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KeSs
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Registered: May 2005
Location: Pittsburgh, PA

A mix for your "non-edm" friends

If your like me then you have no other friends that are into edm, techno, trance, etc (whatever you want to call it). I have been urging my friends into trying out some of the music that I have personally grown to love. So I decided to create a mix that I could fit on a regular blank cd and be passed around to any of my friends who wanted to give this music a chance. This mix contains heavily commercial tracks and the mixing isnt that great. But the point of this mix isn't for people who are deeply into this genre of music. Its meant as a "introductory" mix for people who are totally new to this type of music. I added tracks that were all choons at one point in time or another and that the I noticed the majortiy of people liked. So please, dont bash the track selection or my mixing "skills"!

So far I have a 100% success record with this mix. I am 5 for 5 when it comes to converting people to understanding and liking this genre of music. I made the mix back in January and passed it out to some of my close friends. 1 of them is now a complete Erick Morillo head. 1 loves PVD. And 2 of them are coming to Boston to see Ferry Corsten with me. The other one hasnt fallen totally for the music, but he keeps asking me to make him more mixes cause "loves driving to it". Now, I am not guarenteeing anything and I know that some people will think that this whole concept and thread is stupid. But if anyone is like me (living in a city with no "club"/"trance/house" scene) and you dont want to travel to other city's to see shows by yourself, then you will understand totally. I am not guarenteeing anything but just give it a shot....

Hand it out and let them come back asking for more...

Tracklisting:
1. Oceanlab - Clear Blue Water (Ferry Corsten Remix)
2. Oceanlab - Satellite (Above & Beyond Remix)
3. Young Parisians ft Ben Lost - Jump The Next Train (Probspot Remix)
4. Armin Van Buuren - Shivers (Rising Sun Cut)
5. DJ Tiesto - Adiago For Strings
6. Ron Van Den Beuken - Sunset (Original Mix)
7. Madonna - What It Feels Like For A Girl (Paul Oakenfold Remix)
8. Motorcyle - As The Rush Comes
9. Allure - Loves We Lost
10. Kirsty Hawkshaw & DJ Tiesto - Just Be
11. Rui Da Silva - Touch Me
12. Interstate - I Found U

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Last edited by KeSs on Feb-28-2006 at 22:54

Feb-28-2006 22:14 United States

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TweeK
What About The Future

Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Underground Pirate Station [JSRF]

Re: A mix for your "non-edm" friends

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Originally posted by KeSs

3. Paul Oakenfold - Jump The Next Train (Probspot Remix)

Miss labeled....

Young Parisians ft Ben Lost - Jump The Next Train (Probspot Remix)

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Feb-28-2006 22:22 Mexico

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KeSs
Senior tranceaddict

Registered: May 2005
Location: Pittsburgh, PA

thanks, let me know if there are any other wrong ID's

Feb-28-2006 22:24 United States

SYSTEM-J
IDKFA.

Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester

I recently made this double mix of trance to introduce people to the genre, which has gone down really well:

Part 1:

1. Chicane - Offshore (Disco Citizens Remix)
2. Jam & Spoon - Stella
3. Energy 52 - Café del Mar (Kid Paul Mix)
4. Mirco De Govia - Epic Monolith
5. Tiesto - Suburban Train
6. Dance 2 Trance - We Came In Peace (John Digweed Re-edit)
7. Cygnus X - Superstring
8. Union Jack - Two Full Moons & A Trout (Caspar Pound Mix)
9. Binary Finary - 1998 (Matt Darey Remix)

Part 2:

Tracklist:
1. Underworld - Dark & Long (Dark Train)
2. Sasha - Xpander
3. Tilt - Twelve
4. Fluke - Slap It
5. LSG - Netherworld
6. PPK - ResuRection (Space Club Mix)
7. Lost Tribe - Gamemaster
8. Paul Van Dyk - Forbidden Fruit (BT & PVD's "Food of Love" Mix)
9. Age of Love - The Age of Love (PVD's "Love of Ages" Mix)
10. Mike Oldfield - Let There Be Light (BT's Ultraviolet Mix)

The mixing is very rudimentary (blends in ambient sections and sharp cuts on beats), but it allows the tracks to stretch out a bit. I think fucking around with commercial tracks to introduce people is a bad idea: these are all high quality yet credible trance tracks that anyone with an open mind should be receptive to (ie, not go "techno shit").

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Feb-28-2006 22:41 England

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DOOMBOT
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Registered: Sep 2004
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Honestly, last summer Purple Haze - Adrenaline was a big hit with a couple friends of mine who didn't listen to trance much. Same with the Essential Mix from Digweeds set.

Feb-28-2006 22:44

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Grrrrr
Supreme tranceaddict

Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Cambridge/Sheffield

The above and beyond remix of the madonna track is 50x as good as oakenfolds. The antillas remix of just be is better than the original

Just my 2p worth

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RapidFire
Supreme tranceaddict

Registered: Feb 2005
Location: toronto

DJ Tiesto - Touch Me

^doesent exist.

Feb-28-2006 22:50 Serbia

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KeSs
Senior tranceaddict

Registered: May 2005
Location: Pittsburgh, PA

quote:
Originally posted by RapidFire
DJ Tiesto - Touch Me

^doesent exist.

I am an idiot...not sure what I was thinking: Rui Da Silva - Touch Me

Feb-28-2006 22:55 United States

KeSs
Senior tranceaddict

Registered: May 2005
Location: Pittsburgh, PA

quote:
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
The mixing is very rudimentary (blends in ambient sections and sharp cuts on beats), but it allows the tracks to stretch out a bit. I think fucking around with commercial tracks to introduce people is a bad idea: these are all high quality yet credible trance tracks that anyone with an open mind should be receptive to (ie, not go "techno shit").

I guess my friends are not as "open" as yours to new music. Most of my friends think Sandstorm is "techno shit" so the mix I made seems get them away from the Sandstorm mindset. If I constantly kept feeding them the commercial BS then it wouldnt be a good idea. I just made the mix so that I could tear down the stereotype that most edm has. Most of my friends think that techno = thats shitty ass euro dance that stays popular for some reason (Cascada). Once they tell me they like what they hear then I send them to a couple of websites and let them start getting their own style going. (di.fm, etn.fm, essential mix)

Feb-28-2006 23:01 United States

Stunade
Supreme tranceaddict

Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Svetlana Sforza

I just made a mix for my boyfriend who is a metal head. LOL! But I think he rather enjoyed my selection. Just threw in Tijs, Ferr, PvD...the regs just for a taste - he's in for it on part 2 though

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Feb-28-2006 23:18 Italy

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Col
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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Montreal, QC

'I Found U' alone is enough to put anyone off EDM.

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Feb-28-2006 23:22 Canada

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thoughtlessjex
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Registered: May 2004
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Ke55: Eh, it's a start. It won't get them very far from the pop mentality on the way towards trance, though. If anything, it'll get them to accept the 4/4 beat. You could definitely at least put in some credible prog tracks, like Flaming June, Netherworld, etc. Even some remixes of them would have been nice.

System-J: That one looks like it's the shit. It's got an excellent mix of oldschool, progressive, and epic. Not enough psy or acid, though. Could use more of those.

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