Zodiac - Not giving up (Neo Trance)

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Posted by ZodiacX on Feb-26-2008 20:59:

Zodiac - Not giving up (Neo Trance)

After a few house sets, here may way back to trance...
This time: The finest tracks in NeoTrance

01 Gregor Tresher - Neon (Original Mix)
02 Extrawelt - Soopertrack (Original Mix)
03 Fairmont - Gazebo (Original Mix)
04 MFA - Motherload (Original Mix)
05 Gregor Tresher - Heat (Original Mix)
06 Anthony Rother, Sven Vath - Springlove (Original Mix)
07 Oxia - Domino (Original Mix)
08 Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (James Holden Remix)
09 Mathew Jonson - Marionette (Original Mix)
10 Nathan Fake - Outhouse (Main Mix)
11 Extrawelt - Titelheld (Original Mix)
12 Ame - Rej (Original Mix)

>>> Zodiac - Not giving up <<<

Enjoy

Posted by ZodiacX on Feb-27-2008 06:48:

At beatport, this style is called "melodic techno".
But here in germany, the border community / cocoon
style is called neo-trance in most of the clubs.

When creating a mix, shouldn't it be more or less
of the same genre / style?

I experimented for about a year before I posted my
first set here...
Now it is about time to get some feedback, to learn
from it, and then go back practising...

But if I go back to practise with no feedback...
Where would be the difference to the year of practice before?
If I make mistakes I do not know, I would keep on making them.
Mixing, transitions, EQ, flow, etc...

So I will continue posting some few more sets, hopefully
getting some real feedback and then try to learn from it.

Posted by ZodiacX on Feb-28-2008 07:08:

Here I tried a mix, that uses different themes.
Hope you like it

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...2141&forumid=73

Posted by ZodiacX on Feb-28-2008 19:49:

this set got downloaded 3 times...
and, at least, one feedback...
thank you.

here is my latest try:
http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...2220&forumid=73

Posted by elFreak on Feb-28-2008 20:27:

how about making one thread, and instead of concentrating on doing 20 mixes, concentrate on doing one really well.

trust me

Posted by ZodiacX on Feb-28-2008 20:47:

i did...
"initiations" was planned quite hard.
and i got no feedback...
well, i was told to do a new one...
so i did...
and they told me, to do something new...
and i did again...

where is the difference, if i do 1 mix without feedback,
or if i do 20 mixes and still get no feedback...

Posted by elFreak on Feb-28-2008 21:11:

Well to be brutally honest, from looking at your tracklists it might be time to dig deeper a bit. All the tracks i've seen up have been heard by virtually every edm fan in existance a very long time ago. If people are going to take the time and listen to a bunch of tracks they already know, chances are they will download it form a known dj over a person just starting out.

Don't be obscure for the sake of being obscure, but there is so much good material for sale out there that you don't have to play generic stuff. If you are doing this for comments and feedback, stop now. Do it for yourself first, especially if you are starting out. The market is already saturated with people playing the same stuff...you aren't going to stand out no matter what you do this way.Also having a ton of threads might piss off those who post their sets only to have them bumped to hell by 20 threads from the same guy.

Best of luck man.

ps..dont ever do this and expect in return, but you keep saying no one has given you feedback, so ask yourself if you have ever given anyone else here some.

Posted by Clovis on Feb-28-2008 21:46:

I can't stand the term "Neo Trance"

Posted by ZodiacX on Feb-29-2008 06:40:

hi elfreak
i really appreciate your comment.

my first set here "initiations" were no dead old tracks.
the oldest of them was published about 3 month ago...
maybe one or two of them was published before,
but the releases i bought were brand new on the market.

from the comments few comments there i thought,
i should show sets with tracks i know better as
'burke' told, the flow was missing and EQing was bad...
well, it was my first trance set...
so i went back to genres i know...
and that were the older tracks

sure, everyone in the scene knows these tracks,
but here, where i am performing, people want to here them.
every time i play too much new stuff, the owner comes over
"play something they know, the complained"...
sad, but true.
this is why i have so many old tracks here at home...

for my self i try alway doing new stuff...
but as nobody replied, i thought you were of the same kind
than the folks here at the discos...
just wanting track you know...

i am not looking for feedback like "well done", "great" etc.
i am looking for feeback like "not well done", "not great",
"your faults are...", "try this...", "try that..."

i am looking for improvement...
and this why i need somebody from outside to tell me.
folks here always say "well done", "great", and i know it is not

i would like to give that kind of feedback to others,
but i think i am not yet good enough to indicate them there faults,
or even to find them... otherwise i would find my own ones,
and i would not need that feedback...

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i hate the term neo trance as well.
but every time i said "melodic techno" or "cocoon style",
folks told me "come on, that is called neo trance"...