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Jack Moss - Skipton's Only Prog Night [Warm Up Set]
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| SYSTEM-J |
So, a few weeks ago some friends convened in the sleepy Yorkshire town of Skipton to have a party and play some tunes. I was tasked with warming the night up, and this here is the recording from that night. The opening stages are on more of a deep and dreamy Lee Burridge trip, followed by some housier grooves and then the spacey prog pay-off in the second half. I think the result flows quite nicely.
There's one glaring key clash in there, which I'm sure you'll notice - I managed to do what every USB-stick DJ has done at least once, and cue up the wrong track on the deck. Whoops!
01. Jay Phonic - Glowstick [Inyan]
02. Depeche Mode - Cover Me (Dixon Remix) [Columbia]
03. Clara Hill - Silent Roar (Neil Quigley Remix) [Kingbrittarchives]
04. Rodriguez Jr - 1pm Sunrise [Watergate]
05. YokoO & Retza - Euneirophrenia [All Day I Dream]
06. Nicolas Masseyeff - Grain Blanc [Systematic]
07. Rodriguez & Sordo - Vestidor de Noche (Hauswerks Remix) [Underground Audio]
08. Eagles & Butterflies - Experiment C [Art Imitating Life]
09. The Modernist - Remodernist [Kompakt]
10. LOM - Saturno [Dopamine]
11. Matteo Monero - Anunnaki (Hot TuneiK Remix) [Balkan Connection]
12. Ambassador - The Fade (Guy J Remix) [Lost & Found]
13. Betoko - Jupiterness (Pascal FEOS & Toni Rios Remix) [Smiley Fingers]
14. Evolution - The Phoenix (Guy J Remix) [Soundcloud]
15. Interaxxis - Kicking Problems [Replug]
16. Simple Symmetry - Voodoo Your Ex [Disco Halal]
17. ARTBAT - Tabu [fryhide]
18. Tube & Berger - Ruckus (feat. Richard Judge) [Kittball]
19. Mariano Mellino & Interaxxis - Woodland [Hope]
20. Dios S & George X - Cascade [Movement]
21. &Me - Cape Coast [Keinemusic]
EDIT: Immediately had to replace the file due to a glitch. Good start. |
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| djdk |
Well I thoroughly enjoyed this. Didn't manage to get through it all in one session but it accompanied a long row in the gym and my 7 mile scoot into work so two large chunks.
Mixing and flow were solid. Nothing fancy, just well placed baseline changes that kept everything moving along nicely which is what you want from a warm up set.
Stand out tunes for me were Silent Roar, Anunnaki and that Guy J mix of Pheonix which doesn't sound that much like the original (or is it the breeder mix I'm thinking of?) but is still class.
Nice work mate. Two thumbs fresh from me |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Cheers Dave. I reckon you must be thinking of the Breeder remix, because Guy J doesn't do an awful lot with The Phoenix except slow it down and get rid of the main breakdown. This reminds me as well - I need to leave a review of your newest one.
If you're in the mood for some more fancy mixing, I'd recommend checking out my NYE mix. I'd like to think I was approaching some DK-level blending on that one. |
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| JonDC |
I shall give a slightly more thorough review!
Have listened to this a few times now and have thoroughly enjoyed it. The 2 vocals track at the start are very memorable - I'd never play the Depeche mode number but will secretly sing along to it in the car, and I absolutely love 'Silent Roar'
Some nice chunky tech housey numbers follow and I especially like Grain Blanc which I didn't spot in the tracklist up front but grinned when I heard it mixed in. Then you build up to the trancey bit - my personal favourite was Annunaki which I will be stealing, and then the guy j mix of the fade. I wasn't sure if this was slightly too 'big' for the mix really, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it.
I think it was clear that you were punctuating the mix with that one as you take it back down in to house territory afterwards which flows along nicely until we get to 'Voodoo Your Ex', which is good fun but to be honest, I'm very surprised to hear it in one of your sets - I'd have thought you would hate that! It goes brilliantly into Artbat, which keeps the tribal vibes and ethnic chanting going but brings the mood down into a more atmospheric territory, where it stays until the end of the set.
So all in all a really enjoyable mix. I personally don't feel that the flow is a patch on your peak time set on NYE, which had more of a consistent theme all the way through, whilst maintaining great variety. This one isn't all over the place, but definitely doesn't have quite the same sense of cohesiveness. Would certainly enjoy it in a club as a warm up set to a massive night though! |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Cheers for the detailed review. Amusing that both you and Dave pick Anunnaki as one of the highlights, as that was the tune I played by accident.
It's interesting how differently we can interpret the same tunes. For instance, I thought that Jupiterness was a very similar tune to The Fade - chunky, spacey prog - and actually kicks the energy up a gear. Like wise with Artbat and then Tube & Berger, but once again you adjudged that section to be bringing things down.
Overall, though, you're right - I wanted to have more of an ebb and flow to this set, as it's a warm-up set. I find it difficult to create interesting flow over the course of a mix without roughly building upwards in momentum, but to avoid turning the set into an arms race it was important to occasionally smooth it off again. Particularly at the end, I deliberately reeled things in to give the next guy a platform.
Glad you enjoyed, either way. Oh, and Voodoo Your Ex is a brilliant tune. I originally stole that from DJ Tennis, and then was dancing around like a loon when I saw Nick Warren drop it in a big warehouse in Liverpool. |
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