Generally I like to keep the music on this website Trance/House or at least in some form of “Electronic Music”. I wouldn’t say that I’m a huge Hip-Hop/Rap fan, but there are just times when certain songs just hit a key note inside and I just instantly fall in love with them regardless of the genre. Add on top of that the fact that I’m a huge nerd when it comes to video games (not to mention retro games) and I just can’t freaking help myself. I’ve been a big fan of ocremix for a long time. So much that I wanted to start my own video game music project myself.
There was a new music project that came out recently called Nintendo Mixtape. Hip-hop centric music with the use of some very familiar retro gaming sounds. Probably one of the more recognizable sounds is used in the song Double Dragons (video below). All songs are free to download and honestly quite good even if you’re not a Hip-hop fan. Oh and I guess I should warn those who disapprove of foul language and such because there’s plenty of that =)
The end of July was a whopper. Record setting high temperatures and excessive heat warnings. Most of the time I wasn’t even home. Right after work me and chels just headed off to the river to cool off. I was hoping to have volume 5 up by now, but the heat and the day to day life of things have put a damper on it.
I was thinking about putting out more of a classic mix for volume 5. Not classic as in old trance (which I would seriously and will most likely do one of these days), but as in my old style. I’ve realized that with modern trance and just my growth as a DJ, the music has changed and my playing style has changed. However, when I played in my old ways I found the mix to sound all the same and not have the “transitional” mixes that I’ve found myself doing now.
I also used to hate vocal mixes. Now, though, I have grown to not only love them, but to prefer them most of the time. So I scrapped my last set and have started a new one. I played a pretty good set last night and I’m thinking this will be the volume 5 I can be happy with. Of course I’ll be making some minor changes and mastering it. Right now I’m shooting for posting it next weekend.
