I spent a great deal of time planning this mix, and I'm really happy with the way it turned out. This set means a lot to me as a computer engineer and EDM enthusiast, because I feel like this reflects who I am individually. I named the mix after the computer science concept, which I studied extensively in a course on Networking principles. Logic design has always been fascinating to me, as the mix cover is a MMU (Memory Management Unit) and the signature represents part of an actual diagram in a project I completed for Microcomputer design (interfacing a 68000 with an interrupt driven Centronics parallel printer port circuit).
Flow Control covers a healthy territory of music, starting with a slow, minimal approach, and evolving into a very maximal sound as the mix progresses. Toward the end I start layering on some very thick, heavy basslines. This mix has all kinds of flavors that most TA's are into (even the slower folk like Adam, Oscar and Stu will find that most of this mix is at 128 BPM ). It has intelligent sound structures and a wide range of ideas. This one is my longest mix yet, so strap yourselves in and please enjoy!
Fennesz - Glass Ceiling [Touch]
Vaeya - Radulimlak [Digital Diamonds]
Lightsphere - Wavelines [Yellow Sunshine Explosion]
Soliquid - Minimal Symphony [Baroque]
Circuit Bent - Ambiently Speaking [Zenon]
Wal - Tell More [Glitchy Tonic]
Minimal Criminal - Tobor [Cosmic Conspiracy]
Sensient - Tech Message [Zenon]
Tristan - Bombscare (Perfect Stranger Remix) [Sonica]
Excizen - Suffocate [Ektoplazm]
Access To Arasaka - *strtok() [Tympanik Audio]
Pick - Minimum Orchestra [Glitchy Tonic]
Kained and Able - Tech 4 [Uroboros]
Hypogeo - Coma [Uroboros]
Synthetic Forest - Ogcocephalioidei [Scared Evil]
Iliuchina - Into The Trip [GDL]
Principles of Flight vs. Phonic Request - No Sense [Organik]
Very interesting tracklist. I almost didn't click on it because "psytekk" sounds like another fucking stupid psy sub-genre, when from the looks of this it seems quite serious.
Yeah, I don't blame you. That's sorta what people call this sound, as it's not really a specific sub-genre. I could call it "tech-psy" or "psy-tech" but it doesn't really make a difference, now, does it?
This is my problem with psy-trance. No matter how much I like certain artists or tracks, too much of it is blighted by this insistence on being geeky and cheesy. "Psytekk" sounds like something made on FL by a 15-year old who calls himself DJ Venom.
Incidentally, this rant has nothing directly to do with your mix, which I will listen to.
I gave this a listen Zip, but I have to say I didn't enjoy it much. It never felt like you got a decent flow going, which is somewhat ironic given the title. When you brought the third track in, I was surprised you were escalating things so quickly, and then you dropped back off again. The opening was just:
Ambient tune
Clicky dark tune
Proggy tune
Fuzzy happy tune
Glitchy tune
Dark tune
No cohesion at all. It wasn't until about 45 minutes in you got a string of darker, moody tracks together and it felt like things were where they should have been half an hour earlier. Then you stepped the energy up quite rapidly but stopped it with that glitchy orchestral interlude and completely reset the energy with the next track.
I can understand you were trying to cover a lot of territory and show different sides of this sound, but I don't think you pulled it all together successfully.
). It has intelligent sound structures and a wide range of ideas. This one is my longest mix yet, so strap yourselves in and please enjoy!
