Message 11/12
Date: 11-Jun-02 @ 12:46 AM -
RE: Back to the future
ok prox, i'm listening now and that is gloria estefan. there's lots of good eighties stuff but i personally don't think that's one of them. it was massive at the time, but in all the wrong places, probably florida and basingstoke. there's no 'edge' on it, you know? and it's not smooth enough for the jazz/soul heads. nice players tho ... (all this imho)
ok, second track - terrible mix in - but a nice track (big in ibiza etc. (not that that's always a good thing)). a nice track courtesy of the vocal melody tho, i see the connection you're making, but, you'd be better off remixing gloria estefan yourself and using that to mix from.
3rd track, passable mix, no idea what it is yet, like the sound though. on the break sounds a bit like a carl craig thing (throw). right, this is a filler, don't play it!!! bollox disco break, it's a bad take on carl craig. booo!
4th deep house, mmm, there were a few norwegians on paper records at one time. see, the mix didn't annoy me there. this is warm up time, in a 30minute mix you should be in the thick of it here, but it's too chilled.
ouch! not a good mix there! like the tune though. again still a bit chilled. only coz you started with all that latin though. reminds me of nuphonic stuff from a while ago.
nice little transition to the spoken bit, i'd go with that in a club.
for a track or two, gotta be back with the harder drums after though! ughh, sorry, i get an allergic reaction to tracks that sample/quote also sprach tharathustra (or holst's planets if you think about it) but that's just me.
ok, overall, you start with latin go deep house then go funk. personally, i'd start with funk, some latin, then some funky latin house, then get deep house, (in the midle of which there'd be a real corking vocal number or two) then get pissed, fall over and fuck up the mix.
IMHO!