looks good. checking it out.

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I bought Room 303 a week ago, great track.

Mah nigga.

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no dl link?

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whoops, my bad - amended the op

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Dave King - Tales Of The Future [Trance]
Dave King - Personal Classics
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Quality set mate, the flow was way better than the first draft you sent me, and there are tons of awesome tracks I will be stealing! Usually when DJs pack too many tunes into a set it just sounds like a mess but no issue with that here

The only transition I wasn't crazy about was in the second half, I think coming out of 303 (will need to relisten to confirm). Wasn't bad as such, just didn't have the usual 'dk' flare

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Originally posted by JonDC Quality set mate, the flow was way better than the first draft you sent me, and there are tons of awesome tracks I will be stealing! Usually when DJs pack too many tunes into a set it just sounds like a mess but no issue with that here

Cheers mate, thanks for taking the time to listen to both of them! Its interesting that in the first one I was worried that the loopy techno went on for almost too long, which is why I switched it up but you said almost the exact opposite! Sometimes you can really second guess yourself too much when there isnt an audience to bounce off!

Also I didnt set out to squeeze in loads of tracks, it just kinda happened that way as the tracks fitted themselves together! I guess this relates to the topic of flow, maybe Ill go over to your thread and make some ramblings...

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The only transition I wasn't crazy about was in the second half, I think coming out of 303 (will need to relisten to confirm). Wasn't bad as such, just didn't have the usual 'dk' flare

Heh, you know this was one where the two tracks didn't really match harmonically, but sidewinder felt like the right track to play next, which limited the options to a simple bass swap.

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Dave King - Tales Of The Future [Trance]
Dave King - Personal Classics
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I had a listen to this Dave and was going to leave a negative review, but it turns out my headphones were falling apart and the sound quality was deteriorating, which is probably why it seemed to lack any punch. I also chose to listen to it during a brutal uphill run in the rain so overall I'm not sure I gave it a fair chance.

With that said, I found myself feeling the same thing as during your Echo Chamber set. I'm not personally convinced this sparse boomy techno is the right way to build up to proggy psy stuff. It's like there's a double step up, because the music both becomes far more busy and far more anthemic. Techno can work alongside prog-psy, but I think it works much better when the techno is banging.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I'm not personally convinced this sparse boomy techno is the right way to build up to proggy psy stuff. It's like there's a double step up, because the music both becomes far more busy and far more anthemic. Techno can work alongside prog-psy, but I think it works much better when the techno is banging.

Have you listened to this again with decent headphones mate? The techno on here is massively banging, especially these 3

06: Darkskye - Assault & Battery [NGRecords]
07: Matt Minimal - The Fatal Bass [Perfekt Groove]
08: Spektre - Forerunner (Original Club Mix) [Toolroom]

Last edited by JonDC on Oct-11-2014 at 08:52

Originally I was avoiding this cos of the trance tag, but after seeing a few names in the replies I thought I'd give it a listen.

Overall this is a pretty good mix. The techno parts in particular are razor sharp in terms of mixing and track selection. The psy bit's decent although there were a couple of issues. I thought the issue with the sidewinder transition wasn't just to do with harmonic mixing. The tracks weren't necassarily that complimentary. It still worked ok though, just not as well as the rest of the transitions. I also felt like the mix lost a bit of energy towards the end, but that might just be my dislike of the style the last two tracks are.

I'm definitely interested in hearing some of djdk's techno sets now. Looking at sound cloud it looks like there's only one avaliable though. Damn.

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