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| Originally posted by JonDC that 4 minute breakdown in Way Out West - The Fall takes the piss |
Sander Kleinenberg And Lee Burridge � This Is Everybody! On Tour
This album basically marked the end of an Era for me as Sander K being one of my fav DJs. Sander's disc was very sub-par as compared to his previous mix albums. I try to listen to it every now and then but every time I do, i just feel like the flow of the album goes nowhere, even on Lee's disc. a very disppointing album all together.
Danny Tenaglia - Futurism
I think DT tried too hard with this one. Weather he was feeling presure from fans or others about getting another album out there, this album was highly anticipated for a few years and i think it just fell flat on its face. There a few good tracks on both discs but over all, very stale. Some us expected alot more from DT but this was a just terrible.
Markus Schulz � Ibiza '06
I really had high expecations for this one cause Miami 05 was just excellent. But i can say that this one was a big of a let down for myself. I know there are some people on TA who praise this album but i just feel it wasn't all it was supposed to be. It just doesn't have the energy that Miami 05 had and i guess thats my problem with Ibiza 06.
Victor Calderone � Evolve
4 years since Resonate which i thought was a great mix. Evolve only captures a small portion of what Victor's sets were like at Crobar and honestly, it just leaves the listener hanging at the end. This mix did not do Calderone's sets justice. For a guy like Calderone, you can't capture a piece of his set with just a single disc mix. There are some good tracks on there, but i just feel her could have done more with it
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| Originally posted by Scoops Danny Tenaglia - Futurism I think DT tried too hard with this one. Weather he was feeling presure from fans or others about getting another album out there, this album was highly anticipated for a few years and i think it just fell flat on its face. There a few good tracks on both discs but over all, very stale. Some us expected alot more from DT but this was a just terrible. |
Most of the Balance series after Holdens.....
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| Originally posted by Mattsanity. unbelievable, I was thinking about posting this one. good day mate. |
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| Originally posted by Mr Game+Watch Seb Fontaine - Prototype 4 I really liked Prototype #2, from its percussive proto tech house on disk 1 to its lush trance mix on the second disk. But the 4th comp left me scratching my head. Many of the songs had one annoying element in it (like a gay guy with a lisp going "OK everyone start your engines"), or were just extremely bland percussive techno tracks. There was the occasional quality Quivver-esque prog track thrown in there, and I loved the dark and sinister Junkie XL remix of Jpop idol Ayumi Hamasaki's "Vogue", but there was more bad than good. Timo Maas - Balance 18 Picked this up on a whim, since I was a big Timo fan back in 2000 (thanks to the Prototype #2 album mentioned above funny enough). But Timo's new sound just bored the shit out of me. The first quarter of the first disk sounded very promising, with some quality tracks dripping with atmosphere, including one of the few minimal songs I like (DJ Koze's remix of Matthias Kaden's Kawaba), but the rest of it is so bland and forgettable. John Digweed - GU Los Angeles Wait... put down the pitchforks! It's not that this is a bad album, but I have very high expectations for Diggers and this is content to stay in the realm of dark, raw, stripped-down prog for the most part, never quite reaching the highs of MM2, GU Hong Kong, or Bedrock. Sasha and Digweed - Communicate There's no question that the Northern Exposure series is LEGENDARY among EDM fans. So when I heard Sasha and Digweed were teaming up for another comp, I was ecstatic. But this was during the period when trance of the cheddar variety was blowing up worldwide (no disrespect since I love late 90's trance too :P) and S+D were desperate to not be carried along with the tide. So to stand out they went a lot more proggy (and to a lesser extent, techy) with this cut. Which isn't a bad thing, mind you, but it seemed to have lost the experimentation and the Northern Exposure series was known for, and there were even some parts where the mixing wasn't up to S+D's standard. There's still a couple of great cuts on it, namely Schiller - Ruhe (Humate mix), but out of all the pre-2005 S+D stuff this one is the one that I replay the least. Nick Warren - GU Paris Paris came out at the time when GU's relevance was waning, Nick Warren having yet another GU mixcomp was becoming a bit of a running gag, and prog was increasingly taking in more influences from electrohouse, minimal, and tech house. That being said, Reykjavik was one of my favorite albums ever, I enjoyed Shanghai too, and with the decline of melodic prog during the '07 year I was hoping this comp would re-ignite GU a bit. But it seems like I had some lofty expectations for this one... since it felt too disjointed. Disk 1 was Warren trying to recreate the magic from the downtempo, chilled disk 1 of Reykjavik, but it seemed to end prematurely and was missing the haunting melodies of aforementioned Reykjavik set. Disk 2 was a disjointed mess and there were a number of parts where the energy almost seemed to stop. It seemed like Warren was a bit confused where he wanted to take the mix, in a way that feels like a microcosm of the confusion where progressive house as a genre was going. I will say, choosing Eelke Kleijn's amazing track "8-Bit Era" as the peak was a great choice. My biggest disappointment ever would have to be Sasha - Instant Live - Avalon, LA Sasha has been a huge influence on my music tastes, wanting to get into DJing, and the like. When asked what my favorite mixcomp of all time is, I'll respond with GU Ibiza (or ISOS3). So, when this album dropped and I saw a copy at the now-defunct Borders I was all over it like white on rice. But the album was a technical mess. This was Sasha completely moving away from the progressive house that defined his career into a more minimal and tech house influenced path. Yet, he was still attempting to play out the tracks and do long, extended mixes like it was a prog set. The result was a bunch of bleepy bloopy tracks that went on for too long (like the Booka Shade remix of Lindstrom - "I Feel Space"). There are a few nuggets of gold here like the sleek, futurist electrohouse of Gus Gus - Mallflowers, or the bleak, post-apocalytpic minimal of Joel Mull - "Begun The End Has". Since this was a snippet of a liveset, the album lacked the intro - buildup - peaktime - outro of your typical Sasha sets and instead was a mess of different genres lacking cohesion. There were a few clangy mixes and even a spot where an equipment malfunction halted the music for a few seconds. |
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| Originally posted by DOOMBOT Joris Voorn's Balance 014 was also another dissapointment for me. I actually like quite a few tracks in the mix but because he is doing so much layering with other stuff, you really only get to hear what you like for a minute or two. |
Tisk
Global Underground 13 Ibiza Sasha
Worst mix compilation of all time. Major train wrecking, flawed dynamics, invalid key mixing shit just worst peice of trash i ever heard.
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| Originally posted by DrunkenSamurai Tisk Global Underground 13 Ibiza Sasha Worst mix compilation of all time. Major train wrecking, flawed dynamics, invalid key mixing shit just worst peice of trash i ever heard. |
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| Originally posted by Scoops the layering is what makes it soooo good i thought this was the best balance since Holden's.... Voorn's canvas is your mindset, his paint is over 100 tracks and his brushes are his incredible studio skills - and he has painted his masterpiece. Once you start this mix you will notice very quickly that things are not what they seem. You think you are listening to one track, but at times you are listening to four or five, yet it does in fact see like only one. Voorn takes select pieces from each track and uses them to create a product whose whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Knowing some of the tracks just adds to the wow factor, because then you can really see the surgically precise work that Voorn did in the studio to create this work of art. At the ending of both discs, you are left with a feeling that is hard to translate. I was unsure weather to be happy I had the pleasure of listening to what I just did, or to be sad that it was over. However you may feel at the end, the looming question remains... |
i am listening to GU 19, what a fucking solid compilation, the mixing, the programming, the selection.... i doubt i could ever put together something like this.
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| Originally posted by stipsy Dont forget to take your medication tomorrow. |
mauro picotto djmix-albums (meganite etc). dude cant mix for shit, track selection so random, no flow what so ever.
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| Originally posted by Guest Denny Tsettos did a couple of "Welcome To The Underground" mix comp cd's around the same time that Louie Devito was doing his. The levels were out of whack. All mid's and treble, which make the lesser known Mike Macaluso tracks that cd featured that much more difficult to enjoy. I remember sitting in my car in the mall parking lot as an 18 year old "where's the bass??" |
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