entering the stage because of „protests” (which will actually be tomorrow and have nothing to do with the area of the city where Saga takes place). The organizers could easily have explained to her that these are not violent protests (with guns/breaking stores like in the US), nor are these taking place anywhere near the festival. It seems like they didn't. Or probably Nicki Minaj canceled her show for another more simple reason that we will find out next year and this is just a lame excuse with the protests. Either way, Saga was an absolute fail this year
It hurts to see him go off like that 😓😓😓😓 but credits to him for standing up for himself 😤😤😤🙌 Hardwell deserves respect and Saga festival should apologize to him and fix this shit 😤😤😤🤕💔💔💔 RUŞINE!!! Ce păcat.😓😓😓
even that the eq is trash, tell the fans that he cannot perform at maximum performance by that and pay respect to the fans..such a shit human being, same like rita ora that didnt fking sing live..i just left after i saw her on playback..crap and disrrespectfull performers..
@MarkusVoorn there are a lot of details in here that we don't know, and just assume! He was totally right to do what he did and Saga still continues to be disrespectful towards him. That's some real bullshit festival!
You can literally see him duck down every so often to talk to the stage techs, and the organizers were like "you could've asked our stage techs to fix it blah blah"🙄
I went into this video thinking he was going to be musically angry in that sense. I mean, I was expecting a track with an extremely fast BPM, but no, the guy was actually angry 😂, but he was right, like a rockstar 🤟🏻
Yep there is, pioneer released an update on the cdj's and now random crashes + usb sticks not getting recognized. With the 'invalid format error' as message.
The only reason people still use them isbecause rekordbox is still very good software. If Engine DJ was better i'd be showing up with my own Denon CDJ's
Amazing to see this from the start of the set. You can see him trying hard to continue the set before by mashing a button over and over in frustration.
I'm glad he said what he said so the crowd knew exactly wtf was up. I've mixed on vinyl years ago at small gigs and clubs where there's not even been monitors. Not a pleasant experience at all. Ppl bumping into the decks. Even had one dude that kept coming over and touching the spinning vinyl while I was mixing, completely fucking every mix up. Eventually I said to him you do that one more time and I'm gonna stop the music and come knock u the fuck out. He disappeared, then came back n done it again. B4 i even had a chance to cut the volume, my pal who had been watching the whole thing all along had chinned him out 👊🏼😂.. the music stayed on 🔊. Anyways, hats off to hardwell
I've never seen him talk like that on the microphone. I was scared. The good part is that he said everything that needed to be said without giving lying journalists the chance to invent something. He deserves respect, he's the best in the world right now.
Am interacționat cu multi nemți, austrieci, olandezi, etc... și garantez ca e o reacție normala atunci când ei simt ca cineva își bate joc de munca lor.
It’s really rare for Hardwell to go off like this on mic. First, they didn’t even pay him but he still showed up to perform for his fans despite not getting paid. Then, the DJ equipment isn’t properly working?! Saga Festival screwed up big time
The way Saga insulted Hardwell is exactly how you fucking insulted me you filthy little turd @DavidNam. And that fact that you had to do it in a group chat and then personally and then go off ringing your mouth saying shit to others online is straight up disgusting. I’m surprised you still run that RU-vid channel of yours expecting donations from people! FUCKING SHIT. YOU ARE FULL OF IT!
I had this one time at a local club. The People working there didn't know how to connect a DJ booth to speakers. I was so angry at the People working there. They didn't even say sorry!
Mad respect for Hardwell. Had no clue who he was beforehand but now he is one of the coolest DJs in my opinion, because he actually stood up for himself against the festival, WHICH BY THE WAY DIDNT PAY HIM ANYTHING TO PLAY THERE SO HE DIDNT EVEN HAVE TO PLAY
Thank you for taking all the video. 🙏I am also a DJ. Based on some of his action feedback, I guess the effector is malfunctioning and it does not work all the time. I noticed something was wrong from the first song, and then contacted the staff below, but the problem was not solved.😐
What is happening with this festival in all these years? Armin didnt play in Untold to attend this festival, the same this year. We are losing every year Armin legend set due to this random and ghost festival! There are unkown problems between this festival and Bucarest.
I still didn't get their claims on the official Instagram saying "The equipment traveled all the way from the Netherlands", aren't they supposed to provide their own CDJs, or anyone can explain?
Lol. Shows that organisers are Dumb as f. It would be cheaper and better organize-wise to Order the Equipment from a local Distributor. If something goes wrong their would be a company that solves the Problem with substitution of Equipment. How dumb are they? The shipping alone costs more than lending the Equipment locally
@@PhunkJoaquinwell yes. But the equipment is likely bought from a dutch company whose owner is friends with the organiser and likely did some shady stuff as well. Saga festival has been sued by the municipality of Bucharest because they didnt pay their energy bill and Saga just closed their company, made a new one and organised this edition easy peasy. They also havent paid the people working at the bars last year. They were protesting in front of the saga building not a long time ago. Its just a scam of a festival so common sense does not apply to them
There are two legal entities. The first one is Saga Festival S.R.L., and the second is Saga Music Festival S.R.L. The first legal entity has problems with unpaid utilities and some partners (huge liabilities), while the second is still managed by the same company. Both festivals are managed by ALDA, a Dutch group, and their owners have shady pasts. However, the second legal entity operates from the same address as another company, which is also shady and has not reported their financials or made any revenue. To summarize, it appears to be a money laundering scheme. It's interesting to see how foreigners adapt to the Romanian style and even assume greater risks.
I think he could have still played, technically, but he would be essentially using a playlist, which wouldn't be good enough for any DJ worth their salt. He could've 'saved' the show, but given everything he had to deal with, I respect his decision to walk out rather than deliver a bad set. Also you can see him carrying on with an emergency playlist, before something happens that was probably just confirming that they can't fix the equipment, and the whole set is gonna have to be the backup.
Reminds me of Subtronics when he played at Ultra Miami, where his CDJs are kinda broken, the way he handled it was masterclass, and he hugged the guy who helped him fixed the CDJs. Not saying Hardwell is at fault, as he did mentioned he was not paid so I can tell why he is mad.
Imagine invite a LEGEND to your shit festival and not even paying an euro. Thats fucked up. HARDWELL props to you to show at the festival for the fans.
This is sus. If he wasn't paid why did he come? He must have agreed something with the festival. If so, why talk about it? Why mention it? If you have technical difficulties why not say " Guys, there are some technical issues, I'll take a break for 10 minutes for it to be fixed" instead of going off like that? There's no need for this unprofessional rant, regardless of what goes on backstage.
You can skip to 7:50. There’s some technical difficulties with the equipment and he says in the mic that’s it’s the worst festival he ever performed. Then roasting Saga festival producers and addressing the crowd of his fans and telling that he’s there for them. Also mentioning that the festival didn’t pay him.
Knowing hardwell sets and now seeing things from the beginning at least one of the CDJS wasn’t working right. And that’s bad when you have a set on your head counting on all four specially for a mashup specialist like hardwell. Probably a bad cable or a disconnected one but surely a bad mistake for a festival like this.
@@canaljumps did things not happened as per his regular set which is caused by the faulty CDJ, or did he manage to wing it up to until the point he decided to quit?
@@joshadriel I’m just guessing here. You need two CDJS for a traditional DJ SET. Thats why the set went normally untill he quit. However hardwell was pushing by using only two or three when he was prepared for using 4. It’s like holding a table on 2 legs instead of one. You can still do it but it’s much better and easy with 4. Some mashups are completely dependent on him being able to pre load and matchup 4 tracks at the time.
Wow I didn’t even recognize Manny..this is crazy how they can take a top level Dutch act not even pay him but on top couldn’t even ensure a proper Production for his performance
Important points to notice. 2:28 Telling at staff member point blank 3:30 Telling that guy again 4:05 Takes a look at the malfunctioned CDJs 5:33 Checks them one more time and brings technician on deck for a closer look 6:50 Pissed at results 8:00 "This is the worst festival I've ever performed." 8:32 Threatens staff he'll walk out if the problem isn't fixed in five minutes (actually, less than a minute) 9:23 CDJ still isn't fixed, throws headphone down, rant start
@@taylorglover4416, you were not there. You are just watching the video. He knows what he talked to them before going onto the stage. This console thing is just the final straw after many discussions you don't know.
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I really like the drop on that one track where he walks out on stage and talks shit about the whole production. Super original tune and it's pretty outside the box. XD
Btw the first mashup in the video: Move vs In My Mind (Hardwell Extended Mashup) [the best version in YT] now on my channel In case you're interested: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Rsna4d91HjI.htmlsi=OlCI4AEs3RLSK5kN
Not being paid is one thing, and is inexcusable. But what’s actually gone wrong with the setup that would prevent him playing on? I guess he’s on a short leash and not prepared to give them more of his time which is understandable.
My guess is one deck wasn’t working properly and since he actually dj he needed both decks and refused to do a poor quality set by just putting tracks back to back on one deck
@@thibautnoah2599 not sure if that quite explains it, there should be four decks if it’s a typical festival setup. Would be very unusual for cue / play buttons not to work. Maybe none of it is syncing up and he can’t access his songs on more than one deck.
@@benashford you’re generous by assuming that saga had 4 decks on the stage. But yeah even the smallest stage i’ve seen in NL always has 4 decks. They also have replacments ready to go. My friends play almost every weekend and they rarely have issues that bad, never saw them smashing a button to make it work.
Question for lighting experts, how do you get the lighting and screens to be perfectly synchronized with the song that is currently playing? I find it incredible
Not a lighting expert but there is software or something that lets the lighting technicians see what the cdj’s are playing so that they can predict what will happen.
There's a software you use to script the lighting to the music. I believe DJs give the scripters their music beforehand so they can sync the lighting to their songs
That's that bullshit they should have done him dirty like that play know damn well that nothing was working and I bet they told him that everything is ready to go but I just wanted someone with prestige in a legend to play at their show this is ridiculous macaroni imagine how pissed off my man was at the top it off he wasn't even paid it goes to show you that he does it for the love play the music and for his fans
I did not like Hardwell so much, I am not listening to this softer dance music.. but you must respect him as a person for this because this was clearly not easy path to take.. entire World will share this video and he will receive a lot of hate as well.. respect to you man!
And keep in mind it's not only him who travelled to that festival to perform. He have the whole production working on to give the best performance the attendees can experience. Hardwell was cool at first but it seems like the technical team don't know what they're doing or what seems to be the problem. Such a huge disappointment.
Good for him. And good he’s standing up for himself. This is what we need in these crazy times. Fuck people taking advantage of good hard working people. Makes me even more appreciative of him.
On his level its not as easy as it is for me. I have called a friend who does pioneer repairs mid performance so that i could focus on the music while he did the google search for my issue
The new pioneer and denon equipments have some serious problems. For example my denon standalone mixer was randomly half dead (some buttons like cue and play didnt worked only if i pressed them 2-3x times, effects didnt worked). Later i updated the mixer and then everything was perfect. I heard from some people that the new generation pioneer dj stuff have the same problems… i feel very bad for Hardwell, the saga management handled very bad this situation.
@@Coolboy1095 Look up timecoding. Very simple nowadays to sync up visuals to what the dj is playing, especially if the lighting and visual team has custom made visuals. They can literally see what tracks the dj is queueing up in real time as they do it.
Sets are usually pre-planned with the festival organizers in advance They usually know exactly what tracks the dj will play in order so they know what visuals to put up for each track, etc. Or the visuals are made ahead of time with the set knowledge, hardwell for example mixes live but each track/mashup goes in a pre-planned order
@@amivoicu Știi câți festivalieri au fost în prima zi joi 70 de mii iar aseară la Maluma baby a mai crescut numărul 80 de mii e columbian știi a avut pretenții când să cazat aici ca Bebe în Constanța
