Drum & Bass Mix - Cognitive Lapse

[Citizen_Insane]

Finally got around to recording another hour long drum & bass mix so here it is:



This one is overall pretty chilled out but there are still some heavy rollers and dance floor smashers on it.

Feedback, as always is appreciated. Enjoy!

Tracklist:

Feel My Pain - Dillinja
Realities - Mode
11 Circles - Consequence
Suffer In Silence - Alix Perez feat. Zero T
My War - Rockwell
Ease Forward - Noisia & Joe Seven
Hear My Call - Dom & Roland
Broken Silence - Siren
Don't Look Down - Break feat. Calyx & Teebee
Spartan Law - Bladerunner
Gridlock - Ram Trilogy - Break Remix
Dessert - Neonlight & Miss Redflower
Envious Eyes - B Key
Falling Through - Noisia & Spor
Fakin' Jacks - Rockwell
All That We Are - Ulterior Motive & FD
Prayer - Burial
Stars - All Thieves - Zero T Remix
DJ Friendly Unit Shifter - Rockwell
Saturday - Stray
The Reward - KUNG (in all fuckin' caps)
New Bourne - Audio
The Suffering - Robyn Chaos & B Key
Cold Champagne - Phace
One Chance - Enei
Omissions - Noisia

[Jester]

On the pod

[Flash101uk]

Looks like my kinda music! On it

[Flash101uk]

Ive given it a good listen. I listened with a very critical ear, as I would with my own mixes, so these are picky comments

Comments next to the track relate to the mix into the next song down the list.

Tracklist:

Feel My Pain - Dillinja
Realities - Mode
11 Circles - Consequence - nice chilled blend out
Suffer In Silence - Alix Perez feat. Zero T - Watch the bass, nearly clashing. key locked? Good phrasing
My War - Rockwell - Nice mix
Ease Forward - Noisia & Joe Seven - Lovely mix with the drums, really amps the energy
Hear My Call - Dom & Roland - good key match, nice mix
Broken Silence - Siren - Too much bass on incoming, too much mids on outgoing. Needs a faster cut out
Don't Look Down - Break feat. Calyx & Teebee - Nice mix, the tunes blend well. Nice mix out
Spartan Law - Bladerunner - another good mix!
Gridlock - Ram Trilogy - Break Remix - nice key match & blend
Dessert - Neonlight & Miss Redflower - bit of a long transition, loses energy.
Envious Eyes - B Key - loses energy
Falling Through - Noisia & Spor - straight in with the mix! I love these two tunes together too , watch the bass, getting pretty muddy. Have you tried with with Ease Forward? Really good together, great for bass switching
Fakin' Jacks - Rockwell - Good mix
All That We Are - Ulterior Motive & FD - good mix, drops the energy right down
Prayer - Burial - nice key match, watch the bass, starting to get muddy.
Stars - All Thieves - Zero T Remix - nice mix in with the breakdown, my fave part of the song for sure. Mix works well, theres a lot going on with the mids though.
DJ Friendly Unit Shifter - Rockwell - nice mix, loses energy
Saturday - Stray - nice mix, picks up the energy again
The Reward - KUNG (in all fuckin' caps) - dont know these tunes, but the mixing sounded tight, good work
New Bourne - Audio
The Suffering - Robyn Chaos & B Key
Cold Champagne - Phace - good key match, outgoing cuts quite sharply
One Chance - Enei - Overlaying drums sound nice, add much needed energy to one chance. Good mix.
Omissions - Noisia


overall:
youre relying on breakdowns to transition too much, how about dropping the incoming directly when the outgoing drops into the breakdown. Less dead air that way & keeps the energy up. I guess thats just personal preference though.
Youve got the whole lot nicely key matched so theres no reason you couldnt mix these faster and do more layering.

Also, watch the bass. It gets a bit much sometimes. Personally I find with dnb I cannot have 2 tracks with full bass at one time. I HAVE to kill bass out of one track. Do you practice with a sub woofer?

Good track selection too, cant fault it, some proper sexy beats in there.

Good work on the beatmatching too, thats if you beatmatch. If not, you got those grids proper tight.

I hope all that comes across as constructive criticism. Keep up the good work

[Jester]

Really enjoyed this man. Nice n dark but not too hard for my tastes, fantastic

[exokinetic]

Ive given it a good listen. I listened with a very critical ear, as I would with my own mixes, so these are picky comments

Comments next to the track relate to the mix into the next song down the list.

Tracklist:

Feel My Pain - Dillinja
Realities - Mode
11 Circles - Consequence - nice chilled blend out
Suffer In Silence - Alix Perez feat. Zero T - Watch the bass, nearly clashing. key locked? Good phrasing
My War - Rockwell - Nice mix
Ease Forward - Noisia & Joe Seven - Lovely mix with the drums, really amps the energy
Hear My Call - Dom & Roland - good key match, nice mix
Broken Silence - Siren - Too much bass on incoming, too much mids on outgoing. Needs a faster cut out
Don't Look Down - Break feat. Calyx & Teebee - Nice mix, the tunes blend well. Nice mix out
Spartan Law - Bladerunner - another good mix!
Gridlock - Ram Trilogy - Break Remix - nice key match & blend
Dessert - Neonlight & Miss Redflower - bit of a long transition, loses energy.
Envious Eyes - B Key - loses energy
Falling Through - Noisia & Spor - straight in with the mix! I love these two tunes together too , watch the bass, getting pretty muddy. Have you tried with with Ease Forward? Really good together, great for bass switching
Fakin' Jacks - Rockwell - Good mix
All That We Are - Ulterior Motive & FD - good mix, drops the energy right down
Prayer - Burial - nice key match, watch the bass, starting to get muddy.
Stars - All Thieves - Zero T Remix - nice mix in with the breakdown, my fave part of the song for sure. Mix works well, theres a lot going on with the mids though.
DJ Friendly Unit Shifter - Rockwell - nice mix, loses energy
Saturday - Stray - nice mix, picks up the energy again
The Reward - KUNG (in all fuckin' caps) - dont know these tunes, but the mixing sounded tight, good work
New Bourne - Audio
The Suffering - Robyn Chaos & B Key
Cold Champagne - Phace - good key match, outgoing cuts quite sharply
One Chance - Enei - Overlaying drums sound nice, add much needed energy to one chance. Good mix.
Omissions - Noisia


overall:
youre relying on breakdowns to transition too much, how about dropping the incoming directly when the outgoing drops into the breakdown. Less dead air that way & keeps the energy up. I guess thats just personal preference though.
Youve got the whole lot nicely key matched so theres no reason you couldnt mix these faster and do more layering.

Also, watch the bass. It gets a bit much sometimes. Personally I find with dnb I cannot have 2 tracks with full bass at one time. I HAVE to kill bass out of one track. Do you practice with a sub woofer?

Good track selection too, cant fault it, some proper sexy beats in there.

Good work on the beatmatching too, thats if you beatmatch. If not, you got those grids proper tight.

I hope all that comes across as constructive criticism. Keep up the good work

Dude, awesome contructive criticism!

This is the kind of stuff I would pay for, haha!

Totally agreee on your one tracks bass theory for DnB.

Have both tracks with 1/2 bass really mutes the energy that the baseline from either track is trying to portray.

So pick witch track has the favored baseline, or whitchever one feels right for the mix and mute the other one.

Once I started mixing with a big sub, this became EXTREMELY apparent.

[Citizen_Insane]

Ive given it a good listen. I listened with a very critical ear, as I would with my own mixes, so these are picky comments

Thanks man, first let me say I really appreciate the in-depth commentary. It's really helpful.

Suffer In Silence - Alix Perez feat. Zero T - Watch the bass, nearly clashing. key locked? Good phrasing

Yes it was keylocked, hoped to create some tension by being almost clashing.

Hear My Call - Dom & Roland - good key match, nice mix

One of my personal favourite parts was bringing in this tune.

Broken Silence - Siren - Too much bass on incoming, too much mids on outgoing. Needs a faster cut out

Strange cause I brought it in with a low-pass filter... agreed it might have required a faster cut out... I left it in so I could bring in Spartan Law while still having a consistant drum beat.

Dessert - Neonlight & Miss Redflower - bit of a long transition, loses energy.
Envious Eyes - B Key - loses energy

Was dropping energy slightly on purpose, particularly using Envious Eyes as a sort of "intermission".

Falling Through - Noisia & Spor - straight in with the mix! I love these two tunes together too , watch the bass, getting pretty muddy. Have you tried with with Ease Forward? Really good together, great for bass switching

Never tried it with Ease Forward, will have to.... it causes absolute mayhem with Timewarp VIP by Sub Focus.

Prayer - Burial - nice key match, watch the bass, starting to get muddy.

Noted.

Stars - All Thieves - Zero T Remix - nice mix in with the breakdown, my fave part of the song for sure. Mix works well, theres a lot going on with the mids though.

Yeah, I really like the track.

The Reward - KUNG (in all fuckin' caps) - dont know these tunes, but the mixing sounded tight, good work

Thanks, I normally mix the darker drum & bass.

One Chance - Enei - Overlaying drums sound nice, add much needed energy to one chance. Good mix.

Cheers

overall:
youre relying on breakdowns to transition too much, how about dropping the incoming directly when the outgoing drops into the breakdown. Less dead air that way & keeps the energy up. I guess thats just personal preference though.

I was trying to go for more of a chilled out and slower vibe with this mix... I normally mix a little faster than this.

Youve got the whole lot nicely key matched so theres no reason you couldnt mix these faster and do more layering.

Thanks, I don't use any key analysis software aside from my ears.

Also, watch the bass. It gets a bit much sometimes. Personally I find with dnb I cannot have 2 tracks with full bass at one time. I HAVE to kill bass out of one track. Do you practice with a sub woofer?

My sub is currently out of commission for several months now, so I recorded this without a sub, and from your comments, that really shows in some places.

Good track selection too, cant fault it, some proper sexy beats in there.

Thanks, while they may not all be the newest tunes, I tried to make sure they were quality.

Good work on the beatmatching too, thats if you beatmatch. If not, you got those grids proper tight.

Only about 1/2 of it was my beatmatching, but I generally make sure my grids are tight.

I hope all that comes across as constructive criticism. Keep up the good work

Definitely came across as constructive criticism and I gotta say I really appreciate it. Think I'm ready to be trying to get some more proper gigs? I've played several house parties and the occasional club gig... but I'm thinking of trying to get a residency for the summer.

[Citizen_Insane]

Dude, awesome contructive criticism!

This is the kind of stuff I would pay for, haha!

Haha, I know eh? I guess I'm just lucky to get it for free

Really enjoyed this man. Nice n dark but not too hard for my tastes, fantastic

Thanks Jester, I really appreciate the feedback.