Great mix, loved it from start to finish!

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looks insane but i'm up for the challenge.

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Oh My Gosh! looks amazing bro.
Will get, especially like the ending there of Whirloop

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Thanks Gary. Hope you guys both enjoy it :-)

fantastic. i got to listen to the second part during a road trip. you really kept the energy going throughout. when i listened to the last track i was hoping it would keep going. it was like a tease.

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Originally posted by Spacey Orange fantastic. i got to listen to the second part during a road trip. you really kept the energy going throughout. when i listened to the last track i was hoping it would keep going. it was like a tease.

Thanks very much mate. Whenever I hear Solar Fields - Summer I always wish it was half an hour longer!

So, as you know, I listened to this on the trip back from Barcelona last weekend. I had my doubts whether you could genuinely keep a 7 hour set building upwards but you answered those doubts by moving through just about every strain of credible trancey music being made. I've also said before that it's impossible to maintain tight sequencing for more than a couple of hours, but you also smashed that claim out of the window. The first half was brilliantly sequenced with excellent flow from start to finish, and taken on its own is a brilliant set.

The second half didn't go down so well, for a few reasons. I'm really not into the Ovnimoon, E Clip et al school of psy, and I think tracks like Dune and Love Is The Key with their monotone faux-profound spiritual female blatherings are just as cheesy as anything with a supersaw in it. Opening with a barrage of that kind of stuff may have been the next logical step after the anthemic prog trance that capped the first half, but I guess this is the old problem: it's very tough to take it up a gear from progressive trance without becoming cheesy.

Then, to be perfectly honest, I fell asleep on some seats in Zurich airport during the full-on section, waking up again with the first Kinesis track. You can either take that as the mix losing my attention or as me having been awake for 24 hours straight after numerous nights on the smash. And a we've discussed, I think the goa section at the end is a bit wobbly in terms of flow, and probably betrays your inexperience in mixing that style.

Tune-wise, I already know a good chunk of these from hearing you play over the last few years but at least 50% I had never heard before. My favourite section was definitely the melodic but energetic prog trance of the second half of the first half (!?), my preferred flavour of trance and the hardest stuff to find. The mixing was very tight for the most part and while none of the transitions were particularly audacious, the flow and programming were generally top notch, even during the sections where I didn't like the music. You deserve particular credit for keeping things interesting right from the start - it's easier to build up momentum if you deliberate start out playing extremely deep and tracky, but you went for big tracks right from the start.

Should have had some classics, though!

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Thanks very much for the review!
Glad you thought I succeeded in the mission of keeping the flow and sequencing tight for the whole journey (or most of it)

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J The second half didn't go down so well, for a few reasons. I'm really not into the Ovnimoon, E Clip et al school of psy, and I think tracks like Dune and Love Is The Key with their monotone faux-profound spiritual female blatherings are just as cheesy as anything with a supersaw in it. Opening with a barrage of that kind of stuff may have been the next logical step after the anthemic prog trance that capped the first half, but I guess this is the old problem: it's very tough to take it up a gear from progressive trance without becoming cheesy.

I know that style of psy has become a bit stale lately - I just picked some of my personal favourites and felt like I didn't draw that section out too long (probably about 6 tracks) before stepping it up to some more full power stuff. I can see why you might find the vocals a bit cheesey. For me they often raise a few hairs but it's just personal taste I guess

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Then, to be perfectly honest, I fell asleep on some seats in Zurich airport during the full-on section, waking up again with the first Kinesis track. You can either take that as the mix losing my attention or as me having been awake for 24 hours straight after numerous nights on the smash.

I like to think it was so hypnotic that it entranced you into a coma

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J And a we've discussed, I think the goa section at the end is a bit wobbly in terms of flow, and probably betrays your inexperience in mixing that style.

Fair point - I defiantly have less experience with that sound but hopefully it still works quite well and leads nicely into the climax with Solar Fields and Whirloop

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J You deserve particular credit for keeping things interesting right from the start - it's easier to build up momentum if you deliberate start out playing extremely deep and tracky, but you went for big tracks right from the start.

Yea my view was that if you want people to listen for 7 hours, you'd better not bore them to tears in the first one!