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The track at 43.20 is Unreleased Gem, by the way Stu. And I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Another very enjoyable mix, Jack. I don't know if it was just me but the overall feel of the mix really took a turn going into 'Unreleased Gem', wicked tune...to me quite reminiscent of remixes of Pete Lazonby's 'Sacred Cycles'.

Really enjoyed the remaining tunes on the mix too! More great productions from Hypnotic Duo and Michael & Levan/Stiven Rivic, can't say no to that!

Grabbed this a few days ago but haven't been able to give it a proper listen yet, just skirmished a bit through it. Sounds exactly like the kind of music I was looking for.

Really loving this mix here, very reminiscent of the first disk of Balance 006, especially "Bound For Ascension" (god I love this song) and "Underground Sounds". I love the mix of breaks and 4x4 stuff, and it has a steady amount of the lush soundscapes your mixes are known for.

Gave it a proper listen earlier tonight. Great tracks and mixing, but the absolute highlight for me was the track that kicks in at min 24. That bass line is pure greatness.

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Originally posted by Mr Game+Watch Really loving this mix here, very reminiscent of the first disk of Balance 006, especially "Bound For Ascension" (god I love this song) and "Underground Sounds". I love the mix of breaks and 4x4 stuff, and it has a steady amount of the lush soundscapes your mixes are known for.

Yeah, I totally thieved Bound For Ascension from Anthony Pappa (not so much Underground Sound because I'm a long-time lover of Fretwell). I loved the opening to that Balance compilation, but felt he didn't really build the momentum enough after he played Ascension, so I wanted to really make it the focal point of this mix, the big moment.

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Originally posted by Chimney Gave it a proper listen earlier tonight. Great tracks and mixing, but the absolute highlight for me was the track that kicks in at min 24. That bass line is pure greatness.

The track at 24 minutes is Stefan Anion - Strangers. Great track indeed, very simple and effective, and I love the subtleties of his percussion programming - the way each clap in a bar is a different sample, and so on.

Downloading. Haven't listen to much new Prog in years just the older stuff, hopefully this will rekindle it.

Also I just have to say that your mix 'Lush' was done very nicely, the programming is splendid. Are you thinking of making another retro mix?

No plans to do another retro mix. I will always throw an old track into a mix if I think it fits, though. I'm glad you enjoyed Lush but personally I wish I'd waited a little bit before doing that mix, I could have done it better with some tracks that I didn't have at the time.

I know what you mean, whenever I would do mixes in the past whilst buying new records left and right I'd look back a lot and say this record would have been better at this part, etc. Still a solid mix for one of your early shares.

Haha, I've been sharing mixes on TA since 2007, man. Lush was far from an early effort. Did loads of retro mixes at one point.

Gave it a listen. Prog not really my biggest thing, but some nice buzzing basslines and pads and shit, enjoyed some of the tunes.

Gave this one a listen, although i probably shouldn't have. But i guess there's no harm done.

The mixing and selection was excellent. But i was already quite frustrated with the music it contained and this one seems quite an appropriate final nail-in-the-coffin since at least i can't fault the mixing for it.

Admittedly i did get sucked in for a lot of it, as much as i felt like a sucker for that. It truly is the the best old-school mixing music there is, with ever so warm and stellar production. But after about an hour i got a bit tired of differentiating the one plinky-plonk melody overlayed with soft breakbeats and side-chained baseline from the other.

What I'm getting from this thread is that we're all getting pretty damn bored of prog.

Well I quite enjoyed it, got me through a particularly nasty journey up to a conference last week (theres a reason I live close enough to the office to avoid the tube). My only complaint, if you can really call it that, would be that I kinda wanted a bigger peak around track 11, the ending felt a little flat I guess.

But yeah, good stuff, will stay on the player for a while

Cheers Dave. What kind of big peak would you use at 130bpm?

Finals are over. Listening. Now.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J What I'm getting from this thread is that we're all getting pretty damn bored of prog.

Speak for yourselves

I'm pretty sure I was the first person to download this and I am sad I wasn't the first to hear it. Absolutely loved it, man. I thought the flow was great. That DSO track is one of my favorites on Bedrock, but I've always had some problems working it in. You did a great job building up to it and then moving on to the more standard 4/4. It was actually the only song I had heard before, so I'm glad I can look into the other tracks for more new stuff.

No complaints to be had. Will definitely give many more listens

Thanks man, you did get world exclusive news of it on Last.fm. Although I guess if you've not heard any of these tracks before you've not really listened to much post-2002 prog, which is probably why you're not bored of this sound yet.

Great selections all around. I do get tired of prog after I overdo it, but its always a sound I can come back to after a few months and enjoy again.

Really like the choice of the last track, still my favorite release from Mistique. Absolutely massive.

Thanks for the listen.

Cheers. I've been wanting to use that remix of Wind City in a mix ever since it came out, I thought it was a pretty epic way to close this one.

This progged well with me. Nicely done intro and some really smooth mixing. PROFESSIONAL. Profound. Overall I enjoyed this, but I must echo similar sentiments in this thread and say that I'm overly bored of this sound in full sets. A sweet, functionally well executed mix in all aspects.

Thanks man. If Austin is bored of prog, then prog is officially over.

Haha, yeah... I mean, it's not even necessarily that prog sound, because I still love all the elements. I just can't listen to hour+ long progathons anymore, much less mix prog for more than like, 20 minutes or so in a set.

I still think this type of music is great for throwing down in sets, and I think it works in a lot more places than people will give it credit for, if done right.

Just saw this. will download ASAP.

I listened to this today in full from start to finish (it's rare that I do that lately) and this mix just blew me away, honestly. I mean I knew more or less what I was in store for but the flow and progression from one track to the next is something I could not have predicted and you've managed to pull it off extremely well. I think that you are a lot like me in terms of your mindset when putting sets together. When so many DJs and tracks these days are about the hear and the now and celebrating the moment, we try to take the listener somewhere else completely, regardless of where that place might be. Except you pull it off way better than me. Good job Jack, this was a very memorable one. Sorry I didn't leave my thoughts earlier. The setting was perfect tonight as I had just smoked a nice blunt of some hydro and a ton of snow had just fallen and I was outside and there was just this awesome feeling in the air and this set worked perfectly in that context

edit: and just to comment on what some others have said regarding this sound getting tired...I can see how that might be the case when you listen to this kind of music but I haven't in a while and don't do so too often these days so it was really nice.

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