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::::::::. **** TA DJ Challenge Series - Theme Mix (completed) **** .:::::::: (pg. 13)
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| djdk |
Hypersleep, suspended animation, stasis whatever you want to call it, is often used as a device to get around the disparity between the enormity of space and the brevity of any single human existence. What would it be like? Would you dream? If so what would it be like to dream for 5, 10, 100 years? What would it mean for the human condition if you lived for 100 or 200 years after your birth but with a normal physical age? Would the human race split into those that travel between the stars and those that remain on their home-worlds?
This is what was running through my head when I was putting this together, I think it fits with the theme fairly well. I've tried to pick tracks that evoke the vastness of space and also the loneliness and isolation that might arise from an interstellar existence.
Were I to have more time I would probably like to dig a bit deeper for more tracks but if I dont submit this now I will miss the deadline, which would be a real shame!
Enjoy!
01. Voyager 1 - Sounds Of Jupiter [NASA]
02. Aphex Twin - #5 [Warp]
03. Global Communication - 9:39 [Dedicated]
04. The Orb - Back Side Of The Moon [Universal]
05. Future Sound Of London - Everyone In The World Is Doing Something 06. Without Me [Virgin]
07. Cell - Floating Retention [Ultimae]
08. Future Sound Of London - Vertical Pig [Virgin]
09. Space Manoeuvres - Pentexplorer [Lost Language]
10. Outer Space Alliance - Dea Alba [Holy Feather]
11. James Horner - Aliens OST Main Title [Fox]
12. Antibreak - Planet Eater [Offworld Recordings]
13. Scro & LM1 - Unexpected [Influenza]
14. Voyager - Hypersleep (EZ Rollers Remix) [R&S] |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Looks tasty Dave, and something a little different from you as well. Little drum ‘n bass twist at the end by the looks of it – D&B making a good showing in this competition so far. |
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| djdk |
Yeah the thing I've enjoyed about these challenges previously is the actual challenge of doing something well outside of the comfort zone. Its just a shame I've been so damn busy this month and haven't had as much time as I would have liked to crate dig. I literally only started on Sunday morning and didnt really finalise the concept in my head til Monday night.
Still, perhaps the pressure helps the creative juices! |
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| jonmitz |
listening to zipnif's mix and really enjoying it so far. will edit with updates when i finish (which will be later tonight due to meetings from 3-5!)
e: yeah this is amazing. sent to a bunch of my friends |
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| Mr Game+Watch |
So far I've listened to all the mixes in the thread at least once... will be posting reviews once I get one or two more listens under my belt. Really feeling Dave's so far, it's EXACTLY what I expected a sci-fi mix to be.
My own mix is coming, unfortunately it seems a lot of the tracks I picked out, while rhythmic, have wildly varying BPM ranges. So I might mix a few of them, do some ambient blends, etc... gotta see how I can do this. It's not like the usual for me where either I have 5+ hours and tons of tracks to gradually ramp up BPMs, or I stick between a few BPM.
So far I have the TL picked out, the theme and the cover art :P It's definitely sci-fi, but at the same time it's definitely me.
Driving out to the Hamptons on Saturday so I will make this mix for the ride... |
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| Psyshell |
| I really enjoyed djdk's mix. There was a wide variety of musical styles but it still had a strong overall theme and nice flow. Thanks for the mix! |
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| ziptnf |
| The deadline is tomorrow. We have 5 participants that have not yet submitted a mix. Do I need to give one more extension? |
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| Mr Game+Watch |
| I'm putting the finishing touches on the mix, should be ready for tomorrow night but I wouldn't mind a few days extension just in case. |
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| Lews |
Considering a Science Fiction themed mix, I wanted to go the "Soundtrack to an Imaginary Film" route. While I initially wanted to go in a distinctive dystopian direction, I found myself pushed more and more toward Outer Space. Yep, it's pretty much the basic go-to for Science Fiction, but what can I say? Anyways, I still wanted to go the soundtrack route, telling some type of story. I ended up actually writing a few paragraphs of a plot outline to keep my mix focused, and I'm rather pleased with how it (the mix) turned out.
I started trying to actually image what it would be like to go to space and decided that, as much as I'd love to do so, the actual act would probably give me an anxiety attack. So, I'd probably try to take some type of anxiety medicine before blasting off. In that light, this mix starts off rather idyllic (in my view), before the medicine starts to wear off and the journey goes to unexpected places.
I'm still trying to figure out a couple of the labels and exact remixes I used for some of the songs, so I'll post those on the SoundCloud page when I sort it out - either later tonight or sometime tomorrow. I'd actually recommend listening without looking at the tracklist, for more of a spoiler-free listen, if you will, but people are, of course, free to do as they wish.
The mixing isn't perfect, I admit, as this is actually my first mix in two years [:wtf:], but hopefully it doesn't detract too much.
Anyways, hope some people enjoy this, and don't find it too clichéd.
I'll start writing reviews for other mixes later this week :)
Also, I have no idea how to make the SoundCloud widget allow downloads without going to the actual page. Why'd they have to make this so complicated? |
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| Mr Game+Watch |
So finally, here's my genre mix. I thought long and hard about what I wanted to do with this mix... take the "outer space" route with dubby ambient and turn-of-the-century progressive? Go quirky and goofy sci-fi B-movie with obscure moog-synth and theremin pieces? Do a post-apocalyptic themed mix with raw minimal techno and bleak, droning ambient? Instead, I settled on an aesthetic and a style of music I absolutely am enamored with...
This mix is my attempt to convey driving your shiny new Testarossa through a neon-glazed cyberpunk future-that-never-was version of Tokyo... whether it be racing down electrified streets, attempting to outrun the cops in a corporate-fueled police state, or simply going for a leisurely cruise with your woman... this is the soundtrack of your Neo-Tokyo night.
Enjoy!
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1) Tokyo Rose - Vice
2) Converter - Lost Years
3) Nick Force - Faded Love
4) Labtracks - Driver (Domestic Technology's Miami Vice Remix)
5) Mitch Murder feat. EeL - Galaxy Train 1989
6) Lazerhawk - Space Is The Place
7) Perturbator - Miami Disco
8) Power Glove - Motorcycle Cop
9) Kavinsky - 1986
10) Lueur Verte - Night Slasher II (Perturbator Remix)
11) Droid Bishop - Light Years
12) Bestrack - Stamina
13) Anoraak - Nightdrive With You (Grum Mix)
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| Sand Leaper |
My mix is done too. Listening back, however, there are some annoying skips/artifacts in the intro that I don't recall being there when I mixed it. I'll see if I can fix it up a bit when I get home from work this evening. If not, it can't be helped.
I did upload the mix to Speedyshare yesterday evening, as I have no webspace, but the link gets flagged for spyware when I try to download it. I'll get a Mixcloud or something together, as it's probably the best for sharing mixes with people anyway. I really should have set this up in advance, and I apologise for not being able to keep the deadline because of it. It won't happen again. |
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| Sand Leaper |
| quote: | Originally posted by djdk
01. Voyager 1 - Sounds Of Jupiter [NASA]
02. Aphex Twin - #5 [Warp]
03. Global Communication - 9:39 [Dedicated]
04. The Orb - Back Side Of The Moon [Universal]
05. Future Sound Of London - Everyone In The World Is Doing Something 06. Without Me [Virgin]
07. Cell - Floating Retention [Ultimae]
08. Future Sound Of London - Vertical Pig [Virgin]
09. Space Manoeuvres - Pentexplorer [Lost Language]
10. Outer Space Alliance - Dea Alba [Holy Feather]
11. James Horner - Aliens OST Main Title [Fox]
12. Antibreak - Planet Eater [Offworld Recordings]
13. Scro & LM1 - Unexpected [Influenza]
14. Voyager - Hypersleep (EZ Rollers Remix) [R&S] |
Really enjoyed the first half of this. The tracks really capture the same kind of vast, yet utterly isolated feeling that the idea of suspended animation/stasis gives me, and the transitions from tracks 3 to 5 are tremendous in that sense.
Not quite so keen on the second half, where the more rhythmic tracks are introduced. That's partly because I don't much care for drum n bass these days, and partly because introducing rhythms into the picture kind of breaks the spell of the first half. Personally, I would have preferred staying within the beatless realm, to see what other textures and undercurrents you would have worked your way into.
These are just issues related to my own taste, though. Regarding the theme of the challenge itself, I think this mix does the job very nicely indeed, and makes me wonder what you would have done with more time at your disposal. |
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