I just returned from the States and Canada, and had the pleasure to fly back with a cold that took the opportunity of the plane to turn into a minor ear infection. And I deleted the set for this week while drunk. Oops! Funny how one can type 'rm' when you mean to type 'ls' after just three American strength micro-brews!

So, no posting this week. We'll skip one and see you all next Monday.

Cheers,
Transit

Well, this weeks set isn't live from California, but I barely am. Jet lag is a bitch.

Two weeks ago I talked a little about the process I go through when putting a set together. Fairly often I'll put a number of hours in on a set and then end up finding it falling short of what I had imagined. Occasionally I'll go back and listen to such a set a few weeks later and think "Hmm, this wasn't so horrible." And so it is with this weeks posting. My initial impression when I first put this together was that it jumped around too much, and had a few less than great mixes. But going back and giving it a second listen, I'm more or less happy with it. And since I was unable to put something else together before leaving for a bit of vacation/long-distance work, it's this weeks mix.

Track 12 is currently "unknown" as I don't have my original tracklist with me, and I can't for the life of me figure out what track it is. Oops. You have two weeks time in which to guess and post a comment with the correct information in order to show me up. :-)

Cheers,
Transit

 

Apparently so. Hard to believe two weeks have passed since the last post already. I swear time flows faster than it once did.

All my posted sets are mixed with 2xCDJ-200s and an Ecler Nuo5, plus some post-recording diddling in Audacity. But before recording anything I normally first spend something like 2-7 hours upfront, doing track selection and playing with transition points. Then I'll typically mix through the whole set once or twice, give it a listen, and rearrange things if something serious is wrong. Usually one of the first two takes is ready to post, but if changes are made, yet more time goes into recording it again. Sometimes I'll go through part of that process and then start over. You can see why people are switching to all digital mixes for podcasts and on-line radio. The time efficiency can't be beat.

This week we have a little over an hour of fine minimal techno for your listening pleasure. It's not the best set ever posted, but I only had time to do some minimal track selection and then mix through it once before recording. Therefore it's a bit more raw. I spent around two hours on track selection, did one test mix, made a few changes, and then put down the final set recording. The last two tracks were actually not planned at all - and you can tell, particularly on the mix from Pigon - May In Little Albio Street to Joris Voorn - The Deep Side Of The Moog. The tracks don't particularly belong together. Think of the mix as "live" if you will. :-)

Enjoy, and feel free to use the comment system. I didn't code it so it would sit there lonely and unused!

Cheers,
Transit