round 3 for moi

1. Louie "Balo" Guzman - Curvas [Tribal Winds]
very nice start, loving it, a very nice and groovy saxophone workout, backed with a lovely tribal beat. just the kinda jazz i love .

2. Pantytec - A Glimpse [Perlon]
minimal techno, not my groove, nor the kinda sounds i'm into, will be deleted.

3. 4E - Bimbo Limbo [Home Entertainment]
slow and hypnotic, would fit well as an opener somewhere.

4. The Prodigy - Your Love (Remix) [Elektra]
slightly inferior to the original, classic anyway.

5. Alex Smoke - If You Mean It [Cocoon]
would probably work better as a beatless track, but i can manage it as is, will find a spot as an opener.

6. Suns Of Arqa - Acid Tabla (Re-Mix) [Arka Sound]
there's nothing acidic about this not much interesting either.

7. Berg Nixon - The Depths [Minus]
this track has a nice bassline going for it, but other than that it just plays nonsense with the percs, desperately in need of a remix to make it as minimal as it's purported to be.

8. Vernon - Sooner Or Later (The One Mix) [Eye-Q]
went a bit overboard with the singing if he wanted to qualify this for a trance set, and a bit overboard with the arpeggios if he wanted to qualify this for a house set, to be deleted.

9. Air Liquide - Ek-Stasis [Smile]
quite a trip, various acid lines - some stolen from oldschool acid house recordings - fighting amongst themselves in disharmony backed by some sweet pads, would be fun to contextualize this to the high peak of a night.

10. Space Cowboy - That's What Dreams Are Made Of (Alan Braxe Remix) [Tiger Trax]
w00t, the first truly embarrassing song of the lot, fortunately for me, you probably haven't heard it to be deleted promptly .

11. The Doors - Twentieth Century Fox [Rhino Records]
not their best, but still, it's The Doors .

12. Damon Wild - Space Time [Synewave]
legit techno, not too interesting though, booted.

13. Laurent Garnier Live @ Yellow Club Tokyo 2004 (part 5)
covers diva house, funky house, funk, jazz, tribal, and reggea among other styles, and all in the space of those last 40 minutes of the set, Garnier rules.

14. Sleeparchive - Hospital 03 [Sleeparchive]
actual minimal techno, a rare specimen nowadays, but this particular slab is not for me.

15. Sven Vaeth - Design Music (Si Begg S.I. Future Remix) [Virgin]
i prefer the original but this isn't bad.

16. Ars Deco - Sad Track [No Response]
a rather nice downtempo piece, not exactly my groove, but i still manage to enjoy it, very relaxing.

17. Two Lone Swordsmen - Big Clapper (C-PIJ Remix) [Warp]
experimental ambient thingy, bordering on the noise genres, not my cup of tea.

18. Luciano & Serafin - Voodoo's N Blues [Cadenza]
the track title describes it well enough.

19. Putsch '79 - Glowing Cat [Clone]
deep house, nice organic drums, all in all - cute.

20. Total Eclipse - Bom Bole [TIP]
overjoyed oldschool psytrance from 1994 .

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Right, with a good chunk of my collection from back home imported on to my laptop, things should hopefully be a bit more varied this time.

Benga - Break It
Dubstep business of usual Benga quality. Nothing fancy here, just a straightforward stepper with some neat pads and synths to contrast all the bass. Works well in the mix.

Eric Prydz - Call On MaRt
Call On Me dnb style! Steve Winwood as a chipmunk might be a bit too much for people though.

Total Science - Smashed
Another great track for the mix. A pretty stripped down and beat-based affair that rolls out like only TS can, but at the same time with this quirky and odd undertone that sets it a bit apart from other TS tunes.

Tranceparents - Child Two (Summer Love Remix)
W00t, forgot I had this on my harddrive after buying the album. PvD's best remix to date as far as I'm concerned. An absolutely beautiful summery slice of oldschool trance, with lush female vocal samples and shimmering sounds that just flutter out of the speakers. Also a total revamp of the original, which is a lot darker and grittier.

Miranda - Feel The Effect (Earthbound Extended Version)
Ack, one of the few guilty pleasures on this comp. This is cheesy as hell and not clever in any way whatsoever. And that octave switch at the end... However, the riff just hasn't let go of my brain ever since they played it on radio back home 7-8 years ago, and pitched up to +8 this goes right off. The original is of course far better: a typically twisted and mind-bending affair from one of Sweden's biggest goa heroines.

Psychonauts - Essential Mix 15.12.96
A very zeitgeisty mix from the time when Mo'Wax, UNKLE, Nightmares On Wax and DJ Shadow were the best things since sliced bread. Doesn't sound as relevant these days, but still a very impressive mix showcasing broken beats from pretty much every angle there is. Some immense tunes as well, like DJ Die - Stone Love and The Wild Bunch's (proto-Massive Attack) cover of "The Look Of Love" by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

Daniel Menche - Untitled (Track 4 from the album Field Of Skin)
Noisy, droning dark ambient from one of the genre's absolute masterminds. Sounds like a swarm of wasps homing in on one of those bug killer lamps, before the whole track slowly but surely creeps up on you, intensifying for every second. I opened the first ambient mix I ever did with this one. I could zone out to this stuff for days, drone lover that I am.

Ed Rush - Bludclot Artattack
"You got a ticket to hell?" One of the blueprint tunes for the techstep/darkstep branches that jungle would see later on, and one of my absolute favourite oldschool jungle tracks. The warbling, twisted atmosphere after that infamous vocal sample smacks it every time.

Break - The Truth
Typical newschool drum n bass rinse out. Sounds overproduced, and doesn't do a whole lot. Deleted.

Opiate - Venus
Warm and fuzzy sounds from Denmark's Thomas Knak, who is perhaps best known for producing tracks for Björk. This is not among the best things he's done, but still a nice track that goes easy on the ears.

Skepta - The End
A remix medley of several big grime hits, such as Jammer - Murkle Man, his own hit "Duppy" and a bunch of others I don't remember the name of. Not bad, but by far the weakest track on the release.

Red Shift - This High
Very dark and atmospheric progressive trancer from around 99/00. The Austin Leeds Mix is better, and it's not all that varied, but I still think this is pretty nifty. A good set builder.

Oliver Lieb - Subraumstimulation (Push Remix)
Shock horror, a MIKE production with a proper kickdrum! I never liked the original of this, it just sounds so weak by Oliver's standards. MIKE beefs the track up considerably on his remix, ditches the big riffs, adds a whopping bassline that doesn't go OTT and then just lets the beats roll the track out. Good shit.

Solar Quest - Revelation (Meditative)
The ambient side to A+B = C In D#. Devised to be played simultaneously with the other side, Harmonation, a typical 20 minute 303 slaughter that George Saunders is reknowned for. Played together, the results are nothing short of immense.

Alex & Vince - Angel Dust
Getting a bit too trancy now, meh. This is good also, though. Caught it randomly on Beatport. A bit slow, but with percussion to die for, tons of drive and sweeping synthwashes aplenty. If you like Signum - 5 Yards, do check this one out.

Keenan & Anderson - Drift Away (Gift's Ambient Mix)
The original of this sounded a bit too much like K&A's first tune, Futurestep. This chillout take on it, however, is quite lovely. It sprinkles some light touches of the original over a simple yet irresistible groove, building up to the climax neatly.

Mr. Slash - Firearm
Instrumental grime from one of London's biggest up and comers. I like the sound he has going on this one, but he's used it on his latest EP as well, so I hope he does something different for his next outing.


Oops, I think that'll do for quite a while.

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Time to play again. It's been a year or two at least since we played this game. Everybody, do it!

Unfortunately, I don't have my music drive with me, here, so I did a search for *.mp3 on my C drive (I thought I killed my computer), found 10,217 mp3s, selected all (I thought I killed my computer again), dumped them in the winamp (yeah, I thought I killed my computer but figured it would survive since it survived the other two commands), hit the random thingy...here are the top 10:

1. Chicane - Hiding All The Stars (Michael Woods Remix)
Natasha Andreas sings in the original dance music released 2008-2009ish. I didn't even know I had purchased this.

2. Sterac - Pacifia
I downloaded this after reading that Sand Leaper had purchased Sterac - Thera (he said "pricey but worth it.") I was curious.

3. Disrupt - Riddim Grid
This is from Dub album "Foundation Bit" released in 2007. I dunno. S'okay. Jan Gleichmar has done better. I'm always so critical but when I listen to the album, track #1 - 8 or 9, it's good stuff.

4. Autechre - SonDEremawe
This is one of the tracks off the Quaristice album. I loved their Incunabula album, one of the best albums I own. Off the top of my head, I like this album but tbh, can't remember too much about any of the tracks on. Maybe it's good overall with no stand outs?

5. ??? - idea illusion
I had no idea what this was so I ran a search on "illusion." It's by Solitare Albread. I don't remember ever listening...

6. Psy-T - Paraphilia
Well, this is our own Peter Pipers (Derek). He's done better. This is kind of a smoggy jibberish.

7. Om - Peace of Mind
Tetsu Inoue and Dennis Ferrer teamed up back in the 90s ("Om") and created some of the best trance imaginable. Peace of Mind definitely rates. On the same CD, Seed of Sound and Wheels of Light. Here comes the Sun!

8. Karen Busck - Flyd Fra Mine Læber
Karen's a Danish singer. This is one of the tracks on album she released back when I started at Stanford. "Touch of home" you could say.

9. Michael Peters - Malfunction For Jazz-Rock Automata
Jan introduced Michael Peters to me in his recently deleted blog. I love alot of Michael Peters' stuff. This, I don't really remember.

10. Planewalker - Delta Waves
Friend introduced my sisters and I to the Planewalker. He's kind of psy trancy, if I recollect correctly.

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Hm. It's been nearly five years since I lasted post in this. Heck, my obsession with Neil Young had yet to even occur, and now I have more of his albums than any other artist's. Let's fire the Randomizer once more, and see if we get more quirky results.

1.Ice Cube - War & Peace
This was about the point everyone said Cube was falling off. Definitely sounds over-produced compared to his early work. And what's with that chorus? Dude, do you really want to be style-biting from No Doubt at this point?

2. Paul van Dyk - Step Right On!
Ooolllddd school Dyk here. Or is it? Apparently only appears on the '98 re-release of 45 RPM. Maybe was a b-side or something. I don't really care about Mr. Paul's career to find out. Tune's nice enough tho'.

3. Enigma - The Piano
Latter era Enigma; yes, there is a difference. The production feels much looser and less New Agey. Kind of on a William Orbit tip here. Oh, and there's a piano too. Shocker, I know.

4. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born On The Bayou
Like I really need to describe this one. Just turn on your Classic Rock station and you'll end up hearing it within an hour or two. Or something that sounds similar anyway. Makes me want to go to a blues festival.

5. Peace Division - On The Bandwagon
It's tech-house, of the more proggy-tribal kind that was popular ten years ago. Mind, it's still popular today, but I think most DJs play this stuff 5 BPM slower now. It's a short part of a mix though, so not much to comment on here.

6. Dogon - Locus Voci (Live)
Experimental ambient noodling. An ominous tone permeates the mood. It's more musically inclined than, say, SAW2, at times coming close to sounding like the Terminator Theme. It's fine for this sort of thing.

7. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Intro
His first album was all over the place, in a good way. As if to clue the the listener into what you're in for, this intro rambles on a whole bunch, as if ODB's going on a stage to recite a dirty poem before... whoo! Shaolin Style!

8. Gang Starr featuring Nice & Smooth- DWYCK
More hip-hop, eh? Gang Starr never quite reached the levels of popularity other Golden Era groups did, but damn if this ain't some funky-fresh shiii...

9. BT - Dreaming (Lucid Dub)
First Dyk, now BT? Is this somehow System-J's computer? Ah heh, well, I have to admit his continual praise for the early works of those two over at TC did convince me to properly check them out. I'm sure everyone knows the tune, but, save a few snippets, this one's without the vocals. I like it 100% more.

10. Monosphere - Elysian Fields
Mid-90s psy trance. There's spacey acid, chugging beats, and an ethnic sample... rather typical of the sound from that time, to be honest. It showed up on a couple compilations, but never made much of an impact.


A decent assortment of tracks there. And no, I won't try to make a Random MixTape out of them.

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Four years, huh? Got time to kill after an awful night out yesterday, so time to give this a whirl again.

Quasimoto - Astronaut
"Yeah, we been out there in orbit..." Perfect track to kick this off on a lazy sunday. A typical sampledelic Madlib-track and smoked out lyrics from Madlib's high-pitched alter ego.

D1 - Foundation
A track off Dwayne Marsh's rather tasty double 12" V1. This is probably the least remarkable tune on it, though. Punchy and well-produced, but the melodies are a bit too simple for my liking. D1 had also made so many halfsteppy tunes already by the time this came out.

Progressive Transe - Danker
Whoa, talk about change of pace. Loren X pops up with another one of his belting acidic trancers, setting up an insanely minimal and frenetic pace, coupled with 303s oscillating their guts out. They definitely don't make 'em like this anymore.

Derek Carr - FCG (Arne Weinberg Remix #1)
Very ambient offering from Arne Weinberg here. I like the percussion, but the rest of the track is a bit too fluffy and doesn't really develop all that much of an impact.

ANS - Dungeon
Sledgehammer dubstep with humongous-sounding drums. Think this is from my time on Dubstepforum back in 2006-7. Again, this kind of halfsteppy track is tough to listen to now after being so rinsed out, but apart from the strange vocal samples, this gets the job done.

Air Liquide - Liquid Men With Liquid Hearts
Ahhh. More old and wonderfully subtle trance from one of my alltime favourite techno outfits. This tune is so deliciously stripped down, using almost nothing but 808 and 303, which is exactly how I like it.

So Solid Crew - 21 Seconds
THE UK Garage uberhit from 2001, which made every inner city kid in London write bars in their notepad during class. Think I still like Scat D's verse the most. The contrast between the stupidly high budget video and the ridiculously low budget production on the beat for this tune never ceases to amaze me.

Convextion - Spice Tea
Bouncy, jacking and groovy techno track with all your favourite dancefloor tricks: short, snappy snare hits, low-pass filtered synths, rolling percussion, the lot. It's a bit long, and doesn't score any points for originality, but it will still make you dance your ass off.

Human Resource - Dominator (Program 2 Remix)
It's Dominator. What else is there to say? This breakbeat take on it still holds up very well, even though it was made in '91.

Sequential - The Mission (Live From The Outer Zone)
Ah, some classic ambient. Space transmission samples, dolphins, breathy female whispering, lush reverbed pads...lovely. Good and soothing way to end this round.

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Third time is the charm, or is it?

01. Jan Vayne - Welcome to a New World (Fred Baker Mix)
Hmm. Starting off with epic trance. Used to listen to epic trance a lot. Not so much anymore, but I've still got all the tunes I like on my iTunes. This is a nice tune using some classical composition as a "background". Dunno if I would buy this if I heard it for the first time today, probably not, but it's nice enough to keep and reminds me of the stuff I used to listen to a lot.

02. Inner City - Big Fun (Filippo's Berlin Dub)
Nice slower take on Big Fun. Bought this off iTunes some time. The tune had some mad skipping in the middle and a silent part which lasted a second or so. Fixed that up by pasting the same stuff there from before. Thankfully it was in such a point of the track that it could be fixed. No vocals on this one. Not a big fan of them anyway, but the melody is brilliant.

03. Jens - '99 Psycho Strings (Jens Mahlstedt Remix)
Bought the Psycho Strings CDM for under 1€ some years back. This was on it. Nice track all in all, nothing all that special though.

04. Recyclopedia Eclectronica - Exercise (Valentino Kanzyani Mix 1)
Some proper banging techno. Thumbs up for that. Umek & Valentino Kanzyani used to produce the type of techno I really like some years ago. Loving this one.

05. Hypetraxx - The Darkside (Non-Vocal)
Nice track this one. Slow hard trance kinda. The vocals in this non-vocal version are pretty stupid but not as stupid as the ones in the vocal version thankfully. This one chugs along nicely and is nicely "dark". The DJ in a local bar used to play this when I was young, which is kinda surprising actually as this isn't the type of a track I'd expect to go down nicely in such a bar, but it did.

06. Scott Mac - Damager 02 (Original Mix)
2003 hard trance. Nice tune, nothing mind-blowing though.

07. Ferry Corsten - Punk (Vocal Extended)
Hmm. I rather liked this when i first heard it. Was called Funk Einsatz - Punk then though and didn't have these stupid vocals. Too bad I never found the non-vocal version to buy anywhere and I've been stuck with this vocal version. Haven't been bothered to look in years though.

08. Jaimy & Kenny D. - Naughty Atmosphere
Really nice tune. More prog. house than most of their stuff from the same album, which I absolutely love (Is There Any Other Way? (A Display of Roadkill and Other Suburban Fairytales)). Bought the CD ages ago cuz it was available for a few euros. Didn't really know what it would contain. Loved it, but it was mixed, which was a bummer. Bought the unmixed vinyl album much later.

09. Accadia - Into the Dawn (Accadia Ambient Mix)
"Trance chill-out". I much prefer the Club Mix, but this is nice too.

10. Chab - My Memory (Original Mix)
Really nice track off the Dub, Edits and Whisky-Coke album. The whole album was pretty damn good. This track is a bit too short though (3:33). There are longer versions and the album has Part 2 too, but all the longer versions have some stupid gibberish on them ruining them completely. Been meaning to do a re-edit for ages, but I haven't gotten round to it yet.


A surprisingly "mediocre" selection even though I only have tunes I've deemed as quality on my iTunes. Not many bombs. All quality tracks though, but I guess I expected better.

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Since it's been four years, I'll do a bumper 20 track selec-shon. This is just all the MP3s on my harddrive where as previous editions were selected from my old (now dead) MP3 player, so the sample pool is quite different.

1. Moby - God Moving Over The Face Of The Water
From the Heat soundtrack, and appearing here on his I Like To Score compilation, a collection of Moby's soundtrack work. Typical Moby in many respects, this is a well-regarded tune but I personally find it emotionally overbearing and simply exhausting to listen to.

2. Sven Vath - L'Esperanza (Single Edit)
I notice Sykonee already played this one in this thread, four or five years ago. This is obviously a massive classic, one of the most famous Eye-Q tracks. I do love this version with a thick dub bassline and gentle breaks added to the lush tropical trancey vibes of the original, but this version is a little over-played, not least by myself.

3. Animal Collective - Fireworks
From their Strawberry Jam album, which I can't say I enjoy very much. Like most electronic music fans, I only really started to take an interest in Animal Collective when they picked up the synths. This is certainly inventive and unusual, but the vocals just irritate me. I wouldn't call it bad, but it's not my cup of tea.

4. Probspot - Blows My Mind (DJ Micah Remix)
Oh, this is an ancient piece of McProg that must have been on my laptop for six years and probably hasn't been played since 2004. Crap vocals and not even the driving bassline I remember the original having.

5. Ulrich Schnauss - In All The Wrong Places
Some typically vast shoegazy ultra-opulence from Schnauss here. You know what you're getting from the first seconds onwards here, no surprises. The melodies even rise and fall where they're supposed to. Undeniably pretty, like all his stuff, but a little too predictable for me to really love.

6. Nujabes - Horizon
Typically lovely jazzy instrumental hip-hop from the Japanese producer, who sadly died not too long ago. His music is always happy and vibrant, which strangely makes it all the more sad that he's gone. Unlike a lot of instrumental hip-hop producers he wrote some pretty long tracks - this is 7 minutes of beautiful smooth jazz solos on various instruments.

7. Brian Eno - Becalmed
This is from Another Green World, one of the most important electronic albums of the 1970s. This basically prefigures the Moby and Ulrich Schnauss tracks from above by 20-30 years, and Eno has a much more delicate touch than either of them. Lovely interplay between piano and synth that does exactly what the title suggests.

8. Trifonic - Lies (Sweetest Sin Mix)
Oh man, this sounds so loud compared to the Eno track. This is one of several clubbed-up remixes of album originals from Trifonic's Re-Emergence EP. I definitely prefer the original to this chugging middle-of-the-road proggy version, but it's still a nice track with some very simple but cutting lyrics about a relationship just too flawed to come to an end.

9. Gultskra & Artikler - w
Experimental glitch nonsense from Mille Plateaux's Clicks & Cuts 50 compilation. This kind of thing may have sounded incredibly inventive ten years ago, but this compilation is from last year and is frankly just fucking boring.

10. Ellien Allien - Secret
More glitchy techno/electro, this time actually from the early-'00s. This is from her Belinette album, which is quite well regarded, but to me this just sounds like a parody of what German electronic music is about, with obligatory faux-Kraftwerk vocals and a beat far too angular and awkward to ever inspire dancing.

11. Felix Da Housecat - Watching Cars Go By (Sasha Involver Remix)
Speaking of faux-Kraftwerk vocals... more early-'00s, this time a weird hybrid of electroclash and Sasha's gleaming ultra-modern prog textures. I suppose he was aiming for something similar to his remix of the Chems - Out Of Control, except five years later. A love or hate moment for most people in the context of the original album, definitely not my favourite Sasha moment.

12. Remembrance - Evolution
Funny this should come up, as I just used it in my Rainy Day Sessions mix. Dark and creepy minimal drum 'n bass, with monstrous bass pulses, spasmodic drum programming and forlorn slivers of melody drifting through the night. I love it.

13. Ton TB - Silent Witness
Some forgettable mid-00s tech trance from Ton TB. The hook isn't very good, sounds like a poor man's imitation of Tiesto - Lethal Industry, itself not the best track ever made.

14. Mauro Picotto - Caracas
I had a Picotto track from the same album come up when I played this game five years ago, which was probably the last time I played any of it. Picotto was the first techno artist I got into - I used to find his big room style very aggressive and energetic, perfect when you're a hormonal teenager. Has little interest to me now, although this would probably sound absolutely enormous in a club.

15. Public Image Ltd - Careering
Gloomy post-punk from PiL's legendary 1979 album Metal Box. This must have sounded ridiculously original back in '79, especially coming just two years after Lydon's work as frontment of the snotty and essentially very conventional Sex Pistols. Jah Wobble's endless dub bass combines with some eerie synth washes in the background, and this track still sounds out-there despite being the cornerstone of three decades of subsequent music.

16. Blue Amazon - And Then The Rain Falls (Andy Ling's Soviet Dub)
Andy Ling did a good line in banging up-tempo mid-90s prog house, and this is a storming remix of one of my all-time favourites with a massive bassline.

17. Sigurt - When
Blazing melodic drum 'n bass. I don't really know what sub-genre this would fall into, it's sort of one respectable step away from Pendulum-step. Very enjoyable and uplifting, but not too smart.

18. Bachelors Of Science - Ripsaw
More drum 'n bass, a Prodigy-inspired stormer from the Bachelors Of Science. Very different to the soulful liquid funk you associate with them. I did post this track once in the Rate The Track Above and whoever was below hated it for the filthy mid-range wobble. I still get a massive rush out of this one though.

19. Aidan Baker - Mind
Short ambient interlude. Don't know anything about the artist, this was one of many tracks given to me in a bundle by pozz.

20. Ali Khan - Waterbomb
Pretty sure this is from Audion's Fabric 27 compilation. Clicky, drummy minimal techno with pitched-down vocals. Yawn. Five years on and I still don't get the minimal techno craze of that period. A very underwhelming end to this game.

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Rage Against the Machine - Take The Power Back
who dosnt love some good anti-goverment music? Zaak de la Rocha got on my nerves tho, which is why i like audioslave far more because of the lack of his annoying vocals....

Beastie Boys - Fight for Your Right (to party)
haha this one much in the same vein of "fuck the system, im awesome." Always play this one at the start of roadtrips.

Husker Du - Turn it Around
God, i have some weird music.

Gorillaz - Last Living Souls
Because only the Gorillaz could make what itunes calls "Post Modern Alternative Dance" for a career in music.

Basshunter - Boten Anna (Radio Edit)
What the fuck is this doing on here? *delete*

Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
lol.

Burial - Spaceape
Whos down for some dubstep with a rap track layed over? i actually kind of liked this track.

Daft Punk - Prime Time of your Life
Oh for the love of god.

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What I learned from this: I have a lot more deep/tech house than I thought, and I have a lot of songs I never really gave a chance before that are really good!

Kaoru Inoue - The Secret Field (Todd Terje mix)
Heard this off of Joris Voorn's Balance cd... starts off very folkish with the guitar, but then it drops a kickass bassline.

Deepsky feat Jes Brieden - Ghost (Original mix)
I'm more into Deepsky's earlier trancier productions, this is pretty standard vocal progressive house, from when A) prog was huge and B) Jes wasn't on every other song. Nice guitar towards the end of the song.

Dousk - Lovelasting
Dark, percussive prog, at a pretty fast tempo. Not my favorite Dousk track but still very good, I love this style of music.

Affkt, Felipe Venegas – Meilan
Don't really know where this came from, but I really like it! Got kind of a mellow Gotan Project vibe with the flamenco guitars, but set to a light breakbeat. Very great song, may work in a mix or two.

Itamar Sagi - One Million Oaks (Original mix)
Nice piece of deep/tech house with some obvious prog influence. Got a simple, but warm, riff that repeats the whole track. Remember this being pretty popular a few years back with DJs like Howells.

Lindstrom - The Magnificent
Wow, this is really quite amazing. Much less disco-y, and deeper than the usual Lindstrom track, it's got a great twinkly melody and a pleasant vibe, with a chorus of 'oohs' in parts. I highly recommend this if you haven't heard it before.

Yoko O - Crystalis Soundtrack - The Wild Fields
This is a chiptune from the NES game Crystalis, a classic action RPG. It's punchy and upbeat, as NES chiptunes tended to be. This plays on the game's "field" areas.

Eelke Kleijn - The Night (Kilowatts mix)
A catchy melodic house song in its original incarnation, I mainly went for the original or Add2Basket remix. This is a slightly darker, dubbier, more sinister tech house stomper that eschews the main melody line in the original mix. I'll stick to the original or Add2Basket ones.

Patch Park - Synced (Paolo Mojo mix)
Stereotypical bleep bloop minimal from the late 2000's, very reminiscent of something by Dubfire but not as big-room. About halfway through the song we get a little more melody but really I'm not into this kinda music much anymore.

Martin Brodin - Deep Shit (System 2 mix)
I put the original version in a deep house mix I made a few years ago, this version is a bit faster and punchier, the warm pads of the original version being cut up and layered over a squelchy acidic bassline. Something on the border of deep house and prog house I guess.

Lukas Greenberg - The Flash (Original mix)
I probably downloaded this just because he shares my first name (and its uncommon spelling). A male vocal talking about a flash, a light and slightly funky deep house groove. Nothing breathtaking but may be of interest to fans of Urbantorque/Discoteka and that sound.

Gusgus - Mallflowers (Original mix)
Heard this on Sasha's Instant Live: Avalon album, and was one of the few songs that stood out for me. It's got a fast tempo and appergiated chords that slowly evolve and subtly filter throughout the song. Giving it a lighthearted feel, something you'd hear in a futuristic shopping center or something.

Theo Parrish - Love Is War For Miles
From the "First Floor Metaphor" album. This guy's stuff never did it for me (sorry). This has a very soft, slow house beat, an out-of-sync snare, and a small sax sample that almost sounds like a cut from Bond's theme... looped for about 9 minutes. But it's amazing and the greatest thing ever because he is black and from DETROIT! (just kidding :P)

Vincenzo - Young Mountain
Bass-heavy deep house, a gentle, repetitive rhodes note that builds as the song goes... coupled with a warm bassline and swirly effects for the prog lover in me. Pretty decent track but may be a bit filler.

Falcom Sound Team JDK - Ys: The Oath Of Felghana Soundtrack - Chop!!
The Ys games are a fast paced action RPG series (think classic Zelda on amphetamines), that have developed a reputation for rocking soundtracks - they mix up 80's synthpop, buttrock and classical elements. This starts with fast pace strings, a xylophone, and a breakbeat background riff. There are other songs in this game that I like a lot more, hell I can't even remember where this one was played (boss fight probably).

Motoi Sakuraba - Baten Kaitos: Origins Soundtrack - Iconoclasm
Sakuraba has a reputation as being the "go to" guy if you need a generic RPG soundtrack quickly.. but he hits it out of the park with his battle themes. This is one of the many boss themes in the criminally underrated Baten Kaitos: Origins, a Gamecube RPG with beautiful graphics and a card-based battle system. This is straight up J-buttrock, with electric guitars, Steve Vai-esque riffs, and some synth/organ melodies.

Los Updates - Pictures Of You (Tobias mix)
Male vocal talking about taking pictures of you, over simplistic house percs, and a bassline that periodically pops up. There are plenty of little chirps and cut up guitars sprinkled over the song, though there isn't much in the way in a consistent melody. Los Updates did some songs with Luciano and Villalobos, so this has lots of elements of that Chilean minimal sound popular a few years back.

Electrobios and Interplay - With You (Jaytech mix)
The original mix would get a ton of play from me a few years back, never really cared much for the Jaytech version of the track though. It shares many elements of the original, with a more throbbing electro bassline, and some trancelike chords in the second half. It kinda downplays the seemingly Freestyle melody in the original.

Robert Hood - Who Taught You Math?
Raw, purist Detroit techno at its finest. A drill sound puncturing an improvised organ riff and synth chords that develop throughout the track. Definitely a classic track.

Wellenrausch - On The Run (Morph vs Woody Van Eyeden mix)
Surprised it took me this long to get to the trance, especially since trance used to be my listening choice du jour in the late 90's - early 2000's. This was before every trance song had a tacked on vocal, so the overexpressive vocal was still new. Pretty driving trance song with a nice hands-in-the-air arpeggiated riff, brings back memories here.

Christopher Lawrence and Nicholas Bennison - Scorcher
Not sure where this song came from, but anyways, this sounds somewhere between psytrance, oldskool prog from the Twilo era, and regular trance. It's got a pretty good bassline for a trance track, a driving main riff, an acid line, and even some breakbeats during the breakdown. This is a pretty good track, actually.

Horsepower Productions - Golden Nugget
This was from back when 2-step garage was getting very abstract and experimental, but before dubstep as we knew it came into play. So it's a lot faster and with skippier, less bass-heavy percussion, than what we now know as dubstep, but you can still see how this would influence people like Skream and Rusko. The main melody is cool too, I like this song.

Plastikman - Plastiscene
Early Hawtin material. I don't have much to say about it, apart from it having a nice acid riff that loops throughout the whole track, and it's more reserved than a lot of other Plastikman tracks.

Ethyl and Huxley - Ten 1
This is a pretty boring deep/tech house track that takes forever to go anywhere, and then when it finally does, it's just a 2 note synth playing. Dull and forgettable.

Domased Electronica - Mermaid (Fretwell mix)
Ahhh, progressive breaks! Surprised I haven't gotten a lot of prog or breaks when doing this exercise. I've always admired Fretwell's work, he's one of the go-to guys for the genre. This is pretty recent as far as prog breaks go (I think it's from 2008 or 9?), and it sounds like it could fit in right with the Luke Chable and Shiloh stuff of 2004, with a bit more sheen on its production, though it doesn't have much of a "hook".

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