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Originally posted by Renegade (and sorry, but if you don't like this compilation then you're listening to the wrong sort of music - go buy an 8-ball and stick on some hard house instead)

I don't listen to hard house or do drugs. I like good mixes though. I can like any kind of music if it's mixed well.

Akufen's is an excellent mix cd i'm afraid. I think a lot of minimal/glitch techno is pretty boring left alone or mixed regularly. But used like in DE9, or in Akufen's fabric mix where he didn't fade tracks in or out, just played two tracks at the same time for as long as possible, makes it interesting enough to listen to. Sometimes two songs are playing for up to four minutes together. Anyway, the CD caught my attention from the first second and never dropped it, it didn't become boring, there were always new sounds entering the mix. Always keeps it interesting. There weren't any abrupt clashes you might here with normal mixing methods. The mix is like one long song. It has highs, lows, tension, and release. Which is how it should be. I don't know about within the Fabric series, but Akufen's Fabric is one of the best mix CD's i've ever heard. Up there with DE9, Garnier's X-Mix, Saunderson's X-Mix, Trancemaster Goahead 2, etc.

Like I said, Fabric 15 CD1, tracks are too boring to be playing as long as they do. They drone on and on, it becomes banal. CD2 is just a disjointed mess. He did it backwards. CD1 should have been 20+ tracks, and the second 15 or something.

Fabric 17 - Good mix CD
Fabric 15 - Bad mix CD's

So yeah, same thing I said in my first 2 posts, only more words.

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Last edited by Radagast on Jan-18-2005 at 09:16