Friday, October 20, 2017

Hardstyle megamix

This is a totally random post (I'll get around later to my Friday Art Attack) but I've been having fun creating hour long hardstyle megamixes.  Well; to be perfectly honest, I've only done one so far, but I'm working up to another one that will be just a little bit more ambitious in terms of what I've specifically mixed about it—my first one was selected to be relatively easy.  I did a little judicious cutting and blending of one track into the next without doing anything too complicated.  The second one is only baby-steps farther, but it'll take... I dunno, at least several hours to do.  I haven't sat down to do it yet.  I do however, mostly know which tracks I want to use, and although there may be a little bit of shuffling before I'm done, this is mostly the order I'm proposing for them too:
  • Ed E.T. & DTR vs. MCP ft. Natski—"We Don't Care"
  • TNT—"First Match (Tuneboy Mix)"
  • Analogic Disturbance—"Hunting 1"
  • Brennan Heart—"Face the Enemy"
  • Brian M vs. MC Bunn—"The Dub We Play"
  • Jajox—"Superstar"
  • Technoboy & The Prophet, ft. Shayla—"Psycho Ex (Original Re-boosted)"
  • TNT—"Fuel (Benzine Mix)"
  • Tatanka—"On a Cloud"
  • Brian M vs. MC Bunn—"We Like the Bass"
  • Da Tweekaz—"The Past"
  • Alphaverb—"Just a Little Noise"
  • Technoboy—"Put Some Grace (see below)"
  • TNT—"Psylent Hill"
  • Possibly an A-lusion song, depending on how long the megamix track is.
Yeah, the Italians, especially Technoboy (who also makes up half of TNT) are a bit over-represented.  Whatever.  I really like their work and used a fair bit of it in my first megamix too (I should post the tracklist for that too.)

I'm trying to decide which version of "Put Some Grace" I want to use.  The song uses a sample of Grace Jones, so hey—a tie to both cheezy sword & sorcery and 80s pop culture there, at least.  That's something to make this post marginally less random.  There are three in contention, but I'm almost certain to use either the "Put Some Grace (In Your Face Mix)" or the slightly re-titled "In Ya Face" track.  The former has more of the Grace Jones narration, which is actually kinda interesting, but the second is a slightly better mix.  I suppose I could cut a bit of the former into the latter and create a custom hybrid of sorts.  Not sure.





(Previous tracklist)
  • DJ Activator—"Italian Hardstyle"
  • K-Traxx—"Noise Tool (Technoboy Remix)"
  • TNT—"Musick"
  • Zatox—"Tanz Electrik (R3belz Remix) [Reverse Fanatic Mix]"
  • Geck-O—"Another Way"
  • TNT—Double Dutch Darkies"
  • Builder—"Her Voice (Headhunterz Remix)"
  • Audiofreq—"Warcry"
  • Scope DJ—"Rock Hypnotic Again (2011 Refixx)"
  • Da Tweekaz—"Cheese Police"
  • Geck-O—"2-1 (Jack van Gelder Version)"
  • Speedwave—Junior (Hardstyle Masterz Remix)"
  • K-Traxx—"Hardventure (Technoboy Remix)"
  • Scope DJ and Audiofreq—"Robot"
  • DJ Stephanie—"Black High Heels"
That mix is actually an hour-ten, and I'd like to keep it closer to an hour.  I've obviously got more tracks in the second list, but maybe I'll either take one or two out, or trim them more so that I'm playing less of them before moving on.  Maybe the first option is better, so I have more material to work with on a putative third megamix.

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