What's on your mind today?

[Shivace]

Thanks

Here's some more reading material: TF Interview: SUPER-FROG SAVES TOKYO

for the reminder. I didn't notice this before.

 

[Shivace]

It absolutely is, yes.

I’m a massive Murakami fan.

it’s rare people get it right!

Yep Murakami is a name that literature students just can't get around, and that's one of the reasons why I'm curious about the origin of this name.

 

[Progrez]

What do you guys hear? Yanny, Laurel or something else? I am hearing Yanny but I can see why some people might have the ability to hear Laurel.

 

[Altair]

Last night was my big tech trance set! I was opening for the headliner DJ who flew in from Hong Kong, I played to a crowd of at least 100 people, there was a sick visual projection system and massive speaker stacks, and everyone was having an amazing time…

…except me, because this was the first set that I made some obvious mixing mistakes on. The auxiliary CDJ I was plugged into suddenly couldn’t read my drive and my third track was stuck in a 1-bar loop for a little over a minute before I plugged into the actual XDJ and resumed. Then later I accidentally pressed the wrong cue button and jumped to the beginning one one track right before a drop (thankfully the drop was also cued so I jumped right back), and one transition was a bit sudden and not properly beat matched. For a while I was really anxious and felt like I’d lose control…but I was able to look up and see a whole room dancing to my music, and I got my flowstate back by the second half of my set.

I have a diagnosis of both Anxiety and OCD (on top of my autism and ADHD), so it’s hard for me to let go of that perfectionism even now; I’m going to re-record the set before posting it to my SoundCloud. But I guess a mixing mistake had to happen eventually, so I’m glad it was to a crowd that universally loved my set! They all said I took them on a wonderful journey, and either didn’t notice or didn’t give a shit about my mistakes. So instead of being fearful, I feel motivated to do better, and keep playing to such lovely crowds in the future

 

[SleepyBuddah]

Finally life is starting to calm down again... Besides work consuming a lot of time there also was the flu and just general tiredness.
To top it all off my wife got issues regarding MS, so I had to take care of her as well as the household.

Luckily I still have professional people who helped me through most of it mentally, and now I'm back at it again.
Work is gradually easing down again but more important...my wife is doing ok-ish again.

Cheers...

 

[Jetflag]

o top it all off my wife got issues regarding MS, so I had to take care of her as well as the household.

best of luck with that m8...my wife just got a similar diagnosis.

 

[SleepyBuddah]

best of luck with that m8...my wife just got a similar diagnosis.

Thanks mate, mine already had the diagnosis in 2010. But these "complications" still get me every time. But if you wanna talk about it feel free to message me.

 

[Jetflag]

Thanks mate, mine already had the diagnosis in 2010. But these "complications" still get me every time. But if you wanna talk about it feel free to message me.

insgelijks

 

[SleepyBuddah]

insgelijks

Will keep that in mind...

 

[Bobby Summa]

Last night was my big tech trance set! I was opening for the headliner DJ who flew in from Hong Kong, I played to a crowd of at least 100 people, there was a sick visual projection system and massive speaker stacks, and everyone was having an amazing time…

…except me, because this was the first set that I made some obvious mixing mistakes on. The auxiliary CDJ I was plugged into suddenly couldn’t read my drive and my third track was stuck in a 1-bar loop for a little over a minute before I plugged into the actual XDJ and resumed. Then later I accidentally pressed the wrong cue button and jumped to the beginning one one track right before a drop (thankfully the drop was also cued so I jumped right back), and one transition was a bit sudden and not properly beat matched. For a while I was really anxious and felt like I’d lose control…but I was able to look up and see a whole room dancing to my music, and I got my flowstate back by the second half of my set.

I have a diagnosis of both Anxiety and OCD (on top of my autism and ADHD), so it’s hard for me to let go of that perfectionism even now; I’m going to re-record the set before posting it to my SoundCloud. But I guess a mixing mistake had to happen eventually, so I’m glad it was to a crowd that universally loved my set! They all said I took them on a wonderful journey, and either didn’t notice or didn’t give a shit about my mistakes. So instead of being fearful, I feel motivated to do better, and keep playing to such lovely crowds in the future

Well done man. Great achievement getting the crowd on a journey and conquering your anxiety there. Shows strength dude

 

[Bobby Summa]

Finally life is starting to calm down again... Besides work consuming a lot of time there also was the flu and just general tiredness.
To top it all off my wife got issues regarding MS, so I had to take care of her as well as the household.

Luckily I still have professional people who helped me through most of it mentally, and now I'm back at it again.
Work is gradually easing down again but more important...my wife is doing ok-ish again.

Cheers...

Glad to hear mate

 

[SleepyBuddah]

Glad to hear mate

Thanks buddy

 

[Sean Cong]

I'm wondering whether the name @Super-Frog Saves Tokyo is derived from the short story of the same name by Haruki Murakami.

As far as I know, @Shivace is currently studying Chinese literature at university (just as @Super-Frog Saves Tokyo who studied English literature), no wonder he is so aware of this name hahaha.
Murakami is well known in China, but I haven't heard of this story before I read this post.

 

[Bobby Summa]

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Anybody heard of this guy. Excuse my ignorance if he’s well established.

released soon, from the clips it sounds like just the kind of quality I’d search for and usually fail to find in the late 2000s.

Seems really Nice euphoric Trance. Emotive.

I’d love to produce stuff of this style but always veer towards prog whenever I start something even if intended it as a different style to prog.

Will try to remember to post this in upcoming releases section when I’m on a pc to embed clips

 

[Progrez]

A bit too chaotic for me

 

[Bobby Summa]

A bit too chaotic for me

Good recycling

 

[Progrez]

Good recycling

That's a bicycle dump yard actually.