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Holy crap! Seems like you've had a nice day to listen to some trance lol. Firstly, I must respond to Tefo Sifon.
| quote: | Originally posted by KilldaDJ
first of all, how the fuck did i miss this?? before reading through it all, i downloaded this on the basis of the quality artwork alone LOL  the 8bit blast with fruityloops motif? brilliant. you've pitched this just right, you've sold it to me already. |
I was playing around in Photoshop and BAM I hit the background on the money using the Extrude tool. Put a big FL fruit over it and I had myself a cover.
| quote: | as for the content? well, in a word, fantastic. soda-pop shrink wrapped tracker-trance, fuck cracker-trance, they know fuck all about music. i know the production values could be improved, like mastering and all that technical shit but the way the individual tracks are composed...quality eagle.
i'd much rather listen to an hour of these tracks than the generic-everything-sounds-the-same uplifting progressive shit that is puked up on these digital labels at an alarming rate! |
Most definitely, these guys I used to hang out with all had a serious passion for producing trance, they studied it, they used their imagination, and they shared all their technical information with each other so that it turned into a community of very supportive and helpful users, who all had a dickton of talent. Very rare on the internets. Toby Emerson is now doing House or some garbage that pays well, he left all his trance behind in a box in his attic.
| quote: | the self production is pretty good too, was that a fruityloops job?  |
Yeah, man, I made that when I was 14 or so. I used to play on my Dad's piano and see what sounded right. I found a chord that I loved and stuck to it, even though I honestly didn't know much at all about music theory.
| quote: | | my favorite track in this was probably Toby Emerson - Liquify just a great track, i feel wronged in missing this altogether. you played this at the exact right time in this set, im \o/ at this point LOL |
Definitely one of my favorites, but I think the true nature of Ziptnf lies in the last track, Force of Sound. I honestly don't think any actual trance producers can even get within a stones throw of that level of energy.
| quote: | overall a very well composed set from you zip, i am very pleased i found this, its rare to find something you reallllllly like and everything in this set to even the art work i liiiiike. a great fun, not so serious trance mix.xm
the artwork is brilliant. |
Now for Dag Nabbit:
| quote: | Originally posted by KilldaDJ
gunna comment this while the thred is still here (i cant be arsed to dig up that old dog)
you did well in fighting off the degrading comments from that 'forum user' to put it politely. |
Haters gonna hate
| quote: | | track selection was good, choosing classics isnt very easy imo because theres just so many of them, this is a pretty consistant selection, refers back to my nexus 1999 mix, you keep it very 1998-2001. i like this period. |
Yeah they kept bitching that it wasn't "old school" enough. I didn't get into trance in '92, I'm not a fucking dinosaur. Plus, I was happy with all the tunes I selected.
| quote: | | wtf is this mixing though lol |
Jesus H Christ, my mixing skills on some of these tracks were so horrendously awful that I literally couldn't listen to the set all the way through. What a shame. I had a deadline for the game thingy and couldn't keep practicing the set, so I just submitted one with bad transitions.
| quote: | | i remember mixing live with atomixmp3 in the early days of 2003 and i encountered some of these problems, my solution was to loop like the last 8 beats or whatever and mix in my new track, that way it 'anchors' the bass note/key at whatever and you can bring the next track in. i think it was the letter 'L' that did this and shift L was 8 beats/4 beats/whatever. |
That's not a bad idea, the problem was that as the tracks Tenshi and 1998 kept progressing, the beats kept getting further and further off the beatgrid like the grid couldn't align itself properly. I couldn't even believe that it did that on me. As a matter of fact, a few months later, it happened again on Yin's Revenge. While it kept getting further off beat, I kept trying to adjust the beatgrid, but couldn't do it quickly enough. I now realize that the right mouse button does a better job of this. It was unfortunate that it happened, because my mixing ruined my set.
| quote: | | sure, some of it wasnt exactly perfectly sync'd but the keys were not far off, some pretty decent harmonic mixes in there...sparkles to airwave and escape to out of control, which btw is a fucking tune. |
Love Out of Control, definitely one of the tops in trance, I'm glad I ended the set with it.
| quote: | | when i benchmark tefo and nabbit, there is a clear winner im afraid. purely because tefo is just awesome. this mix could of been better had the beatgrid thing didnt fuck you up. perhaps you could play the set again and post v2? you've got better since then and that guy eat his own words and fuck right off. right? |
Hell yeah bwahh.
I was considering it, but I'm afraid I'd have a hard time finding enough tracks.
Thanks so much for checking out my set archive haha, I really appreciate you listening to my stuff. I'm gonna check out "Next stop, Ascantha" as soon as I can, I guess I posted a long time ago and just never got around to it. Thanks bud! 
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