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Definately some Ableton action going on in my new mix set, along with traditional decks and a few custom edits. Read in, download and give me some feedback. Hope you all enjoy it....there has to be a few Jeff Mills fans in here somewhere.


Dayz One Presents: Every Dog Has Its Beats/Every Dog Has Its Chill
Release Date: 02/27/04
Released By: Dayz One aka Agent Electronimix
Catalog: Electronimix'd Transmissions EMD024 & EMD025
Description: Soulful Techno and Beautiful 313 Electronics ala Jeff Mills

Notes: Seems every day I become more and more bitter about the overall
state of techno music. So usually when I get depressed....I dig through
my many crates of vinyl. I usually alaway find some pleasure from my 313/
Detroit section of my collection. This time it came in the form of
Millsart - Every Dog Has Its Day collection. I have just about every Mills
record ever done and these are some of my favorite. Most people love Mills
for his masterfully minimal tracks....but I am all about the deepness. And
I also believe many people overlooked these four classic releases because
they were a different side of the Mills sound. So I made myself a challenge.

I set out to creat a mix using every track from each of the 4 volumes of
"Every Dog Has Its Day". My final result is a 2 part mix. EMD024
"Every Dog Has Its Beats" focused on mixing all the 4/4 styled tracks off of the four volumes (a little something for the feet) and EMD025
"Every Dog Has Its Chill" focused on the more ambient, experimental, and
textural tracks spread across the four volumes. In the end, I used every track
off of each of the four 2 x 12 vinyls except for 1 track. The track I did
leave off was a boring drum track, which did not live up to the caliber
of the rest of the material. Anyhow, I hope you enjoy the mix. I do have a
tracklisting for this set. As I am leaving for WMC today, I will add the
full tracklist when I return.
Peep me at www.livesets.com and leave me some feedback (Handle:Electronimix)

DayzOne - EMD024 "Every Dog Has Its Beats"
http://datavibe.net/~geoff/024_DayzOne- ... 4_2-04.mp3

DayzOne - EMD025 "Every Dog Has Its Chill"
http://datavibe.net/~geoff/025_DayzOne- ... 5_2-04.mp3

Nice music.I will put in my Ipod.
I really hope techno goes back to its' roots and more minimal.
Jeff is the minimal master and he knows how to do it right!

yeah.....yet still kinda deep and he has some nice sounds workin in these tracks. It almost has a touch of world music to it......but just a little hint....and not enough to make it pretentious arsing around.

Jeff is the minimal master and he knows how to do it right![/quote]

i wouldn't say Jeff is the minimal master but indeed he a master.
Check out the DVD exibitionist!

I understand what Claude is saying though.....he coined the minimal style that many people have come to know and love. And for better or for worse....his sound has influenced/was hijacked by many current techno producers......who make boring monotone techno.....and just dont have the "funk" that Mills delivers.

Where has the music gone? Where has our soul gone? 13 years, the time in my life exposed. Was it a dream? Have I awakened to find that the Techno movement never occurred? It is a strange thought.

thats funny

DayzOne_aka_Electronimix wrote:I understand what Claude is saying though.....he coined the minimal style that many people have come to know and love. And for better or for worse....his sound has influenced/was hijacked by many current techno producers......who make boring monotone techno.....and just dont have the "funk" that Mills delivers.

i don't know about him being so directly responsible for minimal... if anything, he invented loop techno... but he certainly is one of the most, if not the most, mocked/copied/ripped off techno artist in the world

diagreed with your first point......but surely this is correct

"but he certainly is one of the most, if not the most, mocked/copied/ripped off techno artist in the world"

Nice tunes on that Mp3, but not really techno..Not hard enough,or distrorted and fast enough and not any compression! Techno music has to be hard and sound like all the others to be good.
HAAAA
Yes but a ? ..Does he use Live?

"What is techno?" - Richie Hawtin - Fuse

hah, I think claude was joking in case anyone missed the humor. This is the "flavor of the month" problem that I have always had dealing with people not liking my DnB. Take for example the Dillinja album from a few years ago, an LP he released on valve that I can't remember the title of (ha) ... every track in there was so sickly compressed that if you looked at a waveform, it was a bunch of chunky squares. so my music was never "loud" or "punchy" enough... sorry, dynamics are still cool with me.

of course now DnB has become the same "techno" that claude is talking about... hard fast compressed.. I like it in a loopy sense though.

So now that everything is looped, it is more important to have a big name even ifyour track is flavor of the week. that is problem 2.

barf. I think I am going to start doing minimal tech, too. at least I can bop to it at home. I kind of miss dj'ing some days.

claudek wrote:Nice tunes on that Mp3, but not really techno..Not hard enough,or distrorted and fast enough and not any compression! Techno music has to be hard and sound like all the others to be good.
HAAAA
Yes but a ? ..Does he use Live?

Anonymous wrote:diagreed with your first point.

fair enough. but Cycle 30 came out in 1994. i dare say loop techno didn't exist before that

I was kidding..
Too many new kids do not know what techno is..
they think it is a compressed 909 and energy..
Techno used to have soul..
Respect to Jeff to try to bring it back to reality..

ah yes, fair enough...
tho funny thing is he was doing it all along w/ Axis, it just was always overshadowed by billions of Purpose Maker records he sold

and no, he doesn't use Live