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Hey guys, sorry for being so late with reviews. I'm in the process of moving out of my house and shit has been crazy with that (and also trying to push out my October mix). Some of these reviews have been saved in a notepad for a few weeks, so my apologies for not posting some of these right away. I wanted to wait until everyone submitted their mix.

Here we go!

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lievez - The Psychill 'I Suppose' Mix Carbon Based Lifeforms - Terpene Asura - An Talamh CJ Catalizer - 2012 Shpongle - Brain in a Fishtank Ephemeral Mists - Namas Ott - Squirrel and Biscuits Zymosis - Path of Nocturnal How I worked: - Googled 'Psychill' (read) - Googled 'Psychill artists' (watched) - Googled 'Psychill artist song' (listened) - Collected a few good songs which I thought fitted the description of Psychill (acted) - Try to make a smooth mix (mixed) The 'read - watched - listened - acted - mixed' - way ! Since there are a lot of dreamy sounds, stretching strings and blurry beats, the best thing I could come up with was trying to mix everything melodic. Blending sounds and strings... I kept it short because I felt I couldn't do anything more or anything special to make it sound extra special for people who are not familiar (like me) with this genre.

Overall I get the sense with this mix that you did it like you would do a project in school that you aren't interested in. Only the bare minimum and enough to get a passing grade. While I do like the tunes (The Ott track is neat), and given your description of how you basically just googled Psychill and selected tracks from the first few artists you found, this seems a little haphazardly put together. I think one interesting thing that you did is that you got all different flavors of psychill: the ethnic, the ambient, the downtempo-ish, the weird, and the trancey. However, the 46 minutes this set encompasses is barely enough to even warrant a good review. There is simply no development in the set at all, just 7 tracks you strung together. I feel like you could have gotten at least 3-4 more tracks (Ektoplazm has TONS of free ambient/psychill music) and made this an actual mix. It's just effort, that's all, and it doesn't seem like you really took enough time to do a little more research.

I don't agree with the way jonmitz analyzed your mix from a perspective that he was expecting you to make a global ethnic/psychill/world fusion mix. Psychill is a huge subgenre and you selected different flavors, since we made sure to specify that you could, and not just select the sound that he was looking for. I think he missed the point on that one.

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Bierheld - Ballroom Controversy Nitro Deluxe – Let’s Get Brutal (Aldo Martin Remix) [Cutting Records, 1987] Floppy Sounds – Ultrasong [Wave Music, 1994] Francois K – Mindspeak [Wave Music, 1996] Floppy Sounds – Ultrasong (Studio A mix) [Wave Music, 1995] Armand Van Helden, The Banana Spiffs – Crusty The Cavemen (Land Of The Lost Mix) [Cutting Records, 1994] The Daou - Give Myself To You feat. Vanessa Daou (Buzzard Dub) [TRIBAL, 1994] Kim English - Nite Life (Sound Factory Version) [Nervous Records, 1994] George Morel - Let's Groove (Original Mix) [Strictly Rhythm, 1992] CL McSpadden - I Can't Stop Going (Original Mix) [Maxi Records, 1992] Winx - Up BW Feeling Good (Nervous Mix) [Nervous Records, 1992] Floppy Sounds - Actual Footage (Original Mix) [Wave Music, 1995] Right, so I mentioned I had some difficulties with this. Really they were all self-imposed. Upon getting garage as my assigned genre the NY hard-house debate was still on the back of my mind, which I think influenced the result here. Given the fact that this was supposed to be a challenge I had basically confined myself very early on to try and get as close to an original and authentic view of the genre as I could. For this I’d have to work in it’s infancy, as I just don’t know what this genre is about no matter how many vague quotes and descriptions I read about it. I just wasn’t convinced this was doable for this challenge. Unfortunately what I’d feared would happen indeed became a reality. Beatport doesn’t really have much in the way of 80’s dance music, a few seminal releases but nothing I could really make a mix out of. Everything else from that era will have been hidden in more recent rereleases, and tracking all those back to see what year they actually came from just didn’t seem like fun to me. So I gradually loosened the cuffs a little bit. I consulted the genre’s Wikipedia entry and traced some of the supplied artists and labels down on beatport, I basically decided to stick with whatever struck my fancy from them. I ended up with what is mostly early nineties material, hoping the mere theoretical proximity would be enough to classify them as being part of the garage scene. One of the major finds from that page was Francois K and his label wave music, which was was of help in supplying enough interesting material to initially trigger my motivation. As such the imprint ended up being featured heavily in the first half of the mix. Some of them definitely seem to drift towards techno and house genres, but I figure that’s just a consequence of dance music being in a very experimental phase at the time. I also tried the paradise garage wiki but that contained such a clusterfuck of styles and artists I figured it best to just forget about it. What I ended up with was just over a dozen songs, hardly a fifth of what I’m used to working with in terms of pool-sizes. Combine that with the fact that I haven’t done a proper dance-music mix in almost a decade and you’ve got yourself another problem. The initial plan was that I was going to do some sampling work with the few 80’s tracks I’d managed to pick up. They weren’t going to fit in very well with the more polished and vocal-starved material from the 90’s but I still wanted to add a subtle suggestion of heritage to the mix somehow. This was what I was breaking my head over in the first week, I had made some minor progress on the mixing front but the more I experimented with it the more it became clear to me that all this work was going to be of no benefit to the actual mix and certainly not to my attitude towards it. I figured that at the end of the day it’s just dance music, it doesn’t need to be a history lesson. I set aside the quasi-artistic aspirations and set out to just mix the damn thing. And so I did, sat down after a night out on Saturday and it was done barely an hour later. Listened to it today. It’s definitely a bit half-assed and lazy, but I’m okay with that. Did some minor polishing work and rendered it out shortly after. I hope it will be of some enjoyment to however ends up listening to it. I'm just glad to get it out of my life. As for the challenge, I’m not sure if I’ll do this again. I’m just not one for studying genres, it doesn’t interest me and I never seem able to get a grip on it. I still can’t explain to anyone what garage music is really supposed to be other then a regional offshoot in early house music that ended up growing more and more ambiguous and undefinable, but I suppose I did learn of some interesting music anyway. I hardly managed to challenge myself in the end because of my ever present ambivalence to the subject though, and that’s a bit of a shame I guess.

I've already mentioned how I feel about your mental approach to this mix: you got a draw that was a bad matchup for your knowledge-base and skill-set. But you let it get in your head, the fact that you were so unfamiliar with the genre and there were such poor selections available and ready. It's not like you can go to the "90's garage" section of beatport. From my perspective, you let the vastness of the interpretation get in your head and you felt overwhelmed. I think people more familiar with Garage would have probably had a much larger selection to choose from, but either way, you did a good job of researching the genre from no point of reference and you put together a mix with tracks encompassing that sound. Like livez, I think you may have come up just short of being able to tell a full story with the mix, but I think here it was more due to you not having as much selection and availability than anything else. Anyway, on to the content of the mix: knowing nothing about garage myself, I wouldn't be able to tell you if you were accurate from a historical standpoint. But what I do know is that it's like some nice early house music. I actually played "Let's Groove" in my first challenge mix! Mixing was fine for the most part, and the tunes were cohesive. I think you did a fine job and you should give it another shot next year. Maybe you will get a better draw and you'll enjoy it more. That's the fun in the whole thing.

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Mitztronic - Steel and Steam I was given "Industrial" - which I interpreted as very high level description of types of sounds and feelings or emotions evoked by the music. I have interpreted this genre as a style of music that focuses on dark themes, unnerving sounds, and oftentimes harsh and abrasive tones. Beat structure varies greatly, and some songs even have constantly evolving rhythms, which should give the listener some confusion or, to reuse the word, make them feel a bit unnerved. The general idea, from my perspective, was to make a mix that takes the listener through an, at times, uncomfortable journey, through dark and "mysterious" - and by that, I mean, unnerving passages, with the use of intense sounds, literal industrial (i.e. manufacturing machines) type soundscapes. How I went about making this mix: I have been collecting tracks like this for some time. I've never compiled them together in any way and they were scatted throughout my library. I scanned through the mix that zipnif posted to make sure my idea of what industrial was at least on par with what he had in mind - the only additional research I did was to read a thread on the SA forums, which was focused on "electro-industrial", some pages online (including wikipedia), and asking some friends who occasionally listen to "industrial music". The majority of the time was spent digging up tracks from the past 3 or 4 years, and then downselecting them based on the themes described above, by my understanding of industrial. I've never mixed this type of music before, and it was a lot of fun. 1. Vortex - Billy Dalessandro 2. manifest yourself - Sonic Area 3. Wolke - Milch-Labor 4. Kippschwingungen part 8 - Frank Bretschneider 5. Submarino - Allan Nielsen 6. Man's Garden - Mario Bajardi 7. Sapphire - Allan Nielsen 8. Greater Geometry (ASC Remix) - RQ 9. Transfurl - Rami Abraham 10. Hydrus - Gatekeeper 11. Barrier Free - Liza Nicklin 12. Zero Station - FLVKE 13. La Plage - Burnsfield 14. Act of God - The Stanislavsky 15. Vortex - Sidecar Tommy 16. Visitor - Gatekeeper 17. Vengier - Gatekeeper 18. Mirror Fragment - Alexander Lewis 19. Supernova - LuneCell 20. War - Tetsuo Shima 21. Swamp Beat - Ital Tek 22. Witch Hunt - Antiteq 23. Truth & Loss (Fracture's Astrophonica Remix) - House of Black Lanterns 24. Distant Rain - J.Robinson 25. Fulcrum - ASC 26. Namkha (Kahn Remix) - Ishan Sound 27. Noctilucent Clouds (Kasm Remix) - SuhniSea feat. Skyscaper 28. Of Blackest Grain To Missive Ruin (Paul Jebanasam Remix) - Emptyset Note that I am not good at describing music or genres, so PLEASE do not take offense to anything I've said above in my description. I did the best I can to prove a sort of introduction to my take on the genre and why I did what I did. e: i've downloaded all the other mixes (other than sand leaper's, which is stream only?) posted since bierheld, will start going through and wll probably post all my comments at once like zipnif. Just going to go ahead and say I was called out on another forum for using this word. Apparently the proper definition for these words is something like this: https://soundcloud.com/nachtplan/nachtplan-tanz-vol15 - which I, honest to god, cant listen to for more than 3 seconds without wanting to tear out my eyeballs. I still consider some of the tracks harsh or abrasive, but it's more on a scale relative to the other stuff I listen to which is light, chill, and somewhat fluffy. I'm not so sure I got at all close to the genre here. Lots of the tracks are similar to some of the stuff I heard in the LIES podcast but a lot of it isn't. e: ya its pretty clear to me i fucked this mix up royally.

Despite your insistence to downplay your submission, it's significantly better than the mix you posted for the Theme Challenge. I think this set was right up your alley. You do stuff similar to this all the time, and this was a slow-pitch softball lob to you. This mix is totally fine. As Sand Leaper said when selections were handed out: "Industrial" spans so many sub genres, and is more of an approach rather than a specific sound. I think you managed to hit the nail on the head for this mix. I've used the LuneCell track in a mix before, and those kinds of dark, gritty atmospheres you highlighted in this mix were a great example of industrial music. It was definitely hard to listen to this at some points but it was a good interpretation and submission. (also you need to learn how to spell my fucking name right )

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djdk - Splendid 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]

Me and the lady listened to this the other night while we were chilling. Definitely a quality submission, and I'm glad these tracks all mean something to you. When assigning these genres, one of the biggest things I have to worry about is whether or not the people who receive the assigned genres are against making mixes of those styles. I was initially bummed when I read the start of your post saying how you felt "meh" but as you started digging you fell back into love with a forgotten or underappreciated sound. You definitely did a good job of showing your heart here. I can sense from the music alone that these tracks mean something to you. Lovely mix, dude, no complaints here. Actually this reminds me of a mix that Spike (sunsurge) would do. Nice work, Dave.

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Luke Drelick - Hard Trance Mix 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

Having been assigned Hard Trance in the past, I know the feelings you went through. When I was given the genre, my thoughts transitioned from "oh man, I'm not crazy about this genre" to "well actually there are a few tracks I know/own already that would work with this". And you re-discover some of the tracks you already like and put them in your mix. I think the difference between us, though, is the obvious sound signatures we displayed. In my hard trance mix, I had a hard, psychedelic tinge, with a variety of flavors like the darker hardstyle sound and the epic Alphazone 'hands-in-the-air' styles. Here you are using more of the classic hard trance vibe and I really appreciate that. I really liked this mix. You did a good job with the mixing and the flow (I liked that last track), as well as finding a way to connect yourself to the style. You didn't let a genre that you weren't excited about get you down.

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Organik - Empty Corridors 01. Critical Event - Butterflies Falling Down [Atmomatix] 02. Ellano - Disintegrating [Stepping Forward] 03. Eavesdrop feat. Keshia - Backlight [Liquid Brilliants] 04. Komatik - Lucid [Phunkfiction] 05. Semi Sense - Hidden Biotics [Liquid Brilliants] 06. Dan Guidance - Falling Deeper [Dirt, Lies & Audio Black] 07. Garon - June Bug [Taciturn] 08. Soul Cypherz - Enigma [Figment] 09. Wild Speed - Blue Waves [Bromosphere] 10. Soultec - The Groove [Think Deep] 11. MSDOS - Ancient Greeks [Liquid Drops] 12. London Elektricity - Attack Ships On Fire [Hospital] 13. S. Bluyer - Transparent Soul [Tree Story] Well, here it is - my understanding of liquid funk. I was going to make a track specifically for this mix, but I could not get it to sit right anywhere. Hopefully it's at least remotely what was expected. Let me know if the link doesn't work and I'll figure something out.

This is one of the first mixes I listened to, and I have re-listened about 3 times already. This is some really solid liquid-DNB/breaks/funk. Shit is excellent from start to finish. I only wish it was 15-20 minutes longer. Btw this mix is great to listen to when you clean your house. FYI.

It's a shame you couldn't get the track to work out, I would have loved to hear it in here (you can PM it to me if you want).

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Kenny Afonso - Tchau Verao Mix 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. Tchau Verão downloadthankstoSTU 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]

Okay so I've listened to this one twice already, and the entire thing is really neat. Usually I can't stand Jazz (a local radio station does 12 hours of Jazz every Sunday and I can't seem to appreciate it) but this mix had lots of neat jazz elements patchworked together in a dancey format. Hopefully this mix somewhat represents your tastes, as the idea seemed to be right up your alley. You had a lot of neat stuff: loungey jazzy vibes, piano rooms, funky basslines, weird noises, and an overall nice vibe for the genre. My only criticism is the occasional bad transition (I can't be arsed to point them out) but it didn't detract from the content of the mix. You nailed that. Nice work.

Favorite tracks: Quasimode - Over The Horizon (Soulphiction Remix), Jazztronik - Samurai

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unclemontana - Circuitry[/b] So the name of the game was New York Hard House and as anyone noted it was the most debated of the genres, not to me as it's a genre that I love. But not one that I generally play, or as often as i'd like, as my favourite tracks of the genre are utterly bombastic (for instance Vicious' Remixes of Veronica and the Thunderpuss Remixes of Whitney) or sound to much like epic trance (a few Hex Hector Remixes come to mind). For me this genre is more known as Circuit and I was already thinking in those directions but when Mr. Game+Watch had his suggestions into that field it was a slam dunk decision to make it so. The hardest part was to find something to start the whole thing with as I didn't want to go that full on directly, especially as it becomes really over the top eventually. But I used a hardbag-track that would work perfectly and then it was smooth sailing from there. I decided to use the dubs instead of the main vocal mixes on a few of the most obvious cuts (like Veronica, Whitney & Kim English) as it would be more interesting. It also gives it a different edge as it becomes a bit darker on those cuts and I wanted the end section to be more intense and boshy to contrast the more uplifting first half. Uncle Montana - Circuitry 20140926 Love To Infinity - Pray For Love (Episode IV Mix) | Mushroom Wayne G - Twisted (Danny Tenaglia Dub) | FFRR D'Influence - Midnite (Doctor Scratch's Paradox Stomp Mix) | EastWest Notorious B.I.G. - Mo' Money Mo' Problems (Razor & Guido Remix) | Bad Boy Jody Watley - Off The Hook (Soul Solution Remix) | Atlantic Ayumi Hamasaki - Trauma (Thunderpuss Dub) | Rhythm Republic George Morel - A Walk Through N.Y.C. | Strictly Rhythm NG3 - Tell Me (J.Hagman Dub) | Foundation Missy Elliott - Get Your Freak On (Superchumbo's Superfreakon) | Elektra Lula - The DJ, The Music & Me (James Andersen Remix) | Star 69 iiO - At The End (Johnny Vicious Remix) | Made Kim English - Unspeakable Joy (Razor & Guido Dub) | Nervous Veronica - Let Me Go... Release Me (Johnny Vicious Dub) | H.O.L.A. Charlotte - Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (Junior Vasquez Remix) | Nervous Whitney Houston - It's Not Right But It's Not Okay (Thunderpuss Dub) | Arista Tamia - Stranger In My House (Barry Harris Remix) | Elektra

This was a really cool mix. Divas everywhere. The Biggie remix was really neat, and the fact that so many of these famous Whitney Houston/Missy Elliot, etc artists were remixed for the NY Hard House was interesting. I wouldn't be able to tell you whether or not you hit the nail on the head since I don't know anything about the genre, but it certainly seems like you showcased it perfectly. The beats are actually significantly harder than I was expecting, and the contrast of the light and airy female vocals to the heavy beats are perfect. You knew exactly what you were doing in this mix and it shows. Nicely done.

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Sand Leaper - What Kinda Breaks You Got There I'm done as well now. This was originally meant to be a fun mixtape-like affair, where I'd go through a bunch of old stuff that has been sampled throughout the years by all genres utilising breakbeats. Then montana messaged me on Facebook and said that wasn't what he meant by funky breaks, but rather "breaks" as pioneered by labels like Skint, Fingerlickin' and Bolshi, which is the type of breaks I was never all that enthusiastic about. So, in the end, I gathered handful of tracks from the mid-late 90s, with a few oddities mixed in for good measure. That's about as fancy as I could be bothered to make the mix this time around. Beatmixing this in Traktor was an absolute nightmare, but it should be tolerable now, after a couple of attempts. What Kinda Breaks You Got There by Sand_Leaper on Mixcloud Sand Leaper - What Kinda Breaks You Got There 300914 Depth Charge - Bounty Killers Indian Ropeman - Indian Ropeman Danny Saber - Indian Summer Stone Players - Taking It Back Mantecao Y Su Combo - Achilifunk (Blackbeard Edit) Quasimoto - Return Of The Loop Digga Blackfeet - Dub Cat Alex Cortiz - Unwrap Me Big Muff - Pornstar (Big C's Groove Armada Mix) Flint - Theme From Flint DJ Mink feat. 2wice The Trouble - Hey! Hey! Can U Relate? Bassbin Twins - Two Turntables And A Crate Of Skint Frankie Dante & Orquesta Flamboyan Con Larry Harlow - My Daddy's Farm Sluts 'n Strings & 909 - Put Me On Tiny Trendies - The Sky Is Not Crying (Swag's Sky High Mix) Whirlpool Productions - Harvest Troubleman - The Otherness

It makes me sad that you are so indifferent about such a cool genre I think you did really well with this. Mixing was fine, even though you say it was a nightmare. These breaks were funky, and there was a lot of variety. I've listened to it 3 times already and it's all kinds of fun. I thought this genre would have been perfect for you. Are you happy with the outcome? I think everyone who has listened to this mix has enjoyed it. So therefore, I declare this a very successful submission. Nicely done.

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DPLews - 303x3 So, I was definitely drinking when I recorded this, and, to my ears at least, it's rather obvious by the end. Hopefully not too distracting Anyways, some of the tracks in this mix are acid, but not techno, and some of the tracks are techno, but not acid. Despite that, I'm rather happy with how this turned out. I didn't want to go the easy route and just play a ton of classic acid techno tracks, but I also definitely wanted to play some oldies. This mix ended up being a bit of a compromise between old and new. Hopefully people will enjoy it Tracklist: Dense and Pika – Move Your Body Back [Hotflush Recordings 2013] A++ & Daniel Spanjaard – Mekanism (Matt Sassari Remix ) [Panterre Musique 2014] Scuba – Choke [Hotflush Recordings 2014] Recondite – Jaded (Scuba Remix) [ Acid Test 2012] Dast – Architect (Huge Remix) [Etruria Beat 2014] DJ Pierre, Green Velvet, & Phuture – Acid Trax 2011 [Afro Acid Digital 2011] Amani vs Teapot – Acid Monsters [ID 2002] Dave Tarrida – 3 Go 3 [Autofake 2013] Andrea Belluzzi – 33 (Andrea Belluzzi Remix) [Synewave 2013] Yokota – Wicked City [Harthouse 1993] Catalyst – What? [Platipus 1995] Josh Wink – Are You There (Ben Klock Remix ) [Ovum Recordings 2014] Rob Acid – Energetik Der Seele [Junkfood Records 1995] Hardfloor – The Trill Acid Theme [Hardfloor 2007] John Chevalier – Phuture Power (Toja Remix) [Wax 1996] Alici – Mindphase II [Out Soon Records 1994] Joey Beltram – Drome [Warp Records 1994] Art of Trance – Cambodia (Thomas P Heckman’s Trope Remix) [Platipus/Labworks Germany 1993]

I thought the description you gave of this was perfect: "some of the tracks in this mix are acid, but not techno, and some of the tracks are techno, but not acid." This is how I felt when listening, and I think that actually turned out to your favour, because you were able to let the acid shine in increments instead of pounding our brains out with it. The spacing and flow you used allowed you to showcase the fusion between the two styles (acid and techno). Yeah, a couple transitions toward the end were wonky but who cares. You definitely finished it off nicely with a well rounded progression into some stronger acid techno. Also, BIG UPS to you submitting this after moving across the pond. I'm really glad you were able to participate and I didn't have to ban you

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Originally posted by 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. Tchau Verão downloadthankstoSTU 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]

Quite enjoyed this, man! Pretty much just what I wanted to hear. A couple transitions were a bit squiffy, though not too bad, and the majority were fine. Hearing 'Easy Muffin' that pitched up was a bit distracting, but otherwise this all seemed to flow quite nicely. Highlights were 'Secret Sky' and 'Samurai.' I'm glad to have some producers and labels to look into

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Originally posted by Mr Game+Watch Has anyone taken a listen to my mix yet?

I'm having a hard time downloading it. Hopefully it'll work soon, but it's going to be a bit until I have time to listen anyways

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Originally posted by ziptnf It makes me sad that you are so indifferent about such a cool genre I think you did really well with this. Mixing was fine, even though you say it was a nightmare. These breaks were funky, and there was a lot of variety. I've listened to it 3 times already and it's all kinds of fun. I thought this genre would have been perfect for you. Are you happy with the outcome? I think everyone who has listened to this mix has enjoyed it. So therefore, I declare this a very successful submission. Nicely done.

Gracias. I dunno, I just never was a breakbeat kind of guy, as much as I loved drum n bass when I first got into electronic music. Always liked teh oonz oonz t3knoseckz better. Digging for old funk/disco vinyl to find the sample origins, oldschool jungle fanaticism, Solid Steel/DJ Food and all that jazz...I just never found any proper passion for that particular end of the spectrum. It was always about catchy melodies and thundering drums and percussion in my book. Still love this one to bits, though.

Thanks for the feedback, guys.

Right. So i did the happy hardcore mix now. Took me a while because I really wasn't looking forward to it, but I was in a good mood today so I put it on while I was commuting. Even listened on crappy earbuds for the full teenager experience, and because I forgot my cans I guess.

It did put a pretty big smile on my face for some reason even though I was completely unenthused by the whole experience, so I guess the music still did it's job somehow.
I knew pretty much every song from back in the day. In my opinion this is really the bottom of the barrel as far as rave music is concerned and I can hardly express how asinine I find the stuff. There are a sparse few Happy hardcore tracks I genuinely like, but none of then were in here. Without elaborating further, I should have really hated this mix. But I didn't, and I don't know why. So good job I guess?

Yeah, I'm certain that if someone else received this genre they would have put out an entirely different product. For 7 straight genre challenges, Meat187 has joked that he will assign Happy Hardcore so I went ahead and stepped up to the plate (i'm still waiting for your review btw, Meat)

Anyway, happy hardcore was the first thing that sprung to mind when I thought of both "rave" and "hardcore". I can't listen to many happy hardcore tracks outside of this pool of them, but I enjoyed what I put together.

Out of curiosity, what HHC tracks do you like?

Some from the back of my mind:







This one is probably my favourite. Largy because of the video, but still: http://youtu.be/mHbY2AdCQqo

Generally I like the early dutch stuff, I think it was more fun and inventive. In the American scene things just got sillier and sillier when the jokey pitched-up vocals got hit with a dose of wailing diva syndrome and the production quality plummeted deep into the murky late-nineties-to-early-2000's superelectronic blandness sinkhole.

Yeah the only one I really liked in your post was the Critical Mass track. The hardcore german klob stuff never really did it for me. Different stokes, etc. But yeah Happy Hardcore definitely abused the formula in the time period I played from, which is why there are only a handful of gems in a sea of crap.

Any other takers on my hard trance mix?

I did make a start on it but got distracted by work will get to it (along with the others) this week hopefully!

Yeah, I've been slacking as well but time to remedy that. Here are the reviews for the mixes I haven't listened to until now.

Wotzyzoid. Enjoyed this mix as well, kind of a different tip on Sand Leaper's take a few challenges back. If anything it reminded me off listening to jazz radio, especially Gilles Petersons worldwide-shows and a few shows on Swedish national radio. Don't have anything to note on the track selection because it had a coherent theme but had some element of experimenation to it.

Jon Mitz. In general i quite liked this mix even though it didn't sound as what I associate to be Industrial music. But as you mentioned it was more Industrial-influences and the feel rather than the music and on that notion you nailed it quite well. Mixing wise I heard no faults as for flow and track selection. Although I would have appreciated some real stomp later in the mix rather than Autonomic, which I'm not really a big fan of (but can tolerate).

Lews. This went down really well. On the first listen my general notion was that I would have appreciated a bit more variety as acid techno can be broader than bosh. But I took a second listen and I was a bit pissed off and irritated with everything in general and this was a perfect soundtrack to what I was experiencing. Loved the Ben Klock remix of Josh Wink.

Mr Game+Watch. Another mix that really went down well and was well mixed and all of that good stuff but I would have liked it be even more hard. I also listened to this on same day I was pissed off and I just felt it took to long to get the really pounding stuff. But then again the sort of middle ground between Hard Trance and Epic Trance can be quite fun as well.

OK so I have listened to a few of these now, not all yet, but I am working on it!

My Mystery - I think I'll echo what others have said in that I was expecting a bit more funk I suppose, but still, this is an awesome mix. I've listened through 2 or 3 times so far and will definitely get more listens from me. I had to drive a van across London at night a couple of weeks ago and this was an absolutely perfect soundtrack. So, not quite 100% on the nose with the genre but I don;t care cos its awesome anyways

montana - yes, very enjoyable. hit the mark with the sound associate with the term New York Hard House. I do love that Missy Elliot remix, going to dig that out next time I fire up the techs!

ziptnf - happy hardcore has some dear memories from my past, and the first track is from one of the first proper dance cds that i bought so I enjoyed that. I have to admit I did struggle to get to the end, but I think thats just from PLUR overload and I dont think theres much you can do about that with happy hardcore!

Ill try to add more feedback when I can, lifes pretty hectic right now!!


thanks to all for the kind comments on mine, appreciated

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Originally posted by ziptnf (i'm still waiting for your review btw, Meat)

Seeing the new thread reminded me of this.
The reason I didn't reply was actually never that I forgot, but rather that I didn't like it on the first listen but I couldn't pin down why. And I didn't want to give non constructive feedback like that. I skimmed through it again and have a similar impression today.
I guess one issue is that I've grown tired of the genre. It lacks variety and listening to more than an hour of it bores me a little. Maybe that's the one point I can make. I think the mix should have been shorter.
I'm also missing some flow / arc / tension and release kind of thing, but again I think that's the nature of the genre and not your mixing. But basically you do everything right, it has all the tracks a "Best of" mix should have and good mixing. Sorry that I can't offer a better explanation as to what is missing, so I'm thinking "It's not you, it's me".

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