This kind of trance in a set has always been too monotonous to listen to at home for my blood, and this mix doesn't change that, unfortunately (as much as I rate the music on Send In...Send Back, for instance, I hardly ever listen to it). You seem to have run into the same problem as I do whenever I try to mix this, namely how insanely hard it is to build much of a structural curve. This end of trance almost always powers along at more or less the same tempo and level of energy, and once you stray from that, it turns into darkpsy or something along those lines. Thus, you can only achieve a certain plateau within a set, but never transcend it.

Still, stuff from KURO and The Delta obviously fits the theme and mood you were going for perfectly, and the beatmixing is spot on, as usual. The mix also made think back to some fond memories of seeing The Delta, X-Dream and Midimiliz in an absolute sweatbox of a club in Amsterdam called Akhnaton about five or six years ago. Good times.

___________________
"Wenn du dich zum Untergrund zählst, reicht es nicht, es nur zu sagen. Du musst auch viel graben, um es zu werden."

quote:

Originally posted by Sand Leaper You seem to have run into the same problem as I do whenever I try to mix this, namely how insanely hard it is to build much of a structural curve. This end of trance almost always powers along at more or less the same tempo and level of energy, and once you stray from that, it turns into darkpsy or something along those lines. Thus, you can only achieve a certain plateau within a set, but never transcend it.

Bingo, that's exactly how I felt when making it. I could only make it to a certain threshold and couldn't push it any further without turning it into a different genre. I don't know of any tracks that could have made the set a bit more spicy, but I figured that was just because it was tech-trance and the techno influences make it seem pretty monochromatic.

Thanks to you and Woony for listening. Even if it's a little bit one-note, I enjoyed making the set because it's something a bit different from my normal stuff.

___________________

Set Archive | TA DJ Challenge

Gave it a try, I can appreciate some of this stuff in small doses but generally when it's mixed between a variety of trance styles. I do like the variations in the grooves/drums and the last 2 tracks stood out a little more to me, and overall to someone who doesn't know much about this genre it came across as a decent DJ mix.

This genre doesn't lend itself to much variation, with such a heavy techno influence. Thanks for listening anyway.

___________________

Set Archive | TA DJ Challenge

this music would make horror flicks better

loved it. it was dark, brooding and punchy. it put my techtrance mix for the ta genre challenge to shame. right on

___________________
facebook | blog | scrobbler | setarchive | 20160316
"I believe that's referred to as intelligent drum & bass, which obviously means there's a genre of stupid drum & bass out there" (John Peel)

Thanks, guys.

___________________

Set Archive | TA DJ Challenge

Good work again, Zip.

Listened today, guess what I was doing..

Anyway, didn't notice any bad transitions(I never actually pay attention to this, to be honest..). The track selection - just great. Thorazin!


Good stuff really. I hope you make more stuff like this.

My only complaint is that the flow by the end could be better. Last 2-3 tracks didn't really live up to the rest, so that was a small turn-off. Nothing critical tho.



Cheers.

My curiosity got the better of me, as I was planning on listening to this on a day when I was darkening my own door-step with a bit of a nasty mood. Instead, judging by the Cthulu styled creature in the title page, along with the persistent comments, I decided to give it a go in a relatively good mood.

It's got this dark, cyber-punkish noir type thing to it - a creeping brutality that is very much the techno flavored answer to Deathklok; the fictional band of Adult Swim's Metalocolypse. It has all the charm of a debriding bath for severe burns along with enough wit to have it cued up for my girlfriend, who sometimes tends towards the darker, more brutal spheres of music, when she gets home from work, in half an hour. Well done.

___________________

Now with extra singles!
my old stuff, not quite up to snuff - but I still dig it - UPDATED 9/23/2012

im in,dl now

for some reason mate, the DL link isn't working, dno if it's my level of idiocy or if the link is down. Lemme know cause I was feeling some proper tech-trance today

So I had a listen and I was liked it a lot.

I have to agree with the points that it stays the same throughout but for hour and a little more long mix it doesnt need to go any further. A sound which is not very popular right now, or at least I am not in touch with, but which is very inspired by the shift from the happy goa vibe to the dark forest type.

You mixed it very well. Not flawlessly but without any significant mistakes. Truly, your mixing is getting better and better with each passing mix. Flow was perfect, there were bombs, there were bridge-tracks performing their task excellently. You even included one of my favorite tracks here - Thorazin by X-Dream.


Enjoyed fully! Cheers!

P.S. Oh, and I disagree with the points that if you want to push this set further, you have to play some darkpsy. Not really - there are some old school dark goa tracks that can do wonders for that - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BD2NsOMPAw or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COh3TdRq8Yc

___________________
Ambient Mixes <- Latest Mix: Under the Light of Judaberg

Samothrace Mysteries - An Oldschool Series

Like it dark? Click this!