January 2008 Promo Mix (Tech/Minimal/Prog)

New mix online now. Basicallly a relentless building set of filthy dark tech house, minimal, techno and progressive tunes.

check it out: http://www.slicknob.com/mixes/blairsmith_january2008promo.mp3

tracklisting?

yeah sorry couldn't be shagged reformatting the tl earlier.

here ya go:

1. Kollektiv Turmstrasse -Wagnis (Diynamic)
2. Dave Robertson/Jon Gurd - Bring It Back (Kill-A-Watt)
3. Little Green Men - Taking You Back feat. Johnny Def 1 (Forensic)
4. Baggage Handlers - Part Deux feat. Voicerock (Jamie Stevens Remix) (Music For Vinyl)
5. Patch Park - Made In Mayhem (Shinichi)
6. Audiojack - Panic Attack (2020 Vision)
7. Gold Ryan/Tapesh - Collapse (Patric La Funk & Timo Becker Remix) (Timbee)
8. Josh Gabriel - Summit (Josh Gabriel Remix) (Organized Nature)
9. Steve Lawler - Violet (Original Mix) (Viva Music)
10. Fusiphorm - Green Chocolate (Koljah's Exploding Cake Remix) (minimood)
11. Underworld - Beautiful Burnout (Pig & Dan Remix) (Underworldlive)
12. Steve T - There Were Lights (Moonbeam Remix) (EQ Grey)
13. Oliver Moldan/Jerome Isma-Ae - Five Five Zero (Kaiser Souzai Remix) (Hope)
14. Jim Rivers - For My Need (Saw Recordings)
15. Velkro/Ido Ophir - Symphony (Sprout)
16. Federico Epis - Brasilia (Robytek Remix) (Audio Therapy)

Hey Blair, tight mix as always dude, very nice.

One thing i noticed however (imho of course), and this goes for a lot of the mixes ive heard from djs in this forum lately, is the lack of acceleration from start to finish. Not so much of an issue here being a fairly tech/minimal mix, but the start promises so much that the end just doesnt quite deliver. Maybe its just my old skool trance roots talking?? a topic for debate no doubt.
Still a very professionally assembled mix

Aaaaaand GO!

Risk - I like mixes which pace themselves and have dips and turns and well thought out endings. It's easy to make a mix which just ramps up and up.

R

Agreed, a straight ascend in a set gets boring, even in trance.
As Rob has said, a set that paces themselves and have unexpected twists is a well crafted and interesting.

But as you said it is about opinion.

Hey Risk thanks for taking a listen. This is a pretty tech/minimal mix for the most part and I didn't really want to bang it out as I was trying to create a warmup vibe. In fact I was initially going to make it a 2 dikcer but never got around to doing the 2nd disc which probably would have been more up your alley.

I did actually have an alternate ending planned out for this mix which was fluffier/bigger but I decided to take a deeper darker turn towards the end, just seemed to feel right considering the overall mood of the mix. I appreciate that this is always going to be a matter of preference though.

After a couple more listens its sure got a journey, got real evil towards the end

Thats true Rob, and this disc is well thought out, but some of the others lately havent been thats all. And i do like a happy ending

Cheers dude. Yeah dark and evil is what I was going for. That last tune is one of my favourites of the last year. Going back to my psy trance roots I guess.


And who doesn't like a happy ending? I do know what you mean though, and it is one thing that has always frustrated me when listening to a lot of mixes - the lack of a satisfying climax. There are different ways to go about that climax though, it doesn't always have to be big room style anthems to finish a mix. Just my 2c