Its kinda funny that this is the first set I’m putting up on this here shiny new blog ’cause it’s the one that the fewest number of people have heard.  I don’t think even Cor’s heard it, and he has more of my sets than I do!  I recorded this on my way out to Japan a few years back hoping it would be the first in a series of podcasts that I could share with my peoples back at home while I was away.  Well, turns out that not only was this the first, it was the ONLY recording in that series.  And instead of putting it up on a blog or whatever it sat on my hard drive for two years gathering digital dust, only to be heard by a random smattering of peeps in Northern Japan.  So here you go, for your listening pleasure, the first and only broadcast of Entropy Radio!

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Track List:

Were you looking for a track list??  Yeah, about that… I gotta go dig through my basement ’cause I really can’t remember who did half of these songs.

Reflections:

While it does have its hic-ups, I’m still pretty high on this set.  I really like the over-all flow of it: we start of with some dark, proggy breaks, move into some lighter stuff, then into some driving prog/techy tracks before diving into a healthy dose of trance and, finally, a beautiful proggy breaks song to bring us full circle.  That’s really a lot of what I try to do as a DJ, take folks on a sort of musical journey.  Doesn’t always work, but that’s the idea.  I’m just pissed I flubbed so many of the mixes!  (>.<)  Well, that’s life before Abelton for you.  I think I recall me doing this only once, meaning to go back and try again and never getting around to it.

I’m really quite fond of the songs and mixes starting at 38:20.  It’s really hard to find trance like this these days, you generally get ultra-cheese, and that gives ALL trance a bad name!  Kinda like the frat boys of the collage scene.  Though I like the one before it as well* I think my fav mix of this set is the last one, into “These Days” by Petter.  I’m sure you all recognize this track from Sasha’s incredible mix CD “Involver”.  This is the original mix, not nearly as clean, shiny and…err, good as Sasha’s remix, but I didn’t wan the U.N.K.L.E. vocal in there.

* I really do <3 the part of this song, 53:40 in the mix, where the song explodes into that beautiful break beat and powerful melody.  It’s like fireworks.