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Posted by pozz on Jan-30-2011 20:52:

ooooh boy.. i am gonna do some massive youtube trawling to get to the essence of gabber so i can pull my own thing out of it. mebbe do some serious re-edits while i'm there and tone down the aggression.

thanks, the Digital Sex Hardcore album is more of the sound i wanna get at.

Posted by Ian on Jan-30-2011 21:27:

Posted by mr2gti on Jan-30-2011 21:35:

A Good selection of tracks obtained...

M-Audio Xponent at the ready, I think i'll make a decent job of "Vocal House".

Posted by Teezdalien on Jan-30-2011 22:34:

I'm nearly done with mine. Pretty happy having drawn trip-hop, not a genre I usually play, but I definitely enjoy it and have more than enough good stuff already to put together a nice mix.

Posted by Sand Leaper on Jan-30-2011 23:49:

Posted by Teezdalien on Jan-31-2011 00:34:

quote:
Originally posted by pozz
Could someone post some gabber? I've heard the stuff before, but outside of Spiral Tribe I got little idea of artist names.

Check out some of the stuff from the following labels/artists :

Fuck Off Records
Traxtorm Records
Killed By Gabber [Realicide Youth]
Gabber Mafia
Neophyte/Neophyte Records
Orphidian
RotterDamTerrorCorps
Evil Activities

Posted by RebeL9 on Jan-31-2011 06:22:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr Game+Watch
Been looking around, I had a few psytrance songs sitting on my computer from way back, but I found a variety of stuff recently. This might actually come fairly decently, I wonder what the psy heads will think when I'm done. There is one song in particular that I found that is DEFINITELY going on my mix.

Since it was me who suggested psytrance I forgot to point out that I did not meant israeli full on (Infected Mushroom, Skazi etc).

Posted by Sushipunk on Jan-31-2011 08:41:

Looking forward to hearing some of these mixes!

Posted by pozz on Jan-31-2011 21:26:

@ Teezdalien & Sand Leaper - thanks. gonna take me a while to listen to all that.

Posted by Lews on Jan-31-2011 21:27:

quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Regardless of how 'easy' it is to find, I was hoping to get drawn into a genre that I know a bit about already and have stuff of already. I have no money to go buying tracks just for one set, but a good collection of stuff that would fill many of the other genres requirements.

New or not, I don't think something like this would sound too far out of place amongst what I've heard so far. Just luck of the draw, montana, Lews & sand leaper can pull sets from their respective genres out of their arses at anytime and make them sound good. I also note that Lews vetoed UK Funky but it got drawn out still.

I vetoed it, but the veto only applies to the person who vetoes it. It wouldn't work if it got eliminated from the competition all together. It's just a way of rewarding people who have done the competition before and have had to suffer through a hard mix the chance to guarantee avoiding one genre they'd hate to do. I voted UK Funky because I had no damn clue the difference between it and UK Garage and I still don't

Also, while I did get an easy genre, I wouldn't get my hopes up if I were you I haven't mixed a pure uplifting trance mix since I first started mixing, so it's been a long time. I've got it mostly lined up and will try to finish it up today or tomorrow, it's just so hard to stay pure uplifting for me. I want to keep throwing in other sub-genres of trance

Posted by Meat187 on Jan-31-2011 22:07:

Bring on the fuckin unicorns, Lews!!!

Posted by Darkarbiter on Jan-31-2011 22:11:

Industrial Strength records also has some good stuff for gabber.

quote:
Originally posted by ziptnf
SHIT, Hardstyle? UGH. I hope there's some stuff out there that's more like proper hard trance rather than the clubby shit with a random dude speaking over the track.

Feel fortunate there aren't actually any decent tracks, so randomly selected bad tracks will sound the same as carefully selected bad tracks

Also on the subject of obscure genres not getting listened, why not have it in the first post if after a while no one has commented on a mix so we can download it and comment. I'd be happy listening to pretty much anything.

quote:
Originally posted by RebeL9
Since it was me who suggested psytrance I forgot to point out that I did not meant israeli full on (Infected Mushroom, Skazi etc).

Infected mushroom has never been full on.

Posted by Sand Leaper on Jan-31-2011 22:38:

quote:
Originally posted by Lews
I voted UK Funky because I had no damn clue the difference between it and UK Garage and I still don't

I really don't understand how you can have such difficulty in telling them apart. Just the syncopation of the beats of the tracks from the two respective genres is clearly quite different, even when you compare two tracks from the respective genres of the same poppy ilk:

It becomes even more obvious when you start comparing the darker and more bass-driven tracks:

Then you add that funky is centered around 130, while UKG is around 140, the extremely prominent percussion in funky that is nearly absent in the swing-syncopation of UKG etc. etc. It just seems very clear to me what the differences are when you just bother to listen to some tracks carefully.

Posted by RebeL9 on Jan-31-2011 22:41:

quote:
Originally posted by Darkarbiter

Infected mushroom has never been full on.

Shit like this is definetly full on in my book. It's just worse than the average full on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob37uA1TZLw

Posted by Rodri Santos on Feb-01-2011 15:09:

quote:
Originally posted by RebeL9
Shit like this is definetly full on in my book. It's just worse than the average full on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob37uA1TZLw

That track sucks, but his old tracks rarely look like full on trance. Astrix, Skazi, Vibe Tribe , Inexus , Cosmic Tone... this is full on.

Posted by Teezdalien on Feb-02-2011 10:22:

So here's my trip hop mix for this round. Found some pretty cool tracks I hadn't heard before, but put in a few fave's here too. You'll probably have issues with some of it, get's a bit crazy around 35 mins.

trip hop 2/2/11 by Teezdalien

Tracklist

01. DJ Shadow - Long Stem [Mo Wax]
02. Morcheeba - The Sea [Indochina]
03. Hooverphonic - 2 Wicky [epic]
04. Tricky - Aftermath [Island Records]
05. Archive - Beautiful World [Island Records]
06. DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World [Mo Wax]
07. DJ Krush - Day's End [Columbia]
08. Kid Loco - Lucy's Talking [Atlantic]
09. Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground [Clean Up Records]
10. The Future Sound Of London - Far Out Son Of A Lung And The ramblings Of A Madman [Virgin]
11. Nightmares On Wax - Damn [Warp Records]
12. Massive Attack - Daydreaming [Wild Bunch Records]
13. Blue Foundation - End Of The Day [Virgin]
14. Thievery Corporation - 2001 Spliff Odyssey [Eighteenth Street Lounge Music]
15. Bomb The Bass - Bug Powder Dust (Kruder & Dorfmeister Session) [Quango Records]
16. Howie B - Sore Brown Eyes [Island Records]
17. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist [Modular Recordings]
18. Leftfield - Dusted [Columbia]
19. Sissy - So Long [GU Music]
20. Portishead - Roads [Go! Beat]

wow there's more there than I thought.

Posted by Brandt Slater on Feb-02-2011 11:23:

Sounds really good Teez.

Posted by Sushipunk on Feb-02-2011 11:48:

quote:
Originally posted by Teezdalien
So here's my trip hop mix for this round. Found some pretty cool tracks I hadn't heard before, but put in a few fave's here too. You'll probably have issues with some of it, get's a bit crazy around 35 mins.

trip hop 2/2/11 by Teezdalien

Tracklist

01. DJ Shadow - Long Stem [Mo Wax]
02. Morcheeba - The Sea [Indochina]
03. Hooverphonic - 2 Wicky [epic]
04. Tricky - Aftermath [Island Records]
05. Archive - Beautiful World [Island Records]
06. DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World [Mo Wax]
07. DJ Krush - Day's End [Columbia]
08. Kid Loco - Lucy's Talking [Atlantic]
09. Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground [Clean Up Records]
10. The Future Sound Of London - Far Out Son Of A Lung And The ramblings Of A Madman [Virgin]
11. Nightmares On Wax - Damn [Warp Records]
12. Massive Attack - Daydreaming [Wild Bunch Records]
13. Blue Foundation - End Of The Day [Virgin]
14. Thievery Corporation - 2001 Spliff Odyssey [Eighteenth Street Lounge Music]
15. Bomb The Bass - Bug Powder Dust (Kruder & Dorfmeister Session) [Quango Records]
16. Howie B - Sore Brown Eyes [Island Records]
17. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist [Modular Recordings]
18. Leftfield - Dusted [Columbia]
19. Sissy - So Long [GU Music]
20. Portishead - Roads [Go! Beat]

wow there's more there than I thought.

Oh yes please.

Posted by netroM on Feb-02-2011 13:10:

Tuning in. Tracklist looks awesome

edit: Smooth mixing, teez. I just skimmed the tracklist at first so when the Blue Foundation track started I kinda jumped. Didn't know they were that famous

edit2: oh fuck, been ages since I've heard Frontier Psychiatrist. Tune!
Great mix, you put a lot of work in the tracklist. Very nice variety of stuff. Not all strictly Trip-hop, but a great mix none the less

Posted by Ian on Feb-02-2011 13:40:

worked out what I want in mine and going to try & mix it this afternoon. It's gonna suck transition wise but at least I'll have tried.

Posted by Lews on Feb-02-2011 15:30:

Will download and listen to later Teez. TL looks great =)

I mixed mine this morning, I'll listen to it later to make sure there are no terrible transitions that I didn't notice at the time and then upload it.

Posted by Ian on Feb-02-2011 15:32:

It's absolutely abysmal and probably the worst mix ever for this competition but it's here so I might as well share & hope I get a different genre in the future

Tracklist

seefeel - spangle
xeper - carceres ex novum
autechre - drane
boards of canada - amo bishop roden
nightmares on wax - i'm for real
aphex twin - bucephalus bouncing ball
aphex twin - windowlicker
richard devine - itsuko
mike ink - paroles

I accept no responsiblity for any damage to ears, to computers or laptops from you laughing and knocking water all over them because of how shite it is

Posted by Echo of Silence on Feb-02-2011 15:47:

Ian, it's not a competition, it's a challenge!

I'll listen to both sets now. Ready, set, go!

Posted by Ian on Feb-02-2011 15:54:

a challenge is me mixing anything. I can mix it better in my head but nobody can hear that.

Posted by pozz on Feb-02-2011 16:05:

quote:
Originally posted by Ian
It's absolutely abysmal and probably the worst mix ever for this competition but it's here so I might as well share & hope I get a different genre in the future

Tracklist

seefeel - spangle
xeper - carceres ex novum
autechre - drane
boards of canada - amo bishop roden
nightmares on wax - i'm for real
aphex twin - bucephalus bouncing ball
aphex twin - windowlicker
richard devine - itsuko
mike ink - paroles

I accept no responsiblity for any damage to ears, to computers or laptops from you laughing and knocking water all over them because of how shite it is

it's not as bad as you make it out to be, around the quality of alot of idm/braindance mixes, the stuff is hard to mix so the focus ends up being on the tracks with the transitions done away as soon as possible. it ends up sounding lazy.

this section i liked cuz the transitions made sense:

quote:
aphex twin - windowlicker
richard devine - itsuko
mike ink - paroles

i think you should have let the mix simmer for a few weeks and looked more for tracks. the overall feeling is rushed. Not unpleasant -- rushed. did you like anything you found? why did you pick these tracks?

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