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Unforeseen Consequences (pg. 4)
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| Domesticated |
| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
I downloaded this mix, last week, but haven’t been able to get to listening to it until now. I read the reviews which weren’t as favorable as I was expecting given your sell on the mix – that it’s released without the track-list at effort to create an unknowable sense as to what was coming. In a weird way, I almost feel like this mix is somewhat custom tailored for me. I am a dilettante where DJ mixing is concerned, having dabbled in it for a while in the past, but being otherwise unfamiliar with current trends or the artist’s releases incorporated.
That said, I can hear the antiqueness of the productions. Some of it is in the mere recognition of old tracks; semi-familiar refrains lurking in hazy flashes from nights fueled by alcohol and/or Mary Jane mucked up in the fog of memory lane. These productions aren’t holding strictly to the current modernity of the more advanced tracks I hear in the Music Producer’s Promotion forum – to include your edit of Schmuel Flash’s “Chilling Moments” which is currently one of my favorite songs for casual listening when I’m screwing around on the weekends. That said, there seems to be a lineage of what inspires you between elements of these tracks and your remix of “Chilling Moments”. Not to gush too wildly about it, but “Chilling Moments” is one of the chief reasons I’m enjoying this mix, currently.
Your selection process, particularly in the beginning and middle, seems almost to be predicated for tracks with a root psychedelic aspect in which individual elements are subjected to a scientific degree of psycho-acoustic scouring. Some of the DJ mixes I’ve heard recently seemed to be almost flat in terms of elemental alignment. The acoustic milieu of those is more of a painting on a wall, where everything is apparent and, however complex, seems two-dimensional. Each song in this mix is bundled with nuance and, however old the music is, an attention to detail that modern producers would do well to emulate. In terms of this mix, it’s very three dimensional with reflections of elements echoing in multiple, delineating facets in some songs while others let rhythmic creatures lurk behind a façade of practical music.
Musically, the selections are simple, leaving most of the fireworks to the aforementioned mechanics of the mix. Still, there is a surprising amount of movement divulged in micro progression, alternating rhythm progressions, and purposeful hands for tweaking which never quite breach ridiculous thresholds. The producers seem to realize the value of static elements placed along-side ones which vary, sometimes wildly, but always within an ascertainable reason if not the perceptible groove.
Adding to the psychedelic dimension is the seemingly religious choice of music with voice samples spicing up the arrangements, albeit less nearer to the end. They seem almost rooted in echoing an otherwise suppressed sub-conscious inner-voice of the listener; a psychotic rumination listing paranoid anxieties which span the social fabric as they invariably intrude through various media and advertisements. They are introduced slowly and peak from behind the music which, in the beginning, seems intent to establish a groove milieu but, which, towards the end, works itself into an almost frenzied derangement.
It’s almost an exploration of Dissociative Identity Disorder reintegrating through a short series of abreactions. It peaks with acidic TB303 riffs; vortices percolating on the peak of the mixes and then back down into sedation and into another song contemplating a variation on the aforementioned leit motif. Differing interpretations interpolate like alters with their own unique perception of events common to all of them. By 133 minutes, the therapeutic process seems to be complete with a partial reintegration as the TB303 arpeggios seems to be taken over by a miasma of detuned percussive chimes descending into lush pads. The pads are detuned and the music seems to slow as Doppler artifacts pose the dilemma listed in the title.
Personally, having heard it, I won’t say I’m surprised by the diverse reactions between others and myself. I actually really got into this – in case that wasn’t evident. My only complaint is that, as the set was peeking, there was a notably harsh quality that, however intended, I thought could be better attenuated to more rational levels. That said, this is the sort of mix that is apt to receive the divergent reactions. I felt like I could relate to it, but it has a gamey quality to it that could easily spoil it for some.
Deer and duck aren’t for everyone and not everyone knows how to cook them. Personally, I think you nailed the recipe minus some pepper. Thanks for posting this. |
I see unemployment's working out well for you. |
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| Teezdalien |
| Yeah this is great dude. I gotta say that I've always liked the concept of listening to sets without knowing the tracklist beforehand. I dunno, I just enjoy that more for some reason, mabey it's more like the experience you get from listening to a DJ in a club or something. Especially when a good familiar tune is mixed in well. :) |
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| Lews |
| quote: | Originally posted by Adam420
Lews this set is THE ! Just finishing it up and I must say I enjoyed it immensely. Mixing is flawless and how it builds from deep/breaky prog to full-on progressive trance towards the end is really great. Some really gorgeous tunes in there man, was really great to work out to. The fact that you didn't post a track listing doesn't bother me since I wouldn't recognize anything anyway. Regardless, this is the kind of stuff I used to really like, and clearly still do. |
Damn dude, thanks for the praise :) Very glad to hear you enjoyed it. And yeah, I thought that this mix would be great for working out too. Thanks for checking it out!
| quote: | Originally posted by Teezdalien
Yeah this is great dude. I gotta say that I've always liked the concept of listening to sets without knowing the tracklist beforehand. I dunno, I just enjoy that more for some reason, mabey it's more like the experience you get from listening to a DJ in a club or something. Especially when a good familiar tune is mixed in well. |
Haha I'm the complete opposite. Listening to stuff without knowing what song is being played drives me insane, because if I really like it I have no way of finding it again. Still, glad it worked well for you and definitely glad you checked it out and enjoyed it :)
I'll be posting a tracklist in a few days. Thanks to everyone who is checking it out. Makes me very happy to read positive feedback and know people are enjoying it. |
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| Lews |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
I see unemployment's working out well for you. |
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| Ted Promo |
Awash, skin paling in the passing glint. It had been somewhere near fifty three days in there. The ashen floor had an image after all, staring with bewilderment and my mottled footprints. Each ingestion of air was a veritable meal in dander and permeated, pickled musk. In the corner the mattress was slowly and painfully dissolving onto the area beneath it where some indiscernible creatures would move it about frantically, rousing me from whatever moments of slumber I could manage.
Once again the lacerations on my arms began to talk back to me. They were yellowing about the entrance portions and I could feel my veins trying to dig themselves out from the poisoned skin. Every moment or two I could feel the wounds appear to slightly shift, as though quietly adrift among the milky paste that encapsulated me and all my vital fluids.
There was one sliver of a slat for a window that poked out into a sheet of grass and pinestraw. Morsels and geometric fragments of light peered their way in for brief spells, dancing about in the walls in a tantalizing display creating wonderful but fleeting fractals on the tired baby-blue walls. I lifted my right and stronger arm enough to allow my wrist to mock the fractals, sometime in unison, but more often not syncopated and stumbling to gain proper timing.
Then darkness.
One day, when I jostled myself out of some strangely prolonged slumber, the hole was covered. No light, no conceivable end to the tunnel. It was around day one hundred and forty seven. Everything began to settle in, populating each corner of my mental chasms, diving and dispersing all whims of depressive and apprehensive hope and replacing them with the dreaded consolation of complete anxiety and utter, gripping fright (masked in there tightly was a despicable and palpable seething rage). Grasping with its cold and dilated fingers for each part of me it could plunder and pillage. Eventually it owned all of me. Property of complete and admonished despair.
The lacerations began to move noticeably. More were forming by the second, tapering all up my arms, across my chest, traversing every portion. A faint glimmer of light began puncturing through each wound and suddenly your mix came on. I could hear it through the walls. My winamp was that ing powerful.
The Earth Guatemala'd beneath me, and I entered what was to be your mix, and it was good.
Thanks. |
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| enydo |
| Someone definitely bought pot again. |
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| Lews |
Man, of all the lines for the bought to copy, it copies criticism :(
Austin, are you sure that's pot he has? :stongue:
Glad to hear you enjoyed it, Adam. Thanks for giving it a listen, mate :) |
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| enydo |
You should here the stoned monologues we've had. Mostly while driving.
We really need to record them sometime, although I doubt they'd be funny to anyone else. |
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| Lews |
| If they're anything like his posts I'm sure they'd be hilarious haha |
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| Camwin |
| quote: | Originally posted by enydo
You should here the stoned monologues we've had. Mostly while driving.
We really need to record them sometime, although I doubt they'd be funny to anyone else. |
lol
I think this all the time.
Just give us a ten minute slot on talkback radio and i'm sure we'll be a fixture.
Anyway got the mix yesterday and listened to it on the way home from work.
Great mix. You can tell it was quite disjointed in some parts but the selection was primo.
Was pleasantly surprised to hear "Moments in Space" too, great memories.
choice :) |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
I see unemployment's working out well for you. |
Thanks for your support! :) |
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| Lews |
I can't believe I spelled "bot" as "bought" o.o
Anyways,
| quote: | Originally posted by Camwin
Anyway got the mix yesterday and listened to it on the way home from work.
Great mix. You can tell it was quite disjointed in some parts but the selection was primo.
Was pleasantly surprised to hear "Moments in Space" too, great memories.
choice :) |
Thanks for checking it out. Glad to hear you enjoyed it :) Moments In Space is definitely a favorite of mine as well.
Cheers! |
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