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Sand Leaper
Tension hunter

Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Oslo, Norway
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Jun-30-2014 20:54
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Spacey Orange
still loves trance.

Registered: Jul 2004
Location: California
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Lews
Platipus And Prog Addict

Registered: Feb 2007
Location: Hugging Whales And Saving Trees
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Jul-21-2014 05:50
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Spacey Orange
still loves trance.

Registered: Jul 2004
Location: California
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Jul-22-2014 03:52
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djdk
Nutritional Overachiever

Registered: Jul 2003
Location: London
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Jul-22-2014 09:58
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ziptnf
Programming your future

Registered: Jun 2008
Location: Louisville, KY
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I listened to this yesterday, and it was definitely badass. Seems like you were aiming for a high level of activity and variety with your tech-trance. Admittedly, I was preparing myself for disappointment when the energy was declining after the first 70ish minutes. It seemed quite clear that you had peaked 3/4 of the way through and wanted to ease the set down to finish, as Nuclear Ramjet - Atomic Empire seemed significantly more relaxed than the rest, but I was quite surprised to find that you ramped it back up for the last three tracks! The flow definitely worked, but it was not quite as linear as the title or your description was indicating. In my mind, I see linear as a straightforward progression all the way through, but here you peaked midway, slowly lowered the energy and then brought it back up slightly at the end. I find that flow to be perfect for what you were trying to do, but I suppose at this point I'm just discussing semantics. It was a really nice road trip mix, and I hope I see you posting here more Thanks for the music, Jan.
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Jul-22-2014 16:05
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Sand Leaper
Tension hunter

Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Oslo, Norway
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Thanks to everyone who checked this out so far, despite all the Mixcloud hassle. Here's a Mediafire link for those struggling with the Mixcloud stream. Should have put this up sooner, but the weather has just been so ridiculously good that I've been too busy lying around outside.
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I listened to this yesterday, and it was definitely badass. Seems like you were aiming for a high level of activity and variety with your tech-trance. Admittedly, I was preparing myself for disappointment when the energy was declining after the first 70ish minutes. It seemed quite clear that you had peaked 3/4 of the way through and wanted to ease the set down to finish, as Nuclear Ramjet - Atomic Empire seemed significantly more relaxed than the rest, but I was quite surprised to find that you ramped it back up for the last three tracks!
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Yeah, Atomic Empire did give the mix a bit of a lull, which wasn't part of the plan. I decided to compensate for that with the remaining tunes instead of just stopping and doing the mix all over again, as I felt the mix would be a lot more organic and spontaneous that way. This is why the pace bounces back right afterwards.
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The flow definitely worked, but it was not quite as linear as the title or your description was indicating. In my mind, I see linear as a straightforward progression all the way through, but here you peaked midway, slowly lowered the energy and then brought it back up slightly at the end. I find that flow to be perfect for what you were trying to do, but I suppose at this point I'm just discussing semantics. It was a really nice road trip mix, and I hope I see you posting here more Thanks for the music, Jan. |
This was more or less what I was trying to explain in the blurb for my first post. It was never my intention to make a completely linear mix in the strictest sense of the term, as that wouldn't be very interesting to me (hence the comment about some tension and release). The goal was to change up the "gradually increase the tempo and intensity to a peak and then cool off" type of formula that I've perused so often for my trance mixes. It was tricky, because if you are going to include some tension and release in your mix, when do you cross the threshold into familiar "build up and peak" territory, and how do you avoid getting to that point?
I feel like I've managed to find a decent middle road, where the constant BPM and the percussive differences between the tracks give the mix the progression yet linearity I wanted, without resorting to carefully placed breakdowns, melodies and so on, like I have done in the past. That said, tunes like Atomic Empire and Inland definitely provide a certain release of tension that could be taken as "peaks", so... I guess you all will have to be the judges on whether it works like I feel it does or not.
Anyway, enough nerding out about set structure. Glad to hear you liked the mix, and it's good to see that I'm not alone in thinking that it is an ideal road trip soundtrack.
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