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Originally posted by Tangil Hey nefardec just wondering if you've heard many other mixes in the style of this and Eat Your Heart Out? Anything that has influenced these? I thought that the System J TA Classics game might have some mixes more along these lines but a lot of them are a bit too 'all over the place' for my liking. There's something quite cohesive about these sets that I really enjoy. Though it's a bit more ambient, this is quite a left of centre mix that you might enjoy: http://www.sahkorecordings.com/mix_papillon.php It's the set called "l'effet papillon."

Thanks I'll check that out.

Honestly I am inspired by the music itself, and the things going on in my life. Deejaying for me is a way to put together all of the different stuff I'm into, into something that can be communicated to others. It's also a way for me to indulge my fantasies.

One DJ I always check out is Jonny 5, this guy in the UK who contributes to the blog 'infinitestatemachine'. He plays the most ridiculous and wonderful music, all vinyl, most of it extremely special and rare. He digs a lot of old stuff but also plays the new and the reissued, which requires devotion and is pretty admirable in itself, not to mention that the deejaying is fantastic.

Here's all of his mixes:
http://www.blindsign.org/Jonny/

Some of the other contributors to that blog do good stuff too. It's all good music but it's centered around house and techno.

Another DJ I think is awesome is DJG, jonathan graham:
http://djg-music.blogspot.com/

He contributes to this blog I love called '[sqwelsch]', along with other really good selectors.
http://sqwelsch.blogspot.com/

These are probably the two contemporary DJs I look up to the most in terms of selection.

Scott Ferguson does some pretty great eclectic sets, as do Juju and Jordash.

Then of course the classic inluence on me is David Mancuso:
http://deephousepage.com/search_res...g=david+mancuso

I have a couple friends who put together stuff kind of like this mix, this guy has amazing taste in music, but it tends to be mostly newer stuff, whereas I like to dig older stuff too. I don't think he has a lot of stuff online at the moment though.

People on the discogs forum will occassionally post these kind of things. I've been inspired in the past by the 'minerals' series (http://www.discogs.com/groups/topic/154513) but it's mostly post-rock and ambient stuff with the same kind of sound.

Wow thanks so much for that list going to have a lot of fun checking out all that stuff, it looks amazing.

I know what you mean by indulging in your fantasies, I got that a bit from your Dream of The Earth set you posted a while back. For ages I'd been planning to throw something together for a kind of late night summer soul/jazz kind of set, taking in music from Shuggie Otis, Alice Coltrane, Gil Scott Heron, Terre Thaemlitz etc. and a bunch of ambient cassette tape stuff from the 'pontone spectral cassette' series. Never quite got off the ground but it is fun to let your mind wander.

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Originally posted by Tangil Wow thanks so much for that list going to have a lot of fun checking out all that stuff, it looks amazing. I know what you mean by indulging in your fantasies, I got that a bit from your Dream of The Earth set you posted a while back. For ages I'd been planning to throw something together for a kind of late night summer soul/jazz kind of set, taking in music from Shuggie Otis, Alice Coltrane, Gil Scott Heron, Terre Thaemlitz etc. and a bunch of ambient cassette tape stuff from the 'pontone spectral cassette' series. Never quite got off the ground but it is fun to let your mind wander.

oh yeah... terre thaemlitz is a huge inspiration for me. can't believe i didn't mention her

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Originally posted by nefardec oh yeah... terre thaemlitz is a huge inspiration for me. can't believe i didn't mention her

love terre!

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Originally posted by nefardec Yes, just replaced it with 320kbps. the 128 was a mistake. So the soundcloud, mirror, and megaupload links are now the 320. The mixcloud is going to stay 128 though.

looking forward, might take me a couple of weeks to actually be in the mood for something experimental though.

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thumbs up for Let It Happen. always loved your taste

will have to check out the past ones as well as i missed those.

Nice one. I liked the atmosphere the whole time, how did you incorporate the constant thunder/rainy sounds? Did you just have a deck with those playing on repeat in the background, or what?

My favorite track here was Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Quarterdrawing Of The Dog. Something about that simple little melody made me really happy in such a seemingly gloomy set. This was perfect to listen to, because it's been rainy and gross in Louisville the past few days. Lots of relaxing, curious, eclectic tracks here. Thanks for this.

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Originally posted by ziptnf Nice one. I liked the atmosphere the whole time, how did you incorporate the constant thunder/rainy sounds? Did you just have a deck with those playing on repeat in the background, or what? My favorite track here was Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Quarterdrawing Of The Dog. Something about that simple little melody made me really happy in such a seemingly gloomy set. This was perfect to listen to, because it's been rainy and gross in Louisville the past few days. Lots of relaxing, curious, eclectic tracks here. Thanks for this.

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With the thunderstorm I basically just played one of those nature relaxation cds in the background and set it up on an extra channel on my mixer such that I could kind of play it like crowd noise or ambience or something when I felt I wanted to invoke that sound or create a certain amount of depth or direct image. I did kind of argue with myself a few times about whether or not to include this ambient noise... i imagine some listeners would say that it's too literal or heavy handed, that the music should abstractly convey the theme itself. My decision to include it, though, was based on the actual numinous quality of the sound itself and not mere theme or symbolism. I tried to treat the thunderstorm as one of the records in the mix worth listening to. Thunderstorms have always been a wonderous combination of relaxation, fear, and catharsis for me, and I was trying to demonstrate in through the mix what a good thunderstorm means for me.

THANK YOU DAVID MICHAEL I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WOULD DO WITHOUT YOU

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Originally posted by ziptnf THANK YOU DAVID MICHAEL I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WOULD DO WITHOUT YOU

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Originally posted by ziptnf Nice one. I liked the atmosphere the whole time, how did you incorporate the constant thunder/rainy sounds? Did you just have a deck with those playing on repeat in the background, or what? My favorite track here was Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Quarterdrawing Of The Dog. Something about that simple little melody made me really happy in such a seemingly gloomy set. This was perfect to listen to, because it's been rainy and gross in Louisville the past few days. Lots of relaxing, curious, eclectic tracks here. Thanks for this.

Thanks! Yeah I love that track. For me it has a bittersweet quality, very shoegazy. the melody is very sweet but it almost sounds mockingly so to me.

and yeah, i just piped in the thunderstorm cd on channel 3 on my mixer. (trusty ol' djm500)

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Originally posted by Floorfiller thumbs up for Let It Happen. always loved your taste will have to check out the past ones as well as i missed those.

Get the FUCK outta my TA. GET OUT.

DAMN MOD

Also, yah, getting zis I s'pose. Maybe I'll be more keen on it.