Another old-school progressive trance mix. What can I say? This emerged from the Rapid Transit sessions and is a close relative to those mixes, almost like the deeper CD1 that would always precede the banging CD2 back in the good old days. Nothing too clever then, but I really love the flow on this one.
01. Weekend World - The Word [Yooshi]
02. Terry Lee Brown Jr - Terry's House [Plastic City]
03. Menage A Trois - Vertical Beats [Convert]
04. Menage A Trois - Centre Point [Convert]
05. Steve Porter & John Debo - Deported [Bedrock]
06. Greed & Absolut - The Other Side [ACDC]
07. DJ Remy & Roland Klinkenberg - Fearless [Electronic Elements]
08. Shiloh - Reaction [Baroque]
09. Orinoko - Island (Moguai Remix) [Positiva]
10. Dove Beat - La Paloma (Ocean Remix) [Black Hole]
11. Lustral - Everytime (Nalin & Kane Remix) [Hooj Choons]
12. John Johnson - London [Marc Et Claudes]
13. Schiller - Ruhe (Humate Remix) [Data]
Sushipunk
Well of course I'm in.
Syntonic
I'll give this a try. Fearless and La Paloma are still some favs today, the rest look good too.
Lews
I hate to say it, Jack, but this is probably my least favourite of your latest (c.2015-2016) mixes - for the simple reason that it's too short.
I mean that in both a good sense and a bad sense, however. In the good sense, I was enjoying this very, very much, and then it ended after nary 84 minutes.
In the bad sense, I'm not sure this set is programmed as well as your other sets. Every transition is great, the overall flow is good, but I'm not sure you 'earn,' so to speak, the transition from 'Island' to 'La Paloma.' It feels you bring things down to a more chilled-out level too quickly; 30 minutes of chilled trance is wonderful, but it feels slightly uneven after only 50 minutes of harder stuff. It would feel better if it were after 90 minutes of harder stuff, say.
On another note, I have to say that I'm slightly concerned you've hacked into my computer. I was working on a modern-style mix recently, but threw it away when you used my opening track, 'Sunflower,' for the opening track of one of your sets. Then I start looking at a more old-school deep-prog set, and you go and steal my opening track again :p (though I suppose we're both following after Warren, in a way, with that one). Not quite sure what that says about the compatibility of our taste in music, but it's rather annoying :p
All said, this mix is being looked at from a rather high bar, as all your latest stuff has been top-notch, and this is still an excellent mix - it just leaves me slightly wanting. I look forward to your next one, and best of luck with the marathon :)
SYSTEM-J
Yeah, I appreciate what you're saying. I find quite often when I'm playing around mixing that I tend to follow the flow into really mellow territory quite readily, and it doesn't always make sense. Personally it doesn't bother me at all on this mix, though, and it sounds like you still enjoyed it.
Didn't I once release a mix called "Lush" when you were working on a mix with the same title?
enydo
hey there
Woony
Interesting to see Terry's House in a progressive trance mix, I'd call it a tech house classic. Granted, it came out in that period where Plastic City transitioned from a trance/acid to a tech/deep house label.
JonDC
Track number 10 contains the 'too expensive' whistle which was quite funny.
I thought this mix was decent, all the tunes were good. My favourite bit by far was
07._DJ Remy & Roland Klinkenberg_- Fearless [Electronic Elements]
08._Shiloh_- Reaction [Baroque]
09._Orinoko_- Island (Moguai Remix) [Positiva]
I had forgotten how brilliant Fearless is - I will definately be digging that back out after hearing it here.
I thought your transition in to track 3 was pretty tooth itching though
SYSTEM-J
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Originally posted by Woony
Interesting to see Terry's House in a progressive trance mix, I'd call it a tech house classic. Granted, it came out in that period where Plastic City transitioned from a trance/acid to a tech/deep house label.
Yes it's definitely tech house, 1996-style, but the first track on that album - Our Rhythm - sounds exactly like an Oliver Lieb production. You could put that track on The Hive and nobody would notice. I was expecting proper mid-90s deep house when I first heard Brother For Real, full of saxophones and , so I got a bit of a shock.
Incidentally, I'd be interested in hearing recommendations on similar-sounding mid-90s tech. I love the spacious rhythms and crispy synth noises. Mixes up very nicely with progressive as well.
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Originally posted by JonDC
I thought your transition in to track 3 was pretty tooth itching though
Interesting. You're right in that it's out of key, but I thought it sounded fine in practice. Either your ears are getting better or mine are getting worse. I'm curious now if anyone else found it unpleasant.
Woony
Plastic City is a goldmine for that sound, tons and tons of stuff that sounds exactly like that, often quite obscure. There's also Phuture Wax which featured some early Timewriter etc. productions which fall in that area between trance and tech house.
Other than that Steve Rachmad did two albums as Tons Of Tones that have that kind of sound.
Some mid 90s Touché maybe as well.
For more i'd have to dig deep into my wantlist which probably isn't that useful to you, considering most of that probably still hasn't made it into the digital domain.
Here's Ferry Corsten giving it a go :p
SYSTEM-J
Cheers for the recommendations, I'll do some exploring. That 51 Days track is exactly what I'm after - Jamez is another name I've just started digging back into. All this rugged, percussive, spacious stuff with the trancey touches is absolutely where my head is at right now. There must be a way of bringing this sound together with Detroit techno and the deepest side of trance into pounding-percussive-blissful-5am-nirvana.
Woony
There's tons like that 51 days track if you spent some time digging. It's a sound that almost writes itself with the classic techno maschines. Some 909 drums, some Prophet bass, some Juno noodling on top - there you go.
Did you check out my January mix? I think it's going a bit in the direction you've outlined. It lacks that rave-y vibe these 90s production have though.
