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Alright so I listened twice now and I figure it's about time to give my impressions. I suppose I'll start with the brief listening notes I made:
| quote: | transition at around 9:20...oncoming track is a lot louder than outgoing track!
(track too loud in general!)
Seems like it's gonna stay louder. Guess you forgot to raise the master volume levels.
You should have kept them as they were at the beginning though.
Mix-in at around 34:20 was brilliant, really.
Great mix into the Mr. Jones track. Actually happens to be the only track here that I have/know.
Very nice mix out of this one too!
The beat at 1:04:43 is soooo insane! |
Basically, I really liked the progression in this mix. After mixing for about a year now, it seems to me that the most difficult part about creating a mix is making one that actually instills you with the feeling that you are going somewhere, and that by the time your at the end, you're at a very far place from where you started off.
Your mix captured that extremely well, in fact it did this better than anything else. The way you ordered the tracks, it's as if each one raises the level a little bit, and the end result is a multi-step effect, where with each passing song the mix moves further and further along. I mean it's not too difficult to string songs together. But to string them together while creating such a sense of depth and progress, that is the mark of a good set, one that Grooves bears.
The mixing, for the most part, was solid. There were a few slightly awkward moments, to be honest, where the levels didn't quite match (mentioned in the notes) and the beats were ever so slightly off. But it was really nothing major, nitpicking more than anything, and it did not subtract from the flow of the mix, surprisingly.
I guess there's no point to really comment on the music. I really like it, but at the same time I can't listen to too much of it because it does start to sound a little samey after a while. I didn't get bored with this mix though, it kept things interesting all the way through. For the last track, what can I say, I didn't dislike it and I appreciate these little creative additions at the beginning/end of a mix, so I thought it was cool.
Am I forgetting something? I hope not. Obviously I noticed your evolving music tastes, with you now getting more into the deep house stuff. I'll tell you though, I was really into it about a year and a half ago but I kinda got bored, because while I was wowed by the lushness and the cleanliness of the sounds at first, stuff did start to sound a little similar to other stuff, and overall I was feeling like things were a little cheesy. Perhaps things are evolving and you will not experience the same feelings down the road. Either way, I look forward to seeing where your musical jouney takes you!
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| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.
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Last edited by Adam420 on Mar-10-2009 at 02:33
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I wish I had caught it when I was mixing because I would have started all over again. I was only 9 minutes into the mix, lol.
