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Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

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Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

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Post by anon808 »

kreutz wrote: post #12
jskopek wrote: post #6

For those who aren't aware, getting offered to play an essential mix is a huge honor in the electronic music world. Most of the mixes on this site are from artists giving it their very best. Cracking good work! This looks incredibly polished for a side project; are you planning on building it up?

Thanks for the kind words! Yes, we are planning on building it up. Just wanted to get it out and get some feedback.

I hope you're going with this where i think you're going with this.

This is way beyond essential mixes . . . I haven't come across one good dj mix sharing website out there.

Linking to already hosted content is 100% the way to go.

Please keep it going.

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

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Post by AmericanOP »

For people who are new to the genre, Essential Mixes are one of the best ways to get to really know EDM artists. While artists typically get popular through hit singles, in full sets artists make a lot of experimental tweaks and changes to make it a unique experience. In the same way that CD's killed the full-album experience, live sets are bringing that "full" artist experience back.

I've compiled a short list of well respected DJs in case you want to use this site to explore other big names in this type of music beyond the usual suspects (Deadmau5.) There are many, many more and this is just a sampling of different sounds from the most recent mixes only.

Above & Beyond, Kaskade, Nero, Cosmic Gate, Flux Pavilion (dubstep), Jamie XX

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

#53

Post by christoph »

LeandroLovisolo wrote: post #24

I absolutely love this. Couple of things: - It would be nice to be able to skip to an arbitrary part of the mix. - Sound didn't work for me until I reloaded the page.

I was going to leave the same feedback about skipping ;)

One other thing.. the pause || & |> is misaligned (Windows Chrome) in the circle (it sits a little bottom-left rather than central)

Other than that, great work :)

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

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Post by jordanbrown »

anon808 wrote: post #51
kreutz wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the kind words! Yes, we are planning on building it up. Just wanted to get it out and get some feedback.

I hope you're going with this where i think you're going with this. This is way beyond essential mixes . . . I haven't come across one good dj mix sharing website out there. Linking to already hosted content is 100% the way to go. Please keep it going.

Thats the plan, and you guys will be the one keeping this going. Thanks for encouragement.

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

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Post by lyime »

This is awesome! You should add track lists and scrubbing without having to download the entire set.

Remind me of the days when I used to work on Mugasha. My main problem was that it was a pain for me to find good stuff to listen to while listening.

Check out bunch of old essential mixes on there. http://mugasha.com/essential-mix

So I built Mugasha and solved that problem. You can listen to a ton of essential mixes on there and other sets. Including track lists and scrubbing ahead.

What's really sad is that I don't work on Mugasha anymore and I have the exact same problem again.

- I cant easily listen to new DJ sets like I used to.

- I have to resort to listening to Itunes podcasts again and have NO idea what I am listening (track list problem)

- Maybe I can find a new owner for Mugasha so I don't have these problems anymore.

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

#56

Post by medell »

suhailpatel wrote: post #14

This looks and functions really well and you have a good selection of mixes. For those like me who want to listen to a particular Essential Mix from 1993 till mid 2011, someone has uploaded 910 Essential Mix episodes into a Soundcloud Folder which can be found at http://soundcloud.com/das-boy/sets/essential-mix/ . There are some real gems in here and it's pretty much a permanent tab for me. Enjoy!

Great share, thanks!
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