Monthly Archives: August 2014

Entry #3: Marsh – Enik’s Mind Control

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Marsh of Goat Ranch shows us a different side of his playing than usual with this set of tweaked-and-freaked slow goa jams. 100% Weird!
 

As a fellow music site (goatranch.com) operator, I expect that I may be ineligible to win the CD but I just couldn’t pass up the chance to put together a mix for this!

This mix is quite a departure from those I’ve done in the past, but the opportunity–nay, encouragement–to use some of the eclectic and less well-known tracks appearing herein was not something I could easily ignore. While it’s not quite downtempo in the strict sense of the word, it is on the slower side of the spectrum and I’d expect to hear something like this as an opening set of a party.

We’ve got tracks of varying genre flavor from as far back as 1994 on up to ’99, and I attempted to include a heavy dose of heady lysergified psychedelia while still keeping the groovy side of things moving (mostly).

Special thanks goes to BBB for providing me the opportunity to put a bunch of tracks that I adore into a single mix, when previously I’ve had a really tough time fitting any one of them into more conventional sets!

 

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Entry #2: Aldo – Milestones

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The second entry in the Ubarpedia contest is a blend of progressive and Goa culled from memorable moments at parties throughout the years. Smooth, breezy, and cool, just right for the middle of summer.

The mix I want to share with you is a very personal one for me. I scanned my complete collection in order to extract 12 very special tracks – released between 1996-2010. Each of them triggered extraordinary emotions when I faced them the first time – mostly on a dancefloor…not behind the turntables or at home. You all may know these kind of personal “milestones”: you may hear them many many times – over many many years…and you always get a kind of intense emotional déjà-vu – goose pimples included.

The mix starts with some classic Trance-focused tracks and morphs after the first half into unpolished Goa-Trance of “the golden era”. It´s an 80-minutes mix…suitable for burning an audio CD.

Equipment used: 2x Pioneer CDJ100 + Ecler SMAC Pro20

Hope you enjoy it!

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