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Alright, time to finally type out some thoughts about this one.
First of all, congrats on the night. I do hope it’s working out for you. I was surprised to see the direction you seem to have taken for your live-mixing endeavors, since I always thought of you as more of an aspiring dancefloor DJ. Though I wonder what the reasons were I do applaud it.
I have yet to tackle the other live mix you posted but since this one seemed a bit more digestible scale-wise I dived straight in and have given it quite a few listens since because I’ve really been enjoying it.
The starting bunch of tracks was a fine lot, sirenes in particular is a gorgeous track. The inclusion of baja was a good move, I mean why the hell not. The meaty percussion was welcome at that point. The Zargon tracks I’m not so sure about though, they’re good tracks and they mix in well enough, but they also felt unnecessary. I know we’ve had the whole how chill is a D&B track discussion before but I just feel it set the wrong precedent here, you had already blown enough steam with baja. If I were to reengineer this mix I’d probably go straight to datura, there’s more synergy between those tracks and you probably wouldn’t have had to build down so much afterwards.
The section following datura was a bit of a queer selection. It did harbor some of the more interesting moments though, both parks on fire and love cry were very nifty tracks. Reverse engineering had an unfortunate mix-in making it feel a bit redundant.
What follows however is by far the most memorable part of the mix. Some fantastic haunting ambient going into sol makes for a knee weakening section.
After that we enter a section containing what seems like some very densely layered turn of the millennium style dance-ish chill music. Not my cup of tea really, the hydroponic garden cut was good but what comes after was a bit forgettable. The flow from here on out however is extremely solid. We then reach a final turning point with another unmistakably solar fields track, after which a pleasant string of electronica closes it off.
Overall, it was a profound enough experience. It handles it’s length well, never becoming tiring or overly uninteresting. There is a sensible structure overall, the first half being more interesting music-wise were as the second half wins in the flow department. I feel it could have been a bit more adventurous, especially in the second half. Some more novelty, instruments or vocals. Anything that sticks really. The post-sol part of this mix seems a bit lacking in atmosphere at times as well.
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Mixes: Alaé (Conceptional ambient dub)
AOTSE (Experimental)
Listens:
http://www.last.fm/user/bierheld
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