Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Time really does stand still here.
haha I know what you mean. I wish I was posting on TA around 2001-2002.
lacedpills
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Originally posted by Syntonic
Love that Rojam set, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who suspects a pre-recorded set. The mixing is all too perfect for his ability, absolutely no phasing is right...not even a millisecond. Think of the tremendous pressure being the first westerner to be allowed in China for decades to just spin records. The set is pretty awesome though regardless.
I've listened to most of his Essential Mix World Tour sets and the mixing sucks for the most part.
Doesn't this insult someone who was in his prime as the top dj in the world? It'a almost like you're saying the mix wasn't done by him, or that he required some kind of assistance.
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I didn't say he botched every transition. I said he had poor control of energy levels due to picking extremely safe cue points most of the time. He had to pick short, easy transitions because he wasn't very good technically and that limited his control over set programming.
alright.
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Originally posted by Paradox Lost
There's a difference between a rough transition and a straight-up trainwreck, and Oakenfold was galloping horses throughout the majority of his set. Depending upon how much the blown monitor had to do with it, that's not laziness, that's utter incompetence.
Listen to some of the (much older) Sasha & Digweed sets if you want to contrast using very purposeful cue points in order to create something that's more than the sum of its parts with serviceable mixing that simply does the job. If all you're doing with your transitions is transitioning, then you don't know how to use transitions.
to be blunt, he must've been drunk when he did that essential mix. It almost sounds like a hoax made by some anonymous person.
Syntonic
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Originally posted by lacedpills
Doesn't this insult someone who was in his prime as the top dj in the world? It'a almost like you're saying the mix wasn't done by him, or that he required some kind of assistance.
It was just a theory of mine for a while thinking about the geopolitics of the countries and the rough history, he could have played a studio mix to wow them and help relations. Not sure how old you are but it was a big thing then(no offense btw) It was like being an ambassador which was very prestigious at the time.
Vector A
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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Time really does stand still here.
Haha, no joke. Hottest topic of 2013, Silence ISOS Mix and Oakenfold's mixing abilities!
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SYSTEM-J
Oh no, poor old Oakey is getting insulted. I'm sure he'll be crying tears tonight into his pillow of pure cocaine.
Syntonic
How about Tiesto's Unreleased Mix of Southern Sun which only him and Oakenfold had. It sure blows the commercial release away. Lyrics were very dark and were later changed.
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Not going to lie, when Dave Seaman dropped the Fade Sanctuary Mix in the Annexe at Cream, I belted my lungs out.
I can give you the 192khz 24-bit version ripped directly from my vinyl copy. Using a Allen & Heath mixer, RME soundcard and a Technics 1210mk2 :)
Speaking of Oakie i can salute him mixing a short mix using some of the tracks he used in the tour on vinyls of course.
SYSTEM-J
I'm alright cheers. If I ever want to mix with it I'll just grab it from the Delerium remix collection album.
The great thing about the Fade mix is it's not so recognisable in a club until the vocal comes in. When Seaman dropped it at Cream it seemed to come out of nowhere, and everyone went nuts when they recognised it.
Trance-MB
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Originally posted by srussell0018
What makes them not trance? I'm actually asking so please no cheeky "not being trance makes them not trance" answers.
I also had some questions why it was released on this, in 1995 before it became a hit:
