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| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
I had my second listen to this today and I think it’s probably your best work to date. I’ve found some of your full-on mixes a bit cheesy in places and this improves on that immensely. |
Great! Nice to hear that you liked it! 
Full-on can be very cheesy, but the mix that I have lined up for July shouldn't be cheesy at all; I might be launching myself to a higher standard with regards to psytrance. I realized that just because one track sounds kinda cool doesn't mean that there aren't a billion tracks out there that sound very similar. This time, I'm going for the cream of the crop 
| quote: | | On the mixing, some transitions seemed really quiet, it was weird. It was almost like you had both faders at 80% at the same time or something? I would advise you to keep the outgoing track’s fader up for a bit longer if that was the case. |
I noticed this for a few tracks, in particular, Time Traveller -> Sweet September was the quietest, but a lot of times, fading out from the outgoing track to the incoming track didn't seem very noticeable, but when I started moving over to the next track and increasing the gains, it slightly overpowered the outgoing track. For proggy stuff, I should probably consider a new style of mixing, or increase the gains slightly when beginning my fade.
| quote: | | The track selection was pretty spot-on for me. I love ‘Lone Ranger’ and I was surprised how well that worked later in the mix; in my mind that has always been an opening track due to that awesome beatless intro, but that just goes to show how creativity can work. ‘Ground Control v2’ was also good. Nice work. |
Love both of those tracks, even though some people consider them slightly more full-on than prog. I mixed harmonically for this set and both of those tracks seemed to work together pretty well.
| quote: | | Also, listening to this is annoying, because I have a prog-psy mix planned up until track 7, but it keeps falling apart after that. I just can't find the right combination of tracks, keys and energy levels to make it work and I've been trying for a month or so. I think I just need some new music. That said, the new Suntree album just came out and I should have my hands on that soon. |
Prog-psy is often very difficult to mix, because most tracks are groovy but ultimately progress to absolutely nothing, and after listening you feel like you wasted your time. The Suntree album looks very good, I'm dying to listen to it, but I remember you telling me something about how you wanted darker tones for this mix... I somehow have a feeling that that album may not cut it. May I recommend artists like Sensient, Day.din, Minimal Criminal, and Shadow FX? Hopefully everything works out, and thanks a TON for the listen, I always love your feedback!
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Set Archive | TA DJ Challenge
Last edited by ziptnf on Jun-10-2009 at 13:06
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