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 01:10

this sort of talk deserves a thread in the MD...

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agreed

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'.

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.

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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

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.

Congratulations =)

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Pepa - Pure Bliss (June 2007 Promo)
Pepa - Visual Thoughts (March 2007 Promo)
Pepa - Trippin' Again

Mash-ups:
Perasma Vs BT - Swing 2 Gravity (Pepa Live Mash-up)
I Trance You!

thanks

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.

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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.

BORING !!