Whats the down fall of my mixes?

[hola amigos]

I've been recording for almost a year now and my music still isn't sounding appealing. I'm I lacking some basic information? Music theory is my guess.

[hola amigos]

If you haven't heard the mess of my music mixing check it out.

https://soundcloud.com/house-productions

[mdcdesign]

Nothing tbh; Moon Walk and Delighted are both pretty decent old school Trance tracks by the sounds of it; the only thing you're really "missing" is a defined structure and a melody, the overall sound is pretty solid and reminiscent of Cosmic Gate / Lange / York etc. You just need to find a decent female vocalist and you've got a shot at a club anthem.

[hola amigos]

Thanks I do think my preferred genre is hard to get feedback on. I do need more girl vocals. Those are hard to find, maybe I can figure out how to use audio hijack and take vocals from movies / songs and interpret them into a mix. Or I could get a girl voice sample and throw it into my mix. Never experimented with that, good advice you got.

[dripstep]

Dude, you ask the same question once a week. Stop posting, and practice more. Listen to other mixes, and try to do the same things that they are doing.

[hola amigos]

I know I like to hear feedback from more experienced dj's though. So I can try new techniques out. But I'll go back to practicing, just got my mixer and head phones so it's been consistent for two days now.

[mdcdesign]

It certainly was an interesting way of plugging your stuff: "I'm shit, have a listen and tell my WHY I'm shit", when you're not shit. Clever

[hola amigos]

I think I have a lot to improve, when I'm not touching knobs and staring at the computer screen waiting for something amazing to happen. When mixing psychedelic trance, I literally drop the volume slide the fader over and thats it. There is already so many effects going on in the mix I don't find a point into throwing in a delay or a reverb or even lofi. So I catch myself just staring at the controller like hmmm there's gotta be more to this piece of plastic then what i'm doing lol. I can't go to a house party plug in my computer then let my computer be a ipod in front of a crowd. I can't just stand around, I need some knobs moving, something to improve my sets. I just can't figure out what i'm looking for yet. Time will tell, I just want to speed up this learning process. Graghhh

[mdcdesign]

FX dude. When I'm doing a set I spend half the track mashing buttons like a maniac. The best results I've had are when I'm working with another DJ; he mixes the tracks in and I play around with them. Flux mode and Macro FX are brilliant for that sort of thing.

[hola amigos]

I don't know many people who use FX in psy trance. Just do great transitions. What Fx you thinking? I'll go do it now. I'm just taking a break. I've been on this computer since 9am and it's 1:08 am lol. Got ear burn from these damn head phones. lol