Recorded a set using Denon gear, the set mainly consists of tunes that were released under october and november this year. It starts off progressive and later builds to trance. I would love to hear any form of feedback from you guys, it would really make my day, good as bad! Hope hearing from you guys!

Quality: 192kbps
Length: 70:28
Filesize: 99Mb
LINK: http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=...GJ3NYMMWKBJTMGF

Tracklist:
01. Petter - These Days (Chables Those Days Remix) [Trojan]
02. Hammer & Bennett - Beauty And The Beast [Cold Harbour]
03. Midor vs. Linn - Breathing (Progressive Mix) [Kyr]
04. Alex Stealthy - Deploring (Original Mix) [Vapour]
05. Perry O'Neil - Numb (Original Mix) [Electronic E]
06. Funabashi - Daylight (Original Mix) [Cold Harbour]
07. Elevation - Ocean Rain (Original Mix) [ASOT]
08. Allende - Retrograde (Original Mix) [Subtraxx]
09. Aalto - Resolution (Original mix) [Anjunabeats]
10. Lange vs. G. Emery - This Is New york (Original Mix)[Lange]
11. Andy Moor - Halcyon (Alex M.O.R.P.H Remix) [Armind]

Anyone had a listen?? Please...

the set is good, the tracks are not that good, i cant see a flow in the mix, its like a bunch of tracks put together and thats it

Thanks for replying! I tried to make the set a bit progressive in the beginning and then slowly move to some faster paced trance. I also tried to harmonically mix the set with lower keys in the beginning and higher towards the end. But if that's what you think I'll have to work on my track selection then!

i hope i didnt discourage u too much, the progressive trance is not my preference exactly, here's some hints about trance

check out my mix - maybe it will give u some direction, its trance, here's the link:

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=308771

Hehehe... Of course you didn't! In the end it's the negative critique thats helping you to get better. I'll check your trance mix out soon and let you know what I think.

Did anyone else have a listen to my mix??

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Originally posted by DanielD Thanks for replying! I tried to make the set a bit progressive in the beginning and then slowly move to some faster paced trance. I also tried to harmonically mix the set with lower keys in the beginning and higher towards the end. But if that's what you think I'll have to work on my track selection then!

Harmonic mixing is simply mixing together keys that do not clash. Any given minor key will mix harmonically with itself, the minor keys 5 and 7 semitones above and it's relative major (3 semitones above). Gradually moving through the keys from lower to higher root notes is a technique that is sometimes employed to gradually increase the energy of a mix or set. Therefore each transition wouldn't necessarily be harmonic but if you did this you wouldn't play adjacent melodies together (they'd sound awful).

HTH


Mike

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Thanks for replying mike, I tried to make the mix with the following key codes.

01. Petter - These Days (Chables Those Days Remix) 3A
02. Hammer & Bennett - Beauty And The Beast 4A
03. Midor vs. Linn - Breathing (Progressive Mix) 5A
04. Alex Stealthy - Deploring (Original Mix) 6A
05. Perry O'Neil - Numb (Original Mix) 7A
06. Funabashi - Daylight (Original Mix) 7A
07. Elevation - Ocean Rain (Original Mix) 8A
08. Allende - Retrograde (Original Mix) 8A
09. Aalto - Resolution (Original mix) 8A
10. Lange vs. Gareth Emery - This Is New york (Original Mix) 8A
11. Andy Moor - Halcyon (Alex M.O.R.P.H Remix) 9A

Any chance of the actual keys? A minor (Am), D minor (Dm) etc... I could look up the chart but I'm veeeerrrry lazy

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Here it is mate!

01. Petter - These Days (Chables Those Days Remix) 3A (A-Sharp Minor)
02. Hammer & Bennett - Beauty And The Beast 4A (F Minor)
03. Midor vs. Linn - Breathing (Progressive Mix) 5A (C Minor)
04. Alex Stealthy - Deploring (Original Mix) 6A (G Minor)
05. Perry O'Neil - Numb (Original Mix) 7A (D Minor)
06. Funabashi - Daylight (Original Mix) 7A (D Minor)
07. Elevation - Ocean Rain (Original Mix) 8A (A Minor)
08. Allende - Retrograde (Original Mix) 8A (A Minor)
09. Aalto - Resolution (Original mix) 8A (A Minor)
10. Lange vs. Gareth Emery - This Is New york (Original Mix) 8A (A Minor)
11. Andy Moor - Halcyon (Alex M.O.R.P.H Remix) 9A (G Minor)

Hehe, sweet. My background is in playing the piano and music theory prior to DJing so my key knowledge comes from that.

Yep, that's a harmonic mix. What I'd like to try and do one day (which is quite a bit harder to do well, I think) is to make a mix where the next tune is a semitone higher than the previous one (in terms of its key). So for example go Cm, Dbm, Dm etc.. Apparently this gives a sense of increasing energy but it's hard to do because all the tunes need just drums at the beginning or end so that your melodies never clash. Would be an interesting project, though.


Mike

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Aha, nice! Yeah that sounds like a good idea! You'll have to send me a PM when it's done then...

So, did you listen to the mix and have any comments on it? *Hoping*