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Originally posted by Omega_Blue yeah, tbh i wasn't a fan of this one in particular either, especially when compared to how well thought-out/programmed your last downtempo/deep house mix was for the most part. don't mean to be harsh, but it felt like you just kinda slapped everything together. it's harmonically sound, but the tempos are all over the place, and while that's not necessarily a bad thing, i feel like you could've done more to smooth the transitions out, or at least done so better. most of the transitions were mixed in/out of beatless breaks of the tracks; i've done that before very sparingly in one or two of my promos as well, but to do it multiple times throughout a mix that could have been beatmatched properly just doesn't feel right. the worst culprit, imo, was the mix between (i believe) "dissolving time" and "manifold"- the outgoing track had a slower tempo than the incoming, so you mixed out of a break; that's fine, but the incoming beat came in at an oddly phrased time, which completely ruined the groove. the same thing (pretty much) happened again between your transition out of "talk amongst yourselves" as well (a personal favorite of mine; really the only reason why i checked this mix out since i don't listen to trance)- sure, they were both in the same key, but it would have been easy enough to keylock one of the tracks and raise one of the track's speed to make the tempo uniform between the two. have you listened to the original involver? what sasha did, for example, was slowly, ever so slightly, raise the BPM of "talk amongst yourselves" until it matched the incoming BPM of "dorset perception"; it's barely audible, but he successfully changes the tempo of the mix without it abruptly interrupting the flow. you could've done the same thing here (but lowered the BPM in your situation instead, of course). it worked better between tracks 2 and 3, but tbh this entire mix really could've been done without any mixing whatsoever, from how i'm perceiving it. you just dropped the next track at the most acceptable break, which traktor could've done using automation by itself. and while again, it's harmonically sound for the most part, the conflicting tempos that constantly vary between slower and faster made the mix and flow feel disjointed and confusing, especially due to the fact that little was done to make the two tracks work together (besides maintaining the key). do you have ableton? you could've avoided a lot of the issues i mentioned by editing your tracks beforehand in ableton. it was an ambitious idea, but i know you can do better buddy. i'd work more on that than digging through record crates, as that pozz guy or system-j would have you believe. honestly i don't even think he even listened to the mix, because i'm almost positive that he would've told you the exact same thing i just did instead of nitpicking your tracklist.

Thanks for the suggestions. I will agree, it was difficult for me to make the first transition work properly, but I was happy with how the rest came out. I tried beat matching some of the tracks, but I thought this just came out so much better and more fluid.

The tempos being varried across all the tracks was also on purpose, according to the feel and key of the tracks.

I was less concerned about BPM in this mix as I felt the tracks themselves had higher energy always but maybe at lower bpm during the mid to end of the set.

Also, I have never made a deep house mix

At the end of the day, the mixing and track selection could be better, but I am still personally happy with it.