65 - Illuminations

I’d originally started with another track – a favourite that I hadn’t used in a mix yet. And it inspired me to pull together a number of tracks that I liked and enjoyed in the same key (A#), gradually building up into a Psy-Trance ending. But, strangely, when I came to listen to it again, the first track wasn’t actually in A#, it was in D#. So, back to the drawing board: I found another track to start the mix with, gave it the same ‘fast fade in’ start, and it seemed to work.

Only… not quite. I listened to it again and decided that the last third or so of the mix was just badly mixed. There were a couple of transitions that didn’t work, and then it went to Psy-Trance where it just didn’t really need to go. So I updated it with a more trancey ending that seemed to work.

Only… not quite. I listened to it again and there was one track that I’d thrown in in a bit of a rush that had a good start and ending but sucked in the middle. Worse, I’d done the mixing in such a rush that there was a train wreck of clashing beats in the outro of that track. I wanted to keep the general feel of the trance mix, but finding a track at about the same pace and feel was tricky. I reopened the file in the start of July 2013 and put a better track in. It now doesn’t fit on a CD without severe editing, but I can cope with that. It feels much more complete now.

Completed 13 Aug 2013

Styles

Trance

Files

65 - Illuminations.mp3 - 160 kbps - 89.7 MB
65 - Illuminations.80kbps.ogg - 80 kbps - 47.1 MB
65 - Illuminations.ogg - 160 kbps - 94.7 MB

Total play length: 01:18:32

Track listing

Track	Artist	Title	Remix	BPM	Length
1	Art Of Trance vs. POB	Turkish Bizarre	DBA Remix	137.00	07:47
2	Fictivision vs. Phynn	Escape	Phynn Mix	138.00	09:27
3	Solar Factor	Urban Shakedown		138.00	06:57
4	Push	Imagine		138.00	07:37
5	Moogwai	Neon	Kansai remix	138.10	07:00
6	Natious	Amber	Oliver Lieb Remix	138.10	07:48
7	Paragliders	Lithium 1		138.20	07:02
8	Solar Factor	The Rising Sun		138.00	08:04
9	Push	Strange World	Astral Projection Remix	139.00	09:02
10	Menno de Jong feat. ReLocate	Spirit	Paul Miller 2008 Rework	140.00	06:56
11	The Gift	The Seventh Day	M.I.K.E. Remix	140.00	08:41
12	Airwave	Above The Sky	Remix	140.00	06:17
13	Pulser	Point Of Impact	Original Mix	140.00	07:09
14	Stoneface And Terminal	Summerscape		140.00	04:28
15	Westbam vs Red Jerry	Wizards of the Sonic		141.00	06:52

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.