Not a problem. Glad you enjoyed it, as you usually do.

Funny thing is, the intro is everyone's favourite part, yet those two tracks really were the last thing I decided to include. I had the basic layout and flow of the mix down, but I didn't want to open with the NASA track and I just could not find any suitable track that was in key with it. Nothing. I must have tried twenty different trance tracks with it, and nothing worked harmonically. Eventually I was so frustrated I decided to try out a couple of melodic techno tracks I'd bought, one of which was Timeless, which worked perfectly. That's why the opening two tracks are a bit different to the rest of the mix.

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So I took a listen...

...and the main thing I kept thinking was, "Folks are complaining about the mixing?" Yeah, it wasn't super clinical, soul-sapping spot-on, but nothing terribly detrimental either. I've heard worse from professionally released mixes. Geez, you guys!

Oh, the tunes? Yeah, they were good. I started phasing out a bit towards the end though, for the same ol' reasons I usually do when it comes to most of your mixes, J': lack of variety, which is a pointless quibble when it comes to genre mixes. Still, did a good job in keeping the energy on a gradual climb.

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Originally posted by Sykonee So I took a listen... ...and the main thing I kept thinking was, "Folks are complaining about the mixing?" Yeah, it wasn't super clinical, soul-sapping spot-on, but nothing terribly detrimental either. I've heard worse from professionally released mixes. Geez, you guys!

You are right. It's just that most of his mixes are quite a bit better than many professionally released CDs. Its a good thing he is being held to a massively high standard

I'm thinking about doing a re-recording to hopefully fix a couple of the problems. It's funny how when I was giving it a test listen I barely noticed any of the fuck-ups, but now after reading this thread I find some of them distractingly obvious.

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Hello,

Very good set SYSTEM-J

You just need to watch out the beat matching. Also there was one transition with a Key problem (cannot say wich one cause i was listen without the tracklist, but it was in the last part of the set).

Despite that, good selection. I really dig the psy part and the first track is THAT good!

Cheers

The key problem is the transition into Leaving Eden. I was well aware of it, I just bulldozed through.

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> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

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Personally, I loved this.

It did sound a little rough round the edges in parts but I actually breathe a sigh of relief in those cases. Reason being - it demonstrates a simple logic of track selection and programming being paramount above technology.

I listen to so many mixes that are flawless in presentation but lacking in depth. This is contrary to that (does everything need to be so polished these days??)

I felt refreshed listening to this. Ironic given the next time I read one of your posts, I will probably feel the need to cringe ;p

Respect.

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I'm with you A.B. I anyway don't like this "harmonic transition religion". As if non-harmonic transitions couldn't work. It's just much more difficult to mix one without throwing of the listener. It even can be very useful, simply to break out of old habbits and structures...

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DJ Soulstone - Summer Solstice 2012 [Goa/Full-On]

So I've had this mix for a while now, yet I never got a chance to entirely listen to it until now.

I must say, this is a fantastic piece of music clumped together with elegant, smooth mixing. Very tasty track selection too.

These tracks are something that I've never heard before. It is more of a passive-aggressive, epic-chill, dramatic-laidback.

I must commend you on the track selection and style that you had for this mix. You really did make it sound like it was somewhat in an "Eden" type of Trance. Just the name Eden sounds very harmonic, elegant, somewhat sophisticated and rich.

I love the wavey synths that have such hypnotizing echo-y sounds to it. It's enjoying to hear how the set builds up as well. Towards the end of the set, there comes more bass, more texture, more layers of sound, and some more electro-sounding synths along with.

I'll say again I love this mix because it is different than anything that I've ever heard before, and to my opinion, it keeps Trance in it's truest roots. The sounds are new and refreshing. I did not know tracks like this are lying around even in this decade, even after Trance was considered "dead."

I was usually used to listening to the sounds of PVD, Oaky, Tiesto, Agnelli & Nelson, and all the "Epic/Anthem/Progressive" stuff they made.

Just wanted to say thanks, and there's really nothing I have to criticize on in your mix, because it is a fact that you did a great job.

Just noticed that last post. The "Return To Eden" title is actually quite multi-layered. On the most prosaic level it's a play on the Sunstryk track name, and I often like taking my mix title from lyrics or track titles used within. But "Eden" also represented a couple of things - the return of summer and lush, vibrant weather when I posted this mix. Trance has always been a summery genre for me. It was also a tongue-in-cheek reference to how the music here harks back to the ideals of classic trance - the Biblical analogy parodying the religious zeal with which some people here worship ye olde trance, as though the supersaw was Original Sin, and the general pseudo-spiritualism surrounding trance with its Jesus poses and ecstastic ephiphanies. Return To Eden is also the title of an obscure science fiction novel by Harry Harrison, continuing a semi-trend of naming my mixes after sci-fi literature.

Anyway, glad you enjoyed the mix and I could show you some music you didn't know existed - which has been my overall goal with just about all my mixes. Consider this a final bump for this mix, because there's some new shit coming in the very-near-future.

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> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

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SYSTEM-J HAS GOT SOME NEW SHIT DROPPIN, STAY TUNED.