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That's a different beast. Either do a "random venue" challenge or a marathon mix challenge. Combining the two would be a massive task if you got lumped with a venue that doesn't suit you.

I'd have to agree with Jack here. I think we should limit the number of "randomly assigned" challenges going forward, as the overall quality of the challenge and the mixes seems to vary. The direct/straightforward themes have always been the most successful. The Science Fiction and Sunday Afternoon challenges produced some of the most high quality, unique, and inspired content to appear on this site.

Im game, definatley up for the marathon set, one of those things ive always wanted to get the motivation to record.

I'm game. No guarantee that the result will be any good but may as well get started!

So when does the poll close?

Yeah, I was meaning to make a post yesterday or today calling it.

The challenge has been selected: 3-6 hour marathon mix

If you haven't signed up yet, no worries! Anyone who wants to participate, go right ahead. There is no time-limit to this mix, so take your time and put out something quality.

I have already started thinking about how I want to approach this one. Definitely a lot of different ways to go about this. I look forward to seeing how everyone interprets and executes the challenge.

Good luck, and happy mixing!

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Originally posted by ziptnf I have already started thinking about how I want to approach this one. Definitely a lot of different ways to go about this. I look forward to seeing how everyone interprets and executes the challenge. Good luck, and happy mixing!

Yeah, me too. Hopefully I'll wrap it up before the end of the summer.

Awesome. Well I'm excited to do my set and I'm confident I can produce something that's gonna be pretty quality. I'd like to say thankyou to Ziptnf for organising this. Listening to the sets made for these series has been quite enjoyable and I'm looking forward to participating as well.

Gonna go for psytrance I think. I'm pretty tempted to do a marathon industrial music set but the last time I attempted one of those it involved me listening to industrial music so much in a week that it felt like it damaged my sanity. Plus I feel like to do something that long and have it be quality would require a vast knowledge of the kind(s) of music you've chosen to include in your set. What genres are you guys going for?

Also, any chance of a suggested due date for this? I'd find it'd help with scheduling it.

The reason I didn't schedule a due date or anything is because we always inevitably have a couple of people who have very busy lives and can't get their mix together in time for various legitimate reasons. This forum isn't buzzing with people like it used to be and there are no prizes in these challenges, so continuing to press people for due dates and completion rates seemed like overkill to me. If you sign up, I'm sure you're doing so because you love music and you like these challenges, so I shouldn't have to harp on you. Either do it or don't, it really doesn't matter that much.

But if you'd like a due date, I think December 31st is good enough. I'm going to try to get mine out in the next month or so.

Love it. Skeeeeeeet

I'm in... but legit no promises on when this will be ready lol. By December 31st at least.

Great, Chris! Glad to have you.

This may be a bit testy to change the rules after the challenge has already started, but I was thinking it might be best to re-define the term "marathon". Currently the rule is 3-6 hours, but I'm unsure of the heart of the challenge.

The term marathon implies a massive undertaking, and a 3 hour mix seems short. That's a nice long slot in a club, but is it a marathon? To me I am wondering if we shouldn't redefine the challenge to be 4+ Hour Marathon mix. The original idea from Jack implied that you are playing from the opening to closing of an establishment, venue, or party, and 3 hours seems too short for that. Also this way we're encouraging 6-8 hour and beyond mixes, if that should suit the DJ.

We can easily just leave it the same, but I am wondering if anyone else agrees with me. At least 4 hours?

I think it's going to be hard to nail the concept of the challenge with a 3 hour set, because I can't think of many contexts where a DJ would play for 3 hours and that be the entire night. I can only imagine a few bars or terraces where that might be the case. But I don't want to arbitrarily restrict it. Someone might come up with a sublime 3 hour Balearic sunset mix with an Ibiza beach bar in their imagination.

If someone takes this as just an opportunity to play 3 hours of music with no effort to link it to the challenge then I will judge that as a failure, even if the mix itself turns out to be enjoyable. I think we've seen instances in the past where someone's rushed a set out within a week of the theme being finalised, and it's clearly been a thinly disguised attempt to get people to listen to a mix they've made, with little engagement with the concept. If I get that vibe from a set, I'll turn it off.

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Originally posted by ziptnf But if you'd like a due date, I think December 31st is good enough. I'm going to try to get mine out in the next month or so.

Cool, thanks for that.

Started a recording today and that thing with ableton that stops recording after two hours happened, all going in the trash. Two hours of trainwrecking fire you are all never gonna hear. Trashed. Till next time.

I contemplated what direction should I take with this one for a while now. I hope that there wont be similar mixes

I'm going to have a stab at recording mine tonight. Finding six free hours is hard enough, spending them stooped over a mixer is even worse. I wonder if these middle aged DJs playing marathon sets ever have a sit down mid-set to give their back a rest.

Right, managed to get mine done. Since I suggested the concept, seems only fair I should be the first into battle. Other people may decide to do terraces or forest raves. I've gone for a straight up underground club: low ceiling, DJ at eye level, 300 capacity crowd. While I was mixing, I had in my imagination places like the Soup Kitchen in Manchester - which is the shown in the artwork - Headrow House in Leeds or The Williamson Tunnels in Liverpool, where I've had the pleasure of seeing DJs like Andrew Weatheral play open-to-close sets many times over the last few years. These smaller city centre clubs are increasingly pinched by licensing laws and sound restrictions, so 10am - 4pm or even 9pm - 3am opening hours are quite common in these smaller venues, rather than 6am or 8am finishes you get in former industrial spaces. I associate the six hour set length with those kind of venues and those kind of nights, getting in the club as soon as it opens and watching someone like Weatherall steadily build the vibe.

Of course, there is an element of fantasy in all of this, because this was recorded in my living room with no crowd in front of me. I've found when a big name DJ does warm up for themselves, the club tends to be fill up a lot quicker than if a local resident is warming up, and I imagined the same privilege for myself. Even so, the club will rarely fill up fully before midnight, and so I tried to keep things realistic. For the first fifteen or twenty minutes I was imagining a club with maybe 10 or 20 people in, most of them still circulating between the bar, the cloakroom and the toilets, others nodding their heads in the middle of the floor and feeling out the sound system. The biggest challenge was keeping a lid on things in these early stages of the set. I've seen some big DJs play this kind of set and take the energy up too quickly - sometimes getting pretty banging after just an hour or so. I tried to hold things back as much as possible before the 2 hour mark when the clock would be hitting midnight and the vibe was ready to shift up a notch.

I had a pretty clear plan of the set beforehand, especially the opening, but once I was in the flow I did change things in a few places, going with my gut over a pre-planned tracklist. I haven't put out a recorded mix for about six months, so most of these tracks have been regulars in my sets for most of the year, and it was quite easy to keep things going. The early part of the set is very much deep, melodic and spacey prog. Getting into peak time there's some tougher tech house, quite a liberal sprinkling of acid and some big euphoric anthems, hopefully all in the right places. The end of the set is more feel-good, for those dancers who survived right to the end. You might say this is business as usual from me, with no big stylistic surprises. I deliberately didn't want to get showy, mixing all sorts of eclectic stuff I'd never normally play. This is how I'd really do it.

The set was recorded in one take in Traktor, on the evening I made the previous post. I just hit Record and had a go. I was conscious quite early on that things were flowing very nicely and I could nail it in the first go. It got to about 2 hours in and it occurred to me I had to keep this up for another four hours. It was a mixture of elation and sheer terror I remember well from when I ran a real marathon: "Shit, this is going really well, but I've still got so far to go." Luckily I managed to get to the end without fucking anything up badly enough to scratch off the recording. I've split it into three parts for ease of digestion, but other than that the recording is exactly how it came out of Traktor.





All Night Long: 2018

PART 1:
01. James Monro - Modular (Hot Tuneik Remix) [Yin]
02. Desyfer - Fourteen 45 [Tactal Hots]
03. Hot Tuneik - Close Encounters [Dopamine]
04. Navar - Exposeur [Sudbeat]
05. Armen Miran - Nani Jan [Sol Selectas]
06. Some Little Things - Allegra [Sudbeat]
07. Padai - Colada [Hydrogen]
08. Kostya Outta - Audio Mix 2 Final 2 [Balkan Connection]
09. Navar - You Find (Dmitry Molosh Remix) [Replug]
10. Lanvary - Akyoomen [Particles]
11. Daniel Glover - A Different Kind Of Space (Dmitry Molosh Remix) [Emotional Content]
12. Matter - Pronoia [Balkan Connection]
13. Kris Davis & Yost - Relentless (Martin Roth Remix) [Constant Circles]
14. Gabriel Ananda - Schnee (Stefano Richetta Remix) [Click]
15. Nicholas Rada - Tempelhof (Dmitry Molosh Remix) [Sound Avenue]
16. Audiojack - Reverie [Crosstown Rebels]
17. Antrim & Analog Jungs - Time To Words [Sound Avenue]
18. Sam Paganini - Survive [JAM]
PART 2:
19. Karmon - Acido [Diynamic]
20. Interaxxis - Thor [Movement]
21. Danny Serrano & Forrest - Transitions (Ramon Tapia Remix) [My Favourite Freaks]
22. Dave Seaman - Voodoo Disarray [Selador]
23. Dee Montero - Fugazi [Selador]
24. Dave Seaman - Hired State Of Unconsciousness [Selador]
25. Damon Jee & Snem K - Dear Humans (DEMIAN Remix) [Rotten City Files]
26. Oliver Schories - Ohm (Ramon Tapia Remix) [SOSO]
27. F.E.M - White Knight [Brique Rouge]
28. Andrea Bertolini - Foliage 1 (Magitman Remix) [Beat Boutique]
29. Cid Inc - Shifter (Orsen Remix) [Soundcloud]
30. Dance 2 Trance - Hello San Francisco (Cid Inc Remix) [Soundcloud]
31. DEF Mike - Kenzo [Moodmusic]
32. Groove Armada Feat Will Young - History (Still Going Remix) [Ministry Of Pies]
33. Hardfloor - Analogue Bubbletea [Hardfloor]
34. Ambitus - Aconite (Hardfloor Remix) [MzZ]
35. Henry Saiz - White Rhythmic Mirror (Marc Marzenit Remix) [Natura Sonoris]
36. Diamond Dealer - Hungry Little Monster [Bedrock]
37. Steve Parry - 303 V [Selador]
38. Hidden Identity - Red Sun [KMS]
39. Maceo Plex & Maars - Mutant DX [Correspondant]
40. Subandrio - Fugue State Of Mind [Sudbeat]
41. Gaston Ponte - Cube (Analog Jungs Remix) [Clinique]
42. Maydan - White Gold [Sudbeat]
PART 3:
43. Noir - Bataille [Tronic]
44. Revolt - Dive Into The Deep [Choo Choo]
45. Mohey - Due East [Besworx]
46. Cristoph Feat Jem Cooke - Feel [Pryda]
47. Rick Pier O'Neil - Feel The Beat (Subconscious Tales Remix) [Suffused]
48. Simon Berry & Luke Brancaccio Feat JDD - Close Your Eyes [Bedrock]
49. Thomas Schumacher - Wake Up [Electric Ballroom]
50. Maya Jane Coles - Won't Let You Down (Paride Saraceni Remix) [I/AM/ME]
51. Cid Inc - Abyss [Replug]
52. Vince Watson & Kirk DeGiorgio - Rise [Suara]
53. Paride Saraceni Feat Monce - Burning [TRUESOUL]
54. Hot Since 82 Feat Jem Cooke - Buggin' [Knee Deep In Sound]
55. 16 Bit Lolitas & Glowfield - 6 O'Clock (Davi Remix) [Bits And Pieces]
56. Schiller - Das Glockenspiel (Humate Remix) [Data]
57. Quivver & Cristoph - In Name Only [Selador]
58. Danny Howells - Isolar [8Bit]
59. The Disco Evangelists - De Niro (Agoria Remix) [Positiva]
60. Nikko.Z - Sungazing (Blood Groove & Kikis Remix) [Particles]
61. Karim Sahraoui - White Horse [Compost]
62. Size Pier - On Stage (F.E.M Remix) [Bluelephant]

Good call splitting it into sections. I've just grabbed all 3. Looking forward to giving this a whirl.

Great job mate! I'll try to listen it tomorrow at work. Looking forward!

Cheers! I'm naturally expecting quite a long wait for feedback on this one.

To go back to my earlier post about back ache while DJing, I recently read an interview with Hernan Cattaneo, and he mentions he has a doctor who comes with him when he plays marathon sets at Stereo in Montreal to give him special stretching exercises mid-set for that exact reason. A luxury outside my pay grade, sadly.

Nah, no need to wait. I've already listened.

My company lets me work from home at my leisure since I have no directly reporting manager in my office. So I sat down and put this on my speakers as the soundtrack to a full work day in my home office. Your sounds were competing with a crying baby and his stressed out mother and sing-along songs from the living room. I treated it mostly as a club patron would, enjoying large bulks of it and also stepping away for short periods. I still caught a vast majority of it though.

This is pretty much exactly what I was envisioning your set to be like. High quality treats stretched over a 6 hour block, complete with outstanding programming and mixing. I didn't mark down any timestamps but there were several points where I was like "okay he's letting people take a breather and get some drinks/smokes" and then later "alright he's smashing again". This process would flow repeatedly and interchangeably throughout the marathon. Most importantly I felt like your timing was precise enough to note exactly when people would probably need to stop dancing for a short period so they could gather themselves and survive the night.

I know the feeling of being hyperaware of your exact position within a marathon or other such event, and it sucks. You have expended a lot of energy and it's not easy to keep it going. This didn't rattle you at all and you kept on throughout the whole gig.

I have a bit of a different thought in my approach to this mix, and I'm nowhere near ready. Still, you have set the gold standard and I'm thrilled to see that the first entry was executed so nicely. Let's hope we get a decent completion rate and create some more memories for our TA DJ's. Thanks for the idea and the mix, mate.

Cheers Nick. I think dipping in and out at certain points is not only inevitable, but it's more realistic. Even the most steel-bladdered of clubbers will struggle to spend six full hours rooted to the dancefloor.

I did try to ease off and have slightly more mellow moments in there to add a bit of contrast. I wasn't sure how successfully that came across in the finished mix, so I'm glad you've highlighted it.

Talka bout megaloden of a track list J, gonna give em all download as usual and give it a whirl on the Hifi.

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Originally posted by wotyzoid Started a recording today and that thing with ableton that stops recording after two hours happened, all going in the trash. Two hours of trainwrecking fire you are all never gonna hear. Trashed. Till next time.

So, I kind of cheated. I was recording at a friend's house, and right after I wrote this and smoked a cigarette, still pissed that I had played for like another hour and a half that never made it to the recording, as I was packing my shit up to go home my friend said, "you paid to rent the mixer, might as well finish something." I agreed since it was true, I foolishly but necessarily paid 35 dollars to rent this fucking xone 42 since one of the channels in my mixer is broken, so I started from the track we got cut off in , "Wet Indiez", and pushed on for the remaining of the time I had and got 4 hours total. My boy is an audio engineer and he put the two parts together, so it was recorded in two parts, one take each.

It's trash. Most of the mixing is horrible and I was having serious issues with volume. I wish I could have played more music and wasn't pressed for time, I wish I was more level headed when I recorded it, I would have maybe played some different tracks in a different order, I wish I had remembered the ableton cut off thing before I started recording, insert excuse here. I was really gonna scrap it, but two things: my life is chaos right now and I really have no clue when the next time I can record a mix will be, and also, at the end of the day, I don't really give a fuck. I'm not a mixing snob, never been, I trainwreck a lot regardless. Also this way you guys can have a glimpse of my record collection for the first time since the first two hours are mostly vinyl, skips and all. If it's unsatisfactory as an entry I promise to record another one as soon as possible, but I really don't know when that will be. But, yeah, I know it's trash. I wanted to do something nice for you guys, but it didn't work out quite that way. This is probably the last trash mix i'll ever put out, so fuck it. Also I was on drugs.

Let it be a TA exclusive.

Recorded on a xone 42, Technics 1200 mk2, PLX-1000 and two cdj2000's nexus via ableton.

I recommend listening at a lower volume since there are some loud points. I adjusted some of the levels but most of it was just not worth touching and beyond repair. Also there is a small static since we couldn't ground one of the turntables.


I don't have a story for it or anything, other than that.

YEEEET



download

01. Tim Maia - Sossego [Atlantic]
02. Daft Punk - Fresh [Virgin]
03. Oliver Cheatham - Get Down Saturday Night [MCA Records]
04. Demon - Back & Forth (Kenny Afonso's Evil Paisano Edit) [Soundcloud]
05. Daryl Hall & John Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) [RCA]
06. Shinichi Atobe - Regret [DDS]
07. Geoff White - Vibrant Reflections [Force Inc. Music Works]
08. SCSI-9 - Mini [Kompakt]
09. Change - The End [Warner Bros. Records/RFC Records]
10. Stevie Wonder - Race Babbling [Tamla]
11. Jeff Samuel - Off The Mark [Trapez]
12. DHT Featuring Edm�e - Depressed (Jacques LA Moose Remix) [Impart Productions]
13. Gabrielle - Don't Forget About The World (Daft Punk Mix) [Go! Discs]
14. Demon - Lost Highway [Small/20000st]
15. Mr. V - The Drum (Mr. V's Alternate Mix) [Vega Records]
16. Unreleased Project - The Amazon [MAW Records]
17. Todd Terry - Tee La's Theme (Stereo Ill Mix) [TNT Records/Freeze Dance]
18. Kevin Yost - Filtered Luv [i! Records]
19. Thompson & Lenoir - Can't Stop The House (Basement Mix) [House Jam Records]
20. Cevin Fisher - New York, New York (Cevin's Unreleased NY Mix) [Nite Grooves]
21. Hardrive - Just Believe [Strictly Rhythm]
22. Paul Johnson - Hour Glass Figure [Peacefrog Records]
23. Steve "Silk" Hurley - Steve "Silk" Hurley [Underground]
24. Caped Crusaders - Atomic Batteries To Power [TVT Records]
25. "Little" Louie & Marc Anthony - Ride On The Rhythm (Masters At Work Dub) [Atlantic]
26. Cooly G - Ol' Dirty [Hyperdub]
27. The Todd Terry Project - Bango (To The Batmobile) (Club Bang) [Fresh Records]
28. Total Ka-Os - My Love (Original Rose Mix) [Strictly Rhythm]
29. F&L - Love Capsule Deluxe (Phat Swing Mix) [Guidance Recordings]
30. Deelat - Wet Indiez [Crydamoure]
31. Royal House - Yeah Buddy (Extended Mix) [Idlers]
32. The Black Science Orchestra - Philadelphia [Junior Boy's Own]
33. Aly-Us - Follow Me (Club Mix) [Strictly Rhythm]
34. Gusto - Disco's Revenge (Mole Hole Dirty Mix) [Bumble Beats Records]
35. Daft Punk - High Life [Virgin]
36. Manuel Tur Pres. Tweeq - Skip Intro [Opaque Music]
37. Demon - Blunted People [Small/20000st]
38. The Black Science Orchestra - New Jersey Deep [Junior Boy's Own]
39. Nina Simone - See-Line Woman [Philips]
40. Le Loup - See Line (Original Mix) [Wolf + Lamb Music]
41. Kate Simko & London Electronic Orchestra - Cairo [The Vinyl Factory]
42. DeWalta - Jog Trot [Haunt]
43. Untitled [Unreleased]
44. Shaun Reeves & Tuccillo - One Two Five [Visionquest]
45. Peter Funk - Obscure [i! Records]
46. Egal 3 - Precizie [Kina Music]
47. Loquace - Fear Of Shadow [Act Natural Records]
48. Shaun Reeves & Tuccillo - Origin 99 [Visionquest]
49. P�p� Bradock & The Grand Br�l�'s Choir - Burning Hot [Kif Recordings]
50. Nikola Gala - Party People (John Dimas 5AM Mix) [Claap]
51. Moodymann - The Third Track [KDJ]
52. Loopdeville - Get U High (Fernando Costantini & Alexandar Kyosev Operationnal Remix) [Kiara Records]
53. Behache - Little Helper 326-1 [Little Helpers]
54. Erik Hagleton - Pressure [Toolroom Records]
55. Yakine - For Motion [Spectral Sound]
56. Xpansul & Massi DL - Nerd Soul [Soma Quality Recordings]
57. Jose Zamora & Damian DP Ft. Paleday - Transatlantic (Andy Moor Remix) [Baroque Records]
58. Uner - Viaje Con Marcos [Cocoon Recordings]
59. Kraftwerk - Numbers [Warner Bros. Records]
60. Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music, Pt. 1 [RCA]
61. Hawthorne Heights - Niki FM [Victory Records]

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