It's all good! I didn't mean to rain on the parade and I'm sure there's plenty of consolation to be found in the more prominent praise for your set.
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this music is mostly about the sound, not the melody or harmony or something like that. if i want that I listen to debussy or miles davis. i pick tracks because to me the sounds are lush, hypnotic, and therapeutic. it's a very different kind of appreciation of music
Then that is probably why it isn't my cup of tea. ...I'm strictly into melodic music with a pattern...this is one of the main characteristics that brought me to love trance in the first place (such a contrast from so much rubbish out there)....if I want to hear noise I usually just mow my lawn.
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i'm just doing what i love.
And that is what's important!
Last edited by chadi on Jul-26-2007 at 02:10
Jul-26-2007 02:02
Allied Nations
Make it happen cap'n
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: MTHELL
this sort of talk deserves a thread in the MD...
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Jul-26-2007 02:03
nefardec
Tranceaddict in tranning
Registered: Oct 2004
Location:
agreed
Jul-26-2007 02:04
UWM
mandroid
Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Here
I'm not quite sure how one can criticize another person's subjective tastes on what they do and don't find appealing in a particular medium of art and subsequently attempt to articulate why what they listen to is 'right'.
Jul-26-2007 04:06
skip
a.k.a. skip2
Registered: Sep 2002
Location: home or somewhere else
i listened to this yesterday at work and again today (because i ran out of new stuff on my mp3 player and your set was the best one in the player)
anyway, i really liked it. mixing was brilliant and smooth as fuck.
the tunes weren't really something i'd see myself buying, but i really enjoyed them nonetheless and i felt that the mixing made this mix more than a sum of its parts.
dunno if i felt anything tantric though, just good music.
thanks, i'm flattered that you said that about more than a sum of its parts, because my belief is that unless you can put yourself into a collection of other people's music, you're not deejaying.
I agree that it's not as tantric as I originally had wanted it to be when I decided I was going to call the next mix "tantra". Like I mentioned in the original post, I kept hearing new stuff while I was compiling tracks and the sound changed a lot.
The tantric idea was to draw out the tracks as much as possible into a long stream of rising energy which culminates at last with a track like Diabla. When people ask me about deejaying I usually explain it as a sort of tantric exercise where you are constantly playing a game of teasing people with sounds and rhythms, holding back from playing the biggest tracks until the crowd absolutely can't take it anymore. I generally find that to be more rewarding for instance than getting a cheap rise out of people for playing big tracks early and having a couple guys pat you on the back.
so i tried to do that basically in this mix, whether or not it was how you heard it is another matter
Aug-19-2007 12:57
Pinokio
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Panama City, Panama
Sir you are fancy at mixing!
I kept more interested in listening to your mixing/transitions than the songs themselves.
I love your harmonic way of transitions songs, and the mix is definitely Journeyful.
It's true I love mixing and this mix and the one i posted more recently have two tracks playing together nearly all of the time.
Aug-19-2007 20:53
coded audio
chill connoisseur
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Gold Coast , Australia
quote:
Originally posted by chadi
I'm strictly into melodic music with a pattern...this is one of the main characteristics that brought me to love trance in the first place (such a contrast from so much rubbish out there)....if I want to hear noise I usually just mow my lawn.
But that is the problem with trance. It has been the same noises with the same pattern for 15 years now.
...I'm strictly into melodic music with a pattern...this is one of the main characteristics that brought me to love trance in the first place (such a contrast from so much rubbish out there)....if I want to hear noise I usually just mow my lawn.
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