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-- TAs Share Their Classics: NOVEMBER 2010
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Thanks for the reply.
I'm going to keep this post short to try to just clarify what I'm trying to say: What I'm trying to say is that I more want to see variety than just what I want specifically, but it's probably unfair to think that you have complete control over this.
However, I'm sure you have an idea of a few people's tendencies around here and I'm hoping that you try to keep some of these people in your back pocket to steer this musical showcase in a different direction if it's getting too stale.
The whole reason why I posted all of this in the first place is because I really like the idea and I want it to flourish. If I can't make realistic suggestions on keeping the idea fresh for most people, I'm sorry. Hopefully I can at least stimulate thought on how it can be achieved, if something needs to ever be done at all.
Don't worry about variety. You've got two mixes here that could barely be more different, and I'm sure next month's mix will be totally different again.
Finally got a chance to listen to Mr. Mystery's offering all the way through, and as expected I really enjoyed it. This is a perfect example of what I expected and really wanted to hear from this series of submissions as well - a focus on substance over style. The effort you made to make transitions is appreciated, but I'm glad that you went with your gut and used songs that may not have fit well with any particular flow or direction.
The Pink Floyd track is one I've only heard a few times, and I enjoyed the chance to sit and listen to it through - for whatever reason, it really clued me in to the style of music you would deploy in the rest of the set - I can't explain why that is. I didn't look at the tracklist while listening, and was pretty surprised afterward to find that the Jarre track was one of my favorites. I think I preferred the first half of this mixtape (tracks 1 - 7 or so) to the second, but closing with Finished Symphony never fails. Kudos to using Baja as well; that and Rabbitweed were my two favorites from the XPander EP.
Champagne Supernova may have been overplayed or whatever, but fuck that, if it's an influence or a classic to you, I'm glad you played it.
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| Originally posted by physe This to me is a good point. I'm sure system-j that you already have a bunch of people in mind to submit mixes, and that they're probably electronic music veterans in general. Because of this, I worry that they may have all moved on from trance and will avoid playing it for the most part. This may be the case with other genres as well. |
I really enjoyed this, some of my favourites on here too so not surprising, but I thought it was put together really really well. Strangely enough I thought that set actually flowed perfectly, I got completely lost in it enough so that I didnt even notice I was working!
Top fucking stuff 
Really liked this one. I have to say I couldn't really get into the first couple of tracks, can't put my finger on why, but after that it got really good and I also like the flow. Thanks for introducing me to Billy Club, that one is ace. The mix can't end more perfectly with Finished Symphony.
Very nice mix. I loved it's flow from start to finish and really liked the rawness of the songs.
Enjoyable set Mr. Mystery. I actually quite enjoyed hearing Champagne Supernova and thought it suited the mix quite well. That said,my favourite section would probably be the last half hour - perhaps this is because it flowed better or the tunes had more energy I'm not sure (I hadn't heard any upbeat stuff for ages!). It was good to hear the tracks by Yellow and Orbital though, they're two groups I've been meaning to check out for ages.
Erm... this is supposed to be updated today, but the invited player still hasn't submitted their mix, nor have they responded to my PM. I'll give it until the end of the day, and then I'll have to go to Plan B.
What's plan B, Tiesto? 
Plan B is me scratching Dave Guetta's album for five hours, live on TA Radio.
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| Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Plan B is me scratching Dave Guetta's album for five hours, live on TA Radio. |
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| Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Erm... this is supposed to be updated today, but the invited player still hasn't submitted their mix, nor have they responded to my PM. I'll give it until the end of the day, and then I'll have to go to Plan B. |
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| Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Erm... this is supposed to be updated today, but the invited player still hasn't submitted their mix, nor have they responded to my PM. I'll give it until the end of the day, and then I'll have to go to Plan B. |
It is a shame as I was looking forward to hearing the mix. I'm not going to name anyone, but if you miss your deadline you don't get another go, so that's game over.
Anyway, after following Meat187's genre game I expected this to happen sooner or later, and I'm currently putting the contingency into place. I just didn't expect to happen so early in the game's lifespan.
Invite more active people to submit mixes then, if the person doesn't even respond to pms.
i think if they don't respond to the PM after a week, you should find another person. the game doesn't need to end because of this one senor, just find someone else and delay the next mix!
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| Originally posted by SYSTEM-J It is a shame as I was looking forward to hearing the mix. I'm not going to name anyone, but if you miss your deadline you don't get another go, so that's game over. Anyway, after following Meat187's genre game I expected this to happen sooner or later, and I'm currently putting the contingency into place. I just didn't expect to happen so early in the game's lifespan. |
They responded to my original PM and accepted. Since then I've sent two other PMs warning of them of the deadline and asking for an update. Those PMs were ignored.
Everyone who gets invited has three days to accept or decline, after which I invite someone else. I'm not a complete fool, guys.
who was this cunt?
i've actually quite enjoyed this series so far.
i bet it was bas...silly bas
The person has apologised and had personal shit, so let's drop it there.
Anyway, I said I had a contingency, and here it is. Because I expected someone to drop out I took the insurance of making my own mix nice and early, and I'd put it up when someone failed on their part. Feels a bit weird to be sharing it so early in the game, but there we go.
Anyway, when I sat down to put this together I got thinking about my own rules. 80 minutes is obviously not enough to play every personal classic and favourite, and so there's always going to be tracks that didn't make the cut. How each player dealt with that task was part of the game's challenge, and fun.
I decided I wasn't going to play what I'd originally planned, which was basically a lot of lush melodic early/mid 90s stuff. You know, the kind of thing I've shared plenty of times already. I can make a mix of that stuff any time without stepping outside my boundaries. So I've put together a mix which shows a very different side of my tastes. It's a lot of tracks that are personal to me - I associate most of these tracks with specific points of my life. But it's a bunch of personal classics I'd never normally play, in the kind of mix I'd never normally share.
Enjoy, and be pre-warned this mix is wonky in everything from genre to EQing...
SYSTEM-J
01. Orbital - Satan
Whichever direction I took this mix, Orbital were always going to be there. This track kicked up a storm when they played it live, and the Butthole Surfers sample makes for a great intro.
02. Palefield Mountain - Theme From PM3
I found this while searching through Stress' back catalogue for old epic house gems. It has an incredibly powerful sound for its tempo.
03. Jay-Z - 99 Problems
Rick Rubin has produced a lot of terrible nu metal in his time, but he also made some wonderful hip-hop/rock hybrids with people like Run DMC and the Beasties. This is my favourite of them.
04. Pendulum - Slam
I know a lot of people hate them, but I still play their first album. Back in 2005 I hammered it all summer and made a dozen copies for friends. Yes it's "accessible", but it's also smartly produced and brimming with ideas.
05. Abba - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
Abba = crap wedding disco, right? One day my friend started raving about Abba Gold and insisted I heard it. Now our official pre-club preparation is blasting this while getting drunk and playing Pro Evolution Soccer.
06. The KLF - What Time Is Love? (Live At Trancentral)
When I was about 16, MTV Dance used to have a late-night show called Back To The Old Skool, and I would stay up into the early hours hearing classic dance records. That's where I discovered The KLF and this track.
07. Phuture - Acid Trax
I don't really need to justify this one, do I? You can mix it with so many things, and everyone knows the original already, so I had fun with it.
08. Madonna - Like A Prayer
My Dad had the Immaculate Collection on VHS, and the video with burning crosses and black Jesus stuck with me. This is probably the track that gave me a love of gospel and blues.
09. M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up The Volume
Hearing Way Out West sample this reminded me how much I love the original. Another one I'm way too young to remember, but thanks to Back To The Old Skool it's still part of my musical youth.
10. Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
I don't like Muse, but I loved this one.
11. 2 Bit Pie - Fly
I missed this by a year or two because I didn't know Fluke had changed their name. I'm a massive Fluke fan, and this is definitely one of my favourites from them.
12. Infadels - Give Yourself To Me
This was used on a phone advert in the UK around 2005, and everyone went nuts trying to figure out who it was. I found out by chance when I saw these guys supporting Faithless.
13. The Future Sound of London - We Have Explosive
Back in 2003 I found myself in the Virgin Megastore in downtown Disney, Florida, staring at an incredible electronic music section. This EP was one of many things I snapped up.
14. Yuzo Koshiro - Fighting In The Street
I'd heard this hundreds of times as a kid in crappy MIDI form, but when my videogame-loving friend at university played the MP3 I was blown away.
15. Supereal - United State Of Love (Aorta Mix)
Guerilla's legendary Dub House Disco series featured stone-cold classics from the likes of Fuzzy Logic, Spooky and Dr. Atomic, but this quirky track is one of my personal favourites.
16. New Order - Blue Monday
We all know it, we all love it, so I'll just play the outro which is my favourite part.
17. Man With No Name - Teleport
And now for some trance. Hold on tight, unicorn lovers. First heard this on Oakie's Perfecto Fluoro compilation and instantly loved it.
18. LSG - Netherworld
This is Oliver Lieb's take on epic trance. Not the first Lieb track I heard by any means, but definitely the one where I saw the hype.
19. Jeff Wayne - The Eve Of The War (Tilt's Red Dawn Mix)
I used to love the album when I was a kid, and it used to scare the shit out of me. This is a great breaks remix from Tilt, but I've only really used the iconic intro.
20. LTJ Bukem - Horizon
I don't give a fuck what Simon Reynolds or anyone else thinks: this is the best drum 'n bass record ever made.
Download Link (Right Click, Save As): http://www.jack-moss.com/ta_classics.mp3
Jay-Z!
Downloading 
Pretty diverse looking tracklist. I'll take a listen.
DLing! Definitely looks interesting.
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