well, i've listened to the mix, i liked it. regarding jacks comment about flow, i got the sense of flow on the second listen the first listen it sounded all disjointed but i wasn't really paying attention, it was just on in the background and it then became just fodder.

however, not all the tunes were to my liking, i think mixing was good apart from one transition that was a tiny bit off. this kind of stripped down psy is hard for alot of people to get into, like for instance i know sand leaper have a deep hatred for the stuff but i tolerate it when it's put in a right context and it has a groove. otherwise it's just random casio twerps on top of a pulsating kick drum.

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"I believe that's referred to as intelligent drum & bass, which obviously means there's a genre of stupid drum & bass out there" (John Peel)

Sorry zip, I feel the same way as the others. The flow is just all over the place. Up until the 16 minute mark, you built a nice mood, and I was expecting it to start getting darker and harder. Then, the next track was some happy ballad which made me feel like I was watching a montage in a Michael Cera movie, or else listening to the closing track in a commercial house set. It just had this carefree finality to it.

After that, it got super glitchy and lost it's way. The next track I liked and thought got the momentum going again was around the 55 minute mark - the acid one. The one at 61 minutes was pretty cool, too. After that...meh. I only like about 1 in 100 dark-psy and psy-tekk style tracks I listen to, so you didn't have much chance of succeeding with me.

While overall this wasn't my thing, my feeling is the same as it was for your last set. You're trying something quite different and mostly doing a good job of it, which is more than can be said for a lot of DJs.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J This is my problem with psy-trance. No matter how much I like certain artists or tracks.

Indeed. The first full-on track I ever heard blew my mind (and continues to). Up until that point I'd only heard very maximal hard trance, which didn't really have a strong focus on production quality. To go from that, into this well engineered, stripped-down, rolling dose of mayhem was a day I'll never forget.

From that moment on, I became obsessed by that style of bassline, diving into everything I could find and not paying attention to much else. This was all cemented by a trip to Thailand, where I danced non-stop to psy and took shrooms to my heart's content. However, a year or so after that, I got over that type of bassline and realised just how fucking geeky a majority of the genre is. Even the really great producers still can't help themselves from including ridiculous samples about drugs, space and reality, et cetera. Though there is some good stuff, on the whole I've given up on psy the way I have with club trance, and that includes progressive psy too.

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Sorry, fellas. I probably should have left out Minimal Symphony, but I couldn't help it, that track just makes me so happy It was probably that track that completely threw the mix out of whack.

Yeah, I like to experiment with different styles of psy, and they may not always work, but I hate doing the same stuff over and over. A majority of full-on and prog-psy is complete garbage, with no imagination, so when I find a group of tracks of a similar style that I enjoy, I try to make a mix out of it. Because of that, my flow may sometimes suffer. I appreciate you all listening anyways, and 3 of the most intelligent members of the forum attempting to listen to 100 minutes of my crap makes me feel somewhat special.

Don't write me off yet, the next mix is going to be something totally wild

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One more bump before I let this one die. Any more comments?

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