DJ Difficult vs xs2man vs Rad vs DougMore - Deep/Tech House VINYL battle

[Rad]

Wow, just wow, I did not even think I had a chance of winning this. I was mix 4.

Delta, thanks for listening and voting, you clearly know house music. Rep given.

I still think all three other mixes are technically better mixed (beat-matched) than mine, maybe that's partly because I know the tracks in my own mix very well, but still.

here is what I thought about the other mixes:

Mix 1: easily the most skillful mix I think. The music flows well, mixing is spot on, and you used the acapella nicely, even some scratching, right ? (please confirm) Downside was that I think the drug - acapella was over used, it was just a few times too many.

Mix 2: very nice intro, trancy mix, technically well done, I think I could hear some pitch bending a few times, but nothing distracting.

Mix 3: more varied than the other two, sometimes I do not like mixes to be more varied in style, but here it worked very well. Liked the classic piano sounds at around 3 min in and especially the dubby track around the 16 minute mark. The mixing (keeping the beats locked) was a little less than mix nr 1 and 2, but (again) still better than mine I think.

If I had voted on this it would probably have been for mix number one.

My tracklist was:
Troglodytes - Julio Bashmore
101 - Breach & Midland
Relaxation Is A Skill (Club Mix) - catz n Dogz
FLo Jam - Dusky
Add Arp - Jay Shepheard, Catz N Dogz remix
Though Motion - Midland
Right Reason - Jay Shepheard
Bassline Soldiers - Nice7
Hiphouse - Kabale und Liebe & Lauhaus

[DJ Difficult]

Thanks to all voters and rep to all!
I was mix#3 and I only got that one ghost vote
Congrats to Rad! Well done. I will comment other mixes later this day.

[xs2man]

Well done guys. More votes on this than it was looking like getting at the start.

Congratz Rad. Great mix, and a deserved winner. At least every mix got a vote too (ghost vote or not, lol).

I was mix 2. Probably the worst mix, technically, of the lot. And no doubt the oldest track selection there too. I threw it down too quickly. I had just got back onshore, and didn't want to hold up proceedings any further than I already had. So didn't spend enough time trying to beatmatch, or re-do the mix, or even selecting tracks, just flicked through the collection on the fly, picking tracks I haven't listened to in 10+ years, lol. Surprised I even got a vote to be fair. Thanks.

As for track selection, yes, Mara One was one of the tracks. I was digging into some of my classic "off cd's" tracks, so most of them were on some cd release around 10-20 years ago, lol. I think Mara One was from '99?

Anyway, other mixes were great. Noticed the scratching too, well played sir. Surprised you didn't get more votes.

Will listen to them all again, and give a quick run down of my thoughts anyway. And rep everyone I can later...

[Dharry]

Well done Rad! So who was mix 2?

[xs2man]

Sorry, my mistake. Taking credit for work that wasn't mine.

I was mix 2. Edited my post above. Oops...

[DJ Difficult]

Listened your mixes 2nd time and I don't got nothing new to give on this thread.
#1 was most skilled mix with nice acapella / scratching. Although I too think that little less of that vocal sample and it would be perfect. But nice tunes, different then my and flawless mixing. Good job!
#2 was a little bit on / off to me. Some tracks were definetly nice and older. But that's not a bad thing, hell no! Too many people just spins recent tracks and forget that there was music before last year too. Also there's shown how house music had developed in last decade.
Most trancey mix endeed and few beatmatching mistakes but hey! It's from vinyl! There is supposed to little drifting! But like I said, I didn't like all those tracks.
#4 Had best track selection for my taste. And although few transitions where pretty quick fade outs, it was good mixing! Deserved win! Biggest thing with vinyl for me is that real digging and that effort (and money) you have to but in before you got that perfect track on your platter. No digital digging can ever match that!

Thank you guys for this battle. It was very enjoyable! Rep for you all!

[alazydj]

I was mix one. (I'll edit this post after work with opinions on everyone else's mix, and a track list)

But yeah, I literally spent hours and hours re-recording the set to tighten the beatmatching up. The one time I do great matching is also the one time I over use the vocal (got into the zone too much).


I can't wait for the next vinyl only battle

[hoff]

I was mix one. (I'll edit this post after work with opinions on everyone else's mix, and a track list)

But yeah, I literally spent hours and hours re-recording the set to tighten the beatmatching up. The one time I do great matching is also the one time I over use the vocal (got into the zone too much).

I can't wait for the next vinyl only battle

impressive shit man, you definitely have wicked beatmatching skillz