Disc 2s of Superior Quality
I just think the tunes are fucking brilliant 303.
Who’d have thunked it?!
that doesn’t make it a good mix, especially when there’s absolutely no fit from one track to the next. he didn’t even fill the most basic duties of a dj. enjoy it, but it’s a shit mix and there’s no debating it.
303abuser DT does the same thing. One minute you’re listening to Motown edit, the next it’s panel beating techno. Still doesn’t make it any less of a mix. So long as the tunes are half decent, the mixing can be forgivable. It’s not as if Oakey has gone his whole career without people questioning his mixing skills. Same can be said of Carl Cox.
Someone call 303 a taxi.
ScottBailey he’s supposed to be a professional. it’s like ordering a gourmet 4 course meal and it shows up stirred together in a bowl. the ingredients maybe the best, but it’ll taste like shit. that’s 007 (assuming you think the ingredients are all good, which they aren’t). again, people can like it, that’s not the argument. as a mix, it’s a technical and programming nightmare. literally anyone on the planet can put random songs together and mix them poorly.
303abuser I’m not disputing that the mixing isn’t on par with others. Not trying to say it’s a masterpiece either, I’m just saying it’s not a shit mix (in my opinion). It’s an interesting collection of tracks that probably not a lot of others had or were playing at that point in time, but ended up copying later.
It’s better than listening to an hour long of perfectly mixed drab. All subjective of course…
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007 Disc 2. Jesus Christ. IDK what I was expecting, but it assuredly was not that. Opening up with 2 jungle tracks, followed by a 5 minute ambient SH101 solo… Talk about great flow and track placement. Oakey clearly learned something during the time he spent mixing Disc 1, because the beat matching and cue points at least make some kind of sense on this disc. Once you get past the warm up tracks, that is. I had legitimately only ever heard one of these tunes before, so IDK what track titles are, but that Waiting For The Burning Flame tune was a bop. Had me doing the Crystal Light Challenge in my office.
I think the high point of the mix, at least for me, was towards the end when he actually pulled off an in key mix. What I liked about it was that even though the transition was sounding good his natural reaction was to bail as soon as possible. And it absolutely wasn’t because the prior record ended. No. Mid bar the track he was mixing out of just suddenly fades into nothing over the course of 2 beats. Talk about a master at the height of his craft! After listening to both discs, I think it is obvious Disc 2 is the connoisseur’s choice. It has less to do with 2 being good, than it does with 1 being the worst Dj mix I have ever heard; live, studio, or otherwise. I swear at one point he starts a tune by cuing it on the second beat of the record that it’s proceeded by. What a crime that Twilo, the prog Mecca, is captured for the series of record with a mix from Paul fucking Oakenfold.
So anyways, is Oslo Disc 2 any good?
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zackster So anyways, is Oslo Disc 2 any good?
Nope.
New York has quality tunes, even if you want to turn your nose up at the mixing. Oslo hardly even has quality tunes.
Disc 2 has Taucher ‘Waters’, which is great, but that’s pretty much it. In fact, the track Oakey decides to play after such a high point manages to perhaps be the worst track to grace a GU comp.
On the subject of the thread, Disc 2 is still somehow better than Disc 1, which is mostly drum & bass.
Disc 2.
ScottBailey fair enough, but it’s a really poor effort. a professional should be objectively much, much better when it comes to flow, technical transitions, programming, and ensuring the sum is greater than the parts. he failed on every account, which is my problem. a bedroom dj puts out this mix, i have no issue with it.