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Originally posted by Mr Game+Watch So finally, here's my genre mix. I thought long and hard about what I wanted to do with this mix... take the "outer space" route with dubby ambient and turn-of-the-century progressive? Go quirky and goofy sci-fi B-movie with obscure moog-synth and theremin pieces? Do a post-apocalyptic themed mix with raw minimal techno and bleak, droning ambient? Instead, I settled on an aesthetic and a style of music I absolutely am enamored with... This mix is my attempt to convey driving your shiny new Testarossa through a neon-glazed cyberpunk future-that-never-was version of Tokyo... whether it be racing down electrified streets, attempting to outrun the cops in a corporate-fueled police state, or simply going for a leisurely cruise with your woman... this is the soundtrack of your Neo-Tokyo night. Enjoy! Tracklist Download Download Here (Right-Click/Save-As)

Felt like I was listening to a something between a sci fi video game soundtrack and an 80s revisited set. Like early 90s Nintendo futuristic racing game. Lots of fun tunes, but lack of variety made it boring after about 30mins. I can only take so much synth melody at once... It was noticeable couple of times when you up the bpm, but I suppose it was unavoidable with the low bpm you started with and the tunes you were using.

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Originally posted by chinamon not true. i say "ugh" but i am a tranny.

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Originally posted by kotsy lol colour me retarded

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Originally posted by Mr Game+Watch Jack mentioned his aim was to echo a movie with his progression and I can kind of see that - the ambient tracks at the beginning establishing the setting, the liquid funk showing the hustle and bustle of the scientists and engineers that manipulate the city, Know Where To Run being the the point where the movie's storyline starts to come together, the grimy drum and bass providing the soundtrack to the clash between hero and villain, and the melancholic ending theme shows that the battle was won, but it was a pyrrhic victory, with a ton of hardship and loss along the way. You nailed the storytelling with this one.

Thanks a lot for the detailed review, it sounds like you completely understood what I was trying to put across here. I'll get round to listening to your mix shortly.

I saw Dave on Saturday and gave him a verbal review so no need to be too in-depth here. It was an enjoyable listen with great music, but because Dave didn't really have time to dig for tunes it's a bit over-familiar for me. The first half is a compilation of five of the biggest ambient albums of the '90s, all of which are so iconic and evocative it's very hard to dissociate the music from its original context, and the Aliens theme is, well, the Aliens theme.

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8:36 EST. It's been a busy month capped off by a difficult week. I've had little time to play since the holidays and this weekend was finally in extended set full swing heaven at another Basement Therapy at ours, when the festivities were curtailed by (somewhat rightfully) complainey neighbours. The equivalent of DJ blue balls, this kicked a doozy of a dent in my motivation. Since Sunday, I've been generally tired and deep Winter fed up. When I saw the final extension afforded us laggards though, I had to have one last go, so I could at least say I made an effort to hold up my end of the bargoon. I finished my last treatment of the day, went for a run, changed into my pyjamas, and jammed out for an hour:



Much thanks for being so generous with the deadline.

As with all of my mixes these days, this one was improvised from start to end. I didn't set out to tell a specific story, instead electing to draw from multiple influences which all contribute to my own imagery of Science Fiction as a genre. Admittedly, I'm not a huge Sci-Fi buff - I read Asimov, Scott, Orwell and Heavy Metal as a kid, but was considerably more influenced by movies and television than literature.

I selected tracks that I hoped would invoke feelings of:

- hurtling through the atmospheres of distant planets, landing in the midst of vast, barren landscapes, terraforming and colonisation
- highly intelligent computer and android communications, and the workings of the massive mechanical constructions which they create and helm
- high speed races in floating, hydrogen-powered vehicles
- dystopian society, citizenry fed what to think and believe about themselves and the faceless, largely automated world around them
- weightlessness in deep space, tragedy on a docked space station
- alien signals, breaking the boundaries of time and space in the search for their source

Given the squeeze I was under in making this, I'm pretty content with the end result. The last few tracks feel a tad crowded, and if I could do it again, I'd give the transition from Ben Pest to Anne Clark a different treatment (possibly leaving the latter out altogether), but otherwise I'm happy with the final output. Oh, and you can dance to it, 4 a.m. warehouse styles.

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1. Magnetic - Ben Sims � Primate
2. The Sign - The Exaltics - electronique.it
3. Surface Noise - Planetary Assault Systems - Peacefrog
4. Singularity - DJ Slip � Kanzleramt
5. Paul dB+ - Gigahertz � Cadeaux
6. Electric Mistress - Kamaflarge - Tortured Records
7. Tron - Electric Rescue aka D'Jedi - Aciiieeed!
8. Azimuth � Mateo Murphy � Default
9. Off Transmission � Crackdown � Space Factory
10. Funkineven � Mars � Broadwalk
11. Diphda � Michaelangelo � Labrynth
12. Stargate � Mad Mike � Underground Resistance
13. Signal 1 � Outbreak - Contrast
14. Space Sick - Mark The 909 King � Sex Trax
15. Alien Be-In � Psychic TV � Temple Records
16. The Outermaze � Steve Summers �L.I.E.S.
17. Cern � Monolake - Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music
18. Human (Vector Lovers Mix) � Slam - Soma Quality Recordings
19. Yam Um Sugli � Ben Pest � Don�t
20. Sleeper In Metropolis - Anne Clark With David Harrow � Ink
21. System (v.1.0.) � Force Legato � ZYX
22. Quantum Logic � DMX Krew - Rephlex

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Hah! You just barely made it. Mix accepted. Wow, we had a 100% rate in this competition! Impressive showing Thanks for the submission, you and Bierheld can join the genre challenge in September if you want!

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Originally posted by PivotTechno 8:36 EST. It's been a busy month capped off by a difficult week. I've had little time to play since the holidays and this weekend was finally in extended set full swing heaven at another Basement Therapy at ours, when the festivities were curtailed by (somewhat rightfully) complainey neighbours. The equivalent of DJ blue balls, this kicked a doozy of a dent in my motivation. Since Sunday, I've been generally tired and deep Winter fed up. When I saw the final extension afforded us laggards though, I had to have one last go, so I could at least say I made an effort to hold up my end of the bargoon. I finished my last treatment of the day, went for a run, changed into my pyjamas, and jammed out for an hour: Much thanks for being so generous with the deadline. As with all of my mixes these days, this one was improvised from start to end. I didn't set out to tell a specific story, instead electing to draw from multiple influences which all contribute to my own imagery of Science Fiction as a genre. Admittedly, I'm not a huge Sci-Fi buff - I read Asimov, Scott, Orwell and Heavy Metal as a kid, but was considerably more influenced by movies and television than literature. I selected tracks that I hoped would invoke feelings of: - hurtling through the atmospheres of distant planets, landing in the midst of vast, barren landscapes, terraforming and colonisation - highly intelligent computer and android communications, and the workings of the massive mechanical constructions which they create and helm - high speed races in floating, hydrogen-powered vehicles - dystopian society, citizenry fed what to think and believe about themselves and the faceless, largely automated world around them - weightlessness in deep space, tragedy on a docked space station - alien signals, breaking the boundaries of time and space in the search for their source Given the squeeze I was under in making this, I'm pretty content with the end result. The last few tracks feel a tad crowded, and if I could do it again, I'd give the transition from Ben Pest to Anne Clark a different treatment (possibly leaving the latter out altogether), but otherwise I'm happy with the final output. Oh, and you can dance to it, 4 a.m. warehouse styles. Tracklist: 1. Magnetic - Ben Sims � Primate 2. The Sign - The Exaltics - electronique.it 3. Surface Noise - Planetary Assault Systems - Peacefrog 4. Singularity - DJ Slip � Kanzleramt 5. Paul dB+ - Gigahertz � Cadeaux 6. Electric Mistress - Kamaflarge - Tortured Records 7. Tron - Electric Rescue aka D'Jedi - Aciiieeed! 8. Azimuth � Mateo Murphy � Default 9. Off Transmission � Crackdown � Space Factory 10. Funkineven � Mars � Broadwalk 11. Diphda � Michaelangelo � Labrynth 12. Stargate � Mad Mike � Underground Resistance 13. Signal 1 � Outbreak - Contrast 14. Space Sick - Mark The 909 King � Sex Trax 15. Alien Be-In � Psychic TV � Temple Records 16. The Outermaze � Steve Summers �L.I.E.S. 17. Cern � Monolake - Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music 18. Human (Vector Lovers Mix) � Slam - Soma Quality Recordings 19. Yam Um Sugli � Ben Pest � Don�t 20. Sleeper In Metropolis - Anne Clark With David Harrow � Ink 21. System (v.1.0.) � Force Legato � ZYX 22. Quantum Logic � DMX Krew - Rephlex

Interesting mix. Hearing a classic Ben Sims track was a pleasure. Liked quite a few tracks, but I think this mix would have been better if it was arranged to tell more of a story, using the themes you listed above.

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Originally posted by kotsy lol colour me retarded

I�ve always had a hard time writing good reviews of mixes, but I�ve found lately that stream of consciousness, slightly edited, is much better than trying to be any type of professional about the whole thing. Jack�s review is here, I�ll be posting others as I write them. Probably one every couple days � I�d rather do that then wait till I get through all of them, which will honestly take a couple weeks. I�ll definitely listen to everyone�s though, and give back feedback. Pretty cool that we all came through (with the extensions ). I really liked this theme challenge, more fun than the genre challenge, imo, though I�ll be down for that later in the year, too.


Luke, thanks for the review, man! I updated the SC with an tracklist, albeit with one ID, since I�m really not sure what the track is properly called or who really made it. The track at 40 minutes was supposed to be some type of grounding on a planet, a last minute stop somewhere or at least a flyby, maybe on the edge of the solar system, before the ship went through the wormhole proper. Or at least that�s how I�ve retconned it Really happy to hear you liked it, though



Jack Moss - Human Revolution: Review

I watched a similar, but different movie than Luke while watching Jack�s mix. Beginning of the mix reminds me of an ad, for some reason. Maybe an internal corporate ad? The voice is creepy and mechanical, so not something you�d want to show to the general public, but is touting the great benefits of Kurzweilian modification. After that, starting around 3:30, the music seems rather optimistic. Soaring chords in the background, drums that make me want to dance, it all seems good. Perhaps the first generation of modified people are enjoying their enhancements? The future is grand! Funky, at least. Definitely get images of scientists messing with genes, and other images of humans doing cool stuff impossible for non-modified folk. Future parkour, perhaps, in neo-streets?

At 16:50, the music gets a bit less optimistic, to me. Perhaps some weird side effects of the modifications? At 24, all optimism is gone. Klaxon alarm ringing. Scientists freaking out, trying to figure out what went wrong. Maybe pissed off hackers, who don�t have enough money for modifications, have broken in and are releasing neurotoxin. Something�s not good. But then at 29, back to optimistic grooves. Whatever song this is, it is fucking awesome. Maybe the hackers are stealing modification stuff, now that the scientists are dead, and modifying themselves?

33:30, clearly shit has gone very poorly. Did the hackers release too much neurotoxin, accidently take out some police? People of some sort are rebelling, clearly. Overthrowing the corporate plutocracy, perhaps? Sounds like Antibreak, so I guess the great song was Orbital. I recently discovered that my copy of The Middle of Nowhere was somehow warped and fucked up, so I�ve never actually heard any of the songs properly. Kinda embarrassing, really. Need to buy a new copy and actually listen to it. Antibreak songs bring images of a group of decent folk trying to avoid the rioting, perhaps by traveling through forgotten sewage or tube systems.

Shit picks up at 45. The survivors run into a group of villains. Maybe we have decent authentic folks vs evil modified people. Man versus machine! Or something. Definitely climax-ey. Good versus evil. Last track conjures images of skyscrapers collapsing into urban squalor, dark clouds in the sky, as survivors walk out of the city in groups. Damn humans, with their hubris and technology!

All in all, I greatly enjoyed this. Brought some great images along with it, very sci-fi-ey. I gotta agree with Luke that the latter D&B tracks were my least favorite part. They definitely fit with the theme and the programming was good, and they were good tracks, but I just enjoyed that funky first half so much! Mixing was great throughout, of course. Good stuff.

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Originally posted by Euforix Sandleaper - Erutufon 090214 Since I have heard earlier mixes from you and have tried to listen some tunes you recommend in Music Discussion I sort of knew what to except from your mix. I knew it's going to be full of hit or miss type of obscure tracks (ie. minimal, glitch, abstract, fusion... etc...). Nothing bad about some of them but on the other hand some are just personally unlistenable for me. I was surprised that you included Frank Sinatra there though! The mixing is great, flow was stable and the theme thing kept going on. I have to say this mix had the scifi theme all over it and I enjoyed it. Therefore it is very strong submission in the competition. The duration was a problem here too imo. I think this mix was a bit too long but otherwise well crafted. The later half of this mix was way better than the experimental beginning. That K�ner track at the end was fabolous and made the ending rewarding.

Nice one, thanks a lot for listening! Good to hear that at least one person wasn't completely turned off by the "difficult" first 25 mins or so, as they make up a very important piece of the puzzle for the mix.

Personally, I don't think it's the length of the mix that is the problem, but rather that the flow isn't quite as spot on as I had hoped, like I mentioned in my initial post. I've been very busy over the past few months, and I underestimated just how much time there was left to tinker with the mix before delivery. On the other hand, I try not to fuss too much with the structure of a mix either, as that tends to make things very clinical and not all that fun.

Time to cover System-J's mix. I've listened to it a number of times now but I still don't have too much of an idea on what to write about it as it seems to be one of his more straight-forward and spontaneous mixes. I can't remember much of the details either, as I've just not been very clear-minded these past few weeks. Even so, I generally like the darker DB mixes he's done more so then the atmospheric ones and this was no exception. Wicked tunes throughout and the structure was almost relentlessly functional, which worked extremely well for the most part although I had some problems with keeping my attention for some of the later parts, can't really pinpoint why that is at the moment.

As for the narrative, I've always found the popular dystopian view on future societies a bit ridiculous making it hard for me to really get into it, but I found the tunes to be tasty nonetheless. Not much else to say about it at the moment, my head hurts too much. Might come back to this later.

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Familiar labels but I just hadn't heard these tracks before. I liked the narrative you wrote and I can clearly hear what you were after with this mix. I also liked the way you combined some tracks at the beginning (tracks 1-5). This kind of IDM and ambient I'm usually after but I find it hard to discover any good tunes. Good effort I'd say. I discovered a few good new tracks from this mix and it follows the 'storyline'. Scifi theme was present here and therefore it makes it a good submission after all, despite your own hate of this mix' existence.

Good on you for listening to these. But yeah, I was probably overreacting a little bit, but then again I was just really disappointed. The way the first few tracks were mixed is basically how I planned for the entire mix to be like, with lot's of samples and atmospherics binding everything together, but as mentioned it just didn't happen. I feel the majority of this mix is just a bunch of tracks seamed together at arbitrary cue points, which ironically holds pretty close to what I criticized jonmitz for even though he did a much better job at it.

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Originally posted by Lews Considering a Science Fiction themed mix, I wanted to go the "Soundtrack to an Imaginary Film" route. While I initially wanted to go in a distinctive dystopian direction, I found myself pushed more and more toward Outer Space. Yep, it's pretty much the basic go-to for Science Fiction, but what can I say? Anyways, I still wanted to go the soundtrack route, telling some type of story. I ended up actually writing a few paragraphs of a plot outline to keep my mix focused, and I'm rather pleased with how it (the mix) turned out.

I had a listen to this yesterday and while it was enjoyable, I didn't really get much of an outer space vibe from it. There's a vaguely spacey semantic thread to the track titles, granted, but as you recommended to listen before reading the titles that didn't really translate through musically for me. You picked out a lot of prog tracks that were quite percussive and almost tribally, and ultimately I was thinking more of Twilo than deep space. The mixing was somewhat rough... There were no real disasters but it sounded like a few transitions needed a nudge that never came. I actually think this set is comparable to Psyshell's in many respects, although I, of course, much prefer vintage prog over vintage goa.

Also, thanks for the review. I kept the implied storyline vague enough for different interpretations, whilst trying to create the classic plot moments: the moody intro, the moment of crisis before a final climactic encounter, and so on.

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Originally posted by Euforix Jack Moss - Human Revolution This mix surely has the scifi theme in it deeply. The kill of flow in the middle is unfortunate of course but since this mix introduced me to a lot of new tracks I won't complain. Great effort Jack!

Thanks a lot. Credit due for listening to every mix and giving thoughtful feedback, and I'm glad you enjoyed it despite my disregard for flow.

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Originally posted by Bierheld Wicked tunes throughout and the structure was almost relentlessly functional, which worked extremely well for the most part

Glad you enjoyed it despite finding the cyberpunk thing daft, but as a point of interest I'm slightly surprised you aren't echoing the complaints of loss of energy, since the change in tempo from 170s to low 120s halfway through this mix is exactly the same as the one you pulled on my (much more chilled) Time & Space mix a year or so back.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Glad you enjoyed it despite finding the cyberpunk thing daft, but as a point of interest I'm slightly surprised you aren't echoing the complaints of loss of energy, since the change in tempo from 170s to low 120s halfway through this mix is exactly the same as the one you pulled on my (much more chilled) Time & Space mix a year or so back.

Well, I didn't touch on it then in part because I was kind off trying to get the review out of the way without really having a great recollection of the actual mix itself. I wasn't doing very well at writing things down either, I seriously think I may have permanently damaged my brain last weekend.
The main reason however is that I didn't even understand what they were on about.

Fact is that it just didn't bother me. Like, at all. I just don't feel anything was lost because of it.
The thing with time and space is that - from what I remember - you had a long sequence of breakbeats going on which were then carefully build down to introduce house rhythms, you then had a bunch of fluffy proghouse music and then went into outro-ambient. Making me go "Pleasant and all, but was that it?".
We then got into an argument, and the root cause was that we just didn't agree on what makes music "chill". For me it was never a chill mix and the beginning section felt more like a build up, leaving a sense of disappointment when the highs were never reached. You then countered by saying this wasn't true, there was no build down and the proghouse section would have people raving their asses off at a party making me gasp in disbelief.

In retrospect it was a bit of a pointless argument, often when I make these comments I just haven't quite figured out what to think of something and I do like to poke and prod the mixer a little to get some views out of them, which you seemed very reluctant to do. This is something some of the other mixers in this topic need to keep in mind as well. Other then that I don't care whether a mix goes up or down or in circles, and I enjoyed T&S regardless.

Now, the way I feel about music is not dictated by what sort of tempo it runs in or even how it is presented, which my views regarding the music in Psyshell's mix in this thread should make abundantly clear.
For me it's all about associations. Human Revolution kind of made it's intent to fuck with your head pretty clear from the start, and from that point I just don't expect anything else.
What we're talking about here is a momentary excursion from D&B to acid-house, with a pretty long beatless section in between as well, so it's not like it was spontaneous either. It then rumbles around in abstractness and occasional elongated rave beats, yanking you around not knowing what to expect. I don't know about these guys but that's like musical heaven to me. And it's not like it ends there either as it does eventually head back towards darkside D&B, and my only complaint is that it wasn't like industrial terrorcore or something. That's how it should have gone down IMO.

That said, going back to the associations thing. The theme here is clearly scifi, not arguing that, but the whole cyberpunk thing always feels a bit off to me regardless. I just don't understand why it's so popular to think of the future as some sort of chaotic industrialized hell-hole with class societies, rampant corruption, secret NWO organizations and whatever the hell else they can think of.
If you look at how our societies have evolved over the course of history it doesn't strike me as a likely scenario for the future to be a cumulation of all the worst elements of the industrialization and laissez-fair capitalism. Aren't we past that point already?

That's also why I frown on deus ex, considering it to be a rough diamond more then anything else. I like the gameplay and the story, but I just don't find the setting to be believable. Hurts the sci-fi appeal for me. I don't even know why as the alternate reality thing is indeed the whole point of fiction, but once it's based in the future it just limits my suspension of disbelief a wee bit. I should really work on changing that.

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Originally posted by Bierheld We then got into an argument, and the root cause was that we just didn't agree on what makes music "chill". For me it was never a chill mix and the beginning section felt more like a build up, leaving a sense of disappointment when the highs were never reached. You then countered by saying this wasn't true, there was no build down and the proghouse section would have people raving their asses off at a party making me gasp in disbelief.

I've no intention of going back through that argument here, but suffice to say this is absolutely not what was being argued at any point. It was a question of "rhythmic intensity" and how going from 80/160 jungle to 125-ish house felt like an intensity drop to you. Which is funny, because here a similar thing happens (the drop is actually about 10bpm more) and some people are complaining it kills the flow. The reason I have no problem making that shift is that the half-time elements which are usually at the core of these DB records - the sub-bass pulse, chords and so on, so to me it's very much a step up from the 80bpm range.

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That said, going back to the associations thing. The theme here is clearly scifi, not arguing that, but the whole cyberpunk thing always feels a bit off to me regardless. I just don't understand why it's so popular to think of the future as some sort of chaotic industrialized hell-hole with class societies, rampant corruption, secret NWO organizations and whatever the hell else they can think of. If you look at how our societies have evolved over the course of history it doesn't strike me as a likely scenario for the future to be a cumulation of all the worst elements of the industrialization and laissez-fair capitalism. Aren't we past that point already.

All that sounds only a step beyond what we've got right now, to be honest. Dystopias tend to be warning shots of what could feasibly go wrong with current society, and the rampant, uneven advancement of technology while social inequality, wealth gaps and class divides widen is hardly science fiction. Although the whole cyberpunk thing basically stems from two texts - Neuromancer and Bladerunner - both from the dawn of the 1980s, and the appeal is really the look and feel of the universe, the gritty tech-noir atmosphere. That's what I wanted to capture, because it so happened I'd got a nice little collection of suitably evocative music. All that jazz about bio-technological sublimation came in when I found that Central Industrial track with the cyborg monologue which gave a framing device to build some sort of narrative around.

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OK next up is djdk's mix. I'm actually violently ill atm so I skipped ziptnf's more bass-heavy mix for now.

The first 30 or so minutes were definitely consistent of some finely crafted material. Starting out with heavy duty dark-ambient going in to typically disorienting ambient-dub. Not the most musical of directions but it really captured that sense of desolation and agoraphobia.
After a while however I felt like it lost it's structure a bit, it stumbles around some more in various forms of breakbeats, which honestly felt a bit lacklustre to me although they're fine pieces on their own. It sort of sounds to me like you blew your load a bit too early, it started with a very rich sonic environment which was never really recaptured nor was it taken in a different but equally captivating direction. I also didn't feel the drum & bassy part had much to do with the blurb about hypersleep and all that.

Still an interesting listen though, although not something I'm likely to repeat any time soon.

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