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Jack Moss - Catharsis [Drum & Bass] (pg. 2)
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| yonny |
| theres always something very atmospheric about your sets, i really enjoyed this one dispite not being a genre i usually listen to :) |
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| Woonyxoxo |
| Going to give it a listen. |
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| Zyklon_Jay |
It was not bad at all Jack. At first i liked the tension the intro was creating, but to me it was just too long. Call it a short attention span, but after the 5th or 6th minute of it i really had to hold myself back from skipping forward to get to something that had some beat to it. I will say that the intro was still nice, it just dragged on too long.
You did a really good job after that of building up slowly, with my interest starting to get peaked at around 34 minutes ish? (sorry streamed it yesterday somewhere around that point). The mixing was good, and the tracks all fit well together. I thought that many of them sounded very similar to each other, too much so, but I think that was what you were going for no? A kind musical trip to put on in the background as a soundtrack of sorts that you just move to without paying great attention to? A chill out set almost? Take the "tracks sound the same" comment with a grain of salt of course, It is to be expected with this genre imo. Call me uninitiated, I just have trouble listening to slight variations of the amen break for extended periods of time. The fact that i got through the whole mix without skipping a track means to me at least that you did a good enough job putting this together. I would have liked a little more drama in some of the transitions, but that is just me.
I'd be up to hear another one of these with maybe a broader scope of this kind of Dnb with maybe a track or 2 outside of the genre to break things up a bit with a twist.
Good effort. You mixing this stuff traktor style? Or fitting pieces of the puzzle together in a sequencer style? |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Thanks for the review, Jay. Appreciate thoughtful feedback (not a slight on everyone else - I know you don't have to write 200 words to have enjoyed a mix). Commencing essay:
I deliberately went with a limited style for this mix. You'd call all this stuff "atmospheric drum 'n bass" but that is actually a very big sound with a lot of different music. Because drum 'n bass is generally hard, rhythmic and bassy, everything that's more mellow gets called "atmospheric", even though that can include jazzy stuff, old-school Good-Looking style jungle which is almost ambient loopage with breaks and bass pulses, and the more minimal ASC-style stuff that's coming through right now. What I wanted to play was this specific style of very trancey drum 'n bass, which not many people are making. My last dnb mix is more what you're after, it has some string-y liquid, some old-school vibes, some drumfunk and then this trancey sound at the end.
This isn't a chill-out set. I think this set would make sense to you if you played it while driving at night or something similar. It was structured to just have constant flow and momentum, no real breaks or set-pieces, just an outpouring. Hence the title. Like you put it on when you're stressed and 80 minutes later you're feeling exhausted but a whole lot happier.
The mixing was "sequencer puzzle" style, which is how I operate when I'm making a mix to share. I DJ with a writer's work-flow: tweaking transitions like sentences, edit, edit, edit until everything's perfect.
EDIT: Oh, and I don't get this "variations on the amen" complaint people level at dnb. If this were a tech/deep/disco/prog/techno/Detroit/trance/most-EDM-played-on-this-forum set, it'd be 80 minutes of DOOF-DOOF-DOOF-DOOF, but nobody ever complains about that. Especially given that half the beats on this mix are actually variations on the tech-step 2-step swing, which is different to a funk break like the amen. |
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| Mr Game+Watch |
| Hey Jack, if you could get a Sushi-hosted alternate link or something not blocked by the corporate firewall, that would be great. I really want to check this out, I still listen to "Excession" regularly, such a mind-melting mix. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| No problem. I'll PM the birdman now - I guess he doesn't like drum 'n bass because he didn't come into the last thread either. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
No problem. I'll PM the birdman now - I guess he doesn't like drum 'n bass because he didn't come into the last thread either. |
I do, actually :p I grabbed this a few days ago, I've just been a bit busy and haven't had time to listen yet. I thought I left a comment on your last one :conf: I gave it quite a few listens.
Here's a proper host for this one:
http://www.sushipunk.net/Mixes/Jack...&%20Bass%5d.mp3 |
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| djhaziel |
I"ve never listened to any of your mixes system-j , So today will be my first time .
DL :p |
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| enydo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
I do, actually :p I grabbed this a few days ago, I've just been a bit busy and haven't had time to listen yet. I thought I left a comment on your last one :conf: I gave it quite a few listens.
Here's a proper host for this one:
http://www.sushipunk.net/Mixes/Jack...&%20Bass%5d.mp3 |
YEAH RIGHT, LIKE WE BELIEVE ANY OF THAT . |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by enydo
YEAH RIGHT, LIKE WE BELIEVE ANY OF THAT . |
YOU BETTER BELIEVE THAT , SON. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Cheers for the link, Stu. OP updated. |
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