involv3r tracklist

[sbando]

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[gizze]

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Listened again in the car on the way home, the tracks are superb, and he actually layers a lot of the transitions, but then a big change, unless you are listening carefully it sounds like he has just slammed the next track in.

1st transition is not great at all, then another at 35mins ruins the flow and again a bit later. But the tracks are very good imho and I bet by the time he finished reworking them all he was probably bored and couldn't get into the actual mix.

[thebanned1]

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XX are apparently the new Everything But The Girl. But a DJ & remixer is the bands thinking brain and leader. So, many of their tracks can have great dance reworkings.

oh great... they did one great tune that was a todd terry mix so is this what we have to look forward too from the xx ?

[unkle]

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My expectation for this, decreases through the days.

[sbando]

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[feather]

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Gotta say Keep Kelly In Athens is a nice discovery.

[mades]

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so sad to read all of this.

But hey, Sasha has been hit or miss for the last couple of years and everybody knows it. He should be releasing much more official compilations to balance it out (like JD).

[sbando]

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[feather]

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all that says to me is he is being inspired by different things now, its certainly showing in his dj sets which today are also terrible

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[thebanned1]

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Do not understand this fixation with the XX

all that says to me is he is being inspired by different things now, its certainly showing in his dj sets which today are also terrible

[feather]

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I'm listening to this on Youtube now. 21 mins in, I don't mind it, but it sounds like hipster music with some beats added. Do not understand this fixation with the XX (whom I don't mind).

Is he trying to get a younger audience cos we're all old farts stroking our balls and complaining about his sound?

[go0gle]

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I find it incredibly funny how some people (not you!) still think that GU: Ibiza is the work of a god-like DJ with flawless mixing skills. While in reality it's studio work. And the "flow" (the perfect chunk of music before the iconic My Lexicon hook, for instance) was actually a painstaking, lovingly assembled, re-creation.

Nah.. you can count me in that group for sure

But you know, now that I do have an idea about it, it made me recap my personal observations. Sasha has some incredible live mixes out there, his Zen after party one is one of my favorites, but for some reason every time I've seen him live, I was expecting the same level of solid mixing, which is presented in mixes like Ibiza, etc., but I've never had the pleasure to experience that, unfortunately. And yes, I know that they styles of music have changed tremendously in the past 10-12 years, but I am just talking about build up, mixing, programming..

Now, this involver is much closer to what I've seen at his live shows in past couple of years, and.. granted I've been to only 3.. so not a big sample. And also, since he has been working on it... it makes sense I guess.

I don't want to start an argument, but... its seems like Digweed has a much better "transferability" from album to dance floor in terms of .. dj-ing I guess. Just an observation.. in other words, I would listen to Transitions 4 for example, and then I will go see him live, and I would be like.. "oh, ya.. that makes perfect sense" but i haven't been able to get that same feeling from Sasha.