Another Drum'n'Bass mix I recorded
Mr.Happy
Acolyte
EDIT:
Recorded a deep/liquid mix today. It's only 35 minutes long, featuring some of my favourite lush-sounding tunes.
"It's a little bit of a random selection and I'm not entirely sure about how well the tunes flow together, I keep changing my mind about it. Feedback on that would be nice. The mixing is generally alright, not perfect but there are few really noticeable mistakes and I kept it tight for the most part. Some of these tunes are genuinely hard to mix tightly because of the way the drums are engineered and the high tones present in them which make even a tiny adjustment audible (the Dave Owen tunes are the best examples of these, and the mix with Contradictions and Feeling Kinda Blue is one of the trickiest I've come across purely because any drift at all is reeeaally noticeable), it was definitely easier to mix the last set but I feel this one is to a higher standard. I was annoyed the final teaser drifts a bit though, since it was bang-on in the previous two recordings, but what can you do?"
Mix:
[SOUNDCLOUD]
Tracklisting:
1. Klute - Strange Dinner
2. Kryptic Minds & Leon Switch - Hide The Tears (Loxy & Resound Remix)
3. Data - Splice
4. Spectrasoul - Guardian
5. Alix Perez - Forsaken
6. Lenzman - Bittersweet
7. Klute - Trust Me
8. Dave Owen - Still Waters
9. Alix Perez - Contradictions
10. Dave Owen - Feeling Kinda Blue
>> Alix Perez - Menacing Ways
/EDIT
LouisCypher seemed quite keen for me to post a mix up here, so I know at least one person will appreciate it.
It's just over an hour long, dominated by heavy and aggressive tunes (gotta love a tune called "Insane Bitch"), contains some minor mixing mistakes but mostly I'm happy with how it turned out. It's set to allow downloads if you want to keep it, but it's a 300MB+ .wav file.
Play it loud.
[SOUNDCLOUD]
Tracklist:
1. High Contrast - Days Go By
>> Alix Perex - Behind Time
2. Spinline - Radioactive
3. Icicle - Spartan
4. SKC - The World Has Changed
5. Digital & Outrage - Final Demand [S.P.Y. Remix]
6. Animal Collective - I Need A Dollar
7. Icicle - Hang On
8. Phobia & Jubei - Guillotine
9. Rockwell - Full Circle
10. D-Kay & DJ Lee - Tuning VIP
11. Skeptical - Sphere
12. Icicle - Final Stop
13. Amit & Outrage - Insane Bitch
14. Amit - MK Ultra
15. Lynx - Disco Dodo
16. SKC - Close Encounter
17. Amit & Outrage - Reclaim The Symbol
18. Fracture & Neptune - The Limit
19. EBK - Mud
20. Digital - Calling
>> Commix - Justified
>> Illskillz - They Could Love
Recorded a deep/liquid mix today. It's only 35 minutes long, featuring some of my favourite lush-sounding tunes.
"It's a little bit of a random selection and I'm not entirely sure about how well the tunes flow together, I keep changing my mind about it. Feedback on that would be nice. The mixing is generally alright, not perfect but there are few really noticeable mistakes and I kept it tight for the most part. Some of these tunes are genuinely hard to mix tightly because of the way the drums are engineered and the high tones present in them which make even a tiny adjustment audible (the Dave Owen tunes are the best examples of these, and the mix with Contradictions and Feeling Kinda Blue is one of the trickiest I've come across purely because any drift at all is reeeaally noticeable), it was definitely easier to mix the last set but I feel this one is to a higher standard. I was annoyed the final teaser drifts a bit though, since it was bang-on in the previous two recordings, but what can you do?"
Mix:
[SOUNDCLOUD]
Tracklisting:
1. Klute - Strange Dinner
2. Kryptic Minds & Leon Switch - Hide The Tears (Loxy & Resound Remix)
3. Data - Splice
4. Spectrasoul - Guardian
5. Alix Perez - Forsaken
6. Lenzman - Bittersweet
7. Klute - Trust Me
8. Dave Owen - Still Waters
9. Alix Perez - Contradictions
10. Dave Owen - Feeling Kinda Blue
>> Alix Perez - Menacing Ways
/EDIT
LouisCypher seemed quite keen for me to post a mix up here, so I know at least one person will appreciate it.
It's just over an hour long, dominated by heavy and aggressive tunes (gotta love a tune called "Insane Bitch"), contains some minor mixing mistakes but mostly I'm happy with how it turned out. It's set to allow downloads if you want to keep it, but it's a 300MB+ .wav file.
Play it loud.
[SOUNDCLOUD]
Tracklist:
1. High Contrast - Days Go By
>> Alix Perex - Behind Time
2. Spinline - Radioactive
3. Icicle - Spartan
4. SKC - The World Has Changed
5. Digital & Outrage - Final Demand [S.P.Y. Remix]
6. Animal Collective - I Need A Dollar
7. Icicle - Hang On
8. Phobia & Jubei - Guillotine
9. Rockwell - Full Circle
10. D-Kay & DJ Lee - Tuning VIP
11. Skeptical - Sphere
12. Icicle - Final Stop
13. Amit & Outrage - Insane Bitch
14. Amit - MK Ultra
15. Lynx - Disco Dodo
16. SKC - Close Encounter
17. Amit & Outrage - Reclaim The Symbol
18. Fracture & Neptune - The Limit
19. EBK - Mud
20. Digital - Calling
>> Commix - Justified
>> Illskillz - They Could Love
Comments
I tried recording something similar using Virtual DJ. Kinda sounded lame, but I'll see if I can find it.
I forgot to say, this was all mixed on vinyl (hence the occasional bit of audible pitch-stretching). Those last two teasers were a bitch to get in, but I was in the zone by then and they turned out really nicely in the end.
Good shit, and I'd happily listen to this at a Drum and Bass rave :thumbsup:
This :thumbsup:
Reminds me of someone I met once when doing an all nighter. Me and my friends decided to walk to the store at some crazy time at night, just to hang out and to pass the time. We arrived there and a guy dressed up in a bright yellow T-shirt with a smiley face on was standing there. We got talking, and he called himself the "Smiley Raver", and he basically goes around to all the raves wearing his smiley face t-shirt, being happy.
Shit was awesome.
Thanks again man, that's some glowing praise you've got there
I was lucky in that I learned to mix surrounded by (good) DJs who play to crowds, so I picked up a lot of useful stuff straight away. And foremost amongst 'em was the important of keeping mixes in time/not letting them trainwreck under any circumstances... I hate listening to DJs who clearly can't beatmatch properly and just slam tunes in, let 'em clash, try to keep two very different-tempo tunes in time out loud, mis-cue, try to blag mixes in beatless sections, etc etc. Fine if you're just in your bedroom learning, but if you're in a club or something, get off the decks and let somebody who can mix play. Luckily I've only ever very rarely encountered DJs playing like that.
RemadE, good to hear it. You've earned a place in my good books.
Well that and..this..
:hai::hai::hai:
EDIT: I wish I still had it on vinyl, though, I unfortunately lost my copy. If you remember that old Fresh tune, The Immortal, I had a sick mix with those two. WUM WUH WUH-UM, WUM WUH WUH-UM!
Cheers man, I missed your comment last time I looked at this.
The little mixing blips bug me, but then again I know the mix much better than anybody who's listening to it, like I know exactly when I'm gonna hear a little pitch stretch in each mix and which drops are going to be a fraction off when they kick, I'm automatically listening out for them. Did anything stand out as a mistake to you?
(it's the first mix I recorded - apart from an earlier version of the same mix - and I'm surprised how much of a learning tool it was)
Amit's one of my favourite producers, I've got a few more of his tunes so I'll throw 'em into the next heavy mix I record. You get a chance to listen to it yet?
That's being extremely critical though, and I can't even remember where I noticed the mistake.
*listens to mix again*
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Extremely critical?
You need alot more practice man. Very few of the mixes were smooth and in the ultra competetive world of dj's those mixes better be smooth as butter. That being said, Its obvious you can mix records, and if you put in the time and work you won't be far off from being able to make a really killer mix.
Recording a mix is hard. I don't know about you but even 5 years ago when I was at it every day and even playing out occasionally, once you hit that record button it really rattles your nerves. I know guys that have been djing profesionally for years and still record and rerecord their mix 4-5 times before they get it just right, and they HAVE to. Especially in the DNB world where at the average weekly show there are probably as many or more dj's in attendance than fans, tons of chin stroking hipsters with drinks in their hands standing around rolling their eyes if anyone gets off beat for a split second.
I need some hardcore practice too, I haven't been spinning much at all the past 2 years, and after the fader went out on my mixer I just never replaced it, its probably been a year since I last mixed records. Last week I replaced my mixer, took it home and played for awhile, I'm pretty sloppy, but beatmatching is like riding a bike. Recording a mix however, is another story. The day after I listened to yours, I downloaded audacity and tried to record a mix, trainwreck city. I made it through about 3 records before I quit. :facepalm:
I'll try to get something together in the next week or so and if I can share it without humiliating myself I'll post it up on Totse.
That's more how I listen to the mix. The mistakes aren't huge but are really noticeable to my ears. Passable for bedroom mixing or a session with mates or an hour up on the decks at a house party or something... but I wouldn't use it as a promo or put it on a CD for people. You listen to a proper mix CD and the quality is just ridiculously high, not a single beat out of time for a second, it's nuts. By my standards it was a good mix, mind, so I was pleased with it nevertheless.
It's strange hitting that record button. Like you're concentrating so hard on not making mistakes than you're more likely to make one... or rather, that if you make a small mistake or hear the records drifting out, you panic a little and handle it worse than you should. Great learning experience though, I'm going to start making a habit of it. Really lets you get a detached perspective on things. I'll put another one up by next week in a slightly more chilled-out vein.
I'm going to go work on another one now. Got frustrated with the mellow approach because I couldn't slot together a tracklisting that I was totally satisfied with so I'm just gonna bust out the filth again.
And bump for new, attention-grabbing title (cheers Marijuanasaurus).