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SYSTEM-J
IDKFA.
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester
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Jan-10-2019 10:51
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Sand Leaper
Tension hunter
Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Oslo, Norway
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Jan-10-2019 12:52
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Sand Leaper
Tension hunter
Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Oslo, Norway
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Finally gave SYS-J's mix a listen as well. I get much of the same impression here as with ziptnf's mix, namely that the precision and structuring of the mix is almost clinical, which is always impressive. You can easily hear the points where it becomes clear to the DJ that the night is still young, and therefore, it's important to keep your powder dry until a few more hours in. I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary with the transitions themselves, either.
Even though progressive house is too clean and streamlined for me to really get into these days, the few bits and pieces that stood out from that still meshed well with the meat and potatoes of the mix, such as the Hardfloor tunes, Das Glockenspiel and the Watson/DeGeorgio collab. It makes me wonder how much further outside the genre norm you could have taken it without killing the groove, perhaps with some breaks? No complaints beyond that, though.
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Jan-22-2019 13:41
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SYSTEM-J
IDKFA.
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester
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So, I finally got through Jan's mix on a slightly hungover Saturday afternoon spent ironing, tidying up, cooking and general living room pottering.
Assessing this mix is interesting because it is based on an actual event, and as with many live sets, what makes sense at home and what made sense at the time are not necessarily the same. Case in point: I found the opening half hour of this a bit of an odd one. After a very lovely opener, you proceeded to get into a party-ish and somewhat goofy vibe very quickly, leaving me at times feeling like I'd wandered into an abandoned Avalanches demo. My conclusion at this point was that the bar in question must have been fairly lively, but before much longer you got into some lovely mellow Chicago-ish tackle from D'Marc Cantu and Jeremiah R and the mood suddenly became a whole lot deeper and more introspective. At this point the mix transformed into a much more conventional dance music set and built up in a fairly linear manner for the next two hours or so. When you went back into some disco and funk after that it made much more sense, as the mood had been steadily building up for quite a while.
Again, without being there, it's hard to judge exactly why you went with that opening half hour or how well it did the intended job. For me, however, this mix starts properly around The Lodge, and anything prior to that can be safely discarded (in particular I couldn't stand that "Plastico" track, Latin music in general being a total musical blind spot for me). Once that's out of the way, however, there's plenty of great music to be found in here, riding a nice balance between variation and cohesion. I particularly enjoyed the way you wrapped it up with the last two tracks. Not everything was to my taste, but that's an almost inevitable byproduct of an eclectic set.
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Mixes:
> Back To Deep [Deep Trippy House]
> Terra Nova [Modern Progressive Trance]
> Rough & Ready [Modern Trance]
>A Different Energy [Good Modern Trance]
> The Edale Mix [Panoramic Beats]
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