0:00, Afterwards @ the Bar, Caia, Radio edit, N/A, 203.52, Three Moods, Guss, Radio edit, N/A, 10.39, Passe Partout, Monte la Rue, Radio edit, N/A, 14.50, Funkster, A La Carte, Radio edit, N/A, 18.40, Taste of Soul (Original Mix), Javi Lopez, Radio edit, N/A, 22.57, Mr & Mrs Ward, Sven Van Hees, Radio edit, N/A, 27.36, Right Control, Mark Down, Radio edit, N/A, 31.29, Easy (Uneasy), Sola Rosa, Radio edit, N/A, 36.00, Dirty Dancin', Guardner, Radio edit, N/A, 40.03, Malibu Marina, Monte la Rue, Radio edit, N/A, 43.32, Galactica Soul, Dr Drummer, Radio edit, N/A,
Some lounging tracks for the after party...............come home from the ba...
0:00, Afterwards @ the Bar, Caia, Radio edit, N/A, 203.52, Three Moods, Guss, Radio edit, N/A, 10.39, Passe Partout, Monte la Rue, Radio edit, N/A, 14.50, Funkster, A La Carte, Radio edit, N/A, 18.40, Taste of Soul (Original Mix), Javi Lopez, Radio edit, N/A, 22.57, Mr & Mrs Ward, Sven Van Hees, Radio edit, N/A, 27.36, Right Control, Mark Down, Radio edit, N/A, 31.29, Easy (Uneasy), Sola Rosa, Radio edit, N/A, 36.00, Dirty Dancin', Guardner, Radio edit, N/A, 40.03, Malibu Marina, Monte la Rue, Radio edit, N/A, 43.32, Galactica Soul, Dr Drummer, Radio edit, N/A,
Some lounging tracks for the after party...............come home from the bar for a chill session, or going to a bar for a chill session after a hard night!
Either way, I hope you will enjoy this. I thoroughly enjoyed making this set, reminded me of some good nights.......smile
Lounge, chillaxing, sunset, relaxing, after party.
I just had a nice Sunday Session listening to this set. What a great tracklisting! Very, very consistent selection all the way through, rock solid, I like it, no mistakes here. Downtempo at it's best, heavy groove beats with busy percussions but a laidback ambient sound on top which does not chill o...
I just had a nice Sunday Session listening to this set. What a great tracklisting! Very, very consistent selection all the way through, rock solid, I like it, no mistakes here. Downtempo at it's best, heavy groove beats with busy percussions but a laidback ambient sound on top which does not chill out too much, since the bass is always funky and the music is jazzy. Exquisite!
All over the mix it reminded me of the Pork Records label, early Fila Brazilia, Solid Doctor, Baby Mammoth, Heights Of Abraham, etc - however this sound is more mature and more jazzy, not that much electro. The other album that came in mind was the Journey Into Ambient Groove series, this mix is exactly what that is, Ambient Groove, that sums it up - chill but still funked up.
Loved the tabla in Track 7! ;-) Although very simplistic, probably just a sample or even synthetic as it has become so popular in recent chill tracks - still, it's good arrangement and it's still ambient funk, does not move over to something more ethnic sound, it's right on the edge, nice!
Track 9 also reminded me of tabla, but it's probably just some sililar percussion, it's quite light in the background.
Track 10 reminded me of Digital Underground's Freaks Of The Industry, starting from 41:19 it feels and sounds really close with the slapping bass and even the thumping drums are the same (hope you know that one, they sampled a lot of Parliament and P-Funk that you like). At the same time it has a very dreamy feel (well, your whole set has that very sweet, lullaby atmosphere) with the string section (quite like Bonobo).
The last track (hehe - avoiding the confusion with my own name, Track 11 smile has this harpsichord-like instrument which is just like it's from Barry White's "I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby" - sorry, can't hep but getting these associations... smile I'm very grateful for reminding me of these great songs though!
Your transitions are great given the matching mood of all tracks it's easy to make smooth blends and you got the flow all the time.
A bit of a constructive feedback (don't take it as criticism, just technical details): - At 14:40 you start to speed up the track to match the following song's tempo - whilst it's not that annoying since you use time strech (or pitch lock, whatever you want to call it) it is still audible and very well noticeable. I would say this is quite an agressive speed up, can't remember if it was you or Linny doing the same earlier, I wanted to comment about it already. Again, it's not bad, since I like it when a DJ does not get imprisoned into some BPM boundaries, if you think the track you selected is a good match, you should mix it even if there's a big BPM difference - and you do that, it's brave but a real DJ should be up for the challenge! smile Now I would have probably waited for the bridge at 15:00 where the beat stops and it's just ambient music going on - it's often less disruptive to do a speed change at that part since the tempo will not that so clear to many without the explicit beat being there.
You actually do this trick later at 31:26 where it's a tremendous slow-down as opposed to speed-up: you wait for the bridge there, it mellows out and even if I can clearly hear that it's slowing down it is a beautiful transition, I could not fault it, a masterpiece! Well done, since this is extremely challenging, it's not plain beatmatching and keeping a 125 BPM all the time as you can do in a deep house mix, you play with the tempo with great confidence, bravo!
There is a slight mistake at the previous transition at 15:00 I mentioned above - you are one quarter note (bar) late with Track 4 coming in - the beats are perfectly matched but it's shifted (forward) one quarter. If you count the 1,2,3,4's from the clear downbeat of Track 3 througout the transition you'll see that Track 4's downbeat comes in at 2 as opposed to at 1 smile. It's a typical mistake with live mixing on turntables with these kind of tracks where the melody might not start on the downbeat at the intro and it fools you when the drum comes in - however with software mixing you can easily detect and correct it smile (with your musical background you'll know what I mean ;-)
Also, starting at 18:42 there is a bit of a double drumming, the beats are clashing a bit, it's "wobbly" - this is typical again when mixing real human drumming as opposed to electronic ones, since it won't be that precise so it's almost impossible to match two human drummers. I guess it's not the case here, it's probably both electronic so it should be precisely on tempo - however there must have been some "humanization" or groove applied so that some quarter note snares might not be perfectly on the dot.
Not a lot you can do with this usually - well, I sometimes take the time and manually adjust the snares so they line up, in a waveform view it's easy to see. Sometimes the whole track can be shifted just a bit, if it's just the beatmapping or beat detection algorhythm not triggering at the same levels(not sure what it is called in Mixmaster, it's "warping" in Ableton) so that it will not alighn the kicks and snares the same way in different tracks - you can manually adjust beat markers in this case. (Well, let me tell you, that's what I had to do in my Dimsa B-Day JazzFunk mix since those were almost all human drummings... Actually, your track 5 is quite suspicious, sounds like it's a real live human drumming, not electronic (reminds me of some Incognito instrumentals from the "Tribes, Scribes, Vibes" album)
Nevertheless you're a genious and this set is very sweet and cool - goes on my iPod! Well done - you're still the Queen Of Mellow smile