This time, it's the near-perfect mix:
How do I rate something as a near-perfect mix? Here are some criteria:
1.) Great music. Obviously, gotta be number 1.
2.) Great music I haven't heard before. Like the first four tracks, had me googling like a crazyperson trying to track down who, exactly, these people were (results: gotta get a clean mix of "Jack", but I'd take any of these home today).
3.) Great music I have heard but don't hear often enough. "Windowlicker (Acid Edit)" by Aphex Twin fits the profile.
4.) Guest spots by DJs who rock. Morgan Geist fits the bill, being one-half of arrangement deity Metro Area. If you ever want a master class in how to arrange stuff for maximum vibe/dance effect, listen to a local Metro Area track near you. As you'd expect, hid DJ set here is particularly nice. And when he's acting in half-capacity (i.e., solo) he still rocks.
5.) Truth spoken by the DJ -- I have to agree about Prodigy (I presume he's talking about "Invaders Must Die"), it's too "rave" in a bad sort of way.
Those last two parts are optional, but done correctly they do up the quotient of niceness.
Being an aspiring good DJ myself (if nothing more than a selector), I give you a most excellent track by Juan MacLean (man I gotta score this on vinyl) "By The Time I Get To Venus":
Having fun at the Whole Earth Festival!
2 years ago
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Interesting note: we're licensing a song for our golf game which is a Mark Farina song remixed by Kaskade (called Cali Spaces - more my style than yours, but definitely well done). Listening to an interview the other day, it turns out Kaskade is LDS. Who'da thunk?
Right on -- I agree that he's got the technical chops, and it's definitely more house than pop. I'm interested to hear it in context with the game. But yeah, generally speaking it ain't quite my groove. Much like Frisco ain't quite my groove for some odd reason (I didn't expect that), I'm definitely more of a Southern California sort of person.
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