Thursday, June 14, 2018

Music rambling

Because I've pretty much just thrown my earlier hardstyle sets in with the new hardtrance sets I'm making, I'm finding a few odd things here and there.  For one thing, I have a few early hardstyle songs mixed in with my hardtrance, because it fits really well.  Some of these songs are also in my hardstyle sets, though.  For instance, I've had four K-Traxx songs on my hardtrance list, and two of them have already come up (the Technoboy remix of "Hardventure" and the unremixed version of "Noise Tool."  I've had "M.O.D.U.L.O." by Jimmy the Sound and "Hardcore Suckas (Trance Generators Remix)" by The Juvenile pop up in both groups.  Same for the Blademasterz remix of "Acid Nightmare."  The final one, I think, is that I recently added "Go Go Go" by Julian DJ and Davide Sonar to a hardtrance megamix, and it's already in a hardstyle megamix too.

And I've got a handful of early hardstyle songs in my hardtrance megamixes that aren't in hardstyle megamixes, but they're often stuff that straddles the line, like "Dusky Noises" by Analogic Disturbance, the Dark By Design remix of "No Alternative" by RBA, and various versions of songs by DJ Virus or Session One (otherwise known as Blutonium Boy) and DJ Neo.

I had actually thought about adding a few more early hardstyle songs to the hardtrance group of tracks; stuff like the original "Junior" by Speedwave, or something like that.

But I'm actually thinking of going the other way, not adding any more and in fact taking a few tracks out of consideration that are on my hardtrance population because they've already been in a hardstyle megamix (I'm thinking specifically of that Reversebass remix of "Focus" by Droid, and "Deadlock" by Future Tribes, the aforementioned K-Traxx songs that haven't come up yet, etc.

Sigh.  I'm on the fence about what I think is the right approach.

In the meantime, I'm up to 40 made mixes.

Megamix 35
  • DJ Neo - Acid Overdose [Blutonium Boy Mix]
  • Vanessa-Mae - White Bird [Cosmic Gate Remix]
  • Marcos & JK Walker - Daykeeper [Marcos Mix]
  • Cosmic Gate - Back to Earth [S.H.O.K.K. Remix]
  • Jim Justice - Maximum Modulation
  • Hennes & Cold - Darkness
  • Paul Maddox ft Niki Mak - Synthosaurus [Moments of Madness Dub]
  • Embargo! - Blackout [Original Extended Mix]
  • DJ Scot Project - X [Y Mix]
  • Sol Ray & Dark By Design - Future (In Your Eyes) [Part 1]
  • Luca Antolini vs Steve Hill - Fly With Me
  • Out of Grace - 140 BPM [Original Mix]
Megamix 36
  • Talla 2XLC - World In My Eyes [Cosmic Gate Remix]
  • DJ Virus - All Your Bass [K90 Mix]
  • Tommy Pulse - The Messiah [Resurrection Mix]
  • Cosmic Gate - Mental Atmosphere [Desdichado Hybrid Mix]
  • Euphony - Carte Blanche
  • Luca Antolini - The Race 2012 [Bluntseixal Remix]
  • Arome - Scream [Original Mix]
  • Hennes & Cold - Second Step
  • Trance Town - Fingers [Max Savietto Part Two]
  • Kan Cold vs Frank Ellrich - Transmission
  • Planet K - Hockenheim [Nord Curve Mix]
  • Apogee - Tribal Affair [Apogee Mix]
Megamix 37
  • Marcos & JK Walker - Nightfinder [Solar Scape Remix]
  • Luca Antolini vs Andrea Montorsi - Free [Luca Antolini Remix]
  • Titchy Bitch & The Fallen Angel - Retribution [Hennes & Cold Remix]
  • Twister's Silence - Listen to Me, Mama [DJ Scot Project Remix]
  • DJ Scot Project & A*S*Y*S - Loco [Black Mix]
  • DJ Wag - Cult House [Yakooza Extended Clubmix]
  • Space Frog - X-Ray (Follow Me) [Derb Remix]
  • R.B.A. - No Alternative [Nostic Remix]
  • Overrider - Timebomb
  • DJ X2000 - Modem [DJ Scot Project Remix]
  • Age of Love - The Age of Love [Marc Et Claude Remix]
  • Green Court - Follow Me [JamX & DeLeon's DuMonde Remix]
Megamix 38
  • Sixth Sense - Unleashed
  • Arome - Hands Up! [DJ Scot Project Remix]
  • Steve Knight - Neo [Original Mix]
  • Technoboy - The Future [Luca Antolini Remix]
  • O.E.G. - Endless Horny [Accenter Three O RMX]
  • Cosmik Vision - Cosmik Vision [Lost in Space Mix]
  • DJ Wag - Music Non Stop [Dub Kontor Dub]
  • Signum ft. Scott Mac - Coming On Strong [S.H.O.K.K. Remix]
  • Warmduscher vs Derb - —
  • Martin Roth & Frank Ellrich - The Orange Theme [Martin Roth Mix]
  • Organ Donors & ASYS - We Call It Acid
  • Marcos - Beat Junkie [Jay Walker Mix]
Megamix 39
  • Marc Dawn - Expander [Flutlicht Remix]
  • Russenmafia - Afraid of Us [Schwarze Puppen Mix]
  • Servant of Light - Exhale [DJ Natron Mix]
  • Steve Knight - Neo [Andy B Mix]
  • Marcos - La Proxima Parada [Digital Pressure Remix]
  • Bass Driver - Fatal Invasion [The Day After]
  • Universal Dream - House of Music [Aquaplex Remix]
  • D&A - Demons [Spacecom Remix]
  • Rank 1 - Awakening [Steve Hill & Dark By Design Remix]
  • DuMonde - God Music [Cosmic Gate Mix]
  • S.H.O.K.K. - Folie A Deux [DJ Natron Mix]
  • Tankis & Savietto - Outrageous [Remix]
Megamix 40
  • Jay Walker - Strange World
  • S.H.O.K.K. - Da Capo
  • Y.O.M.C. - In My Mind [Y.O.M.C. Mix]
  • Steve Hill, Luca Antolini & Dark By Design - Go Insane (Part 2)
  • A*S*Y*S - Lost in Acid [Original 24 Hours Mix]
  • Scooter - I'm Raving [Taucher Remix]
  • Tankis & Savietto - Antea [Remix]
  • Phil York vs BRK3 - Traffic [Fausto Remix]
  • Nomad - Taken
  • Digital Pressure - Digital Theory
  • Luca Antolini - Secret Dream [Original Vocal Mix]
  • Atomic Alliance - Atomic Bomb [The Elite Remix]

2 comments:

Desdichado said...

As an aside; having made 40 megamixes, I decided to see how much of my relevant collection that uses. I have 956 songs listed on my big list of songs. I have three songs incorporated which I've since taken off the list, for a total of 959. That almost divides very nicely by 12, which is the number of songs that I use in each mix.

If you consider the one System 7 song that I have that's over 19 minutes long and which I've long felt that when it comes up I need it to take two slots, then I get a virtual 960, which does divide evenly by 12. Into 80. So, I'm exactly halfway through my rush of making mixes.

Desdichado said...

That also brings up some weird thoughts about the randomization. I have some artists that I've added more recently that haven't come up a lot yet, so they'll be much more heavy in the rotation of the second half of mixes (Marcos and the Sixth Sense in particular here, but also a few like DJ Overdog.)

I have some other songs that have been on the list all along but which haven't come up, and I'm a little surprised by that. No Pho, or L'Age Synthetique or SMP + Bas & Ram? I've also used up almost all of my A*S*Y*S, Tommy Pulse, Luca Antolini, Tankis & Savietto, and a few other guys songs, even though I've got a lot of them.

So, the character of the second half may change somewhat. That doesn't really matter, I suppose. Ideally, I'd listen to these by putting the folder that has all of them in it on shuffle and then blasting it from the car stereo most of the time anyway.

I can then go back to using my phone for regular music, not DJ Sets.