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email sub file Meganium - Elav8tor Motiv8tor [streets Of Rage] (OC ReMix).mp3

This is the house mix I've done for Round 7 on the first "Streets Of Rage".

It's 7m 40s long but the bitrate is 96k, so it's less than 6MB.

From Meganium.

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http://www.zophar.net/gym/sor1.rar - Round 7 ("Up & Up")

The sounds were very default-ish. The texture was very sparse, yet there seemed to be a general level of reverb rather than individual parts being handled separately. Everything was pretty much at a loud volume level and fuller sections sounded crowded.

The source didn't intro until :58, but of course the mix had a long time to develop. Decent cover-style mix with altered rhythms. It's already pretty cool on account of being derived from such a sweet original track.

Get a switchup at 3:40, but the presentation was very flat and plain. About 5:30 in and things were retreading arrangement-wise. Decent ideas, but the sounds & productions are way below the bar, plus the arrangement would need to be more dynamic.

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7.40? Wow, that is long.

First thing that strikes me as odd is the eq. Either that or more likely the artifacts from such a low bitrate encoding.

The arrangement is lacking somewhat. It took about a minute and a half for me to get into what was going on, as the intro didn't draw me in and make me anticipate the main section.

3.12: This arpeggio pattern goes on for quite a bit, with a rather loud and annoying patch.

I could go into great detail, but at the end of the day it would boil down to 2 things: production quality and arrangement. This mix lacked in both departments. Great bassline, but that's about it.

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I don't understand the choice to make the first minute intro just a repetitive drum/groove section. I don't think it's good enough compositionally or technically to provide merit. Bass later comes in and plays along with the groove for a while, after even more time passing, electric piano joins the mix.

Where's the meat of this mix? This is too simplistic overall I'm afraid. I think you could condense this mix to 4 minute and keep the meat of the mix and cut out a lot of fat.

Production, samples, mixing is decent.

It's not a bad mix, but it's not too creative or has enough that stands out in various criteria we look for. NO

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  • 3 weeks later...

7 minutes is your typical club mix length for the dancefloor.

so to clarify for graylightning on why he made the first minute just drums: it's to give the DJ something to crossfade into.

normally you have 16/32 bars of groove at the beginning (and often end) of a club mix.

ok, so now we know what the prospective remixer was going for, but did he pull it off?

i don't think so. this really doesn't sustain momentum -- even for a club mix.

there needs to be a lot more going on here.

go for a radio edit next time.

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