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Endre - I Kill For You (Probspot Remix) sounds alot better pitched up 5 bpms or something

I find I tend to usually pitch stuff up rather than down

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Originally posted by Darkarbiter Electric universe-stardiver sounds awesome faster. Also dude wtf... 180 to 145... that would sound shit. The melodies would be all slow and boring.

It actually brings out the melody much more than at full pace

i tend to pitch down alot a fair amoun of the house stuff i play. like the creamer & k remix of rachael starr, it's normally at 128, i play it at the 122-124 range. same goes for the hundred birds remake of blackwater it's at 133 which is a bit to fast for it's nature and it sits a bit sweeter in the mid 120's.

the jam & spoon in dub of go has that sweet dubreggae part that just is alot better if you play it at 45, i did an extended re-edit just based on that part

There are quite a few tracks that I pitch up or down when listening. It all depends on the BPM they were played at when I first heard them. If the production BPM is faster or slower it sounds odd compared to my first experience of the tune.

E.G.
Planisphere - Symphotek. First heard this on an Above & Beyond CD played at around 135. The production BPM on the track is around 128, so I always pitch this up.

modulation spirits cosmicman remix

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Originally posted by THE_Chris I find a lot of goa (recent stuff especially) is far too high BPM. Take Khetzal - Ganesha Pramana for instance and take it down from 180 to about 145bpm and you've got a savage track.

Ganesha Pramana is on 160 BPM lol. And I like it the way it is (well, if I have to be honest, I never tried pitching it down).

On topic:
Astral Projection - Another World sounds great pitched up a bit.

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Originally posted by nefardec amba - shinkansen

+1

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Originally posted by Magadansky Ganesha Pramana is on 160 BPM lol. And I like it the way it is (well, if I have to be honest, I never tried pitching it down). On topic: Astral Projection - Another World sounds great pitched up a bit.

since i mix new and old goa together, i tend to play the old pitched up to fit in, roughly 144bpm give or take, so i have to agree that one sounds good pitched up

Bellone - Labrynth

Sounds incredibly painfully slow at 0%. Gotta pitch it to +5

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Originally posted by Prototrance There are quite a few tracks that I pitch up or down when listening. It all depends on the BPM they were played at when I first heard them. If the production BPM is faster or slower it sounds odd compared to my first experience of the tune.

And if you had posted this on page 1, this thread would have been shutdown, owned, done for kaput...because you're exactly right.

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Originally posted by Prototrance There are quite a few tracks that I pitch up or down when listening. It all depends on the BPM they were played at when I first heard them. If the production BPM is faster or slower it sounds odd compared to my first experience of the tune.

And if you had posted this on page 1, this thread would have been shutdown, owned, done for kaput...because you're exactly right.

Sash! - Multiply Teaser, pitched up

To the thread starter, yeah there's quite a few tracks that are too slow or fast and sound way better at the normal speed of what I want to mix with. And of course I always have to change pitch of records to match the tempo of the record that started the set. Sometimes I'll normalize once a record is mixed but usually not. Usually in a set I'm going for specific tempo/mood not trying to play every track as it was originally made. It all still sounds awesome.

*edit - to add to that, when starting a set, I put on the record to start and figure out where it sounds best to me. Sometimes it's at 0, sometimes just a little off of 0, sometimes WAYYY off. After that usually I'll just match the records to that. I can't think of anything specific offhand except for when I used to mix some house remixes of bjork tracks in with house sets. They were usually really slow so had to be pitched up all the way...sometimes couldn't be pitched up enough on 1200's with only +- 8.

So many sound better with adjustment, but off the top of my head: Ozgur Can - Spara Mig needs to be kicked way up from around 120 to 130.

CLSM - Sound of the Future I think it's orignally 160bpm.

Drop it down to 145 and it just sounds way better.

Hammer & Bennett - Language (Santiago Nino Dub Tech Mix)

this tech madness must be played at 140

Bedrock - Voices (DJ Remy mix) sounds a lot better pitched up, IMO, as does a lot of 2step/UK garage...

Tom Middleton - Shinkansen (The Odyssey). It's natural BPM is too fast. I drop it down to -6% (Roughly 124 BPM, ala Danny Howells 2007 EM) and it's absolutely brilliant.

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Originally posted by cmay119 Tom Middleton - Shinkansen (The Odyssey). It's natural BPM is too fast. I drop it down to -6% (Roughly 124 BPM, ala Danny Howells 2007 EM) and it's absolutely brilliant.

Someone already beat you to it bro

And I knew people were gonna bring that tune up...seems EVERYONE likes it pitched lower.

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Originally posted by IpLaYWiTLiGhTs Someone already beat you to it bro And I knew people were gonna bring that tune up...seems EVERYONE likes it pitched lower.

D'oh! I skimmed the thread first, but failed to find it.

EDIT: Ah, I now see Nefardec called it "Amba - Shinkansen" that's what threw me off, I was searching for 'Tom Middleton'.

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Originally posted by cmay119 Tom Middleton - Shinkansen (The Odyssey). It's natural BPM is too fast. I drop it down to -6% (Roughly 124 BPM, ala Danny Howells 2007 EM) and it's absolutely brilliant.

Two of us mentioned it, actually.

And yeah, Danny Howells' EM is exactly where I heard the track first, and when I used it in my demo I also slowed it down.

AH! I missed it twice?! Goodness. WMC has truely destroyed what was left of anything coherent in my head...

Well, sorta... to be fair, I just "plus one'ed" the Amba one.

I went through a short lived kinda gimmicky phrase where I played a lot of proggy tunes pitched waaaay down to around 110 bpm, so they came out really trippy and druggy. Usually the more melodic they were, the better. I built a mix around Sasha's remix of Depeche Mode - Precious pitched down around there, but as I said, it was kinda a gimmick--just regular tunes listened to in a different way.

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