WOW
only been away for the night and so many nice replies already!!!

and a bunch of questions so here are the answers:

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Do you use strictly vinyl or combination of vinyl or mp3/cds?

I use two turntables and Traktor plugged into my mixer. Svenson & Gielen was not yet released in Germany, for example (only in the netherlands)

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What mixer do you have?

KME DJM 1

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btw is it just me or did you miss a beat at 14:58?

thanks for your nice comments, Andi! it must be just you, I listened to it again and can hear nothing wrong....what exactly do you mean by "missed a beat", like they weren't matched or like the timing in the build of the songs is wrong?

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can you recommend anymore fast, energetic, but uplifting songs like amara - rush, and peran van dijk - good time?

well, I put all the ones I know in this mix, except "Novator - Fusion". If I come across more songs, I will let you know.

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how did you make the mix, like a live set (on decks )or software

as I said, 2 turntables plus my PC as a third turntable.


THANKS to everyone for your great support and feedback!

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Last edited by djdawn on Nov-23-2001 at 08:12

great mix...smooth transitions!

I downloaded the mix last night, the forum was to busy but I knew the URL to the folder.
The mix really kicks ass, as usual a unique and fast moving combination of hardtrance and melodic. The "dry" sound probably makes it sound very good on the dancefloor. (I'd love to hear it on better speakers )The mixing it self is incredible. To work that fast takes skills. This is a piece of professional work in my opinion. Keep up the good work Dawn. You just get better and better.

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Originally posted by djdawn thanks for your nice comments, Andi! it must be just you, I listened to it again and can hear nothing wrong....what exactly do you mean by "missed a beat", like they weren't matched or like the timing in the build of the songs is wrong?

nope...it sounds like

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beats of tune #1: 01 02 03 04 05 06 ... 28 29 30 31 32 01 02 ...
beats of tune #2: 32 01 02 03 04 05 ... 27 28 29 30 31 32 01 ...

but i think it's just me


and how did you make these kickin hard samples?

ok, I got ya!
but still it's only you... (strange cause I think we both got a good ear for things like this)
that "Bush" track is a tricky bitch to mix, because they leave out two beats in the beginning....
instead of 29 30 31 32 01 02
it is 29 30 01 02, but this happens only once in the beginning so I let it go 2 beats later.

and I made the "kickin hard" samples directly from the record. That is the beginning of the track and I brought the crossfader in only for this part.

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Originally posted by djdawn I use two turntables and Traktor plugged into my mixer. Svenson & Gielen was not yet released in Germany, for example (only in the netherlands)

Any problems with the output from traktor? (Noise sometimes, varrying playback speed) I've done the same as you but I'm having problems with Traktor and have considered getting a cdj and using that instead of direct from Traktor.

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Originally posted by djdawn and I made the "kickin hard" samples directly from the record. That is the beginning of the track and I brought the crossfader in only for this part.

wow...i was just curious cause in 14:15 you're still mixing twisted with kickin hard and in 14:40 (25 secs later!) you bring in the new tune ...usually it takes me a minute to find the record i wanna play next

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Originally posted by tw1tch Any problems with the output from traktor? (Noise sometimes, varrying playback speed) I've done the same as you but I'm having problems with Traktor and have considered getting a cdj and using that instead of direct from Traktor.

i had problems with traktor, but that's because I only have a 375 Mhz CPU...when I raised the latency in the setup it was ok. So now it's fine. But a CDJ would be a lot nicer to handle, I don't really like using traktor...


@Andi: I played "Twisted" from Traktor, had "Kickin hard" on one turntable and "Future" on the other

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DJ Dawn was here and gave me the CD of his mix.... SUPERB!!! Full of energy... and faster than the main trance-songs...

I really like this mix!!!!

sweeeeet mix man..your mixing is right on and hard to notice..good job

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Excellent mix! As usual, hard and slammin'.
The melodic parts are quite nice.

The problem that AndiH described (and I noticed it too) is that you matched the beats, but not the beginnings of each song's measure. The loud "crash-drum" signalling the beginning of the next measure occurs on the NEXT beat

Really enjoyed the opening (first 2), "Colour of Trance", and "Good Time."
Didn't like "Excelsis".
In my opinion the Bluesky mix of Silverblue - Step Back is better

In short: great stuff.

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