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The Epic Mix [Epic House] (pg. 2)
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
10. Chakra - I Am (Digweed & Muir's Bedrock Mix) |
This track ing rules.  |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by GrimReaper
Brilliant showcase what today's music is missing for the most part: soul and effort which are strongly present here. This was the first one of your sets i downloaded as it has some tracks i couldn't remember. Great that i did, enjoyed it throughout. |
Thanks Grim. I don't know whether to be more pleased that you liked it or that I found some tracks you didn't remember. |
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| spc |
| omg you made another mix... insta-grabbing. will give thoughts on it when i give it a full listen |
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| Nostalgic |
| Bout time "Mozaic - Sing It (The Hallelujah Song) (Quivver's Dirty Dub)" gets an included in your mixes. Monster remix, man Quivver was untouchable during the mid 90s. |
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| sandsideapache |
| There seems to be so so much more melody, heart and soul in the older house music. 'Bedrock' could make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck . A pleasure from start to finish .Many thanks. |
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| UWM |
| This looks ing stellar. Can't wait to listen. |
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| Armitage |
| Really liked your other 2 mixes, I'll def. give this one a go. |
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| DJ RANN |
Christ, I know nostalgic has beaten me to it, but our musical tastes really could not be closer - I "grew up" in this music and feel so unbelievably lucky to have danced in clubs to what was IMHO the best period to date for electronic music.
I knew this as uplifting house and a little (only a little) later as epic house. This set absolutely tipifies the period, with the mixing not just being reminiscent, but actually in respect of it - strangely as if it were a mix recorded then.
I will put up a load of mixes from this period, and the great thing is there seem to be a lot of people responding to your thread loving this - surely demand = supply? so, when is the renaissance going to begin? |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
Christ, I know nostalgic has beaten me to it, but our musical tastes really could not be closer - I "grew up" in this music and feel so unbelievably lucky to have danced in clubs to what was IMHO the best period to date for electronic music.
I knew this as uplifting house and a little (only a little) later as epic house. This set absolutely tipifies the period, with the mixing not just being reminiscent, but actually in respect of it - strangely as if it were a mix recorded then.
I will put up a load of mixes from this period, and the great thing is there seem to be a lot of people responding to your thread loving this - surely demand = supply? so, when is the renaissance going to begin? |
You are lucky mate- I'm too young to have heard any of this when it was new, and the only time I've ever danced to it has been at the occasional retro night when I was probably the youngest person on the dancefloor who actually recognised the music. And if people my age can encounter this music for the first time and love it far more than 90% of the e being played today, it proves there's more than simple nostalgia behind this music's appeal.
I hope there is a renaissance soon (very apt wording). My whole aim with making these mixes and changing my avatar and custom status is to raise the profile of this style, because it's really been forgotten by the history books. I think the trouble is that writing music like this requires a lot of talent. Blue Amazon were writing 16 minute tracks 13 years ago and yet none of those 16 minutes were spent on DJ-friendly stretches of percussion or looped techno repetition. To write such long tracks that are so full of musical richness takes real talent, and not enough musicians have that talent. It's going to take a movement of really good producers to get us back to this level. |
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| enydo |
| Thought this was great. That diva(I think) vocal style is really starting to grow on me. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by enydo
Thought this was great. That diva(I think) vocal style is really starting to grow on me. |
Thanks. I used to think a lot of vocals from 90s house were quite cheesy, but they really grow on you. They'll probably be back in fashion in a couple of years. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I think the trouble is that writing music like this requires a lot of talent. Blue Amazon were writing 16 minute tracks 13 years ago and yet none of those 16 minutes were spent on DJ-friendly stretches of percussion or looped techno repetition. To write such long tracks that are so full of musical richness takes real talent, and not enough musicians have that talent. It's going to take a movement of really good producers to get us back to this level. |
Yeah, that's what I was getting at with my remarks about percussion. It feels like a lot of producers today try to compensate for a lack of musical ideas by making their percussion really complex and full and / or putting tons of effects on whatever music they do have. The reason for that is plain to see: it's a hell of a lot of easier for most people to generate five or ten cool-sounding percussion loops and apply nifty effects than it is for them to (1) come up with memorable melodies like the ones in the tracks in your mix and (2) put them together in a track such that it actually feels like it has a logical *direction.*
A lot of modern productions feel kind of random to me, in that it doesn't really seem like the producer had any sense of how one part should lead to the next, but tried stuff pretty much at random until something felt right.
It's the same idea I've expressed in other threads: What the "musician" side of an electronic musician lacks, the "electronic" side of him tries desperately to supply. |
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