I thought I would give this one bizzump before I let it die the death of a thousand subsequent threads that will come after it.

rob.

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Tough crowd over here.

I'll d/l and listen

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Thanks Clovis. be ruthless in your evaluation. I'm trying to get my sets to be worthwhile as a listening option as well as good dancefloor stuff.

I will say that I'll probably not post another opening set for awhile and put up some headlining slot mixes in the near future as I wouldn't want to be pigeonholed into just playing this more mellow, opening slot style...



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Originally posted by robtronik Thanks Clovis. be ruthless in your evaluation. I'm trying to get my sets to be worthwhile as a listening option as well as good dancefloor stuff. I will say that I'll probably not post another opening set for awhile and put up some headlining slot mixes in the near future as I wouldn't want to be pigeonholed into just playing this more mellow, opening slot style... rob

Ok I'll try and give you a full report after a good listen. You play alot of tracks that I really like (and play myself) and some that I dont like much like that Cicada track. I'm gathering/warping tracks for my next ableton mix which I'll have done soon I hope.

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I really enjoyed the meat of the mix:

- Rhumba (Nick Chacona A Mansfiled Remix) - Ajello A. Mansfiled [Mantra Vibes]
- Red Night - AMBit3 [Nature Records]
- Back in Town (Remix) - Florent Renard [Style Rockets]
- Bathe - FALSE [Minus]
- Us - Dylan Hermelijn [Remote Area Records]
- Nia Ga Ra - Cbass [Escada Music]
- Plunder - Alex Smoke [Soma Recordings]
- Who's Afraid of Detroit - Claude VonStroke [Dirtybird]
- Cicada (Claude VonStroke 17 Year Mix) - Justin Martin [Dirtybird]
- Come To Me 1 (Paul C Platform) - Gabriel C Paul C [Ocean Dark]
- Ninyo Melon - Alecs Marta [Glastspiel]
- G-String - Audiosex [Sounds Good Recorings]

The first few tracks were nice but Last Rythm sounded completely out of place imo. I know however that, if I were to look at it as if I was there, I might have different thoughts, since I know that when you're opening and the crowd is changing (filling up/thinning out) whatever, you can make those sudden switches in energy and make it sound really good, and work the floor. I'm just reviewing from a home listener standpoint (since thats exactly what I did, sat on the couch, cranked some volume and listened through )

Mixing wise, there is little for me to rip apart. You know how to use ableton and the xone's eq's and filters to acheive some very smooth mixing, very nice, and very well programmed. Elements of tracks changed when they were supposed to and the volume levels were on point. My only small gripe is, that sometimes when you'd take out the outgoing track using the filter, it would loose too much power in the mix, and didnt carry on well into the next track. There were a few mixes I thought were a little dry cause of that.

Otherwise...good stuff, I'd love to hear this at King King.

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That's awesome feedback! THANKS. You and I have the same sensibilities it seems, because that is exactly what I thought about one or two of the transitions that use the filter. Chalk it up to not knowing exactly how the track ends! Sometimes I think I need to listen to my tracks more often, but then I end up buying more. I'm perpetually behind. The thing that saves me, IMO, is my categorization technique for labelling tracks and knowing how to put things together fairly consistently.

I'll probably write about that in my blog, becuase I think I have a really good system - but it definitely takes some prepatory work. Whoever said spinning digitally was easier has no clue, IMO. Its infinitely harder for preparation, etc.

Thanks man for listening.

rob.

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Originally posted by robtronik That's awesome feedback! THANKS. You and I have the same sensibilities it seems, because that is exactly what I thought about one or two of the transitions that use the filter. Chalk it up to not knowing exactly how the track ends! Sometimes I think I need to listen to my tracks more often, but then I end up buying more. I'm perpetually behind. The thing that saves me, IMO, is my categorization technique for labelling tracks and knowing how to put things together fairly consistently. I'll probably write about that in my blog, becuase I think I have a really good system - but it definitely takes some prepatory work. Whoever said spinning digitally was easier has no clue, IMO. Its infinitely harder for preparation, etc. Thanks man for listening. rob.

I'll be listening to your mix in the car a few more times with some friends and see what they think.

I just finished my mix but I'm eh about it.


I'm the same way, I buy too much new shit and then I dont get to know the tracks I bought a few weeks back well enough, and sometimes even forget them. I find those times when I'm really on point arent cause of more preparation I think, its just that I get into a zone sometimes where I can "feel" the tracks through and just sort of guess what they're going to do, and in turn make them work with other tracks. I find it alot easier to do that on CDJs than in live though...in live sometimes I get so mirred in loops that I forget that tracks sound great just MIXED straight the way they are.

I agree totally about live being "easier". If you dont know your music you're fucked. I've seen so many threads on this forum where people are like...psshhh beatmatches for you = no skills involved. They havn't the slightest clue....

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yeah man. Digital DJs REPRAZENT.



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Originally posted by robtronik yeah man. Digital DJs REPRAZENT. rob.

I need a new controller...my fucking X-session aint cutting it

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