A Beautiful God is obviously the Ambient mix. So pretty, I love the birds, the waves, and the mood this is creating. I was actually kind of disappointed when the beats came in, I would have just as soon listened to the strings and waves and birds all day.

35 minutes through, and I'm in love. Ambient has always been such a wonderful style to listen to, but this time, I feel like I'm floating. Every single track has been perfect, although I need more birds...

Oh fuck, what is this track at 40 minutes? How awesome!

Not a fan of the sounds at 48 minutes, it's a tad on the harsh side. Not really a fan of this track in general. Sorry

Okay, so I took a massive 4 hour break at around 54 minutes, and I am starting back up again.

A bit of an odd transition at 59 minutes, I guess one of those things where you go from outro->intro at the last minute. Not too disturbing, though.

The rest of the set was nice, got a little dark for me(ambiance-wise) toward the end, but it was still good nonetheless. What was the point of the proggy track at the very end? It was a cool way to end, but I feel like it was out of place.

I liked this! It's very soothing, I will check out your other Ambient mixes when I get a chance!

Ambient down, suomi ( ), prog-psy, full-on, and goa to go!

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Originally posted by ziptnf

Hehe, yeah, waves and birds is always nice to listen, I can do that all day as well! I actually have a CD that replicates typical natural sounds like thunder storms, ocean waves, amazon rains and so on.

I was changing a bit the mood throughout the set thats why there are some more twisted ambient tracks and darker ones as well (since its still around 80 min long set, it gets imo a bit boring if it goes the same style from start to finish). The proggy track at the end is a slow prog track which has some chill ambiance but starts to get the things moving (at least that was my idea) in order to link it with the other mixes here. I like it very much, just like you, its sooo dreamy!

Thanks for the review, really appreciated!

P.S. Do not fear the suomi!

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Originally posted by kr00t0n

Thanks for uploading them to your server, I will add the links to the original post!

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A Bull-Shaped Rhyton is your prog-psy mix, obviously. I doubt I'll have too much trouble with this one

Very powerful first track, at first I was a tad confused, it seemed a bit full-on. Hrm, your first mix was surprisingly quick. I didn't feel like you held that transition longer than 15 seconds!

Digging 11:20, great part of the track!

20 minutes in, this mix is pretty pumping. I like it quite a bit, seems to be a lot more powerful than my prog mix Bopping my head to 24 minutes.

I recognize the track at 34 minutes, what is this? This track is absolutely sick!!

You lost some of your energy in the next 2 tracks, but what can you expect after such a powerhouse tune? It'd be hard for ANYONE to follow that track with something even remotely close to its energy.

I thought the last track was a kinda weak compared to the rest of the mix, I feel like you peaked a little past halfway and then just finished off the set without any real stompers, but still flowing fairly well; the 3-4 tracks after your peak were all very similar and yummy, but not quite up to par with the rest of your tracks.

Overall, I liked this a lot! You banged out a bunch of awesome tracks which I'm going to have to hunt down, but didn't finish as well as I was hoping. Some of your transitions seemed rather quick, but not TOO quick where it could have messed up the flow. Still excellent, and personally I thought this was better than Visions of Crystals (even tho I'd need another listen to compare properly). Good job!

Full-on is coming up next, don't disappoint me!

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A Horse-Shaped Rhyton is your full-on set. Ready to party on this one!

First couple of tracks weren't really my cup of tea, but 14 minutes in you start really talking to me here :

I was afraid of this... I've sorta grown tired of the full-on with flowing goa-influenced melodies. I feel like it's played out, and has no imagination or creativity. While it's not necessarily BAD, I don't find it very interesting anymore IMO

I like the synth at 29 minutes in the background. This track is actually pretty nice!

The following track is interesting, the tribal chants worked better than I expected.

45 minutes is what I'm TALKING ABOUT! Here we go, this isn't very full-on, as much as it is some rather dark psytrance. I dig this. I was worried this set wouldn't have any tracks that stood out!

The last track was good, but I feel a lack of energy present in this set. While it was a nice mix to listen to, I felt like I've heard it all before. Sorry, dude, I just don't think this was one of your best mixes. I even felt your prog-psy mix had more energy than this one. Overall, your transitions were very solid, no mistakes, but the track selection (with the exception of a few) didn't quite do it for me this time.

Suomi and Goa to go! I'll listen to those in a bit, I'm gonna eat some lunch now

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A Jug Representing a Feast is your Suomi mix. I don't really know anything about Suomi; in fact, this is my first Suomi set that I've ever heard, so this will be pretty new to me.

10 minutes in, and so far, it's trippy as fuck, and I'm having a hard time following it

Lots of cool stuff here. My mind feels like it's being raped, 26 minutes in particular. Some of it is trancy and pretty and other stuff is majorly pure twisted psychedelia. Did you put any Texas Faggot in here?

Ooh, fat ass bass at 39 minutes, this is a new track. What a wild genre, I never expected this kind of stuff.

This set blew my mind, I never expected such a wild trip hidden within Suomi trance. That seems to be another level of psy that a lot of producers ignore. I'd like to hear more of these in the future! Great job!

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Originally posted by ziptnf A Bull-Shaped Rhyton

Thanks for the review. It was intended to go like this with a little less energetic track at the end since my idea was to introduce it into the full-on. Glad you liked it!

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Originally posted by ziptnf A Horse-Shaped Rhyton

Oh well, I was afraid that it wont go your way. Here, the idea was to build the set from less to full energetic tracks (especially the last two tracks) but I guess it didnt work out very much. In my opinion its also my worse set from these 5. I will try to make a new full-on set to compensate.

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Originally posted by ziptnf A Jug Representing a Feast

Hehe, thanks! Its really a next level of psychedelia, and its really fun to mix since you can whatever you want with these tracks (notice that most of the transitions are not beatmatched at all). There is no Texas ****** here, I will post the tracklists soon so you will see what artists are played!

Thanks for the honest reviews. 3 out of 4 with good marks is good I guess! The last set (goa) is the longest one, I hope you like it!

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A Marvelous Silver Phiale is clearly the Goa mix (captain obvious to the rescue!).

Right off the bat is some super energetic Goa, this first track absolutely dominates! I listened to that 60 minute Neo Goa set of yours a while ago and found it a little dull in some places, but if a majority of the tracks here are anything like this first one, I'm in for a hell of a ride!

So far it's been very juicy and tasty goa, I've enjoyed this quite a bit. 45 minutes in is really cool, I like the rapidfire melody. I'm shocked at how long this set is! I have over an hour to go still! lol

Mag, I thought this set was very nice. I liked it better than your other most recent Goa set. Excellent job!

Give yourself 4/5 good marks for this round

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Thanks for the review ziptnf! I really appreciate your honest opinion about the mixes! Thanks again!

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Done, dusted, listened to them all! In order of preference:

Goa: Bloody loved this! Went on a bit longer than I felt needed, as Goa tends to not have much variation, so trimming it down to cd length would have been ideal for me. Certainly had some amazing tunes though, good job!

Full-on: Again, really enjoyed this one, tracks were much to my liking. The odd slippy mix, but overall a nice set of tunes.

Ambient: I liked it, and can appreciate that it's a tricky genre to 'mix'. Wicked for chilling out in the sun to.

Prog psy: The first half of this mix was very much to my tastes (if a tad faster than I would play), and the mixing was solid, but the second half went considerably full-on very quickly, and I didn't really feel the rest of the mix.

Suomi: Not really my think at all I'm afraid, the odd track was alright, and the Futurama samples in the first track made me chuckle, but the random structure of the mix coupled with some questionable tracks (imo) didn't really work for me.

*high five*

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Originally posted by kr00t0n Prog psy: The first half of this mix was very much to my tastes (if a tad faster than I would play), and the mixing was solid, but the second half went considerably full-on very quickly, and I didn't really feel the rest of the mix.

You thought the second half was more full-on than the first?

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Originally posted by ziptnf You thought the second half was more full-on than the first?

Yes?

Just after the 30min mark, the music stops being prog-psy (played faster than I normally would) and becomes more full-on.

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