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I've listened to a bit of dubstep, including some Caspa & Rusko stuff which I really hated. However, based on the review below, this sounds good. Downloading.
Also, yes, the artwork is awesome.
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I gave this a listen while I was doing some reading, so I wasn't paying close attention to the technical aspects. Nothing stood out as jarring and the flow from track to track seemed nice and smooth.
This is a different style of dubstep to what I'm familiar with, which I suppose is the more British side of things. I can see how this side of dubstep crosses with dub techno. This set was very mellow, and nicely atmospheric.
If I have a criticism it's that the set didn't really seem to go anywhere or reach anything. For a chill-out set it was nice because of the steady mood, but if I were listening closely I think I'd probably get a bit impatient with this in parts because it's more or less the same vibe throughout. For me, a vibe can only be maintained across a home listening set without variation if it's a very distinctive or unique atmosphere.
That said, that criticism is harsh because it was done on the spur of the moment, with no pre-planning. Whenever I do a set for TA I plan it out for aaaages: I make a big list of candidate tracks with tempos, keys and moods from which the tracklist is taken, and I take a couple of draft runs seeing if things work. Mixing on the fly with just a box (or HDD) of tracks makes it much harder to get flow and programming perfect.
Overall: cool mix, I enjoyed it. |
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