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DJ Jon Cockle - Ashdown Trance (7 Hour Trance Set)
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| JonDC |
When I started going clubbing back in 2004, one of the first parties I ever went to was Armin Van Buuren’s solo set at Godskitchen. All wet behind the ears and as enthusiastic as a retard on Christmas Day, I stayed routed to the centre of the dance floor for 9 hours straight. I was amazed by how a DJ could keep an audience captivated for such a long time!
Ever since I learned to mix, I always wanted to put together my perfect marathon set - something that builds exactly as I would want it to in a club. I guess when you are performing for a crowd it’s little easier because you feed off their energy and instinctively know which direction to take. I don’t have that luxury here, so instead I am responding exactly to my own tastes.
I also didn’t want this to be something that plateaus and then just meanders, throwing in the odd classic either. You often hear this in live extended set, which is legitimate as it works in a club, but not so much on the headphones. This is a test of whether or not I can keep things building and building for the entire journey, without resorting to the obvious moments that can date a set with time.Hopefully I managed to pull it off. I know nobody is likely to get the chance to listen to it all in one go, but hopefully it’s compelling enough to keep you coming back once you've; started. Let me know what you think - honestly put my heart and soul into this mix!
DJ Jon Cockle - Ashdown Trance
Mixed on 2 X Pioneer CDJ-350's;+ 1 X Pioneer DJM-350.
[Part 1]
1. The Digital Blonde - Lanika
2. Incolumis - Satellite
3. Hypnotic Duo - Crossover
4. Relaunch - From Dark to Light
5. Kintar - Calling to Sky Keepers
6. Michael & Levan vs. Stiven Rivic - Angel Dream (The Stain remix)
7. Bjorn Small - In a State Of
8. Oliver Prime - Interesting
9. Alex Stealthy - The Way it Should Be
10. The Digital Blonde - 6 Weeks and 1 Million Years
11. John 00 Fleming - Fight the Darkness (Subtara remix)
12. Lissat & Voltax - Dreams 2012
13. Vibrasphere - Waveguide
14. Lokhen - Northern Winds
15. MSZ - A Shade of Love
16. Harry Lemon - TIGA (Lemon8 remix)
17. Karmahacker - Heartbreaker
18. Narel - Run (Planisphere remix)
19. Manu Riga - Everything Comes to an End (Solar Fields remix)
20. Moshic - Think Wise
21. Airwave - Oyama (Terra Ferma remix)
22. Vibrasphere vs. Ticon - Dew Drops (JOOF Mash Up)
23. Sun Control Species - Kick Me Shake Me
24. Out of Loop - The Strangest Night and Still
25. J Michael Kober - Lost Moon
26. Fernando - Another Sad Story (Ivan Nikusev & Aggressor remix)
27. Hybrid - Break My Soul (Hybrid’s ‘Kill City 01 remix)
28. Duca - Wide (Anton Chernikov remix)
29. 00.db - Luma
30. Aladiah - Cosmic Area
31. Mindwave - Summer Breeze
32. Aladiah - Equinox
33. Cosmithex - Alchemy
34. Lyctum - Cassiopea
35. Timewave - Do Not Stop
36. Elec3 - Unplugged (Wizzy Noise remix)
37. Hopeku - Flip The Coin
[Part 2]
38. Micky Noise - Patheon
39. 00.db - Ark
40. Toy Machine vs. Static Movement - Dune
41. Ovnimoon - The Holographic Sphere
42. E-Clip - Psy Tribe
43. Ovnimoon - Love is the Key
44. Burn in Noise - Vuuv Festival Celebration
45. John 00 Fleming vs. Lyctum - Colliding Gallaxies
46. ManMachine - 7th (Sonic Entity remix)
47. Chakra vs. Liquid Metal - Resurrection (Chakra vs. Krunch vs. Guy Salama remix)
48. Steve Birch - See Through
49. Ovnimoon vs. Rigel - We Burn Incense
50. Prosper - Zero Tolerance
51. Mad Maxx vs. Bionix - Galaxian Explosion
52. XSI - Berserk
53. Krunch - Combinador
54. XSI vs. Mad Maxx - Creeping (Kinesis remix)
55. Kinesis vs. Voyager - Decoding Process
56. Wizzy Noise - Oceanica
57. Prosper - None of Those
58. Alternative Control & Rising Dawn - Moon Spirits
59. Beetseekers - Mind Vision
60. Hypnocoustics - Full Spectrum
61. Deedrah vs. Astrix - Gayatri
62. Liquid Flow - Reformation
63. Somnesia vs. PharaOm - Gods Tears
64. Artifact303 - For a Better World
65. Solar Fields - Black Arrow
66. Whirloop – Funk’O’Rama
67. Whirloop - Feel The Effect
68. Solar Fields - Summer
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3piul7sxzy7igks/kEBhdvQsOo__ |
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| GaryDelaney |
| Great mix, loved it from start to finish! |
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| Spacey Orange |
| looks insane but i'm up for the challenge.:) |
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| Camwin |
Oh My Gosh! looks amazing bro.
Will get, especially like the ending there of Whirloop :) |
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| JonDC |
| Thanks Gary. Hope you guys both enjoy it :-) |
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| Spacey Orange |
| fantastic. i got to listen to the second part during a road trip. you really kept the energy going throughout. when i listened to the last track i was hoping it would keep going. it was like a tease.:( |
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| JonDC |
| quote: | Originally posted by Spacey Orange
fantastic. i got to listen to the second part during a road trip. you really kept the energy going throughout. when i listened to the last track i was hoping it would keep going. it was like a tease.:( |
Thanks very much mate. Whenever I hear Solar Fields - Summer I always wish it was half an hour longer! |
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| SYSTEM-J |
So, as you know, I listened to this on the trip back from Barcelona last weekend. I had my doubts whether you could genuinely keep a 7 hour set building upwards but you answered those doubts by moving through just about every strain of credible trancey music being made. I've also said before that it's impossible to maintain tight sequencing for more than a couple of hours, but you also smashed that claim out of the window. The first half was brilliantly sequenced with excellent flow from start to finish, and taken on its own is a brilliant set.
The second half didn't go down so well, for a few reasons. I'm really not into the Ovnimoon, E Clip et al school of psy, and I think tracks like Dune and Love Is The Key with their monotone faux-profound spiritual female blatherings are just as cheesy as anything with a supersaw in it. Opening with a barrage of that kind of stuff may have been the next logical step after the anthemic prog trance that capped the first half, but I guess this is the old problem: it's very tough to take it up a gear from progressive trance without becoming cheesy.
Then, to be perfectly honest, I fell asleep on some seats in Zurich airport during the full-on section, waking up again with the first Kinesis track. You can either take that as the mix losing my attention or as me having been awake for 24 hours straight after numerous nights on the smash. And a we've discussed, I think the goa section at the end is a bit wobbly in terms of flow, and probably betrays your inexperience in mixing that style.
Tune-wise, I already know a good chunk of these from hearing you play over the last few years but at least 50% I had never heard before. My favourite section was definitely the melodic but energetic prog trance of the second half of the first half (!?), my preferred flavour of trance and the hardest stuff to find. The mixing was very tight for the most part and while none of the transitions were particularly audacious, the flow and programming were generally top notch, even during the sections where I didn't like the music. You deserve particular credit for keeping things interesting right from the start - it's easier to build up momentum if you deliberate start out playing extremely deep and tracky, but you went for big tracks right from the start.
Should have had some classics, though! |
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| JonDC |
Thanks very much for the review!
Glad you thought I succeeded in the mission of keeping the flow and sequencing tight for the whole journey (or most of it)
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
The second half didn't go down so well, for a few reasons. I'm really not into the Ovnimoon, E Clip et al school of psy, and I think tracks like Dune and Love Is The Key with their monotone faux-profound spiritual female blatherings are just as cheesy as anything with a supersaw in it. Opening with a barrage of that kind of stuff may have been the next logical step after the anthemic prog trance that capped the first half, but I guess this is the old problem: it's very tough to take it up a gear from progressive trance without becoming cheesy.
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I know that style of psy has become a bit stale lately - I just picked some of my personal favourites and felt like I didn't draw that section out too long (probably about 6 tracks) before stepping it up to some more full power stuff. I can see why you might find the vocals a bit cheesey. For me they often raise a few hairs but it's just personal taste I guess :)
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Then, to be perfectly honest, I fell asleep on some seats in Zurich airport during the full-on section, waking up again with the first Kinesis track. You can either take that as the mix losing my attention or as me having been awake for 24 hours straight after numerous nights on the smash.
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I like to think it was so hypnotic that it entranced you into a coma ;)
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
And a we've discussed, I think the goa section at the end is a bit wobbly in terms of flow, and probably betrays your inexperience in mixing that style.
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Fair point - I defiantly have less experience with that sound but hopefully it still works quite well and leads nicely into the climax with Solar Fields and Whirloop
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
You deserve particular credit for keeping things interesting right from the start - it's easier to build up momentum if you deliberate start out playing extremely deep and tracky, but you went for big tracks right from the start.
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Yea my view was that if you want people to listen for 7 hours, you'd better not bore them to tears in the first one! |
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