mental Sasha Essential mix.

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Post by tekkers » Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:44 pm

cheers for postin that - i got about 10 mins off soulseek but no use :|

i remember sasha from back in the days he used to play shelly's here in sunny stoke - i wasnt into house then i was up the road above a busstation jumpin up and down to altern8 and charly lol

bak then it was old skool hardcore one minute - then piano and bloody sister sledge the next - very eclectic but it worked - ppl were up for anythin

i mostly lost interest in the mid 90s progressive was too soft as i was into ma liberator acid tekno up at havok in manchester - tho i did see sasha a few times and was allways very impressed - i've never heard him play a girly vocal trance thingy when i've heard em - its allways been the more locked in tek trancy stuff... maybe thats before it all came poo? dunnno cant remember

havin sasha on at the void in stoke (where golden comes from and had just ran 10 years) closed the club down - sasha's fee was £15 000 and the club had to be rammed full to recover the costs - and it was only about half full.... i was workin and couldnt skip too go see him - and i wasnt really that bothed.. seems alot of ppl felt the same - this was about 2 years ago and ppl were not as interested as they used to be... golden had been mental hardhouse for a few years - which had alienated the older house crowd totally...the place was half empty

bugged off! was startin to do pretty good - nice to see u.n.k.l.e. - slam - plump djs and others there - it was attactin a more mature crowd - dave clarke was due the next month..

even havin the rock bands on monday nights was startin to work

then the powers that be decided to put sasha on at great expense - and it flooped and closed the whole place down - great move

the void was a shit hole anyway and the growin number of chav's in the population was causin more and more stress on the dancefloor - but at least it was a place to go and hear some decent djs - some of the time..

so - thanks sasha!!


good mix tho - will have to copy it for ma dad - he'll love it

8O

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Post by MrYellow » Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:04 pm

lol I can see the headlines now

"DJ's ego closes club"

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Post by wilsonrx » Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:11 pm

Here we go... another thread goes down the plughole once again. :roll:
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Post by tekkers » Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:17 pm

hahhaha

noooooo - i dont blame sasha i blame the promoters for not being realistic

i got no problems with sasha at all.

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Post by Machinate » Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:19 pm

exactly.
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Post by thx1138 » Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:33 pm

Thanks for the share

Props

Marcus 8)

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Post by Tuur » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:45 am

:lol:

That intro... Sooo 80's.

Ben Liebrand (the Dutch mixmeister) has been doing that for ages. And better too.

Anyways, nice mix. Cheers for the link.

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Post by Gareth » Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:51 pm

I agree that the intro/outro really are crap and make your ears bleed. Other than that, I really really like this mix, even if it is a change from the normal Sasha style... less progressive than usual.

I had heard of Ableton before listening to this, but hadn't heard any live mixes, needless to say I was impressed with what Sasha was able to achieve.

I'm not sure whether Ableton approached Sasha with a view to help market their products, but I think the fact that such a prominent DJ should use it live gives some great publicity :) I'm downloading the trial to see how I like it as a direct result.

ps - anyone that hasn't heard it yet, check out my signature ;)
edit: oops, just realised that my playlist is in the wrong order, so it's all bacwards :roll:

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Post by conny » Thu Jun 09, 2005 4:53 pm

Just in three or seven or haiku like 5 7 5 syllables please
WHAT/WHO/WHY
is Sasha?
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Post by smutek » Thu Jun 09, 2005 5:58 pm

jeskola wrote:arr.

-heres the tracklisting:

Sasha Intro
Detroit Escalator Company - 'Abstract Forward Motion' (Peacefrog)
Ian Brown - 'Kiss Ya Lips' (Polydor)
No Doubt - 'Hella Good' [Remix] (Interscope)
Timo Maas - 'Passive Massive' (Warners)
Glitch - 'Tip Toe' [Jonathan Hart Bootleg] (Nano)
Unknown - 'Unknown' (White)
Michael Mayer - 'Lovefood'(Kompakt Pop)
Ricardo Villalobos - 'Easy Lee' [Smith n Hack Remix] (Playhouse (Germany)
Jori Hulkkonen - Science [Aril Brikha Remix] / Sasha - 'Wavy Gravy' (F Comm)
Juliet - 'Ride the Pain' [Thin White Duke Mix] (Virgin)
Extrawelt - 'Zu Fuss' (Border Community)
Unknown - 'Unknown' (White)
Sia - 'Breathe Me' [Ulrich Schnauss Remix] (Go Beat)
Egg - 'Wall' [Egg Re-Edit] (White)
Jori Hulkkonnen feat. Jerry Valuri - 'Lo-Fiction' [Dub Mix] (F Comm)
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc [Acapella] (Parlophone) / Sasha - 'Wavy Gravy' (BMG)
Unknown - 'Unknown' (White)
M83 - 'Unknown' (White)
Unknown - 'Unknown' (White) / Thomas Newman - 'Drive Away' (White)
Moby - 'Raining Again' [Ewan Pearson Dub] (Mute)
Sasha Outro
Hmmm...... a smith and hack remix and a track by egg.......

forgive me but I would not have thought that to be sasha's style.


Yes, I am at work so I will download this and have a listen as well. With an open mind.

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Post by Harris.Andrew » Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:56 pm

Ya . . . this isn't exactly the same style Sasha, as from his GU or Northern Exposure stuff . . . but is more along the lines of Involver.

In this mix you will hear guitars (guitars!) and vocals that don't have, like, epic amounts of fx work on them . . . similarly, the percussion is occasionally a slight bit more naturalistic. In general, from what I've heard, earlier stuff he'd play was, if it wasn't synth, it was processed to sound like synth.

I'm not sure if this is something that is made possible by Live, or just reflects a stylistic movement. My guess is more the latter.

If you listen to the percussion you tend to hear, like, one loop going for a very long time, spanning multiple tracks, in a way you'd never hear with a more linear medium like vinyl or cds. That's definately Live.

** edit ** oh yeah and the wavy gravvy . . . that was insane! definately a Live thing to do.
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Post by kabuki » Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:56 pm

Still not a fan of Shasha's, but I did listen to this mix to see how he used Live. I like how he really extended to Gorillaz Track/Pella. Good song (that and M83).

See. I can be fair and objective! :D
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Re: mental Sasha Essential mix.

Post by jasontorque » Thu Jun 09, 2005 9:49 pm

paddypaws wrote:Here is a link to the mental Sasha Essential mix.
One word "Wow" especially towards the middle
Enjoy..........

Oh the link will only stay up for 6 more days

http://www.spaceboss.net/music/sash...-22-05-2005.mp3
We've popped it on our servers, it should stay up for a while as we have plenty of space. Just follow the links:

http://urbantorque.com/blog/article.php ... 6185824875
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Post by smutek » Thu Jun 09, 2005 10:31 pm

I listened to about 3/4 of the mix before I put something else on.

I'm sorry, I just wasn't feeling this.

I have to agree that the intro was very very cheese, reminded me of those cheesy intros you used to hear on Diesel Boys cd's.

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Post by ChiDJ » Thu Jun 09, 2005 10:54 pm

This mix left me wanting to dance...I never could..it just wasn't there. I have nothing against electro, but, I'm going to hear him at SoundBar chicago tomorrow night. I have access to the booth so I'll be watching what he ACTUALLY does. I think we can do a lot more than he is doing with LIVE. I totally think this laptop stuff is the WAVE, (I've been a Vinyl snob for years), I did my first LIVE set a couple weeks ago and I'm not going back....I hope he'll teach me some tricks.
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