Hi TAs!

My latest mix is done. Took me a while cause the weather was so good here in germany that I couldn't get myself to mix...but now it's cold and raining, and here it is:

DJ Dawn - September 2002

CUE-file

any comments on mixing, trackselection and everything else are very welcome

tracklist:

DJ Dawn - September 2002

Tracks=21
PlayTime=76:30

01. DJ Zeenic vs. Accenter - Fantasy (S.H.O.K.K. Mix)
02. H.A.Z.A.R.D. - James Brown Is Dead (Gary D. Deadly Hard Bass Mix)
03. 2M Pres. Jayezz - Cocaine (2M Mix)
04. DJ Dean - Play It Hard (Club Mix)
05. Player One - Insomnia (Embargo Mix)
06. 4 Strings - Diving (Cosmic Gate Mix)
07. E Nomine - E Nomine (Cosmic Gate Mix)
08. Wavescope - The Spirit (Wavetraxx Mix)
09. Benicio - Don't Explain (Hard Edit)
10. The Thrillseekers - Dreaming Of You (Flutlicht Mix)
11. Juergen Vries - The Theme (Dumonde Mix)
12. Apollo - Dance (Extended Mix)
13. Dave Joy - Second Chase (Alphazone Mix)
14. DJ Tranceport - Distorted Reality (Devil Force Mix)
15. Jam X & DeLeon Meets Tom Wax - Louder (Hennes & Cold Mix)
16. Derler & Klitzing - Dumb People (Original Mix)
17. Decoy & Roy - Innerlife (Nord vs. Bonka Mix)
18. Gigi Lav - Full Blast (Mental Miracle Mix)
19. DJ Tom-X - Cocaine (Bush Mix)
20. Giada - Diamond (Technoboy Mix)
21. Arome - Hands Up (DJ Scot Project Mix)

Enjoy!

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RetroActive 4

FIRST!

Thanks Dawn... getting it with 3 MB/sec

BTW: YOU LIE!!! BEST WEATHER HERE IN HAMBURG!!! but cold...

thanx for yet another mix. your mixes are quality..even my friend who used to dj trance at local clubs thinks so...i'm burning all of your mixes on cd for him, cos he's a energy/hard trance junkie.

>JM<

Hey Damn, what a surprise!

Gonna take a listen and enjoy the BPM

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Some comments on the tracklist while downloading at 190kb/s...

H.A.Z.A.R.D. - James Brown Is Dead
Yeah, heard Gary D play it at Mysteryland (Oldschool 1994)

DJ Dean - Play It Hard
Mr.Tunnel Trance

4 Strings - Diving
Cosmic Gate is starting to be better at remixing than producing

The Thrillseekers - Dreaming Of You (Flutlicht Mix)
Yeah kick ass!

Juergen Vries - The Theme
Englishman using a Dutch name hehe

Jam X & DeLeon Meets Tom Wax - Louder (Hennes & Cold Mix)
Great Hennes and Cold remix

DJ Tom-X - Cocaine
One of my favorites at the moment

Giada - Diamond (Technoboy Mix)
Italian hardstyle flavour

Arome - Hands Up
Have you been listening to me?

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75 minutes later, here's my honest opinion

You managed to mix some rough tracks (Dutch style) like James Brown is dead and TomX - Cocaine, and German 'happy' hardtrance (DJ Dean) together with the more 'classic hardtrance' from Dumonde. I can't do that Excellent technicially!

Unlike for example Kai Tracid, you don't slowly switch from slow to fast and back to slow again, but change styles more often during the mix. I noticed you always made the mixes * fast * slow/break * fast * slow/break * fast * from beginning to end. A speedwave in the form of a "W" so to speak

A very cool mix, except for that 'Insomnia' track.

Ps: are you moving away from the German happy hardtrance sound? I mean like Dean and Derler/Kitzling... The only track I really missed was Pacific Link - Rings of Jupiter (Luca Antonlini Mix)

9/10

Ps: 1991-1992 will rock

Last edited by jp on Sep-24-2002 at 22:13

jp: stop your download, so i can get it faster hehehe =)


only 15kb/s, should be 100+ =) hehe


will post comments when i got the full mix!

greets from up north!

As always, this is a much-awaited mix

Downloading now. Thanks for including Apollo - Dance, I absolutely love this Euro song!

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Listening now, just finished E Nomine, Thanks for bring back an old favorite, I had all but forgotten about it . Great stuff as usual man, how am I gunna get to sleep with this shit blaring? Damn you

i work the night shift at a factory, and dawn, your mixes have kept me SANE for the past few weeks! i'm gonna listen to this one tomorrow night at work and post some thoughts. love your mixes man. keep spinnin, and thanks for the mix, =P. peace.

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quote:

Originally posted by jploveparade Hey Damn, what a surprise! Gonna take a listen and enjoy the BPM (...) Ps: are you moving away from the German happy hardtrance sound? I mean like Dean and Derler/Kitzling... The only track I really missed was Pacific Link - Rings of Jupiter (Luca Antonlini Mix) 9/10

thanks for the long review JP!
Actually I am moving somewhere with my sound. I just find that the "normal" happy hardtrance often has too much vocals these days. It sounds too much like tracks by Jan Wayne and Marc'oh or DJ Nordkurve...(the sound that dominates german dance charts).
I want to get away from that style a little bit, but still be banging and jumping. This is the best I could do.
I will check out that "Pacific Link" track, haven't heard of it...


@all: thank you VERY much for the nice feedback

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RetroActive 4

but you're not on DSL or above, are you?

my server used to be pretty fast

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RetroActive 4

nice set man!

i like ur style of traxx and mixing

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I DLed your mix from August and was terribly disappointed.There was a short batch of tunes that kicked ass,but apart from those tunes the whole mix was filled with blaring,cheesy shit tunes that nauseated me more and more for each tune that came out of my speakers.Despite the fact that I hated most of the tunes in this mix,the short batch of kickass tunes that it contained was convincing enough to give you a second chance.So I DLed this month's mix also.

And now I regret wasting my time on that.Cos this time around,the tracks are even worse.Apart from Derler & Klitzing and Louder/Softer(and I must admit that although cheesy as hell,I still like that HAZARD track),all the tunes are cheesy and blaring shit hardtrance, that I despise more than anything.And the fact that you've included a tune from DJ Dean makes me wanna throw up.Sorry man,but this is just pure shite IMHO.

Your mixing on the other hand,is top notch.Nicely queued except for one slightly rushed transition at the end.I'm not a particular fan of mixing tracks that fast when it comes to trance,but that's not the issue.The issue is your mixing skills,and there's nothing to complain about there.Sadly,this doesn't help much when I think the music you're playing is 95% crap.

Hope you don't get offended by this,but you say you wanted opinions,and well,this is mine.

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