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Originally posted by Ian I think it was good as far as a set goes, there is some continuity and flow that maybe lacked last time which you eluded to. Track wise, it shows that if people look behind the bro-shit that there are tracks that can be called dubstep and not be atrocious. Definitely a good effort here Nick, nothing sounded bad to my ears and I can be very easily fussed by things in this sort of style.

Thanks for listening, Ian. I really appreciate this sound, I think it's very complete. I am pleased with my mixing in this one, and I managed to get the flow down pretty good in my opinion. Glad to see you approved

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Originally posted by pozz listened to this one at work. mostly too much for my ears, but the opener by Ital Tek and Whitebear - Intangible are real nice tracks. the latter especially has this wet sound i like alot in percussion. flow kinda stabilizes once you get into the more mid-range oriented stuff, around the middle of the mix, but nothing to complain about.

Hey thanks for the listen, pozz. I'm not sure what you mean when you say it was too much for your ears... didn't you love my darkpsy/terrorcore mix last year? Whitebear - Intangible is one of my favorite tracks here. The most popular one on Facebook seems to be the Cybernetika track at the end (which was an addition on the fly when I realized my mix wasn't long enough )

I hope everyone else enjoys!

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First half of this was superb, Nick. Great tracks: actual proper dubstep, but injected with some dark psy futurism and melody. The first 30 minutes was easily the best thing I've heard from you yet, spot on in every aspect. Unfortunately for me, after about 40 minutes it began to lose my interest as the tracks increasingly fell into the bad side of both dubstep and psy-trance: inevitable corny vocal samples about consciousness expansion, lots of mid-range wobbliness and generally just a lack of strong musical ideas. By the penultimate track it had felt like a lot of random noises and samples scattered over an uninteresting dubstep rhythm. I'm glad you ended with the Cybernetika track though, because Scamp - Frequency would have been a shitty closing track, and because I've often thought about how you could use Calling Mercurio in a set, and I think you pulled it off well - putting it as a heavy jam to close on, much like he did on his album.

Technically this was very good for the most part - a couple of the transitions were a bit awkward in terms of levels, but I agree the flow was superb on this one, even between the tracks I didn't particularly like. I think my issue with how this set progresses goes back to a point I made recently, that I find it very difficult to build momentum or energy with dubstep and so for me the genre is best used as a segment in a larger set. You tried to build up something here, but it's very hard to find more intense dubstep that doesn't fall into brostep pitfalls. I would have loved it if after the first half an hour you'd moved into straight-up psy-trance. That would have been fucking awesome.

By the way, I'm actually thinking of doing something quite similar to this, not psy-step, but some lower tempo but still danceable psychedelic stuff. I've been finding recently that my favourite tracks from psy records are usually the slower ones.

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> Terra Nova [Modern Progressive Trance]

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Yeah, the quality of the tracks isn't the same as it is in the first half as it is in the second half. With this style, you can tell that I tried to take the set to a heavier psychedelic approach as the mix continued. Unfortunately, the mid-range is more prevalent in those bigger tracks. I appreciate the groove that the tracks had in the first half, and I'm not really disappointed in the second half. I felt like the pool of tracks was so small that elevating the energy to fit with the first half wasn't possible because those tracks simply don't exist yet.

I agree, it would have totally been awesome to play a track like:



...and then move into a psytrance section. But I'm happy with what I did. I look forward to your interpretation of the downtempo/psybreaks flavor. I appreciate the listen and the honest opinion. Glad you finally liked it

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Originally posted by ziptnf I'm not sure what you mean when you say it was too much for your ears... didn't you love my darkpsy/terrorcore mix last year?

that mix had a totally different sonic character than this one. too much mid-range stuff, and unrelenting. i expected more "empty"-sounding tracks to calm things down. (Whitebear did that when it dropped.)

dubstep has never been my thing anyway. you'll be surprised at my reason: far too much atmospheric pads cluttering up the soundfield. there's only a few tracks i really like and those push into intricate beat territory so much that it's hard to distinguish them from IDM.

Fucking word. Calling Mercurio is great. D/Lin' like an excited borderline bitch.

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Originally posted by ziptnf I agree, it would have totally been awesome to play a track like: ...and then move into a psytrance section.

This is fucking awesome. I really, really wish you'd done this. I want this set to exist.

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> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24
> Surface Tension [Progressive Trance]
> Back To Deep [Deep Trippy House]
> Terra Nova [Modern Progressive Trance]

If you enjoy any of these sets and want to hear me live, I'll be playing a 2 hour progressive trance set at Basing House in Shoreditch, London on 11th October.
I'm also a resident at our bi-monthly party Kibosh in Manchester: https://www.instagram.com/kibosh.mcr/

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J This is fucking awesome. I really, really wish you'd done this. I want this set to exist.

My mix Synthetic Science features this track, and a track by Tipper which borderlines psystep/suomi, and a track called Wilder Beast, which also has dub in it. You might like that mix

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It's not just the track, it's how it would work in this set if you'd changed direction like that. I really want a mind-fuck mix for my friends who like dubstep, so I can say "check this shit out" and let them know what really intense, energetic rave music sounds like, as opposed to all this obnoxious wobble-shit. And I've been thinking a lot about how use dubstep in an unusual way, how to integrate it into a banging set. Maybe I'll just have to dig up my own psy dubstep tracks and make the mix.

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> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24
> Surface Tension [Progressive Trance]
> Back To Deep [Deep Trippy House]
> Terra Nova [Modern Progressive Trance]

If you enjoy any of these sets and want to hear me live, I'll be playing a 2 hour progressive trance set at Basing House in Shoreditch, London on 11th October.
I'm also a resident at our bi-monthly party Kibosh in Manchester: https://www.instagram.com/kibosh.mcr/

Can't say I liked it but this is because of the style. Especially the more aggressive tracks were definitely not on my alley. Mixing and so, it was perfect but just I guess I wasn't in a mood (being bored and annoyed this is). Maybe for some other day, I will listen again and see how it goes.

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You really gotta stop listening to my mixes when you're in a bad mood.

Thanks for the listen anyways, did you ever hear the full-on mix from a couple months ago?

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