blackplasma - Audio Report, May 2013 [neo-mcprog, trance, psytrance]

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Posted by blackplasma on May-07-2013 14:32:

blackplasma - Audio Report, May 2013 [neo-mcprog, trance, psytrance]

A mixture of recent tracks and various sub-genres that I would generally just describe as "trance".

01. Narcotic - Blue (City Streets) (Nick Izzo 2011 Bootleg)
02. Sasha - Cut Me Down (Kintar Remix)
03. Cosmithex - Inner Light
04. Optical Report - Breathing P.M.
05. Reii - Where Am I
06. David Granha - Any News (Alexander Kowalski Remix)
07. Filterheadz - The Game
08. Vibrasphere - Purple (Jaia Remix)
09. Manu Riga - Everything Comes To An End (Solar Fields Remix)
10. Astropilot - Memories Maze (Tentura Remix)
11. John '00' Fleming - W.K.O.
12. Pulsar & Lunarave - Metatron
13. 10Stage - My Heart & Soul (Pavel Yudin Remix)
14. Mac & Monday - Here Comes The Snd (Original Re-Edit)
15. Nick Sentience - Expand Your Mind
16. Sirion - Where We Belong
17. Angry Man - Mescaline
18. Shpongle - Shpongle Duet
19. Astropilot vs Pharmacore - Maktub

Posted by netroM on May-07-2013 20:45:

Gave it a listen while browsing. Nothing about it struck me as particularly bad or great, but I liked some of the tunes and can't say anything regarding the mixing. Transitions were harmonically pleasing tho

Posted by SYSTEM-J on May-14-2013 18:55:

I gave this a listen, because you clearly made an effort to dig for some tracks, and the ones I already knew are very good. This starts out excellently - the first 7 tracks or so are very lush, the flow is good, the mixing is smooth and musical. Definitely a McProg resemblance but not in a bad way. Then the flow started to get wobbly, with a run of tracks that don't really make sense together. And then after WKO, I just didn't like any of the music you played, sadly. When we reached a spoken vocal about "trance music takes us back to where we belong" followed by a risible psy-trance triplet I just had to stop listening.

Technically everything was pretty good. It feels like an Ableton studio session but the transitions were generally well thought-out with good interaction of musical elements, and it traversed a lot of harmonic territory very smoothly. The only pointer I'd give is you seem to favour bringing the new kick in almost immediately, and so sometimes new tracks would announce themselves far more loudly in the mix than the smoothness of the transition deserved.

Overall, your effort to play across the spectrum is admirable but I think it came at the expense of cohesion. This may sound unadventurous, but I think you'd have been better taking the good thing you had going for the first 40 minutes and tightening the focus on that vibe and sound, rather than trying for a more expansive "Here's everything going on in trance right now that I enjoy" sweep.