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Sweet Child isn't cheesy? What kind of crack are you smoking?

The X-Noise remix sucks guys, can't you hear it? Play the original, not the new one (just because it's new).

Come to think of it, did anyone here appreciate songs from Weirdo from years back? All released on Tinrib to my knowledge. I came across Photic Zone on my HD and remembered that in 2001 I dropped it in the middle of a Sunday morning old school set at a big festival here and the place went off... it totally goes with high-energy Goa trance Curva Peligrosa and Say Yes if You Understand Me are both classics as well. I highly recommend Weirdo

I just listened to this album and my first impression is that this is insufferably dull.

There is too much wax in some of your ears. Stereo Electric was great, and so is this. Wizzy are right at the top, as far as I'm concerned.

If all goes well - you, and many more of us - will be here forever

YOU ALL FORGOT SANDMAN - PSYCHO TOONS!

I've got something cooking.

Sounds like my old music I really like this... it's still hard dance music - the Goa feel is only incidental I think - but it's great anyway. Thanks for passing that on!

Random record shelf sniping uncoverd Chemical Brothers - Loops of Fury EP. You know, this is still dope.

Seriously. What a crazy tune! I put this on just now and after having spent a while listening to all-new stuff, I gotta wonder what the deal is. Hack the edges off and you're left with this pale imitation of a good oldie like this. Even Kiwa went spiralling down the can with their newer work, instead of pursuing some freaked out madness like this. Dust it off and give it another spin!

Auricular - Audion Sensient - Blue Neevus (don't bother with the new one) V/A - Complexity [Cold Groove]

Well that's the thing... this is what I'm into these days... 3 hour+ sets moving through many styles, ranging up from 100 to 145 bpm. I played a set in the forest recently that began with Entheogenic, moved on to Kooler and Lish, onward with Kiwa and Juno Reactor and Phony Orphants, up to Human Blue and Hydrophonic, and into the old school with Shakta and Hallucinogen and such. A real journey, you know? That's what I'm doing these days, which is why these topics are being spawned Hmm I seem to have heard of that track from somewhere Krell, good point... there is a time and place for some fade-mixing if the intros are solid...

Topic sez it all just about... I own global psychedelic trance 10, and this is one of the nicer tracks to be found there. Unfortunatly the CD I got had an error in it - so I'm wondering if anyone else's has the same problem. It skips in a few places, just after five minutes, as well as later on (after the nine minute mark). This is otherwise a really nice morning tune that I would get some use out of, so I'm wondering if anyone would feel fine sending over a wave copy of it if I show you some pictures of me holding the actual CD. Yeah, a funny request no doubt. The shop I bought it from couldn't help, and I didnt ever get a response from Spirit Zone. I paid for it - now I'd really like to be able to use this song in a set fair enough?

Any idea where that can be obtained? I have some old IO tracks from back in the day and they're rather interesting... You die now.

That's tough! They're all classics... Forever After was one of the very first albums I purchased, along with the Colours of Shiva discs... my first introduction to Goa trance

Some Altom catches my ear - sounds like quite a jump though! Thanks benf. Kiph, it's not an either/or situation. A smooth flow to a set isn't about keeping it the same and playing dull stuff. What gave you that idea? How about great tracks and smooth mixing, building a journey from the very first track, as an approach?

Hi there - another DJ topic from me. I'm wondering if anyone has any transitional tracks that change BPM as it plays through. An example would be Chromosome's Future Evolutions, which begins at 136 and jumps up to 140 after a break. These are particularly useful if you need to get somewhere fast in a set. I've been looking into this harmonic mixing thing (see other thread) and the fact is, if one wants to smoothly flow from the dirty 130s all the way up to the soaring heights of 145 and above, crossing styles and genres, it's gonna take a bloody long time. A few shortcuts through the forest would come in handy for shorter sets where one would still like to provide a journey to the audience, I would think. What would be -extremely- useful would be a transitional track from 130 to 135. There is a real lack of good songs to choose from in the BPM range centered right around 133 that makes it a real pain to start slow and move up. Nerdy, isn't this?

No, I'm not really following this. I'm glad I asked the question however... I've been reading plenty of good info on the subject, and while there are some questions that don't make immediate sense to me, after spending hours on the decks trying this out I find myself absolutely amazed that no one seems to make a big deal out of this. It was only about 4 months ago that two different people mentioned anything about mixing in key. I hadn't even heard of it before - even after going through some DJ tutorials through the years. Beatmatching, phrasing, and mixer tricks. Effects if you get into advanced territory. None of the sites I was ever on mentioned anything else! That is so bizarre... Unless I'm mistaken, I still haven't come across a single trance song in a major key. Is that right? I might be doing this wrong. So fresh, so new! Thanks everyone, this is keeping me -really- busy.

What an obnoxious fucking web site *PUKE*

IS THAT IT? oh that's good... I never could figure out what tune he was making fun of. What a good choice! Exactly. One gets to thinking it's a lot worse than it really is, simply because it had an obnoxious amount of exposure. Urrrrgh.

Total disagreement, I think that one's a dud.

If it's the genuine goodness of Sandman, I'll be first to purchase it. Keep the original style, bust out the dark tunes, and you will have an incredible amount of new fans. Just don't follow the standard path at all - dare to be different as you always have been Eagerly awaiting it! Peace.

Well, everything just got a whole lot more difficult. I punched in the keycodes for all the tracks I'd been working with to put a new mix together, and it seems as if my sense of pitch ain't bad at all - the mixes I had lined up as keepers were all harmonic. Some of the ones that had been frustrating the hell out of me - now I have options, things to try. That's so excellent! I have discovered a bottleneck - using the camelot keycode system - at 7A. Seems like there are few tracks in that specific key grouping, so crossing over it is gonna be tricky. The one thing I'm still not clear on - why small amounts of pitch shifting don't spoil the sound of the key. There's not a single site on the web with keyed psytrance tracks, is there?

That begs the question - is Antix "psytrance"? One of the bros played Hiding Place in his DJ set while he was in Toronto last friday... people were into it. One of my friends had even said he came out specifically to hear that track.