Pitch Black was the first demo mix I recorded that I'm really happy with,
it's the only one I managed to get right on my laptop - the sound hardware
is lousy and produced all sorts of wierd noise, it was also really easy
to clip the audio and screw everything up.
But somehow I managed to work within the tight constraints of the sound
hardware and produce a mix that is still listenable despite it's poor recording
techniques. More people know me through this mix than any other since the
a danish music website posted the mix on their sessions page - listed alongside
mixes by Sasha, Fatboy Slim and Sander Kleinenberg.
Musically it's a combination of styles that keeps a very progressive
edge without ever falling into the trap of becoming boring, it starts out
with an atmospheric breakbeat sound, then meanders through variations on
the house theme picking up some hints from trance and techno along the
way. All the way through it builds up to harder stuff at the end to trigger
the dance sense of listeners, and it does all this without changing the
tempo all the way through, but many people still talk about how it gets
faster, that's just and audtory illusion.
Oh and the title comes from the first track.... in Deep Space....
Favourite Bit: The mix out of Genesis into The Man With The Red Face - the basslines
just work wonderfully together and build perfectly into the saxtastic anthem.
Hardest Part: Err keeping the volume controlled on the whole thing so that it didn't
sound horrible on my laptop's lousy sound hardware.
Tracklisting
Space Maneuvers - Stage One (Total Separation Mix)
Hybrid - Unfinished Symphony
Sunscreem - Coda (Lee Coombes Mix)
Nerva - The Jackal
Breeder - New York FM
Cass - Genesis
Laurent Garnier - The Man With The Red Face
Satoshi Tomeii - Up In Flames (Bedrock Mix)
Bedrock - Voices
Phil Kieran - The Bomb
Timo Maas - Ubik (The Dance)
Blaze Feat. Palmer Brown - My Beat (Jan Driver Mix)
Josh Wink vs Lil' Louis - How's Your Evening So Far
Online Version! This mix is listed along with many others in the sessions
archive at Beats.DK, pay them a visit
if you want to listen to this mix in action.