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Third time is the charm, or is it?

01. Jan Vayne - Welcome to a New World (Fred Baker Mix)
Hmm. Starting off with epic trance. Used to listen to epic trance a lot. Not so much anymore, but I've still got all the tunes I like on my iTunes. This is a nice tune using some classical composition as a "background". Dunno if I would buy this if I heard it for the first time today, probably not, but it's nice enough to keep and reminds me of the stuff I used to listen to a lot.

02. Inner City - Big Fun (Filippo's Berlin Dub)
Nice slower take on Big Fun. Bought this off iTunes some time. The tune had some mad skipping in the middle and a silent part which lasted a second or so. Fixed that up by pasting the same stuff there from before. Thankfully it was in such a point of the track that it could be fixed. No vocals on this one. Not a big fan of them anyway, but the melody is brilliant.

03. Jens - '99 Psycho Strings (Jens Mahlstedt Remix)
Bought the Psycho Strings CDM for under 1� some years back. This was on it. Nice track all in all, nothing all that special though.

04. Recyclopedia Eclectronica - Exercise (Valentino Kanzyani Mix 1)
Some proper banging techno. Thumbs up for that. Umek & Valentino Kanzyani used to produce the type of techno I really like some years ago. Loving this one.

05. Hypetraxx - The Darkside (Non-Vocal)
Nice track this one. Slow hard trance kinda. The vocals in this non-vocal version are pretty stupid but not as stupid as the ones in the vocal version thankfully. This one chugs along nicely and is nicely "dark". The DJ in a local bar used to play this when I was young, which is kinda surprising actually as this isn't the type of a track I'd expect to go down nicely in such a bar, but it did.

06. Scott Mac - Damager 02 (Original Mix)
2003 hard trance. Nice tune, nothing mind-blowing though.

07. Ferry Corsten - Punk (Vocal Extended)
Hmm. I rather liked this when i first heard it. Was called Funk Einsatz - Punk then though and didn't have these stupid vocals. Too bad I never found the non-vocal version to buy anywhere and I've been stuck with this vocal version. Haven't been bothered to look in years though.

08. Jaimy & Kenny D. - Naughty Atmosphere
Really nice tune. More prog. house than most of their stuff from the same album, which I absolutely love (Is There Any Other Way? (A Display of Roadkill and Other Suburban Fairytales)). Bought the CD ages ago cuz it was available for a few euros. Didn't really know what it would contain. Loved it, but it was mixed, which was a bummer. Bought the unmixed vinyl album much later.

09. Accadia - Into the Dawn (Accadia Ambient Mix)
"Trance chill-out". I much prefer the Club Mix, but this is nice too.

10. Chab - My Memory (Original Mix)
Really nice track off the Dub, Edits and Whisky-Coke album. The whole album was pretty damn good. This track is a bit too short though (3:33). There are longer versions and the album has Part 2 too, but all the longer versions have some stupid gibberish on them ruining them completely. Been meaning to do a re-edit for ages, but I haven't gotten round to it yet.


A surprisingly "mediocre" selection even though I only have tunes I've deemed as quality on my iTunes. Not many bombs. All quality tracks though, but I guess I expected better.

Since it's been four years, I'll do a bumper 20 track selec-shon. This is just all the MP3s on my harddrive where as previous editions were selected from my old (now dead) MP3 player, so the sample pool is quite different.

1. Moby - God Moving Over The Face Of The Water
From the Heat soundtrack, and appearing here on his I Like To Score compilation, a collection of Moby's soundtrack work. Typical Moby in many respects, this is a well-regarded tune but I personally find it emotionally overbearing and simply exhausting to listen to.

2. Sven Vath - L'Esperanza (Single Edit)
I notice Sykonee already played this one in this thread, four or five years ago. This is obviously a massive classic, one of the most famous Eye-Q tracks. I do love this version with a thick dub bassline and gentle breaks added to the lush tropical trancey vibes of the original, but this version is a little over-played, not least by myself.

3. Animal Collective - Fireworks
From their Strawberry Jam album, which I can't say I enjoy very much. Like most electronic music fans, I only really started to take an interest in Animal Collective when they picked up the synths. This is certainly inventive and unusual, but the vocals just irritate me. I wouldn't call it bad, but it's not my cup of tea.

4. Probspot - Blows My Mind (DJ Micah Remix)
Oh, this is an ancient piece of McProg that must have been on my laptop for six years and probably hasn't been played since 2004. Crap vocals and not even the driving bassline I remember the original having.

5. Ulrich Schnauss - In All The Wrong Places
Some typically vast shoegazy ultra-opulence from Schnauss here. You know what you're getting from the first seconds onwards here, no surprises. The melodies even rise and fall where they're supposed to. Undeniably pretty, like all his stuff, but a little too predictable for me to really love.

6. Nujabes - Horizon
Typically lovely jazzy instrumental hip-hop from the Japanese producer, who sadly died not too long ago. His music is always happy and vibrant, which strangely makes it all the more sad that he's gone. Unlike a lot of instrumental hip-hop producers he wrote some pretty long tracks - this is 7 minutes of beautiful smooth jazz solos on various instruments.

7. Brian Eno - Becalmed
This is from Another Green World, one of the most important electronic albums of the 1970s. This basically prefigures the Moby and Ulrich Schnauss tracks from above by 20-30 years, and Eno has a much more delicate touch than either of them. Lovely interplay between piano and synth that does exactly what the title suggests.

8. Trifonic - Lies (Sweetest Sin Mix)
Oh man, this sounds so loud compared to the Eno track. This is one of several clubbed-up remixes of album originals from Trifonic's Re-Emergence EP. I definitely prefer the original to this chugging middle-of-the-road proggy version, but it's still a nice track with some very simple but cutting lyrics about a relationship just too flawed to come to an end.

9. Gultskra & Artikler - w
Experimental glitch nonsense from Mille Plateaux's Clicks & Cuts 50 compilation. This kind of thing may have sounded incredibly inventive ten years ago, but this compilation is from last year and is frankly just fucking boring.

10. Ellien Allien - Secret
More glitchy techno/electro, this time actually from the early-'00s. This is from her Belinette album, which is quite well regarded, but to me this just sounds like a parody of what German electronic music is about, with obligatory faux-Kraftwerk vocals and a beat far too angular and awkward to ever inspire dancing.

11. Felix Da Housecat - Watching Cars Go By (Sasha Involver Remix)
Speaking of faux-Kraftwerk vocals... more early-'00s, this time a weird hybrid of electroclash and Sasha's gleaming ultra-modern prog textures. I suppose he was aiming for something similar to his remix of the Chems - Out Of Control, except five years later. A love or hate moment for most people in the context of the original album, definitely not my favourite Sasha moment.

12. Remembrance - Evolution
Funny this should come up, as I just used it in my Rainy Day Sessions mix. Dark and creepy minimal drum 'n bass, with monstrous bass pulses, spasmodic drum programming and forlorn slivers of melody drifting through the night. I love it.

13. Ton TB - Silent Witness
Some forgettable mid-00s tech trance from Ton TB. The hook isn't very good, sounds like a poor man's imitation of Tiesto - Lethal Industry, itself not the best track ever made.

14. Mauro Picotto - Caracas
I had a Picotto track from the same album come up when I played this game five years ago, which was probably the last time I played any of it. Picotto was the first techno artist I got into - I used to find his big room style very aggressive and energetic, perfect when you're a hormonal teenager. Has little interest to me now, although this would probably sound absolutely enormous in a club.

15. Public Image Ltd - Careering
Gloomy post-punk from PiL's legendary 1979 album Metal Box. This must have sounded ridiculously original back in '79, especially coming just two years after Lydon's work as frontment of the snotty and essentially very conventional Sex Pistols. Jah Wobble's endless dub bass combines with some eerie synth washes in the background, and this track still sounds out-there despite being the cornerstone of three decades of subsequent music.

16. Blue Amazon - And Then The Rain Falls (Andy Ling's Soviet Dub)
Andy Ling did a good line in banging up-tempo mid-90s prog house, and this is a storming remix of one of my all-time favourites with a massive bassline.

17. Sigurt - When
Blazing melodic drum 'n bass. I don't really know what sub-genre this would fall into, it's sort of one respectable step away from Pendulum-step. Very enjoyable and uplifting, but not too smart.

18. Bachelors Of Science - Ripsaw
More drum 'n bass, a Prodigy-inspired stormer from the Bachelors Of Science. Very different to the soulful liquid funk you associate with them. I did post this track once in the Rate The Track Above and whoever was below hated it for the filthy mid-range wobble. I still get a massive rush out of this one though.

19. Aidan Baker - Mind
Short ambient interlude. Don't know anything about the artist, this was one of many tracks given to me in a bundle by pozz.

20. Ali Khan - Waterbomb
Pretty sure this is from Audion's Fabric 27 compilation. Clicky, drummy minimal techno with pitched-down vocals. Yawn. Five years on and I still don't get the minimal techno craze of that period. A very underwhelming end to this game.

Rage Against the Machine - Take The Power Back
who dosnt love some good anti-goverment music? Zaak de la Rocha got on my nerves tho, which is why i like audioslave far more because of the lack of his annoying vocals....

Beastie Boys - Fight for Your Right (to party)
haha this one much in the same vein of "fuck the system, im awesome." Always play this one at the start of roadtrips.

Husker Du - Turn it Around
God, i have some weird music.

Gorillaz - Last Living Souls
Because only the Gorillaz could make what itunes calls "Post Modern Alternative Dance" for a career in music.

Basshunter - Boten Anna (Radio Edit)
What the fuck is this doing on here? *delete*

Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
lol.

Burial - Spaceape
Whos down for some dubstep with a rap track layed over? i actually kind of liked this track.

Daft Punk - Prime Time of your Life
Oh for the love of god.

What I learned from this: I have a lot more deep/tech house than I thought, and I have a lot of songs I never really gave a chance before that are really good!

Kaoru Inoue - The Secret Field (Todd Terje mix)
Heard this off of Joris Voorn's Balance cd... starts off very folkish with the guitar, but then it drops a kickass bassline.

Deepsky feat Jes Brieden - Ghost (Original mix)
I'm more into Deepsky's earlier trancier productions, this is pretty standard vocal progressive house, from when A) prog was huge and B) Jes wasn't on every other song. Nice guitar towards the end of the song.

Dousk - Lovelasting
Dark, percussive prog, at a pretty fast tempo. Not my favorite Dousk track but still very good, I love this style of music.

Affkt, Felipe Venegas � Meilan
Don't really know where this came from, but I really like it! Got kind of a mellow Gotan Project vibe with the flamenco guitars, but set to a light breakbeat. Very great song, may work in a mix or two.

Itamar Sagi - One Million Oaks (Original mix)
Nice piece of deep/tech house with some obvious prog influence. Got a simple, but warm, riff that repeats the whole track. Remember this being pretty popular a few years back with DJs like Howells.

Lindstrom - The Magnificent
Wow, this is really quite amazing. Much less disco-y, and deeper than the usual Lindstrom track, it's got a great twinkly melody and a pleasant vibe, with a chorus of 'oohs' in parts. I highly recommend this if you haven't heard it before.

Yoko O - Crystalis Soundtrack - The Wild Fields
This is a chiptune from the NES game Crystalis, a classic action RPG. It's punchy and upbeat, as NES chiptunes tended to be. This plays on the game's "field" areas.

Eelke Kleijn - The Night (Kilowatts mix)
A catchy melodic house song in its original incarnation, I mainly went for the original or Add2Basket remix. This is a slightly darker, dubbier, more sinister tech house stomper that eschews the main melody line in the original mix. I'll stick to the original or Add2Basket ones.

Patch Park - Synced (Paolo Mojo mix)
Stereotypical bleep bloop minimal from the late 2000's, very reminiscent of something by Dubfire but not as big-room. About halfway through the song we get a little more melody but really I'm not into this kinda music much anymore.

Martin Brodin - Deep Shit (System 2 mix)
I put the original version in a deep house mix I made a few years ago, this version is a bit faster and punchier, the warm pads of the original version being cut up and layered over a squelchy acidic bassline. Something on the border of deep house and prog house I guess.

Lukas Greenberg - The Flash (Original mix)
I probably downloaded this just because he shares my first name (and its uncommon spelling). A male vocal talking about a flash, a light and slightly funky deep house groove. Nothing breathtaking but may be of interest to fans of Urbantorque/Discoteka and that sound.

Gusgus - Mallflowers (Original mix)
Heard this on Sasha's Instant Live: Avalon album, and was one of the few songs that stood out for me. It's got a fast tempo and appergiated chords that slowly evolve and subtly filter throughout the song. Giving it a lighthearted feel, something you'd hear in a futuristic shopping center or something.

Theo Parrish - Love Is War For Miles
From the "First Floor Metaphor" album. This guy's stuff never did it for me (sorry). This has a very soft, slow house beat, an out-of-sync snare, and a small sax sample that almost sounds like a cut from Bond's theme... looped for about 9 minutes. But it's amazing and the greatest thing ever because he is black and from DETROIT! (just kidding :P)

Vincenzo - Young Mountain
Bass-heavy deep house, a gentle, repetitive rhodes note that builds as the song goes... coupled with a warm bassline and swirly effects for the prog lover in me. Pretty decent track but may be a bit filler.

Falcom Sound Team JDK - Ys: The Oath Of Felghana Soundtrack - Chop!!
The Ys games are a fast paced action RPG series (think classic Zelda on amphetamines), that have developed a reputation for rocking soundtracks - they mix up 80's synthpop, buttrock and classical elements. This starts with fast pace strings, a xylophone, and a breakbeat background riff. There are other songs in this game that I like a lot more, hell I can't even remember where this one was played (boss fight probably).

Motoi Sakuraba - Baten Kaitos: Origins Soundtrack - Iconoclasm
Sakuraba has a reputation as being the "go to" guy if you need a generic RPG soundtrack quickly.. but he hits it out of the park with his battle themes. This is one of the many boss themes in the criminally underrated Baten Kaitos: Origins, a Gamecube RPG with beautiful graphics and a card-based battle system. This is straight up J-buttrock, with electric guitars, Steve Vai-esque riffs, and some synth/organ melodies.

Los Updates - Pictures Of You (Tobias mix)
Male vocal talking about taking pictures of you, over simplistic house percs, and a bassline that periodically pops up. There are plenty of little chirps and cut up guitars sprinkled over the song, though there isn't much in the way in a consistent melody. Los Updates did some songs with Luciano and Villalobos, so this has lots of elements of that Chilean minimal sound popular a few years back.

Electrobios and Interplay - With You (Jaytech mix)
The original mix would get a ton of play from me a few years back, never really cared much for the Jaytech version of the track though. It shares many elements of the original, with a more throbbing electro bassline, and some trancelike chords in the second half. It kinda downplays the seemingly Freestyle melody in the original.

Robert Hood - Who Taught You Math?
Raw, purist Detroit techno at its finest. A drill sound puncturing an improvised organ riff and synth chords that develop throughout the track. Definitely a classic track.

Wellenrausch - On The Run (Morph vs Woody Van Eyeden mix)
Surprised it took me this long to get to the trance, especially since trance used to be my listening choice du jour in the late 90's - early 2000's. This was before every trance song had a tacked on vocal, so the overexpressive vocal was still new. Pretty driving trance song with a nice hands-in-the-air arpeggiated riff, brings back memories here.

Christopher Lawrence and Nicholas Bennison - Scorcher
Not sure where this song came from, but anyways, this sounds somewhere between psytrance, oldskool prog from the Twilo era, and regular trance. It's got a pretty good bassline for a trance track, a driving main riff, an acid line, and even some breakbeats during the breakdown. This is a pretty good track, actually.

Horsepower Productions - Golden Nugget
This was from back when 2-step garage was getting very abstract and experimental, but before dubstep as we knew it came into play. So it's a lot faster and with skippier, less bass-heavy percussion, than what we now know as dubstep, but you can still see how this would influence people like Skream and Rusko. The main melody is cool too, I like this song.

Plastikman - Plastiscene
Early Hawtin material. I don't have much to say about it, apart from it having a nice acid riff that loops throughout the whole track, and it's more reserved than a lot of other Plastikman tracks.

Ethyl and Huxley - Ten 1
This is a pretty boring deep/tech house track that takes forever to go anywhere, and then when it finally does, it's just a 2 note synth playing. Dull and forgettable.

Domased Electronica - Mermaid (Fretwell mix)
Ahhh, progressive breaks! Surprised I haven't gotten a lot of prog or breaks when doing this exercise. I've always admired Fretwell's work, he's one of the go-to guys for the genre. This is pretty recent as far as prog breaks go (I think it's from 2008 or 9?), and it sounds like it could fit in right with the Luke Chable and Shiloh stuff of 2004, with a bit more sheen on its production, though it doesn't have much of a "hook".

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