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Spankin' New Trance Mix, feedback wanted
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| brian |
I recorded a mix yesterday, and after listening to it several times I'd have to say its probably my best, especially in terms of beat matching, EQing, and quite a few of the transitions came out pretty well. At least in my opinion. But I'd like to hear some feedback on it.
I used all vinyl for this set, minus the intro bit, which I reworked on my own, burned a 44.1kHz WAV to CD, and used in a CDJ-1000MK2. As for my other gear, I use a 1200MK2, a 1210M3D, and a DJM-500. I record an average of 2-3 mixes per week but this is only the second one I've posted to TA. So please just have a listen -- I don't ask this often. ;)
Title: Contact
Date: 10.24.2003
Length: 83:50
Download: CLICK HERE
[00:00] 01. Scott Bond vs. Solarstone - Naked Angel (Brian's Intro Rework) [Unreleased]
[02:42] 02. Envio - Touched By The Sun (Original Mix) [A State Of Trance]
[08:42] 03. BBE - Seven Days And One Week (Ferry Corsten Remix) [Positiva]
[14:40] 04. Afterburn - Summer Sun [Tatsumaki]
[20:15] 05. Cortez - Scaramanga [ID&T]
[27:51] 06. Nick Lunn & YOMC pres. Tecno Punk - Energize [Nukleuz]
[35:00] 07. Firewall - Sincere (Pulser Remix) [A State Of Trance]
[42:16] 08. Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (Sweeping Strings Mix) [Armind]
[49:51] 09. Modulation - Spirits (Cosmicman Remix) [Vandit]
[54:19] 10. Donald & Giles - Weekend Wonder (D&G Mix) [Liquid]
[59:49] 11. Midway - Monkey Forest [In Trance We Trust]
[64:44] 12. Tiësto - Traffic (Original Mix) [Magik Muzik]
[69:25] 13. Rhythm Gangsta - The Crowd Song (Original Extended Mix) [G2]
[72:59] 14. Yves Deruyter - Back To Earth (Rave Mix) [Bonzai]
[77:59] 15. Nu NRG - Supersonik Way [Vandit]
I apologize if the download is relatively slow -- usually its not, but it has its moments. If someone can offer about 120mb of space on a fast site, I'd be happy to move it there so folks can download faster.
Anywho, the only thing I don't like about this mix is the problems I had keeping Back To Earth beat matched with The Crowd Song. I remember what the problem was, and it could have been avoided, but I did what I could. ;) I also didn't mix out of several songs quickly enough, but I can work on that.
Thanks in advance...I look forward to seeing some responses on this. |
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| Cosmic |
| I will have a listen....dunno when... |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| The tracklist looks sweet, downloading... |
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| nick_energy |
| Wow..I love this track list! |
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| Luke |
| quote: | Originally posted by nick_energy
Wow..I love this track list! |
agreed! looks good... going to dl when i get home:) |
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| sym |
Nice tracklisting, downloading now. Nice fast server getting 700+KB/s :)
Will give review in a bit. |
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| brian |
| Anyone had the chance to listen to this yet? |
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| priveye03 |
| dl'ing right now and going to listen in about 10 minutes. |
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| priveye03 |
| Alright what I thought. Could have gone a little slower in As the Rush because it is a bit softer song. Also a bit slower into Weekend Wonder. I thought you did fine out of The Crowd Song. A bit quicker into Traffic would have been better I thought. and going out of Traffic the beat was off a fair amount. Just because of your release I think. I like the placing of the mix though had the beat been on. I like your finishing song. Its one of my favorite. You could have played it a tad bit faster, but that is just opinion. It was fine how you did it. Overall I liked the mixes. There were a few beat matching issues here and there like out of the first song, but overall it was really good. GOOD JOB!!!! |
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| brian |
Thanks for the comments priveye, I appreciate them.
As for everyone else...all those downloads and no review?? :conf: I posted this because I wanted reviews. |
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| Nemesis44 |
Heya Brian,
First up,
Nice mix. Good track selection on the whole and I like the intro which adds a nice creative touch.
Touched by the Sun is a beautiful track in my opinion and the mix into it is good too. From a beat matching perspective I would say that you are more than competent to hanlde a club scenario. I hear "big named" DJs every week mix worse from a beatmatching perspective (Not all of them I have to add). What they do differently is think about key structure and build by using that too.
Quite a lot of your mixes have that nice key change feel to it, but it's going backwards so you actualy drop rather than go up. On a dance floor it will be something that will be the difference between you being a good DJ and someone that give peoople a night to remember.
Somepeople may be saying "Oh god, not another Harmonic mixer fanatic" at this point. Then they say "I don't need that crap, I just know when to play a record at the right time", the thing is they don't realise that it's the key of the record that makes it right.
You had a bit of a nasty key clash between Midway and Tiesto. Traffic is a bit of a weird one actually as the beat in it has elements that are slightly out of time with itself thus making it sound like a bodged mix even if it's not. And even if you did drop it slightly it is something that you would have got away with it no problems on a dancefloor. Although if you are anything like me, just getting away with it is not enough. :)
Rythm Gangsta into Yves Deruyter is probably the weakest mix in terms of beatmatching especially as you can hear the correction quite clearly. You also get left with what I call a dry mix i.e. just beat on beat which to be fair actually works on some cases but can also serve as a big energy killer.
My feeling is that your mix starts out really strong and gives great hope in terms of what's coming later but I'm afraid that I find it slightly dying off towards the end.
In my opinion 'Motorcycle' brought the tempo down just a little too much and then you didn't quite manage to rebuild it after that.
However, I am not going to leave you on that note. I understad that it's not easy to make a high energy set when you are not playing to an audience.
From what I heard in the begining of your mix I feel confident that you will sort out the minor details that I have mentioned. I would also urge you to start thinking harmonically as it will take you to the next level.
I hope this has been of some use to you.
All the best
Nem |
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| victor |
| cheers m8 ... dlding now... |
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