Another megamix goes down

I never expected that I was done getting new hardtrance songs, but I wasn't actively looking for more.  But I did expect that here and there I'd stumble across one that I wanted to add to the list, and it could get added.  It looks like I actually somehow missed a number of Tankis & Savietto songs and on listening to them, I'm not sure why I didn't catch them before when I was combing through the output of Max Savietto in his various guises (I've actually not heard all of the songs under that alias either; I might end up adding a few more.)  But I have some Max Savietto songs, a couple of versions of the one MST song, loads of Sa.Vee.Oh songs and a few Tankis & Savietto songs.  But there's two T&S songs (in two versions each) that I'd somehow missed.  I've got them ready to add to my phone later.  Whether they'll get added to the "best of" list is still TBD to my listening to them all the way through for a final time, but I'm confident that at least a few of the four tracks I've got right now will get added, and my T&S list of songs on the "best of" list could swell from four to as much as eight.

This is OK.  Although I now have five megamixes done and two more plotted out (tracklist for 07 below) if I do the simple math, I'll end up with something like 58 before I run out of material.  Sigh.  That'll keep me busy for quite some time, and anything new added, especially while this early, will just get easily absorbed into the mix.

Because I still have CD players in both the cars and my stereos at home, and I don't have bluetooth enabled stereos in either location, I actually can and do still use CD-Rs (mp3 or regular CD Audio files either one; I prefer the former obviously because it holds more data, and will still play in almost every system that I've got, even my oldest).  Once I finish 06, I'll probably make an HTM 01-06 CD-R with those six megamixes on them, and when I get to 12, I'll make an HTM 07-12, and so on and so forth.

I like making these megamixes.  I got tracks so fast, and it was easy for tracks to slip through the cracks and get kind of forgotten about while I focused on fewer that I remembered loving.  So, I certainly have my favorites, but I'm also finding while making these randomized lists, and I'm "rediscovering" everything else that I added; often I'll make a new megamix and really end up loving some tracks on it that weren't on my radar at all before I made the megamix.

Now, this doesn't happen with every single mix.  When I made 01, for instance, most of this stuff was still new to me, plus I've heard that one the most because I made it a couple months before I started doing the rest of them.  And of course, often I get tracks that haven't fallen off my radar at all, so they don't need to be rediscovered, so to speak.  But a few examples of some that I'd kind of forgotten about until I made the list include "Der Klang" by Phuture Punk on 02, the Kaylab vs Reloop remix of Dave Joy's "Second Chase", "Roar" by Nomad and Wragg, and "Definitely" by Yoda on 03.  A lot of the material on 05 qualifies as well.  (My current favorite rediscovered track is Pulsedriver & Rocco's "Life on Mars."  No relation to DJ Wag and M.R.'s "Life on Mars" which is one that I also really love but never really lost.)

Anyway, yes—as mentioned above, I'm ready to make 06 (hopefully tonight!) which means that I've also got 07 on deck.  I didn't cut much that wasn't obvious.  I got three Cosmic Gate songs, so I took the first one and skipped the rest.  I got two Derb songs, so I took the first one and skipped the second.  And I got another remix of Dave Joy's "First Impression" but I didn't want two remixes of the same song in back to back megamixes, so I skipped that too.  Everything else made the cut.

As is almost always the case, there's an A*S*Y*S song, and one of DJ Wag's aliases makes a brief appearance.  There's no Scot Project song, but there is one of his remixes.  S.H.O.K.K. makes an appearance again after turning up more than expected in 06, so there's much less of them to go around in the future.

• Cosmic Gate - Somewhere Over the Rainbow [Beam & Yanou Remix]
• A*S*Y*S - Acid Train
• S.H.O.K.K. - Folie A Deux [Klub Mix]
• Cosmic Gate - Hardcore [Club Mix]
• Derb - Musica
• Pacific Link - Time for New Energy [Dark Oscillators Remix]
• Cosmic Gate - The Drums [Cosmic Drums Mix]
• Dave Joy - First Impression [Madwave Remix]
• Thomas Trouble - Insane Asylum [Pedro Del Mar Remix]
• Mark Sherry & Dr Willis - Here Come the Drums [Jowan Remix]
• Riot Brothers - Ripped Out
• Hypetraxx - Paranoid [DJ Scot Project Remix]
• Spiritual Project - The Big Light [Hard Trance Mix]
• Derb - Derb (Dernimbus)
• DDR & The Geezer - Mad Cows On Acid [Rozzer's Dog Mix]
• Mass in Orbit - Connect (The Next Step) [DJ Overdog Mix]