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Jack Moss - Aftershock [Progressive]

So another progressive mix, this one partly inspired by Jon Cockle's excellent Machine Elves set. I was having a quiet Friday night in and started playing around with some tracks I've had lying around for ages but never used in a proper mix. The results sounded pretty good so I dug up some more tracks the next day and turned it into a proper set.

If there's any concept to this mix, it's basically to try and do modern progressive in a peak-time manner. I see a lot of prog mixes online and everyone does the same damn thing - they either use prog as early-set material before building up to (usually proggy psy) trance, or failing that they just play a "deep" prog set. In other words, progressive is inevitably treated by reformed tranceheads as slow, mellow music. I wanted to do a prog set that doesn't really build up, it just comes out of the traps with a string of big basslines and keeps things PLUR-tastic from there.

See what you think, anyway.

01. Patrice Baumel - The Vanishing [Kompakt]
02. Alexander Saykov - Once (Michael & Levan Feat Stiven Rivic Remix) [System]
03. Relaunch - Air [Bonzai Progressive]
04. Juan Sando - Disruption (Michael & Levan Feat Stiven Rivic Remix) [OLD SQL]
05. Eiad Sayegh - Ain't True Love (Kintar Remix) [Mistique]
06. Antony Grant - Underworld [Musictracx]
07. Lank - Being Defenceless (Dub) [Tilth]
08. Hybrid - The Formula Of Fear (Hybrid Remix) [Distinctive]
09. Guy J Feat Miriam Vaga - Fly (Hybrid Soundsystem Remix) [Bedrock]
10. Etnia - Prometheus (MSZ's Converged Remix) [Mistique]
11. Relaunch - Suspense (Basil O'Glue Remix) [Mistique]
12. Timewave - The Reaper [J00F]
13. Robimon - Birdshock [Baroque]

Man, I'm seriously getting behind in my music lately. Downloading now, hopefully I'll get to it soon.

Wicked! Saw this on my Soundcloud stream and had to come and have a poke about...

Michael & Levan, MSZ, Mistique, Hybrid, Tilth being well represented and mashed together by you is always going to be an awesome recipe.

Like an absolute prat I uploaded one of the drafts to Soundcloud instead of the final version. It's replaced now but if you downloaded the mix prior to today your version contains a couple of rather embarrassing mixing errors early on. So please do my ego a favour and cast your defective versions into the digital ether, and re-download it.

Good thing I didn't get around to listening yet. Just grabbing the new one now.

Gonna give this a try.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Like an absolute prat I uploaded one of the drafts to Soundcloud instead of the final version. It's replaced now but if you downloaded the mix prior to today your version contains a couple of rather embarrassing mixing errors early on. So please do my ego a favour and cast your defective versions into the digital ether, and re-download it.

No dice. I already downloaded it and I'm a very busy man

Fortunately for you, I didn't even notice the phrasing of transition into Air at the time, it's not problematic at all (but I know it's always painful when you notice a school-boy error in your ow mix)

I thought the music included here is absolutely stellar, and it does an excellent job of building a journey without an obvious warm-up to peak time narrative. Relaunch - Air is exactly the kind of banging atmospheric prog that I love, with it's throbbing bassline and clever maintenance of energy during the breakdown.

Listening to Juan Sando - Disruption loud in the car was slightly problematic as there is a noise in there that sounds a bit like an indicator, which made me go ridiculously OCD on the motorway. Still a good track though.

Was delighted to hear one of my favourites, Ain True Love in someone else's mix, that's such a classic track for me. But the vocal track you followed it up with was just as great, and is going in my beatport cart immediately.

I liked the way you then brought it down a bit with lank in order to change direction and move into Breakbeat with two absolute weapons from Hybrid, and I also loved the way you brought the enegy back down again from there with Prometheus. I've got this track but I've never really thought much of it until now. I always thought the massively epic breakdown lead nowhere, but I'm guessing this bookmark of a set peak this is exactly how it's intended to work

The last 3 tracks were top drawer as well. I thought it was a bit strange that you used a Timewave trance track given your intentions for this mix to avoid doing the usual of building up to trance, but I guess that record isn't quite as 'balls out the bath' as some of his other efforts on JOOF Recordings.


Also, you are right, this is way better than Unnatural High

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Originally posted by JonDC No dice. I already downloaded it and I'm a very busy man

It was you bloody rushing me to get it online so you could listen to it in the car that lead to the fuck up originally!

I couldn't actually find that Antony Grant track on Beatport when I went to look up what label it was on for the tracklist. I bought it back in 2010 and it seems to have been territory restricted from the UK at some point in the interim. I'm sure an arrangement can be made for it to end up in your possession, though.

The Timewave track is definitely trancey trance and it's probably the most thumping moment of the set. But I don't think this is a "building blocks" set where that track is the final piece of the puzzle. I didn't even plan on playing it originally, because it's such a bastard to mix out from.

Cheers for the detailed review anyway, and I'm glad it passed the Jon Cockle exam.

a little over half way through this one. really good stuff. it's all pretty new to me as i don't really dig anymore. nice one.

Will add this to the list...props on using Antony Grant. I really like the track 'Way Out'. The Original and Red Shadow mixes are fine pieces of dark chunky prog trance.

https://pro.beatport.com/release/way-out/303905

This was pretty neat, I was especially partial to "Ain't True Love", the Relaunch tracks, and Formula of Fear... very groovy, with some nice basslines and of course some spacious melody.

this mix is fucking splendid . about 10 minutes in and i cant stop moving and smiling

Cheers for the nice words, guys.

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Originally posted by Syntonic Will add this to the list...props on using Antony Grant. I really like the track 'Way Out'. The Original and Red Shadow mixes are fine pieces of dark chunky prog trance.

In that case, I'm pretty sure you will like Underworld if you don't know it already. Another one of his I bought years ago but never played was Run Through The Light (Beautiful Mind Mix).

Great mix. You sure know how to throw in a climax.

Listened to this mix on a whim after seeing some of your postings. Really enjoyable, thanks for the upload. I don't keep up too much with tracks any more so everything was new in the mix for me.

"Patrice Baumel - The Vanishing", got a serious Sasha/invol2ver vibe from this one, even the choice to use this kind of track as the intro

"Timewave - The Reaper" amazing trance track, my kind of vibe, the transition into the outro song was fantastic too

Thanks for giving it a go. I see what you mean about The Vanishing, it also reminded me a little of Sasha's last single, Ether. Definitely that same spacious, big room etheral sound.

The last transition was kind of forced upon me because The Reaper just comes to a complete stop, which makes it a nightmare to mix out of. I would have probably tried a much less brave transition if I'd had a proper outro to use.

Well, this is going to be problematic for me. I’ve probably listened to this mix ten times in the past few weeks, because it is absolutely fantastic and great for keeping energy up, which was necessary when working on my dissertation. However, because I’ve mostly listened to it during my dissertation, I worry it’ll be associated with that forever… We’ll see, several months from now!

I wasn’t sure how I felt about the non-ambient opening, as that seems almost a necessity these days, but the slow build-up was nice; loved the airy vocals etc. I really need to look more into Kompakt. Been meaning to since we saw Mayer, this is just another reminder.

I still think the whole ‘Michael & Levan Feat Stiven Rivic’ name is ridiculous, but ‘Once’ is yet another great remix from them – and another great reminder that people who say there is no great progressive being made anymore are fucking imbeciles. Absolutely love ‘Air’ by Relaunch, as well. Will definitely be stealing that track if/when I make a modern progressive set. ‘Disruption’ is another epic example of progressive to shut people the fuck up. Such a dreamy breakdown.

I remember we discussed Kintar a few weeks ago (months ago?) in MD, so I was curious how this track would be, when I saw it on the TL. Unfortunately, this did end up being my least favourite track in the mix. The production is great, but I find the vocal quite annoying. I see it’s role in the mix, programming wise, I just dislike her voice! Amusing, since that seems to be a favourite track of other commentators. And I know it wasn't annoying the first few times I heard it, just with repeat listening...

Anyways, Atony Grant and Lank deliver two more good tracks, before we get into the highlight of the mix for me. I’ve never really delved too much into Hybrid, but this remix of ‘Formula of Fear’ is fantastic (that guitar is a killer) as is their remix of Guy J. Nice to see another good release from Bedrock. I’ve found myself surprisingly liking a decent number of their stuff the last three or four years, when I’ve gone back into the catalogue a bit. Not that Guy J has put out much disappointing material. A filthy remix…

MSZ rarely disappoints, either, and he continues that trend here. Nice dreamy prog, with a good backbone. Keeping up those dreamy PLUR vibes with another killer from Relaunch. Will for sure be looking into his back catalogue soon. Timewave destroys it – again, as usual. I’m sure he’s made some bad tracks… I just haven’t heard them, yet. And ‘Birdshock’ is a perfect closer. ‘Dreamy as fuck,’ or, ‘PLUR-tastic,’ are the technical terms, I believe.

All-in-all, another excellent prog mix. I hope it won’t forever be associated with my dissertation for me, since it is extremely enjoyable, and a wonderful retort to those who say no good music is still being made. Top-shelf stuff, Jack – well done

Cheers for the long-awaited review. I see what you're saying about the vocal in that Kintar remix, as it's definitely cheesy. I like that track for the pumping bassline more than anything, and the vocals don't annoy me as much as they obviously annoy you. I deliberately went for tracks with very strong bass motifs throughout the mix, and I can just imagine hearing that Kintar track in a dark room on a big system.

Hey there cutie.

Hey nice one, Jack. Been meaning to listen to this for a few weeks so I put it on this morning during my run. Rock solid prog, as per usual. What I found really interesting was the taste of breaks halfway through. Unfortunately I finished the mix before I was finished with my run lol. Good stuff man!

Giving this one a listen right now. Love the transition from "Once" to "Air".

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Originally posted by ziptnf Hey nice one, Jack. Been meaning to listen to this for a few weeks so I put it on this morning during my run. Rock solid prog, as per usual. What I found really interesting was the taste of breaks halfway through. Unfortunately I finished the mix before I was finished with my run lol. Good stuff man!

Cheers mate. You've got a half marathon next month, right? How's the training going?

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Cheers for the long-awaited review. I see what you're saying about the vocal in that Kintar remix, as it's definitely cheesy. I like that track for the pumping bassline more than anything, and the vocals don't annoy me as much as they obviously annoy you. I deliberately went for tracks with very strong bass motifs throughout the mix, and I can just imagine hearing that Kintar track in a dark room on a big system.

Yeah, that bassline is excellent, and I imagine it'd be fantastic live. It's not even the lyrics that bother me, it's the tone of her voice. As I said last month when we met up, lately I've been more and more focused on the tonal texture of music, and the tone of her voice just hurts me. Ah well, it's probably best I don't like every single second of ALL of your mixes

I used this for a run the other day and it did the trick for that perfectly, nice and thumping and driving which is of course my jam.

Wanna give it a more detailed listen while working or something next week. Still got it, Jack.

Thanking ye. I am happy to assume the mantle of TA's resident run soundtracker. I'm trying to flesh out a Rapid Transit 2 because I'm now running for more than two hours and Essential Mixes and the like just ain't long enough.

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