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quick self review live from Ten.
Considering this wasn't really a true opening set and that I was told I could what I wanted, I tried to have some balls and wanted to play a bit of diff stuff compared to what you usually hear at Ten...and that's a chunk of minimal/electro/prog/depends who you talk to.
I failed lol.
Taj kinda warned me on like my second track (all-the-while saying I could keep playing what I wanted to) about it....and I knew it was a risk...but I wanted to keep pushing forward and see what happens.
About 11:30 I decided that I needed to change direction sooner than I had hoped and what started off as a pretty planned set turned into a totally winging-it set.
I didn't want to make the mistake a lot of newer DJs make and cut too a diff style too quickly...
I knew I had to make a change and started pretty mellow w/ Cause You Know wippenbeg remix and from there to oliver molden, deadmau5 arguru, and from this point I wanted to switch over to trance.
But instead of just moving on to trance, I REALLY wanted to do this one transition I love doing between a the charles gudagavfa of david west welsh morphology (ie. a house remix) into the original mix (trance version)....so after arguru I brought it back to house but it was only on for a minute or two before I did the transiton to the trance version. Probably didn't fit the set well but I did it anyway.
from there I went on to play prog trance, trance, and some somewhat banging trance, though at only 134BPM. Closed it out by bringing the banging down a notch with a Maor Levi track.
So my experiment failed but I was happy with my adjustment. seems like most peeps had the same criticism...first 30-40 min can be thrown i the trash. last hour was good...according to others. I'll have to listen to the set first before making my own judgement!
overall I think I did OK. was hoping the crowd would like something diff but I was wrong...so know not to play that stuff in the main room lol. Some might say common sense would tell you that...but at the same time, some of the best vibes I've ever been in were with the DJs playing a style a bit diff than what the crowd was used to...in those cases it just happened to be styles the crowd ended up really digging. Would never know if the crowd is gonna like something unless you give it to them.
Note that if I was opening for a major headliner, I would never started off how I did. Just thought if there was ever a good time to try something different, it was on a local's night...at the very beginning of the night...
in other stuff, being used to an old pioneer mixer I had a helluva time trying to get used to the xone92's sliders....so sensitive. I like to have some pressure involved. I don't like it.
if you have ever heard any of my mixes you know that I do a lot of (horrible sounding) effects in ableton....but I was so dead tired and was afraid of causing the soundsystem to clip I barely did any. I need to learn the xone92 effects....well, other than flanger hehe.
accidentally stopped the music once. my usual HP laptop crapped out on me so I borrowed a MacBook Pro from work (using Windows  ). used to resting my hand on the keyboard a certain way and caused me to press some key that stopped everything. oops! I'll remove the dead air from the recorded set.
also had a couple tracks skip on me? tracks I bought off beatport! but I have a feeling it might be ableton's fault because it actually transcodes your mp3s to WAVs when you import them and I did come across a couple tracks the other day (both off beatport) that just played totally screwed up...ended up having to convert them to wav in winamp and import the WAVs. either Ill have to listen to ALL my tracks to make sure they play fine or convert all my tracka to WAV myself hoping I can somehow use all the warp/info files related to the mp3s I imported. Although, I have listened to all the tracks I've played fully a bunch of times in Ableton and don't recall hearing any hiccups before.
also if you use ableton and haven't upgraded to 7 DO IT. It handles caching so much better...Ableton 6 would cache the file when you started to play it. if you didn't watch out the track would stutter for few seconds and overload the CPU. I would always have to make sure I played each track in my project to be safe. it sucked when I would forget to do one and be in the middle of a mix, start the track and it stutter. ver 7 caches as soon as it's loaded into the project or something and reloads them proper when you open a project. I have yet to have any of the stutter issues with AB7.
Need to lower my audio output from each channel in ableton...goes into that Xone a tad loud and had a few instances of minor clipping...when I upload my mix you'll prob hear parts where I jolt down the audio when I see it peaking...
Thanks for all the kind words...but I know you people, I could have blew (and maybe I really did!) and you all would say nice things, lol. I want brutal honesty...like one person told me with the first 30 minutes of the set....transitions sounded choppy because I was trying to mix most of the full intros of each track...and yeah, he may be right...will have to give it a good listen. it's an area where to one person it sounds choppy and to someone else it's just fine. Hopefully I improve with experience!
Sucks I am sick. Had so little energy overall. Just glad I got through it without royally screwing up. My sinus andchest were actually rather clear going into the night but the stuffiness inside Ten brought congestion roaring back! I had to go to the bathroom a few times during the night to hack up crap built up in my chest. Not fun.
Below is my tracklist...big difference in style between the first few tracks and last few tracks, hehe...once I got the prog trance/trance going I could have kept going forever. A couple tracks that I kinda wanted to play but with the chance of plans didn't include Sia - The Girl You Lost to Cocaine (Sander van Doorn remix, but was open to playing the Stonebridge vocal mix...hadn't decided) and DJ Fist - The Morning After (Mario Ochoa Mix). Maybe if I ever play at another venue.
I had a lot of fun overall. I had little energy to show it which sucked when being behind the decks (laptop :-p) because I like to be able to show my enthusiasm. Hell I go a little ballistic when just mixing at home lol. Next time (if there ever is one!!).
Time for some shut eye. Audacity just stopped responding so I'll encode the set to mp3 later.
I need a haircut.
Peace.
01. Stephen Bodzin - Liebe Ist... (Original Mix)
02. Guy Gerber & Chaim - Myspace (Original Mix)
03. Alex Neri & Luca Bacchetti - La Fotografia (Original Mix)
04. Moonbeam - Cocoon (Sunset Mix)
05. Roland Klinkenberg & DJ Remy - Jimmy the Saint (Original Mix)
06. Underworld - Beautiful Burnout (Mark Knight Remix)
07. Markus Schulz feat. Departure - Cause You Know (Wippenberg Remix)
08. Oliver Moldan & Jerome Isma-Ae - James Dean Cool (Original Mix)
09. Deadmau5 - Arguru (EDX's 5un5hine Mix)
10. David West - Welsh Morphology (Charles Gudagavfa Remix)
11. David West - Welsh Morphology (Original Mix)
12. Lens - Beyond the Shadows (Moonbeam Remix)
13. Heartbeat - Protoculture (Original Mix)
14. Nenes & Pascal Feliz - Platinum (Original Mix)
15. Joint Operation Centre - Shortwave (Original Mix)
16. Maor Levi - Shapes (Original Mix)
Last edited by DaveT on Feb-17-2008 at 17:28
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