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So I listened to this and I have a few conflicting feelings. I'm going to try and explain myself as objectively as possible, without feeling like I'm criticizing this work too much.
Firstly I should probably advise you against claiming you have created your best mix ever, because that is generally very subjective and will vary widely amongst your listeners. Even if you feel like you totally nailed it, treat it as another mix and let your listeners decide how it stacks up against your previous work instead. It also sets somewhat of an unreachable standard where people who are listening will be judging you much more harshly than they would normally.
Secondly, this mix has a load of really nice tracks in it and I enjoyed listening to it quite a bit. However, I feel that this set suffers severely from a consistency problem. The first hour was a rollercoaster of mood swings. You would be playing a beautiful, lush ambient track, and 10 minutes later, you were playing darker prog. It's hard to take the birds seriously, and the theme of feeling like you're flying, when you are ripping me from out of the air and throwing me into a dark and dingy club listening to a scary and distorted voice talking about whatever. The second half was much more consistent with the theme, but I still feel like you picked and chose your spots.
Thirdly, the birds. They totally made sense in some places, and totally didn't make sense in other places. At the 21 minute mark, I'm loving the ambient pads and melodies mixed with the birds. It's complete bliss. But around the 30 minute/35 minute mark, it sounds completely out of place. The last thing on my mind when I'm listening to dark prog are birds, so that totally felt off. There were times when I felt you probably could have gotten away with this sort of flow if you had just gotten rid of the bird track entirely. As a matter of fact they got downright annoying at times. I do appreciate the idea to have a field recording of unique bird sounds throughout the entire mix, but I don't think you pulled it off successfully.
So while I did enjoy the music, and thought your mixing was perfect, you had serious flow problems and I didn't think this was your best mix ever by a long shot. I hope Part 2 turns out a little better.
Reminder: you're a really good friend, we've traded gifts in the past, and I don't want you to feel like I'm tearing your mix to shreds here. Just my own musings while listening. I hope you find some useful constructive criticism in my review.
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