Spilly Walker- The Only Way Through Is The Music
Tony Deep Fish - Sand Under My Feet - Tony Deep Fish
Affkt & Samuel Dan Vs. ATFC - Bad Habit (feat. Lisa Millet)
Kokolo Afrobeat Orchestra - Mister Sinister (Faze Action Vocal Mix)
Dirty Harry - Samba Havana
Sebastian Davidson - Word & Sounds (Raygun & Ivan I Remix)
Hot Hands presents Karyna - Quiero Tus Caricias (DJ Meme Club Mix)
Dr Drummer featuring Elisete - Hot Shot (Eddie Valdez Mix)
Sinc, Daniel Sanchez - New Day - Original Mix
Alister, Flavio Lodetti - Viva La Vida (Original Mix)
Georges Vert - Electric Bird
Rey Salinero - Chi-Town (Tribe Mix)
Dennis Ferrer - The Red Room (Obj Vocal Mix)
Vernon & Dacosta feat. Apple Rochez - As Darkness Falls (Giom Remix)
SKJG Project - Tenerife Y La Gomera - Original Mix
Andre Harris - Life Dub
Angy Dee - Esta Es Mi Vida (Original)
Franky Rizardo - Caracoles (Original Mix)
Berto Mene - Los Brujo (Loko Remix)
Glocal - Sing Song (Jericho Remix)
I listened to this last night and again this morning. Last night I was coding, this morning I was going through email. Here’s my feedback.
Levels and etc., and mixes (except one obviously-flubbed mix near the end) were all spot on throughout.
Phrasing was also similarly correct, though I feel like maybe there was not as much “apparent layering” as I like in a mix which is as cleanly phrased as this one was?
I felt like this mix was cruising around a 4-7 in terms of energy level, throughout. I understand it’s on the deeper side and this may be your intent, but IMO even a deep mix should have a few moments of 9 or 10 (and probably a little 2 or 3) over the course of an hour.
Strangely, despite many of your tracks having “personality” in terms of their instrumentation, or vocals, or etc., none of them really stuck with me too much. This may be a weird side effect of me having such similar taste in deep house to you, that you are in the “uncanny valley” ( [ame=“Uncanny valley - Wikipedia”]Uncanny valley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File:Repliee_Q2.jpg" class=“image”><img alt=“” src=“http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Repliee_Q2.jpg/200px-Repliee_Q2.jpg”@@AMEPARAM@@commons/thumb/a/aa/Repliee_Q2.jpg/200px-Repliee_Q2.jpg[/ame] )?
I guess that’s about all I have to say. When there aren’t noticable technical issues with the mix, up to and including phrasing, I think it’s more important for me to understand the intent of the creator and whether they have lived up to it.
I mean, aside from that I can only express my personal tastes and preferences as a listener of DJ mixes.. which I feel like are of much less use to non-beginners such as yourself.
Thanks for the feedback. Strangely enough I listened to the first 30 minutes or so last night and really wasn’t feeling the mix myself. I was in a little bit of a funk and just didn’t feel real good when I did the show and was mostly just operating on auto pilot.
One thing I did do different was use the same two samples throughout the entire set. Not all on the whole time, but on at different volumes and I ran FX on them quiet a bit. At the very end I fade out to nothing but those two samples. Curious if you picked up on that?
Then I think that aspect was mission accomplished. Not sure I really want people to consciously hear the samples. Knowing they’re there but not hearing them is the ticket.
