Just to throw this out there - I certainly don't expect each of you who takes the time to listen to this to give some sort of long winded review, but if you've taken the time to listen to it and can even think of a single area where I either failed or did well, I'd appreciate the feedback.

Tribute mixes are somewhat daunting (at least in my eyes) because while it's plenty easy to just throw a bunch of tracks together and call it a "tribute", actually taking tunes from a single artists library and creating a cohesive and well formed set is a whole other story.

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I know pretty much all the tunes so I'm basically just gonna listen to checkout the mixing and stuff.

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

expect one from me sometime tomorrow.

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Originally posted by RJT Tribute mixes are somewhat daunting (at least in my eyes) because while it's plenty easy to just throw a bunch of tracks together and call it a "tribute", actually taking tunes from a single artists library and creating a cohesive and well formed set is a whole other story.

i think it's pretty much the same with any dj set


lots of mixes to work my way through!

Ok so I'm not really familiar with Rozzo but I'm guessing that Peter Dildo is one of his aliases, as well as Mountain People with somebody else. I'm downloading it now because I've recently come across a few of his tracks and I liked them, and I've heard so of the Peter Dildo remixes and thought they were good, especially the remix of Plasma. And I thought the last Mountain People release was quite solid and I actually grabbed one of the tracks on it and put it in a mix. I'll get back to this thread once I've had a listen.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.

Well I hope those of you who manage to get into this at some point enjoy it.



I should say, however, that there are two transitions on here that I'm a little self-conscious about, namely the first (into Meta001.2) and the mix into "Mountain 006.3."

The first was just difficult for me to get that synth to drop right where I wanted it to - I still think it works and is close to on phrase, and honestly didn't put a ton of effort into doing it too differently.

"Mountain006.3" is another story entirely - I must have done that mix about 30 different ways, trying to figure out any decent way to get that eerie pad noise to come in without being abrasive or sounding like shit, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get it to be perfect. I think the mix works overall after the first couple of beats, but still, ramming the fader up and having those frequencies clash for even a second throws me off.

Regardless, I hope they're tolerable slip-ups and don't ruin anyone's overall enjoyment of the set.

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The transition to Track # 2 was fine. I mean I get what you said, maybe you should have lowered the bass on the intro track as the bass on the second track was about to kick in but it was no biggie.

EDIT: So I thought it was pretty good overall, and I definitely enjoyed it. I think the tracks could have been arranged in a better order but there was nothing that necessarily threw the mix off for me. A few times I thought you should have cut the low end on the outgoing track as the bass kicked in from the incoming track, but nothing sounded unpleasant by any means.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.

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Originally posted by Adam420 The transition to Track # 2 was fine. I mean I get what you said, maybe you should have lowered the bass on the intro track as the bass on the second track was about to kick in but it was no biggie. EDIT: So I thought it was pretty good overall, and I definitely enjoyed it. I think the tracks could have been arranged in a better order but there was nothing that necessarily threw the mix off for me. A few times I thought you should have cut the low end on the outgoing track as the bass kicked in from the incoming track, but nothing sounded unpleasant by any means.

Thanks Adam - much appreciated.

RE: Programming, I think that's probably the most difficult part of putting something like this together - figuring out how to arrange tracks from a single producers catalog (and one who isn't necessarily as massive as many others, though still large) is figuring a way to play them in a meaningful way. I tried to stick to the deep/techy stuff he's done the last couple of years early on, and get into the French house/techno stuff later on as it just seemed a natural progression to me.

RE: Low end in mixes. I've had my Xone for three years now, and I'm still ultra cautious with the low end curve. It's like there's this point you hit where you instantly remove a TON of audio from the track just by cutting the low, so lately I've been just using the low and mid-low somewhat in concert with one another, but still haven't really nailed it.

I think I went through and played this set beginning to end about 6 times in a 24 hours period before I was happy with it.

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Rob you fail for not putting his remix of Plasma in there, one of his best tracks imo

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These are my favorite Rozzo tunes.

Albeit I can readily admit there were a few I wish had made it in here but I just wasn't feeling in the context of this set.

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Also, the section from 11-13 is dedicated to Bas.

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I really enjoyed this. At first I thought I might not, sometimes tribute mixes bore the pants off me, but this one worked really well and kept me entertained throughout. Mixing was tight and the flow was pretty spot on. Nice work overall, I don't know anything about this guy really, but this was a good introduction to a lot of his work.