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Alright a few things off the bat. I just had a ton of coffee, so this will be unnecessarily long winded and likely pointless. Read at your own peril.
Starting things off, the beginning – whatever the melody loops were – felt out of place. Almost like tacked onto the song to give it a bit of an intro. I don’t know if this is a part of the original tune, or something you attached yourself. But it was a bit “meh” in my opinion. The song itself works. Great opening track, a bit of spacy-ness (I know, I’m inventing words as I go along) to it. The greatest aspect is that bassline, really delivers on so many levels – feel, depth, groove – it sets up your set in so many ways. At the moment I’m expecting a deep progressive set, I haven’t really scoped your tracklist before I started to listen.
First mix is smooth, and the deep drum bassline continues well into it – great part of the mix. When the drum patterns kick in they don’t feel out of place. Your selection didn’t continue with the melodic feel of the opener, but the… “bump” is still there so it works. Energy-wise, this set is already on its way UP! The bit of vocals give it a crowd friendly environment, nice touch.
Mix two is great because it brings back a bit of that “spacy-ness” I was talking earlier about. Re-introducing an element right away, I like it. The mix was quick too, almost likely the progressive-deep aspect at the beginning of your mix never left. Nice deep breakdown in the middle. We still have vocals, and some drum-pattern in the background, which creates a nice flow from #2 to #3. This means, however, (for my tastes) next track you gotta go with some lyrics or completely cut out the vocals. I guess we’ll see.
Am I hearing a bit of bleep and bloop in the background?… Definitely! A very sneaky mix between #3 and #4! Great deep house feel, a few tech elements, but not overboard. Great selection here too. So far this is my favorite song, especially with the strings in the middle of the breakdown, more along the lines of what I’m into at the moment. The energy is on the move up again, fantastic stuff so far.
The two mixes being a bit left-field, I was looking for something steady, and sure enough you delivered. Nice flow into #5 and continuing with the groovy funk that was established over the last few tunes but going deeper into it. Now this is deep progressive house, mmmmmmm. This now took over as my favorite track of the mix and definitely something I will be picking up for my own repertoire.
The ending was abrupt and some electro elements kicked in… I was like “where did #5 go?!” It wasn’t bad, just a bit of a disappearing act by a good song, a steadier mix would’ve been better. However the vocals are a good introduction here, I’ve been waiting for them to appear for the past 2 tracks. LOL! The middle of this song just got ridiculous “Yo I can’t talk right now, whatever!” *insert vinyl scratches* Interesting aspect… Gets me wondering how you’ll follow this one up. Have to admit the song does make me want to dance.
Is this Hot Chip? More of a bell and beat feel to this song (Radioslavish?). It’s another curveball, but it worked better this time. Crazy piece of work, with trumpets and laughing, I guess keeping in line with the last song’s bit of crazy shit. But it’s hella-funky. Around 31:45 is my favorite part – the steady part.
Ok enough crazy shit, back to the good old funky house. There’s that spacey feeling again, I think it’s the s/fx of the songs you chose. But they’re all over the place and definitely give the set an overall steady/common element – which is a good thing. It’s oozing FUNK! That bass-guitar is doing wonders on my psyche.
Lol, now I feel like I’m in a disco. This is some serious, serious funk ya’ll. This next song makes me wanna wear some aviators. But what happened to the deep progressive shit I was enjoying – over the past two – three songs I’ve felt like things have taken a turn down another road… Yawn, it got drawn out (almost bored and annoyed), change it please.
Ok this set took a turn for the worse. As theorized in previous posts the so-called “drugs” song is simply blatant and annoying. I guess it follows the example set by the previous tune. I get the novelty factor of Bush sayings compiled into this crap, but that’s all it is, a novelty song that really doesn’t work on any level other than some minor amusement… which quickly wears off.
Never been happier to hear another mix coming. While I was busy being annoyed it went completely unnoticed that the set has some rich tones of techno. I like this tune, the energy is high, the pace is fast. There’s some melodic things here and there but there’s also TECHNO! Maybe house-techno?… with break-beat interludes. Very trippy stuff.
Over the past few tunes we went from a lounge atmosphere to a more up-tempo club. There’s definitely a lot of energy here, but I’m still wondering what happened to the deep progressive house and if it’ll ever come back. It’s still house but there’s a lot of techno and electro elements being introduced. To be honest I’m not digging it as much, but that’s, of course, a personal choice.
I’ve lost count of what track this is, but I think it’s second to last. I’m back into the set again with it, it’s melodic and has a bit of vocals to it. Nice up-tempo deep house with a steady bassline that I’ve enjoyed at the beginning of the set. You might be settling down a bit, coming out of the funk you were in. Nice smooth song to get ready for a closing of this set.
An interesting closer. It’s very different, especially with the unsteady beat in the middle. I really like it. Again it brings back some of that spacey element that faded over the middle of the set.
That’s about it, lol, god that’s a lot to sort through. Sorry Greg, and don’t take any of this personally or to heart. I’m just writing because I got nothing better to do and am bored out of my skull at work. Thanks for providing the entertainment!
Last edited by denys envy on May-06-2008 at 15:02
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