Set list from sunkid.ca demo!
Wow! I'm so glad that so many of you are grooving on my demo from sunkid.ca!
Here is the set list, for those interested:
(at 00:00) 01 - Vibe Tribe - Lphobia (Cosmic Tone Rmx) (8:23)
(at 08:23) 02 - Tryambaka - Catastrofe (5:05)
(at 13:28) 03 - Transwave - Cycles of Life (GMS 2003 rmx) (6:24)
(at 19:52) 04 - Shagma - Geoglyphe (3:31)
(at 23:23) 05 - Digital Talk - Acid Test(5:50)
(at 29:13) 06 - 220V - Triple-X(6:22)
(at 35:35) 07 - Protoculture - Driven (Atomic Pulse Rmx) (4:24)
(at 35:59) 08 - Psywalker - Inverted Vertigo (6:47)
(at 46:46) 09 - Electrypnose - Make or Quake (4:11)
(at 50:57) 10 - Exaile - One of the Tribe (6:46)
(at 57:43) 11 - Beyond - Cave Rave (5:43)
(at 63:26) 12 - Sick Addiction - Today's Madness (4:16)
(at 67:43) 13 - Kernel Panic - Mental Core Waves (6:29)
(at 74:11) 14 - Audiosex - A Reiki Mester Megbetegedett, S Meghalt (5:05)
This is a re-recording of a set that I played live at Organix in Vancouver on February 27th. It is only 79 minutes long to fit on a CD, although the original mixed set was 90 minutes long. This version is missing
Psyfactor - Bad Mojo
Mexican Trance Mafia vs. Audiophatik - Sell Your Soul
Shift - Absolution (Rmx)
I also mix a bit more frenetically than this when live, so that's how I could play 3 more songs in eleven more minutes.
A bit more information, for the music nerds in the crowd. This set was designed keeping the tune of each track in mind. Music theory tells us that notes that are what is known as a fifth interval apart will sound good or "in tune" with each other. This mix starts out in the key of A minor, and goes to D minor and then G minor - each a perfect fifth apart. Then it employs a trick whereby I, instead of going up by a fifth, I go up by a semitone to G# minor. This creates (rather effectively, I think) a feeling of tension that increases the energy of the mix.
The rest of the set continues in perfect fifth intervals, around the circle of fifths. F#m (5 tracks in a row, all in F#, woot), Bm, Em, then I skip up a semitone again to Fm for the last two tracks.
Harmonic mixing is a very neat tool.
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I haven't had a chance to listen yet, because my quicktime is chach city at the moment, but I'm curious to hear your global harmonic transitions. I suppose they would work like compositional key changes (up a 1/2 step or minor 3rd raises excitement, down a 1/2 step takes things down a notch, up/down a 4th or 5th would be very smooth cadence-like transition, etc.) Every once in a while, I'll hear a DJ mix different tracks in unrelated keys, and create some interesting extended or bi-tonal harmony, but I'm never sure if they meant to do it or not. Do most DJ's consciously take key into account?
It would be nice if record companies included bpm and key as part of the embedded song info.
Harmonic mixing is definitely starting to be more popular, but I don't think I would say that "most" DJs use it consciously.
Thanks for posting. I'm going to burn it to a CD so I can listen to it in my car.
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