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::::::::. **** TA DJ Challenge Series - Genre Challenge 7 (COMPLETE) **** .:::::::: (pg. 20)
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| Bierheld |
So I listened to the NYHH mix, as it was the one I was most curious about. I was almost expecting some stylistic overlap between it and my mix, but apart from some familiar names it was quite a different beast in the end.
To start with the music, if there's anything it has in common with hard house as I know it it's that when it's good it's really good, but when it's not it can get rather obnoxious pretty quickly.
It started of promising, during the beginning stretch i was really enjoying myself, then I started to cool down during off the hook, which felt a bit sappy to me and when we eventually reached A Walk Through N.Y.C. it was really starting to grate on me.
It did recover with a nifty Missy Elliott remix and a nice chunky percussion workout from James Anderson. At the end didn't really sit right with me, didn't think it needed to be there, but the mix certainly came alive when all of that was set and done and I have no more major complaints after that point.
So, it was interesting but it definitely had it's ups and downs for me. I'm in the middle on whether I really like this music or not, it can certainly be fun but a lot of it didn't have much in the way of interesting percussion for me, which tends to be what I look for in dance music. |
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| Bierheld |
| quote: | Originally posted by montana
Bierheld. A well done mix on most respects. I think my only remark is that I didn't like the last couple of tunes went into a progressive house route, almost trance to a certain degree. There is some of that idea in the Wild Pitch style that DJ Pierre evolved but not that much. |
Yeah I understand, as is said before I was running out of ideas there. Basically I knew what I was doing up until the Kim English track, and after that I was sort of just throwing in leftover tracks to fill the time requirement.
The Josh Wink track in particular wasn't really supposed to be there. I picked it up because I wasn't expecting to come across his work during my searching and I figured it might symbolize a bit of a UK-connection if I'd manage to include it somewhere, but that didn't work out in the end as I ended up going for a different direction. I think my thought process for when I included it anyway at the end is that I figured it would serve as a bit of a throwback to the more fantastical music in the first half, but when listening to it it just felt a bit lame in the end. |
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| Lews |
| I'm having some problems uploading/downloading large files at the moment, hopefully I can download everyone's/upload mine in the next few days. |
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| ziptnf |
Mixes are due this Friday, guys.
Lews, djdk, wotyzoid, Mr Game+Watch, jonmitz. You guys haven't turned in your mixes yet. Hurry it up! |
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| Mr Game+Watch |
| Yeah, I'll be getting to it this week, for sure! |
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| jonmitz |
| quote: | Originally posted by ziptnf
Mixes are due this Friday, guys.
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Oh nice, I thought I already missed it... :) I have a bunch of tracks selected but I wasn't too happy that I got too close to what is considered industrial, and then got busy the past week and unable to work on it.
I should have enough time to finish a mix, I'll probably keep it short this round to try to stick to the genre better. |
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| djdk |
| I'm working on it! Will have something done by Friday. Just trying to juggle far too many things at the moment (one of which includes a pregnant wife who tends to take priority over pretty much everything else ;)) |
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| Mr Game+Watch |
Anddd... I'm finished, just gotta do some mastering and run the compressor and all that jazz, but it's getting a bit late and I'm tired. Should have it up for you Thursday night...
...then it's finally time to start listening and reviewing others mixes. |
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| Meat187 |
^^
Great to hear, definitely interested in the Hard Trance mix.
And zip, I didn't get around to listen to yours yet, but I'll certainly have something to say about it... :) |
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| djdk |
So when I drew downtempo lounge I'll be honest my reaction was a bit meh, I was kinda hoping for one of the more, err, bangin genres to get my teeth in to. Nonetheless, I started listening to the downtempo/lounge channel on di.fm at work to try and get some ideas. As I listened it dawned on me that I actually already had quite a lot of stuff that falls in to this category (or at least in my interpretation of it) and had in fact started putting together a list of tracks for a mix that had never actually got anywhere.
Anyway, the upshot of all this rambling is the below. All of the tracks are real personal favourites that mean quite a lot to me. Whilst I could have delved deeper into the genre to find more tracks that may have fitted together from a mixing point of view, its actually a real pleasure to get these onto a mix I and share it with people. I hope it's "loungey" enough, I think all of the tracks fit in with the lounge aesthetic, even if they may not be strictly categorized as lounge music.
01: A Man Called Adam - Easter Song [Other Records]
02: Lemon Jelly - A Tune For Jack [XL]
03: Language Lab - Burning Disaster (Groove Armadas Bedtime Story Mix) [Kahuna Cuts]
04: 4 Wings Penelope (Radio Edit) [Manifesto]
05: Dido - Worthless [BMG]
06: Dusted - Childhood [Go! Beat]
07: Beanfield - Planetary Deadlock [Compost Records]
08: Beats International - Dub Be Good To Me (Accapella) [Go! Discs]
09: Bonobo - The Plug (Quantic Mix) [Tru Thoughts]
10: Lazyboy - Nothing To Be Afraid Of [Sunday Best]
11: Oversoul ft. Gramma Funk - Universal Unfolding [DJMag]
12: Basement Jaxx - Being With You [XL] |
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| wotyzoid |
Here is mine, guys. I tried not to veer too far off my idea of Nu Jazz, but it is still a very loose mix as far as both mixing and interpretation go. I'm no Nu/Future/Acid Jazz connoisseur by any means, but I am somewhat familiar with a few labels that put out that sort of music on occasion, so it wasn't too difficult for me to get around once I got started. Not much planning other than that, a couple of hours digging, recorded in one shot. Maybe I'm totally off the mark, I don't know.
A little goodbye-summer ode.
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01. DJ Cam - Hot [Inflamable]
02. Quasimode - Last Nine Days [Sonar Kollektiv]
03. Jazzanova - Now There Is We feat. Paul Randolph (Metome Remix) [Sonar Kollektiv]
04. DJ Cam - Seven [Inflamable]
05. Ananda Project - Secret Sky [Ananda Project Recordings]
06. Quasimode - Over The Horizon (Soulphiction Remix) [Sonar Kollektiv]
07. Amon Tobin - Easy Muffin [Ninja Tune]
08. Trüby Trio - Carajillo (Jazzanova Remix) [Compost Records]
09. Skalpel - Break In (J's Remix) [Ninja Tune]
10. Nu Tropic - Jessica [Jazzmin Records]
11. Jazztronik - Samurai [Pantone Music]
12. Uyama Hiroto - 81 Summer [Tribe]
13. Hajime Yoshizawa - Verao No Ar [Especial Records]
14. Sleep Walker - Ai-No-Tabi [Especial Records] |
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| Mr Game+Watch |
Well, as promised, here is my hard trance mix. To be honest, I wasn't terribly enthused at my chosen genre... usually I've been pretty lucky with these competitions, getting expansive, vibrant genres that I don't know too much about but have a ton of great tracks to be mined (psytrance, detroit techno, tribal). When researching the genre, my start point was the stuff I listened to back in the day that was considered "harder" than your standard trance - Marco V, Derb, Warp Bros., Cosmic Gate, etc... a bit more research and some help with friends who are big fans of the stuff and I learned that the genre's heyday is long past (the majority of my mix consists of tracks from the 2001-2003 period). I'm going to make the assumption that the remnants of this sound got swept up by the all-encompassing "EDM", namely the harder-tinged Dmitri Vegas&Like Mike/Showtek/Bassjackers/Martin Garrix stuff.
Anyways, I did manage to eventually get some inspiration and put out a mix with a lot of songs from back in the day that I still love (Suburban Train is my favorite trance track so I had to include the harder Cosmic Gate remix, always wanted to play out Durban Poison but that's kinda hard when you usually play ~120-130 BPM house, Derb was a massive hit here in NYC), along with a few new ones I found.
Comments welcome! I have listened to the hard house and liquid funk mixes so far, will listen to the others and comment shortly!
Tracklist
- Cosmic Gate - Analog Feel
- Freek Geuze - Rock Star
- Marco V - Atlanta 02-02-2002
- Derb - Derb
- Armani and Ghost - Airport
- Rank 1 - Awakening (Benicio Mix)
- Tiesto - Flight 643
- Tiesto - Urban Train (Cosmic Gate Remix)
- Joop - 3008 (S.H.O.K.K. Mix)
- Yakooza - Cocaine (Wag Re-Remix)
- Brooklyn Bounce - Born To Bounce (Warp Brothers Remix)
- Olly Perris and Ashley Sinclair - Durban Poison
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