I wanted to make a follow-on mix from my Infinite Trance State mix, blending chillout tracks in a smooth progression of relaxing trance. I knew that I wanted to start with Solar Fields’ stand-out track “Jeezlh”, but apart from that I didn’t know where I was heading.
Almost immediately I ran into problems. Very few tracks in my collection were in C# and around 80BPM. Finally, and I don’t know why I didn’t find this earlier, I found an old classic – ‘Melt’ by Leftfield, which blended perfectly. I was off, and I hit my stride in the key of F at 90BPM. Then came the ending.
I realised it would be really neat if I could also end with another favourite of mine, ‘Castle in the Blue Sky’ by Galaxy. However, it was at 100BPM and in the key of D#, a full tone lower than F. This is very very difficult to work with, as a tone difference is about the worst clash you can have, and it would mean several cunning key changes before I could get anywhere near D# from F.
I did something I haven’t done before in a mix – altered the original. Using an open-source music time and pitch stretching tool, Rubberband , I first converted Castles to 90BPM, then pitched it up a tone. The result isn’t perfect – no reworking tool can be as good as the original synthesis – but it’s pretty good. I did try doing both conversions at the same time in Rubberband but it sounded much worse; there are probably better ways of achieving what I wanted by resampling and then pitch-shifting, and maybe if I discover that technique I’ll redo this mix.
But for now, enjoy!
Completed 16 Feb 2010
Total play length: 01:16:16
Track |
Artist |
Title |
Remix |
BPM |
Start |
Finish |
Length |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Solar Fields | Jeezlh | 80.00 | 09:00 | |||
2 | Leftfield | Melt | 85.00 | 02:00 | |||
3 | Solar Fields | Electric Fluid | Early Mix | 85.00 | 51:00 | ||
4 | Saafi Brothers | Under The Stars | 87.00 | 25:00 | |||
5 | The Extreme | Daydream | Long Edit | 90.00 | 51:00 | ||
6 | AmBeam | Love Supreme | 90.00 | 26:00 | |||
7 | Scann-Tec | ASD | 90.00 | 21:00 | |||
8 | Solar Fields | Levitate | 90.00 | 37:00 | |||
9 | Zen Mechanics | A New Philosophy | 90.00 | 18:00 | |||
10 | Sundial | Together, We Are... | Scann-Tec Remix | 90.00 | 38:00 | ||
11 | Solar Fields | Home | 90.00 | 44:00 | |||
12 | Sundial Aeon | Love Shelter | 90.00 | 43:00 | |||
13 | Galaxy | Castle in the Blue Sky | longer in F | 90.00 | 29:00 |
I welcome any suggestions, criticisms and recommendations for new music to listen to. I will consider doing specific mixes for people, but this is only a hobby. Hope to hear from you.
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