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Ziptnf - Tefo Sifon [kickass amateur trance]

Hey guys, this is the stuff that I grew up listening to back from the early part of this decade. There are some serious stompers in here, some of you might have a hard time imagining that they were all made in FL Studio. Anybody who likes trance at all will surely be impressed by this set, even amateurs have quite a bit of skill!

Background
I was a member of the Toby Emerson Forums (TEFO) and Silexz-Studios Forums (SiFON) for a while and used to produce trance with a legit copy of Fruity Loops Studio. All of the artists on this mix were also members, and this is the best selection of tracks from them. I made Timeless when I was 14 years old, and I didn't know a whole lot about mastering, but I thought it was my personal best track. Enexor is one of my best friends who went to High School and swam competitively with me, he and I used to produce tracks together but we never actually finished one!

Tracklist
Toby Emerson - Blue Star
Ziptnf - Timeless
Saxxonpike - Fission (Enexor Remix)
DJ Pezz - The Last Time
Icewave - Beyond Clouds
Air - Spirits Soar
Hybrid Stasis - Arisen
Toby Emerson - Underwater
Sonic Ether - Nucleus
Sensorica - Triangle Reality (Dark Element Remix)
Toby Emerson - Liquify
Silexz - Force of Sound

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Hope you enjoy!

Did you get banned mate? Checkin.

God, what a.....




DLing. Will try to listen, but I'm heading off for a holiday shortly, so no promises on a comment until new year

Now thats an astounding tracklist. Even a self-production is included... Must check!

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Originally posted by Teezdalien Did you get banned mate? Checkin.

Just suspended for a week I dropped the n-bomb in the Chris Henry thread because he died banging on the back window of his crying, freaked-out girlfriend's truck. Must have been a lovely man off the football field

Thanks, Sushi and Mag, you guys might enjoy this!

whabam!

all my cracker friends are interested.

Ah, the days of mp3.com

Grabbing this

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Originally posted by netroM Ah, the days of mp3.com Grabbing this

It's more acidplanet.com than mp3.com, although Icewave actually wasn't a member of the forums. He was still an amateur on mp3.com tho

Quite liked this set. Production wise the tracks might not be perfect but you can feel in a lot of them the emotion which was put. You structured them well, for an hour set it didn't had a progression which could become too hasty which is a good point. Just straightly put, one after another. Transitions were also ok. I wasn't disturbed at any point of the set. Also I liked the idea behind that set, its always nice to see something original and inspired from something personal. Thanks for the share zip!

Post-ban bump

Thanks for the review Mag, we may have not been the best at production, but we sure worked hard at it. I'm really pleased with this set, it takes me back to when I was just a little trancecracker

Hope you other fuckers listen too!

you really know how to make a man go moist.

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Originally posted by KilldaDJ you really know how to make a man go moist.

Amateur Trance, eh? This one has a place deep in my heart, I miss my trancecracker days...

listened to this when i got back from work today.

first of all, how the fuck did i miss this?? before reading through it all, i downloaded this on the basis of the quality artwork alone LOL the 8bit blast with fruityloops motif? brilliant. you've pitched this just right, you've sold it to me already.

as for the content? well, in a word, fantastic. soda-pop shrink wrapped tracker-trance, fuck cracker-trance, they know fuck all about music. i know the production values could be improved, like mastering and all that technical shit but the way the individual tracks are composed...quality eagle.

i'd much rather listen to an hour of these tracks than the generic-everything-sounds-the-same uplifting progressive shit that is puked up on these digital labels at an alarming rate!

the self production is pretty good too, was that a fruityloops job?

(i produced some stuff in some of my sets too but they are very samey and a bit shitty lol) oats oats oats oats

my favorite track in this was probably Toby Emerson - Liquify just a great track, i feel wronged in missing this altogether. you played this at the exact right time in this set, im \o/ at this point LOL

overall a very well composed set from you zip, i am very pleased i found this, its rare to find something you reallllllly like and everything in this set to even the art work i liiiiike. a great fun, not so serious trance mix.xm

the artwork is brilliant.

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Originally posted by ziptnf See, I told you guys I would finish it! There were several pain-in-the-ass tracks, ones that weren't beatgrid friendly whatsoever. In particular, those tracks were Tenshi and 1998, where the beatgrid kept getting out of sync, so I found myself having to adjust the beatgrid manually during transitions. I wish I had 3 arms Anyways, sorry for playing songs that have been beat to death for 10 years, but these are all my favorites. I mixed them harmonically. Enjoy! Beam vs Cyrus & The Joker - Launch in Progress Gouryella - Tenshi (Transa Remix) Ferry Corsten - Sublime (Thrillseekers Remix) Tiesto - Sparkles Rank 1 - Airwave Sasha - Xpander Ian van Dahl - Castles in the Sky (Wippenberg Remix) ATB - Summer Veracocha - Carte Blanche Binary Finary - 1998 (Paul Van Dyk Remix) Pulser - Cloudwalking Kaycee - Escape Darude - Out of Control [[ LINK REMOVED ]]

gunna comment this while the thred is still here (i cant be arsed to dig up that old dog)

you did well in fighting off the degrading comments from that 'forum user' to put it politely.

track selection was good, choosing classics isnt very easy imo because theres just so many of them, this is a pretty consistant selection, refers back to my nexus 1999 mix, you keep it very 1998-2001. i like this period.

wtf is this mixing though lol

i remember mixing live with atomixmp3 in the early days of 2003 and i encountered some of these problems, my solution was to loop like the last 8 beats or whatever and mix in my new track, that way it 'anchors' the bass note/key at whatever and you can bring the next track in. i think it was the letter 'L' that did this and shift L was 8 beats/4 beats/whatever.

sure, some of it wasnt exactly perfectly sync'd but the keys were not far off, some pretty decent harmonic mixes in there...sparkles to airwave and escape to out of control, which btw is a fucking tune.

when i benchmark tefo and nabbit, there is a clear winner im afraid. purely because tefo is just awesome. this mix could of been better had the beatgrid thing didnt fuck you up. perhaps you could play the set again and post v2? you've got better since then and that guy eat his own words and fuck right off. right?

safe brother.

do another tefo.

Holy crap! Seems like you've had a nice day to listen to some trance lol. Firstly, I must respond to Tefo Sifon.

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Originally posted by KilldaDJ first of all, how the fuck did i miss this?? before reading through it all, i downloaded this on the basis of the quality artwork alone LOL the 8bit blast with fruityloops motif? brilliant. you've pitched this just right, you've sold it to me already.

I was playing around in Photoshop and BAM I hit the background on the money using the Extrude tool. Put a big FL fruit over it and I had myself a cover.

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as for the content? well, in a word, fantastic. soda-pop shrink wrapped tracker-trance, fuck cracker-trance, they know fuck all about music. i know the production values could be improved, like mastering and all that technical shit but the way the individual tracks are composed...quality eagle. i'd much rather listen to an hour of these tracks than the generic-everything-sounds-the-same uplifting progressive shit that is puked up on these digital labels at an alarming rate!

Most definitely, these guys I used to hang out with all had a serious passion for producing trance, they studied it, they used their imagination, and they shared all their technical information with each other so that it turned into a community of very supportive and helpful users, who all had a dickton of talent. Very rare on the internets. Toby Emerson is now doing House or some garbage that pays well, he left all his trance behind in a box in his attic.

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the self production is pretty good too, was that a fruityloops job?

Yeah, man, I made that when I was 14 or so. I used to play on my Dad's piano and see what sounded right. I found a chord that I loved and stuck to it, even though I honestly didn't know much at all about music theory.

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my favorite track in this was probably Toby Emerson - Liquify just a great track, i feel wronged in missing this altogether. you played this at the exact right time in this set, im \o/ at this point LOL

Definitely one of my favorites, but I think the true nature of Ziptnf lies in the last track, Force of Sound. I honestly don't think any actual trance producers can even get within a stones throw of that level of energy.

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overall a very well composed set from you zip, i am very pleased i found this, its rare to find something you reallllllly like and everything in this set to even the art work i liiiiike. a great fun, not so serious trance mix.xm the artwork is brilliant.

Now for Dag Nabbit:

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Originally posted by KilldaDJ gunna comment this while the thred is still here (i cant be arsed to dig up that old dog) you did well in fighting off the degrading comments from that 'forum user' to put it politely.

Haters gonna hate

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track selection was good, choosing classics isnt very easy imo because theres just so many of them, this is a pretty consistant selection, refers back to my nexus 1999 mix, you keep it very 1998-2001. i like this period.

Yeah they kept bitching that it wasn't "old school" enough. I didn't get into trance in '92, I'm not a fucking dinosaur. Plus, I was happy with all the tunes I selected.

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wtf is this mixing though lol

Jesus H Christ, my mixing skills on some of these tracks were so horrendously awful that I literally couldn't listen to the set all the way through. What a shame. I had a deadline for the game thingy and couldn't keep practicing the set, so I just submitted one with bad transitions.

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i remember mixing live with atomixmp3 in the early days of 2003 and i encountered some of these problems, my solution was to loop like the last 8 beats or whatever and mix in my new track, that way it 'anchors' the bass note/key at whatever and you can bring the next track in. i think it was the letter 'L' that did this and shift L was 8 beats/4 beats/whatever.

That's not a bad idea, the problem was that as the tracks Tenshi and 1998 kept progressing, the beats kept getting further and further off the beatgrid like the grid couldn't align itself properly. I couldn't even believe that it did that on me. As a matter of fact, a few months later, it happened again on Yin's Revenge. While it kept getting further off beat, I kept trying to adjust the beatgrid, but couldn't do it quickly enough. I now realize that the right mouse button does a better job of this. It was unfortunate that it happened, because my mixing ruined my set.

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sure, some of it wasnt exactly perfectly sync'd but the keys were not far off, some pretty decent harmonic mixes in there...sparkles to airwave and escape to out of control, which btw is a fucking tune.

Love Out of Control, definitely one of the tops in trance, I'm glad I ended the set with it.

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when i benchmark tefo and nabbit, there is a clear winner im afraid. purely because tefo is just awesome. this mix could of been better had the beatgrid thing didnt fuck you up. perhaps you could play the set again and post v2? you've got better since then and that guy eat his own words and fuck right off. right?

Hell yeah bwahh.

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do another tefo.

I was considering it, but I'm afraid I'd have a hard time finding enough tracks.

Thanks so much for checking out my set archive haha, I really appreciate you listening to my stuff. I'm gonna check out "Next stop, Ascantha" as soon as I can, I guess I posted a long time ago and just never got around to it. Thanks bud!

bump because people need to hear the fruitynoob talent!

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Originally posted by KilldaDJ bump because people need to hear the fruitynoob talent!

Be patient, my son.

track 6 is epic.

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Originally posted by Air87 track 6 is epic.

Hi, Karl, welcome to TA

underwater goodness dadadada...

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Originally posted by ziptnf Just suspended for a week I dropped the n-bomb in the Chris Henry thread because he died banging on the back window of his crying, freaked-out girlfriend's truck. Must have been a lovely man off the football field

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Originally posted by ziptnf Thanks, Sushi and Mag, you guys might enjoy this!

Bump. Awesome set, definitely will keep this one I can't believe I missed it earlier. Very rare too see an oldskool trance set with many previously unknown to me tracks

EDIT:

This set of yours I will grab as well:

July 2010

Air - My Mind
Toby Emerson - Phantasy
Bboyspaz & Shoop (aka Hypothermicstroke) - Icykle
Creamy Goodness - DJ Battle
Toby Emerson - Killer
Creamy Goodness - Out the Box (ft. Logic & Indi)
Deadmau5 - That's Not True
B3nt - Terminal World
Silexz - Mirage
The Big Lebowski - Peed on my Rug (Interlude)
Oneilio - Chiller
Demented Liquid - Parasite [Short Cut]
Kossae - Goodbye
DJ Pezz - Talk To Me
The Cynic Project - Structure (Hybrid Stasis Remix)
D-Element - Aquanox
Ehrmann & F.Boys - Fruity Dream (Ziptnf Remix)
Hyperflexed - Hooverdom II (Mo Feister Remix)

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