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Just finished listening to this mix.

I enjoyed it : good flow and energy and interesting and diverse track choice even if some of them are just only great dancefloor stormer (no pbm with that).
I wasn't familiar with any of the artists.
Really liked at 2/3 of the mix when it went somewhat like older hard-house. Some tracks beg to be mixed with some technooo
In the end: not the mix of the year for me but very entertaining.

thanks a lot... at least you got that they are dancefloor stormers! I definitely wanted to take some of those really banging tunes that just work the dancefloor and put them into your house, car or ipod... tried to make a summer dance mix without getting too cheesey...

thanks for the comments

sensible spontaneity
serious fun
heavy lightness

are a few things that come to mind when i listen to this mix

very cool tracks that I would not have listened to otherwise. Reminds me of last weekend, the nyc locals had their fifth outdoor festival "festivus" on the great hill in central park. very ad hoc and loose feeling about the whole shindig.

this mix has that quality too.

it's like supermodels having a water balloon fight

sounds like you had fun doing it. it sounds live, which is cool.

no real comments on the mixing - definitely a different style than my mixing though. There's a lot of fading and pushing tracks in here, and I mix in increments, layering. I admit I mix more like this live, it's more suited towards entertaining a crowd because you can let them know when things are changing. You do that here, building anticipation and then giving a good payoff with quality tracks.

loving the hip house. Actually the mixing style reminded me more of older mixing styles from the hip house era which was cool. The Sasha 1989 hacienda set comes to mind..another damn fun set

it's got a good balance of hands up in the air carefree feelings and deep dance your ass off vibes

good fake-me-out filtering at 1:09:40 or so. That would have gotten me live haha

Downloading...

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Originally posted by nefardec sensible spontaneity serious fun heavy lightness are a few things that come to mind when i listen to this mix very cool tracks that I would not have listened to otherwise. Reminds me of last weekend, the nyc locals had their fifth outdoor festival "festivus" on the great hill in central park. very ad hoc and loose feeling about the whole shindig. this mix has that quality too. it's like supermodels having a water balloon fight sounds like you had fun doing it. it sounds live, which is cool. no real comments on the mixing - definitely a different style than my mixing though. There's a lot of fading and pushing tracks in here, and I mix in increments, layering. I admit I mix more like this live, it's more suited towards entertaining a crowd because you can let them know when things are changing. You do that here, building anticipation and then giving a good payoff with quality tracks. loving the hip house. Actually the mixing style reminded me more of older mixing styles from the hip house era which was cool. The Sasha 1989 hacienda set comes to mind..another damn fun set it's got a good balance of hands up in the air carefree feelings and deep dance your ass off vibes good fake-me-out filtering at 1:09:40 or so. That would have gotten me live haha

Don't have the mix in front of me at 1:09:40, but if there's an effect there it's probably the tune. Thanks for the comments, especially "it's like supermodels having a waterbaloon fight"... I want to use this on a flyer in working on! As for the mixing style, I did it sequenced on ableton but it's most defintely a representation of how I mix live... Thanks for the objective review and outlook on the mix Yeah there's no doubt your mixing style and track selection is much different than mine... we both have muxh different styles. Also good to hear I exposed you to some different stuff, that's always something we're all trying to do so it's good to hear when it works.

I listened to 2/3rds of your mix and I got bored of it. I liked the first track and one towards the end, but it's just a lot of the same boring house you find at the club. No offense.

not trying to be a suck up or anything, but i have to disagree. i go out an average of 4 nights a week and this mix is pretty different from the normIMO

the dominant sound right now is either big room electro and prog 'space disco' like sebastien leger - saturn, or the dark minimal tech ala radioslave remix of trentemoller moan

what clubs do you go to?

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Originally posted by Beatflux I listened to 2/3rds of your mix and I got bored of it. I liked the first track and one towards the end, but it's just a lot of the same boring house you find at the club. No offense.

Hey no problem man... I guess if you don't like house this mix isn't going to change that

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Originally posted by Beatflux I listened to 2/3rds of your mix and I got bored of it. I liked the first track and one towards the end, but it's just a lot of the same boring house you find at the club. No offense.

LOL, you definitely don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

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Originally posted by jennypie LOL, you definitely don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

LOL

i'll have to agree with JP on this one (or the guy just really doesn't enjoy good house muzak).



i'm not one for breaking down mixes in detail for reviews sake, but this is definitely a quality mix. i like the overall package - no ff necessary, and i can't say that for too many mixes out there.

well done gregor!

(now let's get on that exchange program!)

Yea seriously, this mix is really good. Jumps a bit all over the place in terms of styles but I actually like it. As you said, you took a bunch of tracks from your 5 hour set and put them into the mix so naturally, there would be some varied styles. Obviously, I enjoyed the first half more than the second, but that's only because the deep/funky shit is more up my alley.

As always, top notch shit man. I always enjoy your mixes because they're something different. Keep it up.

I've gotta admit, when I first started listening, I was expecting to be very bored with this set... however, it definitely started grabbing my attention a few tracks in, and progressively got more interesting to me as the set went on. Great job with this mix, I want to give it another listen or two.

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Originally posted by david.michael I've gotta admit, when I first started listening, I was expecting to be very bored with this set... however, it definitely started grabbing my attention a few tracks in, and progressively got more interesting to me as the set went on. Great job with this mix, I want to give it another listen or two.

I guess I did what I wanted to do because you described the way I would want it to be percieved... I mean I of course love all the tunes, but I definitely wanted to lull the listener in a little bit... intersting how you didn't think you'd enjoy it... was that before you even put it on or just after the first couple jams?

Thanks for the comments!

Also Infinity, I'm always going to throw in a bunch of styles, so I guess that would be what to expect... what you don't expect Thanks thought, I'm glad it hit the spot

Also Jeff, glad you liked it as well.. just added you on facebook... we'll need to see what's going on

Also JP...

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Originally posted by Allied Nations I guess I did what I wanted to do because you described the way I would want it to be percieved... I mean I of course love all the tunes, but I definitely wanted to lull the listener in a little bit... intersting how you didn't think you'd enjoy it... was that before you even put it on or just after the first couple jams?

After the first tune or two... it started out with some neat percussion and such, but for some reason I figured it was going to stay that "minimalistic" throughout and never really get anywhere. Then it ended up grabbing my attention.

Now that I know better, I want to give it another, more ojbective listen.

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Originally posted by david.michael After the first tune or two... it started out with some neat percussion and such, but for some reason I figured it was going to stay that "minimalistic" throughout and never really get anywhere. Then it ended up grabbing my attention. Now that I know better, I want to give it another, more ojbective listen.

Yeah, probably because I'm frequently caught in discussions about tech house and minimal ETC... If anything I've been on a house kick lately and am much happier with the current direction than the sounds I was spinning say, 6 months ago...


I think it's the weather.

well i dont know sod all about what sorta stuff you play, but you seem to be getting plenty of gigs and stuff, and travelling, so im gonna give this a listen mate

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Originally posted by [N]�k|��[Z] well i dont know sod all about what sorta stuff you play, but you seem to be getting plenty of gigs and stuff, and travelling, so im gonna give this a listen mate

Cool Will be interesting to hear what you think.

i listened to this mix at work a couple of days ago.


mixing wise it was great.
the tunes weren't really the type of stuff i like though, but i still enjoyed the set.
overall i'd say that it was a decent set, i wasn't blown away by it, but i still liked it.

hey thanks for the feedback... i'm glad you at least enjoyed it... always good


gonna have an exclusive mix coming up with houseaddict... gonna be working HARD on it... should be up and available by mid sept...

damn over 500 dls! not really sure how many my other mixes were getting, but thats pretty neat imo! thanks everyone

These tunes weren't really my style but I could see them going down fairly well at the right/time place. I probably enjoyed the start the most and thought the whole cd had a fairly consistent vibe/style. Different stuff to what I usually listen to, so thanks for sharing!

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