zackster Disc 1 is the worst mixed cd I’ve ever heard.

Zackser’s having an absolute reg!

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      Oakey’s 007 is fucking brilliant and anyone who thinks otherwise is a mahoosive looser.

        ScottBailey

        100%.

        Loved Perception as a tune, but felt square peg / round hole at this point in the mix. Always felt it would have worked better at the end of the mix…

            lol disc 1 of NY is so insane. It’s as if he’d never heard a single one of the records before, and had only just watched a 20 minute youtube video on how to dj with vinyl! before stepping into the booth. Every single transition is one of those ones that all budding djs remember where you don’t fully get it until you hear both records coming out of the speakers and you’re like ooh fuck these don’t work, and you quickly get out of the first and into the second as fast as you can. You also get at least one of those moments where you think both records are working, but get so stoked on yourself that you forget to use EQs, or any of the controls really, and the record you meant to mix out of just suddenly stops. iircc there is even one of those transitions were you just can’t get the bpm right, its always to fast or slow, and you hit that moment were the record that’s playing has gotten all the way to the point when it’s just a kick drum and your like aaah shit gotta get this on asap! So from a technical point of view, it is an astonishing mix, i will give you that.

              Also Perception is a fantastic tune, and it’s placement is the mix is just fine. Xpander is what ruins the flow of that cd, period.

              As an aside, I remember the Mixmag article about Cass that was in the copy that Planet Progressive came with. According to the article Sasha was waiting for a tune that Cass and Slide were working on before releasing Ibiza. Before they had finished it a lightning strike knocked out their hard drive, and they lost the tune. They broke the news to Sasha, but he said he wanted a track so badly, that they got back into the studio and made Perception.

                Ibiza, disk 2… isn’t the crux of the argument, disk one vs disk two, the opening three tracks on disk two and how they just don’t work together? That they somehow tarnish the rest of the almost perfect mix? Others arguing it’s this eclectic ensemble that is at the heart of it’s brilliance?

                If you went into a club and heard any other dj play breaks, into muscular house, into moody prog, you’d show yourself the door… wouldn’t you?

                  Things have currently devolved into the same old arguments. But fear not, I will be getting things back on track with my review of 007 Disc 2!

                    I don’t think Perception feels too out of place, it’s that stupid fucking Pob tune that that’s the fly in the ointment

                      Smallman1 we’ve had this discussion, i don’t your ears don’t work properly. it absolutely could not be worse if mixed by a child who’d never listened to music before.

                        vinnyt77 It got played 3 times at one Fabric Tyrant! Twice by Sasha and once by Burridge after (and not the 3 Tyrants mix).

                          vinnyt77 100%.

                          Loved Perception as a tune, but felt square peg / round hole at this point in the mix. Always felt it would have worked better at the end of the mix…

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                            zackster Seem to remember they sent a first run of it to Burridge and he told them it was good but it could be better, so they got back to it and voila.