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OK so I gave this a listen. Normally I'd give it a few more before commenting but to be honest I don't really want to any more.
While it definitely has it's moments, I really do think you need to find some more focus in your mixes. If you're going to make such a long mix you need take into account peoples attention spans and keep it interesting.
I'll elaborate:
It started of interesting enough, the way you cut and mix the electronica works is reminiscent of how I like to do it, and to be fair apart from some jarring harmonic sections I don't have much complaints about the transitioning itself throughout the mix, but you don't seem to put enough effort into controlling the flow. The first hour or so seems to feature a lot of burial-esque dubstep works, the mixing is a bit erratic and confusing at times, but I suppose it creates a good sense of being truly out there. Which I do enjoy, but it does get old after a while.
Then however, when we've reached the point were ears are starting to fatigue and patience is starting to lapse, you go into the whole bass music thing. which I really don't think was a very good choice.
It was fun at times, don't get me wrong. But there was honestly nothing to grab my attention. This is were I really got that impression of jukebox syndrome, when you're listening for hours, have heard dozens of tracks but it really doesn't seem like the mix has gone anywhere.
The ending part was good as a closer, but a closer to what? Nothing happened, there were no climactic moments. Just hours of the same thing, with music that started to get more and more questionable in quality as well.
It hints at being something special, but you quickly fall into dry club mixing practises. I don't now why you felt like dragging this out for so long. Why not make multiple mixes, focussing on the different styles here? Why did it all have to go into one mix?
You mentioned you couldn't filter out more tracks, but why not? There are so many tracks here that sound almost identical to each other, you could have easily thinned the selection down to get a bit more of a pace going. It's a shame really.
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Mixes: Alaé (Conceptional ambient dub)
AOTSE (Experimental)
Listens:
http://www.last.fm/user/bierheld
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Mitztronic - Reintegration(Electronica/Downtempo/DnB/Bass/Gitch/Other)
