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Originally posted by Adam420 Thanks man! I was thinking maybe the SS crowd might like this too?

Yeah, I was already thinking of posting it there but I have to wait until I get home too

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Originally posted by Adam420 I know I have a wierd way of communicating things. Was wondering if there's any chance of getting a perma-link for this one as to help those who are experiencing difficulties with their downloads.

Man, I'm dense. Sorry

Linky:

http://www.sushipunk.net/TA%20Stuff...m%20Solomon.mp3

Edit: Fuck, Oscar was going to do it anyway

Thank you kind sir

This is wicked man. I'm a sucker for good grooves and melodies and this delivers.

Thanks man, really glad you're enjoying it!

Yeah, this is a great mix Adam, super smooth tunes. I've given it about 4 listens now, and it's going to get plenty more.

Nice work Adam. I found some of the transitions a bit jarring, such as the one at 35:40, but there was nothing in there that really ruined the flow of the mixing.

Your real strength with this mix is that you've gone for such incredibly melodic tracks. A lot of deep house/deep tech can becoming boring when it's just loops and loops of percussion with little melody, but you've avoided that trap admirably. The mix held my attention the whole way through because of this; some of the melodies were sheer bliss.

The track at the 33 minute mark reminded me of Wakanapi.

You should check out Little Big Bee's work on beatport if you like this kind of music. Their album Waterman is really fantastic.

this did make me want to leave work today and go to the hotel de la montagne's roof for some lunchtime cocktails. who knows maybe i will and skip the rest of the day.

the track selection was very well pulled off. Some of the mixing was a little umm "funny", but good tracks and mood are good enough to make this a must listen to for those of you who would like something nice to have as background music.

do you have a controller yet? or is this still point and click mixing?

Domesticated:

Thank you for giving this a go. I will in fact listen to your slow psy mix on the way home today and will have feedback later. I am quite excited as I haven't
listened to good psy in a long time.

I'm glad that you enjoyed my mix and felt that the track selection was interesting. Usually when I make a mix (one I plan to do anyway) I'll devote 90% of
my effort to finding good tracks and arranging them in the best way possible. I kind like to think that when I do this, the tracks sort of mix themselves
(I'm sure you now what I mean). This is often the case, and I guess that method has its disadvantages.

And I agree about the overly loopy music that's been making the rounds recently. I too have started to become a bit bored of it. Will definitely be checking out
your recommendation later as well.

Jay:

Of course I am really happy that you felt I had put together something that you feel is quite good, especially to the point that you'd recommend it to others.
As I said above, it's really all track selection and the mixing has taken somewhat of a backseat, however not to the point where it was neglected in any way.

I am currently using hot keys to mix (lamesauce, I know) and as you can hear I have (ab)used the fuck out of the low kill in this mix. Controller is coming next week
though

missed this...in.

looks great Adam, on it

3rd page

BUMP

And thanks again to everyone who listened

adam buddy I've been hearing this the past week ,i'll write what i think about it pretty soon .

Cool, now that Sushi's hosting I'll be able to grab. Am looking forward to hearing this, the tl looks pretty interesting.

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Originally posted by djhaziel adam buddy I've been hearing this the past week ,i'll write what i think about it pretty soon .

I eagerly await your comments Especially considering there are no African chants or conga drums in this mix

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Originally posted by Mr Game+Watch Cool, now that Sushi's hosting I'll be able to grab. Am looking forward to hearing this, the tl looks pretty interesting.

Look forward to reading your comments. By the way, I am sorry for bumping this thread again, but I wanted to leave you with some feedback re: you last mix as I think it would take me some time to find the thread.

I listened to it today (actually to be honest, there's like 2 minutes left and it's about to be done) but I honestly enjoyed this. Some familiar tracks in there but that never hurts. You had a very cool disco groove throughout which I enjoyed. Some great tracks and the mixing was really smooth. One transition that stood out to me was around the 27 minute mark, and that felt slightly rushed IMO. It wasn't disturbing by any means, but I guess it wasn't as smooth as the other transitions.

The only thing I would have done if this were my mix, is maybe throw a couple of tracks before Droplets. Just something a little slower, a little mellower, to get things started. I mean Droplets is by no means a peak time track (I wouldn't think so) but it would have been nice to maybe have a couple of tracks before it which would have helped develop the overall flow a little better.

Anyway that's what I though. Good job overall.

here comes the review from the conga man aka Juan Pachanga Junior

It's fun to see that you move from two different marked styles (techno and deep house ), I can't decide which one of them suits you best . but i can say that you play both of them splendidly.

I enjoyed this mix very much. Even though it is deep house i felt that you were on the touching edge of playing progressive house on some ocassions.


I really liked how you started , this mix is what i've being listening to the last couple days when I was working out , the start was floaty with a touch of melancholy that builts up until you hit a nerve when you drop "tornike - No negatives " I fucking love that track dude and i got all emotional and shit on how it was perfectly dropped I don't know man is probably one of the reasons I stopped listening to this sort of music . Nothing bad about it mate I just dont want to shed a tear while I'm working out


I like how you mix by the way , i didnt know that you use hot keys to mix, which is cool because it reminded me that when I first started out I was just mixing on my keyboard . it was fun ... it feels like you are typing the music. and yeah I used a lot the kill buttons and the crossfader at 100 x sec

Bodka Spiritual is a sick track , that clarinet is so perfect.

And then you dropped _ Evren ulusoy - vessel , what a gem mate , I went right into my beatport acount and bought it. amazing track it has the elements that I'm always looking for in music.

Maybe So far I would have added a little bit more vocals to it . I dunno i just think that for this sort of music vocals have a big role .

From then on the rest of the mix Imo went pretty steady till the last 20 of it I think the last 20 minutes where not necesary , what i mean is that it pretty much sounds the same so basically it doesnt add anything to the mix .

great job bro , I hope you keep doing more mixes like this one .

Hey thanks for the feedback Haziel. I'm glad that you enjoyed this mix, I've gotten some very nice
feedback on it from a couple of other sources so I think I did pretty well with it. I do of course have
my regrets, but I think that will (almost) always be the case after recording a mix. I am somewhat
surprised you feel I should have neglected the last bit. I do see where you are coming from, but I
thought that the last three tracks are all really nice and as such that I should include them in the
mix. I figured by placing them there, I'd be bringing things down a bit. I suppose though, that this
is a general problem when making mixes (IDK about other people though) in that I often let the
tracks themselves dictate how the mix will pan out. For example in this particular case, I had
purchased a lot of new music beforehand, and although I only ended up including about 60% of
it in this mix, there were a few tracks I felt must be included, and such was the case with the
last three.

As for the hotkey thing, tbh, although I won't be doing that for much longer, I think using a keyboard
for certain functions is no different at all from using a midi controller. All that's different is the shape,
the buttons etc...but you get the same results. Obviously a keyboard doesn't have knobs and
faders which is why ultimately I am (or anyone else) would upgrade.

Sorry it took me so long to respond to this one. Fuck, this was smooth Adam. So many deep, lush melodies in here. Makes me a little sad summer is ending.

You paced it pretty well and there were never any moments where it seemed to drone on, even though it was a bit on the longer side. I'll agree that there were a couple transitions that were a little sudden/jarring, but nothing mix-ruining. I don't listen to a lot of stuff like this but I enjoyed it, keep it up man.

Also...just curious, what software did you use for this?

pure class as always Adam

downloading, expecting it to be great as always adam.

been missing out. dling now

I'm listening to this again. I really like the track at the 62 minute mark. The build-up to get here is great though - I didn't mention that in my first post. I always find hi-hats a nice way to gauge the intensity of a track, and the first tracks are relatively light-on in this respect, while after the first hour things get positively jackin'.

fuck man, this mix is so... pleasant (for lack of a better word). you track selection is absolutely fantastic. really chill. very loungy feel at the beginning, progresses somewhat into "rougher" stuff but not too much. the end was a nice round-up, going back to the style @ the beginning.

i think it's been mentioned, some of your mixing is a bit hectic. i think that's due to the whole mouse/keyboard thing. once you get a nice controller you'll be able to smooth it out. it wasn't terrible by any means, but definitely noticed it in a couple of areas.

it was a good change of pace from all the really techy shit i've been enjoying lately and really gets me in the mood for fall and deep melodic haus!

cheers, brethen.

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Originally posted by Domesticated

You've got a good point - I guess I never really thought about it that way, I think this is something that I tend to do. I'm not sure though, as I think a lot of it is still by way of a subconscious process for me.

And I think the track at the 62 minute mark is the one on Aenaria by Waltek and Tony Maione (not sure though, as it's the following one at 62m20s. But yea that is a great track, and Waltek actually has a new track out on Aenaria called Ottica Deep (Main Mix) which is absolutely great.

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Originally posted by denys envy

Why thank you for the feedback kind sir.

I'm glad you were feeling the music and the way that it progressed. My intention was to put together lots of really melodic tracks that I really like and I think it came off quite nicely overall.

After quite a large number of listens I do agree that some of the mixing was a little off. Good examples I guess is 12 to 13, 13 to 14 (gain too high on 14), 15 to 16 (low freq too high on 16), and 18 to 19 (I just didn't think these two interacted well). I know that's a lot of mistakes to admit but I think they're ones I'll avoid making in the future

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