luke slaters' a few weeks ago though

Hey man, if it's that good, go make your own thread about it.

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Ohhhhh, didn’t know he was up for yet another. Fell in love with the downtempo/midtempo weave of his 2009 edition- definitely one of the most memorable mixes I’d heard from the late oughts.

Got a long drive ahead of me so I’ll be firing this one up momentarily.

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Looks like another one of those "EVERYBODY IN THE POOL!" ultra-mixes he did for Balance all those years ago. Except with memorable, non-minimal techno.

Edit: skipped around a bit and, wow, Serious DJs really aren't afraid of playing trance anymore, are they?

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Tracklist looks promising. Voorn can still be good if he wants to. I quite liked this oldschool set he did two years ago. Pretty impressive vinyl mixing, especially for someone that's been on Traktor for over ten years.

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Originally posted by Sykonee Edit: skipped around a bit and, wow, Serious DJs really aren't afraid of playing trance anymore, are they?

I think we might have reached peak trance a while ago, it's getting to the point where it's become a bit of a meme. "Big festival DJ plays trance hit as a last track" has become a running joke on DJ Twitter. I've seen posts on Reddit where 19 year old techno DJs are asking for the hottest hardtrance from 1994. I wouldn't be surprised if playing trance becomes uncool again in the next couple of years, at least among those that consider themselves techno & house DJs above all.

I mean, stuff as cheesy and over-the-top as this passes as "techno" now - there has to be some kind of pushback coming eventually.

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Originally posted by Woony I think we might have reached peak trance a while ago, it's getting to the point where it's become a bit of a meme. "Big festival DJ plays trance hit as a last track" has become a running joke on DJ Twitter. I've seen posts on Reddit where 19 year old techno DJs are asking for the hottest hardtrance from 1994. I wouldn't be surprised if playing trance becomes uncool again in the next couple of years, at least among those that consider themselves techno & house DJs above all.

This, and also Joris Voorn has lost some of his "serious techno DJ" credence in recent years. A lot of his recent productions have been quite poppy, and when I saw him at Fabric his last tune was an edit of U2 - With Or Without You, fer chrissake.

That said, the only moment in this set that had me rolling my eyes was the climactic moment at the end just before Orbital comes in. Just a wee bit too "epic", Joris.

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Took a listen, I dig it. Also appreciate all the effort that must have gone into it. It actually go me thinking - I don't remember the last time I heard a mix that someone obviously spent months slaving over. is it just me or do we live in an age where very few people still put great effort into bedroom / studio mixes? There don't seem to be a lot of meticously constructed "statement mixes" anymore. I suppose with the mix CD being long dead and the age of social media and video content, traditional mixes just don't have the promotional value they once had but it's still sad. I remember even a decade ago, people were still eagerly awaiting and discussing every new RA podcast and most of them felt like real musical statements. And not just among professionals, there were vivid communities on TA and other sites where people poured incredible amounts of effort into bedroom mixes. There doesn't seem to be anything like that for young DJs today. Now there's just tons of live recordings and broadcasts and random off-the-cuff one hour radio mixes. Most A and B list DJs seem to barely put out any studio mixes at all anymore.

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Originally posted by Woony is it just me or do we live in an age where very few people still put great effort into bedroom / studio mixes? There don't seem to be a lot of meticously constructed "statement mixes" anymore. I suppose with the mix CD being long dead and the age of social media and video content, traditional mixes just don't have the promotional value they once had but it's still sad.

I might draw a distinction between 'statement' and 'concept' mixes, the latter of which Voorn has been studio assembling since at least 2005, but, in general, seems more a product of the technology that made it much more accessible toward the end of the last decade- where you'd have tracklistings consisting of numbers and letters.

But the statement mix seems more prevalent than ever, and is what so many RA podcasts basically amount to these days, saying loud and clear: this is my diverse musical history, these are my diverse musical interests, so watch me transition from Motown to Detroit Techno to R&B with all all the seams perfectly visible. I also get the impression that the cruder these mixes, the better, as it delivers a more 'real n raw' feel as it moves from one block of music to the next, incompatible block, like you're scanning through a personal CD the DJ burned in their teenage years. The tracklistings are sometimes nearly as large, but, in general, the statement mix seems in many ways the opposite of the concept mix.

What doesn't fly these days, as you mentioned, is the traditional 'GU' mix- 90 minutes of cuts that you've likely already heard over several different podcasts. It's still where bedroom DJ's start, and where professional DJ's connect with their audiences week after week, but when it comes time to deliver a commercial mix (and they still gotta do em), the need to release something extra unique is greater than ever.

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Originally posted by Paradox Lost but when it comes time to deliver a commercial mix (and they still gotta do em), the need to release something extra unique is greater than ever.

Commercial mixes? Where? The only halfway relevant commercial mix series left is Fabric.

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The top tier players from ten years ago are still around and have done what that can to adapt. Global Underground is back under original ownership and have basically re-launched the City Series with Patrice Baumel, and he continues to sit in anyone's 'most relevant' top 5. Balance remains active, issuing numbers 29 and 30 last year alone, not to mention the spinoff 'Sudbeats' release Cattaneo did on the label a couple years back. Digweed hasn't skipped a beat with his "Live At.." series under Bedrock, and Fabric, as you pointed out, continues to do what it does.

The only major mix series I can think of that seems to have gone silent is the Renaissance: Masters series, and while commercial mixes are definitely less frequent than they used to be, clearly artists and labels still see value in ensuring they continue to release them.

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