ziptnf Posted April 30, 2016 Posted April 30, 2016 I had a goal almost 3 years ago that I wanted to run a half marathon. There were challenges along the way due to injury, where I had to miss the race I planned to run. Today I completed my first one, and I made this mix for me to listen to while I did it. This mix supplied a steady flow of electric energy that kept me holding a surprisingly fast pace (for myself) all the way through. These are some serious psybreaks, and they will blast out robot battle noises for just under 2 hours. Unfortunately, I ran out of mix before I ran out of race, but that's just something to work on Image credit to the amazing Markus Vogt: markusvogt.deviantart.com Hedflux - Non-Stop (Bad Tango Remix) [Luminus] Frequency Less - Time Paradox (Kwah Remix) [Rune] Roboteknic - Someplace Else [sub Element] Matskie - Mind Science [96kHz] Alter Form - Visionary (Frequency Less Remix) [Rune] Retroid & Alter Form - No Way Out [Ego Shot] Toefinger & Soulah - Reality Tunnel (Too Dusty Remix) [YellowFinger] Optobot - Atomic Energy (48K Remix) [sub Element] Blazer - Obsidian [black Hole] Jiro - Uncertain Future [Ego Shot] Neurodriver - Sidewinder (Sense Datum Remix) [broken Robot] Acidova - Dealer 2 (Optobot Remix) [sub Element] MartOpetEr - Irony (Too Dusty Remix) [broken Robot] Tactical Groove Orbit - Dragon's Hunt (Quadrat Beat Remix) Audiohazard - Searching (Blazer Remix) [Perfecto] X-Dream - The 1st (Far Too Loud Re-fix) [soundcloud] Parallax Breakz - Abyss (ALT-A Remix) [VIM] Mariner - Orca (Retroid Remix) [sweet Science] Jiro - Come Back [Kindcrime] Chris Voro - Chimera [straight Up!] Audio:Hertz - My Enemy (Deformaty Remix) [Kick It] Enjoy! Soundcloud Link left-click to download: Ziptnf - Sentient Beings (1:45:38) 253.5MB ~320kbps 1 Quote
Paul Eye Posted April 30, 2016 Posted April 30, 2016 Did someone say psybreaks? Need to take listen one of these days Quote
ziptnf Posted April 30, 2016 Author Posted April 30, 2016 Yay! Glad to have you. Please post your thoughts if you listen Quote
Paul Eye Posted May 9, 2016 Posted May 9, 2016 Took a listen to this the other day. Some ups, some downs. The most notable down being (assumedly) Tactical Groove Orbit - Dragon's Hunt (Quadrat Beat Remix). Anyway, it's the track that samples the opening theme from Ghost In The Shell, and to me it's a track that's not to be abused in this way. The only acceptable way to use the track in a DJ set is to play it purely on its own without it being sampled and mashed into another track. Sorry, just a pet peeve of mine. On the other hand, thanks for including the FTL remix of X-Dream - The 1st. I adore the original track and this remix is right on par with it. It'll surely go into one of my sets as a surprise number. Overall, a little bit more variation would have been nice, but this is psybreaks, and psybreaks is what it delivers so I don't really see a reason to complain Quote
ziptnf Posted May 9, 2016 Author Posted May 9, 2016 Thank you for the review, Paul Eye! Glad to see some actual feedback on this forum, which I was afraid was dead for a while. RE: the Tactical Groove Orbit track, I am sure you are aware that the producer of the track is the one who included the Ghost in the Shell sample... I definitely agree that it sounds a bit strange. I struggled to mix it in after the Too Dusty track because of the semi-abrupt ending, so the transition into it already started off rough. Coupling that with the vocals that didn't really seem to match, this track was probably not a star. In all reality, I was trying to make the mix long enough to last for the duration of my race, so perhaps I included a few tracks that I wouldn't have if I aimed to make it around my average set length. Variation in psybreaks is a little hard to come by... so many producers have a single riff or pattern that they bash out and repeat for the entire track, so the variation comes in the track selection. I felt like I accomplished that already, with melodic tracks like Roboteknic - Someplace Else, mind-warpers like Neurodriver - Sidewinder (Sense Datum Remix), and bruisers like MartOpetEr - Irony (Too Dusty Remix). I definitely understand if you felt like more was needed, but I did my best with the tracks I had access to (without repeating any, of course... I already have 3 other psybreaks mixes). Again, thanks for taking the time to listen and I hope you stop by and listen to more of my sets in the future! Quote
Paul Eye Posted May 9, 2016 Posted May 9, 2016 I am sure you are aware that the producer of the track is the one who included the Ghost in the Shell sample... Yes of course, I didn't mean to imply that it was your doing Quote
ziptnf Posted May 9, 2016 Author Posted May 9, 2016 No worries, I figured as much Yeah that sample didn't fit quite so nicely, glad you pointed that out! Thanks again for listening, check my soundcloud for my other mixes that may tickle your fancy Quote
Paul Eye Posted May 9, 2016 Posted May 9, 2016 Yeah well I'm unfortunately quite lazy when it comes to listening to people's mixes :/ Quote
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