This is how shows should be put on UA-cam. Official versions that promote the corps social media, aren’t at risk of being taken down, and are easy to find and archive. Phantom, and now Mandarins, are playing the game right. Also mm good drum corps
@@uncle6431Yeah, the video would be demonetized at most, they wouldn’t be strikes to my knowledge for the same reason cover songs exist on UA-cam. This is transformative, so there really isn’t anything to fear. I guess it’s the fact they don’t want to be threatened by a lawsuit due to licensing since they most likely have restrictions. These are safe to post, but it’s licensing issues.
there’s something so frightening about the use of the guard in this show man. they’re shown as both the tortured and the torturer in a way?? it’s like a cycle of abuse and i don’t know it’s gorgeous tho. sinnerman is my favorite show of all time and i love picking it apart
We all know and love this part 9:00 I don’t know how to explain it but this sound is what it feels like to be freed. Would literally eat this ballad if I could, the way it comes together perfectly is crazy
Coolest show in existence even the opening hits are awesome, also vocals were not over used or weird like blue coats (although they were still good) , vocals were awesome as story telling and entrances to hits
@@Jackson._Euph3879 I think this show conserved the vocals really well and like evil whispering was not heavy vocals or there is no peace sayith by god to the wicked is just one line not something like “I went to the garden of love and I saw I saw I saw I saw I saw I saw I saw gravestones I saw I saw i saw
I think sadly the opening horn entrance section suffered a lot from alignment issues between the hornline and drumline, and would have garnered a lot more points from the judges if it was more in time.
I'm just here pre-gaming for 2024. Can't wait to see how Mandarins follow this up. I can already tell the ballad is going to be incredible. And Trombone Shorty? Yes, please...
I will be seeing them tomorrow at Stanford. Haven't followed DCI in ages. Saw they placed 6th last year, and am blown away by this performance. Gave me so many chills.
Got to see this live at the DCI Eastern Classic Aug. 5th. The show and performers were absolutely outstanding. Gave me chills to watch in person and it still gives me chills just to watch the video. Incredibly talented team. You should be very proud of what you’ve accomplished this season. Best wishes for continued success in everything that you do!
If this corps had a boring show, they never would have achieved so much. The writers deserve a ton of credit for getting them a program that they could get into and perform the crap out of it. One of the most entertaining shows the last 10 years. Great job staff!
This show is an absolute stunner - even if you removed the brass, percussion and drill and just considered the use of color, props, spacing, etc. So well-designed and beautiful to look at! It is great to see the Mandarins coming into their own as one of the top corps. I am a fan!
This has likely become my favorite show of all time. Congrats to each and every performer this year, and I cannot wait to see what you bring next year.
Everything about this show it absolutely fantastic! The mandarins should have placed higher. The performance level is out of the roof and i love it. Planning on joining the mandarins this 2024 season💜💜💜
Sat 3rd row from the field on the 50. The performance level from the whole group was outstanding. Best energy of all finals imo. The two soloists at the 4.25 mark are fantástico! Also.. that ballad hit HARD at finals.
A few mistakes but honestly it is the only show from this year that I actually want to watch again. You can tell that there was so much fun just putting this show together.
DCI fans pull hard for the corps that finally puts it together and makes a splash! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 This show was so well built. It was an experience to see it live.
The sound quality was outstanding (live). So glad you guys came all the way east this summer. I brought family who had never seen DCI and they were impressed.
@@TheMockmj BAC’s Animal farm is a trip, BlueCoats “tilt” is pretty awesome as well! If you like fun shows, I would check out some of the Velvet knights old shows if you can find decent footage. Sadly they are no longer a corp.
Honestly wasn’t into it at first, but the ballad made everything come together. Took me a few listens to figure out what song it was but once it hit me?? Incredible. Also I know facial expressions have to be extreme to read from far away but this show is unique in that those extreme features _add_ to the show when viewed closer rather than detracting from it. Incredible work all around.
This is a smart show design, supported by a stage set that does double-duty. The racks of jail cell bars create a prison setting, but also turn into a mechanized cycle where the victims are stuck churning in a prison-for-profit system. This show is era-specific, but the heavy present-day social commentary seethes quietly under the surface. In Sinnerman, the pleasant metaphor of 1950's good guy American crooks belies the grim topic underneath-- our present-day prison for profit system is still wringing men dry of their futures. They get life sentences for petty crimes, like marijuana trafficking and auto theft, destined for repeat offenses. Regular, law-abiding, churchgoing citizens are eventually all sucked into the prison system, transforming them from white cassock adorned acolytes into prisoners. Design matters. And in this case, the show was rewarded for high stakes social commentary, and a powerful, dizzying visual metaphor.
That moment at 3:18 really takes the cake for me... Choosing not to resolve the augmented 5th (while still including the 5th of the chord) is such a ridiculous arranging choice and I have no idea why on earth it works but it just. DOES
Whenever a corps posts an official video like this, they become 100x cooler in my book
it's more so if they're allowed to due to copyright stuff
I'm just glad we're almost out of the "buy a $60 blu-ray or never see the show again" era.
This is something, if copyright allows them, that every corps should be doing. Phantom has been doing it since 2021 and I have huge respects for them.
real
Hellll yea
This is how shows should be put on UA-cam. Official versions that promote the corps social media, aren’t at risk of being taken down, and are easy to find and archive. Phantom, and now Mandarins, are playing the game right.
Also mm good drum corps
blue devils does it too, I wish bluecoats would make an official account. it's funny that they have an Instagram but not a youtube.
Im pretty sure the reason a lot of corps dont is cause they dont keep the copyright forever
Blue knights too, I think it’s just most of the finalist corps
@@uncle6431Yeah, the video would be demonetized at most, they wouldn’t be strikes to my knowledge for the same reason cover songs exist on UA-cam. This is transformative, so there really isn’t anything to fear. I guess it’s the fact they don’t want to be threatened by a lawsuit due to licensing since they most likely have restrictions. These are safe to post, but it’s licensing issues.
I would give almost anything to watch this for the first time again
This has got to be the best ballad I've seen in a minute. The use of trombones in DCI this year has been amazing too.
how many have you seen in this minute?
@@sanderschat quite a few: they're all really good but this one goes the hardest in my opinion
yeah between This and Phantom the trombones soloing this year have been something insane
Cirque do Soleil strikes again! NOT drum corps!
@@d.holmes5156I'm so tired of you old men ruining everyone else's enjoyment of drum corps.
there’s something so frightening about the use of the guard in this show man. they’re shown as both the tortured and the torturer in a way?? it’s like a cycle of abuse and i don’t know it’s gorgeous tho. sinnerman is my favorite show of all time and i love picking it apart
It was such an epic show. My kid was one of the contras. His uniform makes a great Halloween costume 😂
I want to feel what that trombone soloist felt during the Hozier ballad hit I like to imagine it was heaven on earth
Not today, FloMarching!
11:57 Word is that he's still spinning to this day
We all know and love this part 9:00 I don’t know how to explain it but this sound is what it feels like to be freed. Would literally eat this ballad if I could, the way it comes together perfectly is crazy
Hozier will do that to you
eat you say? well hahaha.... lets just say i could be a ballad too 👉👈
@@BootyWizard512 Smooth…🫢
I may be late, but this indeed was smooth asf @@BootyWizard512
YES ACCESS I am a band director of a very poor k12 school and have to keep showing baking videos to expose them to different recipes.
Common Mandarins W
Let's agree we're all here for 8:59
This is literally my favorite show of all time
we’re so blessed that corps have entered their accessibility era
You mean like easier to find online?
8:29 underrated soloist fr, she is sooo good
She definitely gets overshadowed by the big hit about 30 seconds later
The entire DCI community has been loving you Mandarins you guys are absolutely on the rise and I’m so happy for y’all. AMAZING JOB SINNERMEN
Coolest show in existence even the opening hits are awesome, also vocals were not over used or weird like blue coats (although they were still good) , vocals were awesome as story telling and entrances to hits
Uh idk they seemed overused to me and they sounded really weird
@@Jackson._Euph3879 I think this show conserved the vocals really well and like evil whispering was not heavy vocals or there is no peace sayith by god to the wicked is just one line not something like “I went to the garden of love and I saw I saw I saw I saw I saw I saw I saw gravestones I saw I saw i saw
@@clamchowder893 well there were multiple like the songs throughout that sounded like they had really bad auto tune
I think sadly the opening horn entrance section suffered a lot from alignment issues between the hornline and drumline, and would have garnered a lot more points from the judges if it was more in time.
crazy hot take, if you're talking about the bluecoats vocals used for Riffs then I disagree, the vocals fit in with the show well
I'm just here pre-gaming for 2024. Can't wait to see how Mandarins follow this up. I can already tell the ballad is going to be incredible. And Trombone Shorty? Yes, please...
I will be seeing them tomorrow at Stanford. Haven't followed DCI in ages. Saw they placed 6th last year, and am blown away by this performance. Gave me so many chills.
7:58 8:58 9:44 THERE’S NO PISS ️🔥
Got to see this live at the DCI Eastern Classic Aug. 5th. The show and performers were absolutely outstanding. Gave me chills to watch in person and it still gives me chills just to watch the video. Incredibly talented team. You should be very proud of what you’ve accomplished this season. Best wishes for continued success in everything that you do!
Same here, I was in the 2nd row up on the 50, the crowd went nuts for this show
I was there too! absolutely blown away, this was easily my favorite show that night
A-town, Sec J, a few rows up,, on the 40 ydline. Mandarins were excellent that night!
i watch this show at least once a week, it keeps me motivated to improve and one day be apart of the mandarins guard!
If this corps had a boring show, they never would have achieved so much. The writers deserve a ton of credit for getting them a program that they could get into and perform the crap out of it. One of the most entertaining shows the last 10 years. Great job staff!
this had to be the crowd favorite when i saw them at san antonio. huge standing ovation for this corps. the show was magnificent
This show is an absolute stunner - even if you removed the brass, percussion and drill and just considered the use of color, props, spacing, etc. So well-designed and beautiful to look at! It is great to see the Mandarins coming into their own as one of the top corps. I am a fan!
11:34 I appreciate how the flugel is just unceremoniously dumped in the prop
low brass got their well deserved time this year. this show brings me a joy i can’t explain
This has likely become my favorite show of all time. Congrats to each and every performer this year, and I cannot wait to see what you bring next year.
Easily my favorite show from 2023. INCREDIBLE SHOW guys
Flomarching: You will pay to watch DCI shows!!!
Mandarins:
Mandarins: hehe youtube go brrrr
Just WOW!!!!!! Incredible! Well done, super super choreography and dynamite instrumentation!!
Everything about this show it absolutely fantastic! The mandarins should have placed higher. The performance level is out of the roof and i love it. Planning on joining the mandarins this 2024 season💜💜💜
All up to cleanliness in terms of score, but the show design is crazy good, I'd check out EMC for his rating based solely on the design of the shows.
Sinnerman was one helluva show and was certainly a strong contender for fan favorite of 2023!
Sat 3rd row from the field on the 50. The performance level from the whole group was outstanding. Best energy of all finals imo. The two soloists at the 4.25 mark are fantástico! Also.. that ballad hit HARD at finals.
I listen to this show almost everyday it’s always stuck in my head. So good
MY FAVORITE BALLAD THIS YEAR 100%
A few mistakes but honestly it is the only show from this year that I actually want to watch again. You can tell that there was so much fun just putting this show together.
My fav show this year, one of my new all time faves
DCI fans pull hard for the corps that finally puts it together and makes a splash! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This show was so well built. It was an experience to see it live.
Saw this at Corps Encore... Marching band has never been the same, it's absolutely legendary, the wall of sound 😮
Maybe one of my favourite shows of all time wow. That was so well done both design and performance, loved every second of that show!
This is just a masterclass in visual performance.
LOVED IT.. RIP Nina Simone
8:59 might be my favorite moment in a dci show period
One of the most beautiful shows I've seen come out of DCI in a very long time. Bravo, simply spectacular..
The sound quality was outstanding (live). So glad you guys came all the way east this summer. I brought family who had never seen DCI and they were impressed.
2:36 first trumpet feature I love very much
4:01 trumpet solo and low brass feature I love it
8:28 omg her solo is so good
its so cool to see all these people in person then watch a video of them and be like damn thats them
What a great show. Visually the most entertaining for sure.
this was my favorite show of 2023
My favorite show this year...
Best show of 2023 I feel. 👏
One of my favorite shows this season. Congrats Mandarins
You guys should’ve been top 5, no questions asked
Cap.
Best performance of the night!!!!
It sure was a show! These kids performed the heck out of it 😊
Need to share this everywhere!!!
The tuba sound in this show especially 9:36 oh my god
My kid was one of the tubas 😊
That’s literally all synth
The amount of times I’ve rewatched this
This is one of the greatest DCI shows I have ever seen. Holy smokes.
i guess you haven’t seen a lot of shows
@@nismo29 Correct! Any shows you would recommend for someone who enjoyed this one?
@@TheMockmj Good recent show similar to this would be Troopers 2024 “Dance with the Devil” 👍
@@nismo29ummm, not really that similar…
@@TheMockmj BAC’s Animal farm is a trip, BlueCoats “tilt” is pretty awesome as well! If you like fun shows, I would check out some of the Velvet knights old shows if you can find decent footage. Sadly they are no longer a corp.
They are freaking AMAZING
I watched yall all the way from first show to DCI finals. Call me intreeged to audition for them in the next coming years.
This was talent and hard work wrapped in one.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
nice dot buddy
Hey let’s be locked in, yeah?
@@oscarshetler6304aye quiet down yeah
DAMN! Great show!
I want one of those drum lines outfits so badly
Iconic show
Honestly wasn’t into it at first, but the ballad made everything come together. Took me a few listens to figure out what song it was but once it hit me?? Incredible. Also I know facial expressions have to be extreme to read from far away but this show is unique in that those extreme features _add_ to the show when viewed closer rather than detracting from it. Incredible work all around.
GUYS WAKE UP MANDARINS JUST POSTED
Amazing!
I love this show
Excellent show!
I hope more cores media teams follow you and phantoms trend cause this is really cool of y'all
This is a smart show design, supported by a stage set that does double-duty. The racks of jail cell bars create a prison setting, but also turn into a mechanized cycle where the victims are stuck churning in a prison-for-profit system. This show is era-specific, but the heavy present-day social commentary seethes quietly under the surface. In Sinnerman, the pleasant metaphor of 1950's good guy American crooks belies the grim topic underneath-- our present-day prison for profit system is still wringing men dry of their futures. They get life sentences for petty crimes, like marijuana trafficking and auto theft, destined for repeat offenses. Regular, law-abiding, churchgoing citizens are eventually all sucked into the prison system, transforming them from white cassock adorned acolytes into prisoners.
Design matters. And in this case, the show was rewarded for high stakes social commentary, and a powerful, dizzying visual metaphor.
yapper
RIP the greatest piano player and singer Nina
This recipe tastes just right
ive been a fan since life rite after🤗
That one part at the end of the ballad sounds like the pitch bend from the end of tilt
One of the best
9:00 is heat fs
That moment at 3:18 really takes the cake for me... Choosing not to resolve the augmented 5th (while still including the 5th of the chord) is such a ridiculous arranging choice and I have no idea why on earth it works but it just. DOES
10:35 is fire 🔥🔥🔥
Easily one of my favorite shows since Babylon
Good marketing for this hobby! Great content!
My friend was in this
No way flos mics did justice to this
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY I LOVE THIS
Massive W
Better watch out... JW Koester and his staff are building an absolute POWERHOUSE in Sactown.
ABSOLUTELY GOATED
Trombone soloist is absolutely cracked.
3:24 yeaaaaah. Im digging that
0:27 me when I can’t find the cinnamon
I know! That's my baby and the camera missed so much. This particular show, especially.
Can we normalize each corps posting their offical finals performance ❤
TROMBONESSSSSSSSSS
6:09 I didn't even notice they hang upside down
LETS GOOOOO
the bass five was my school's drum tech last season
Ok?
@@TopDrumCorps he's cool
We got Phantom's bass two as our tech. Easily one of the coolest people I've ever met.
#sacramentoproud
2:35 reminds me of crown 2016 what a cool moment
You know these people have really wanted to do this 😢 I do too
I just noticed how there were baritone players playing the brass feature 6:13 upside down.😭😭