Best house/bass tracks of the year (Mixmag and Resident Advisor)

This thread needs to be kept alive! Heard this on Ben UFOs show on rinse fm a while back. Loving the Mount Kimbie have ventured into the realm of house music and have released this track for free. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SfFInoSotg

Tune

Do you lock into hessle often?

The shed guest show the other week was on point

I listen to pretty much anything on Rinse, if I'm doing any work I'll stick on a podcast.

This is also a beast! Love anything on the dirtybird label

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1_rNJgAJR4

Huxley's new one, heard it on Jaymo and Andy George's EM from the other week which is well worth a listen, along with their new Moda Black comp.

I've just bought a midi controller and some studio monitors, had it about 3 days now, cant get off it. I'm going to record my first mix tonight. I'd love some feedback on my song choice. Finding it pretty hard to pick songs that melodically complement eachother.

1 - Lights Out (Original Mix) 7:08 George FitzGerald House 127
2 - Bubbler 7:16 Maya Jane Coles House 124
3 - Taxing My Soul (Bioground's Exquisite Dub) 8:48 Bioground feat. Karlyn Deep House 125
4 - Sunshine (Original Mix) 8:51 Waff Deep House 125
5 - Two shadows 6:25 De Sluwe Vos 123
6 - Flutes (Sasha Remix) 9:30 Hot Chip 126
7 - What I Might Do 6:30 Ben Pearce Deep House 122
8 - What I Never Knew 6:33 Dusky Aus Music 123
9 - Don't Go (Dusky Remix) 6:31 Justin Martin 123

I feel I might be losing the tone of the mix with songs 3 and 4, But then again I'm not 100% sure? Any thoughts?

All these are within key range, I'm predicting it to be just over 45 minutes. Can anyone who mixes give me any advice? I'll record my console and attach recorded audio so you can see how I'm transitioning everything.

Love the moda black label. I go to their nights whenever I can. I've seen Justin Martin, Shadow child and Hot Since 82 at their nights. Their night is part of the reason I started listing to house music.

If you've just got a controller then the most important thing is to learn how to DJ without looking at the screen ie beat matching and counting bars.

Tracklist looks good though, there are no rules, just mix what feels right :P

as long as bpm's are synced

I've just bought a midi controller and some studio monitors, had it about 3 days now, cant get off it. I'm going to record my first mix tonight. I'd love some feedback on my song choice. Finding it pretty hard to pick songs that melodically complement eachother.

1 - Lights Out (Original Mix) 7:08 George FitzGerald House 127
2 - Bubbler 7:16 Maya Jane Coles House 124
3 - Taxing My Soul (Bioground's Exquisite Dub) 8:48 Bioground feat. Karlyn Deep House 125
4 - Sunshine (Original Mix) 8:51 Waff Deep House 125
5 - Two shadows 6:25 De Sluwe Vos 123
6 - Flutes (Sasha Remix) 9:30 Hot Chip 126
7 - What I Might Do 6:30 Ben Pearce Deep House 122
8 - What I Never Knew 6:33 Dusky Aus Music 123
9 - Don't Go (Dusky Remix) 6:31 Justin Martin 123

I feel I might be losing the tone of the mix with songs 3 and 4, But then again I'm not 100% sure? Any thoughts?

All these are within key range, I'm predicting it to be just over 45 minutes. Can anyone who mixes give me any advice? I'll record my console and attach recorded audio so you can see how I'm transitioning everything.

If you've just got a controller then the most important thing is to learn how to DJ without looking at the screen ie beat matching and counting bars.

Tracklist looks good though, there are no rules, just mix what feels right :P

Even CDJ's have keylock and can sync BPM's now. Although I would prefer CDJ's, I am a poor student and can't even afford CDJ-200s (£200 was the cost of my whole set up). I'm practising beat matching just by ear though! And i understand that this is hard but once it clicks ... its clicks. I defiantly agree that the hardest part is picking what to play and when. Only got my controller on tuesday, so I am still trying to get used to it! Just feel that getting feedback from my mix is the best approach to improve.

As for some of the set sounding better in different tempo's, I changed the pace of the set by adding a phaser in the breakdown of a track and very slightly changing the pitch, due to keylock you don't even notice once I turn the effect off. Or maybe you can .. let me know. Some parts are pretty rough, the first transition is BEYOND TERRIBLE I'll admit. I didn't want to re-record the set though as I wanted to be able to gauge my improvement in a months time or whatever. Also, I was messing around with hotcues a lot in this set as you might be able to tell by me bringing in some vocals at times where they are a little off beat. At one point both low frequency EQ's were off and pretty low, thought of doing it to see how it sounded back, not sure how it went down, let me know.

Keep in mind that I've only been mixing for 3 days and the reason for this planned mix is that i wanted to explore how to mix progressively in key. I agree, i have more fun with unplanned mixes but it is annoying when something just mixes perfectly and you have no idea how it happened. Maybe remembering and recognising come with experience and practise.

Final note, some awful clicking appeared whilst playing back two shadows and when I realised i tried to mix out the song as quick as possible, yet another terrible transition ... have no idea what the click was? Appreciate the feedback.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKIAwgdqgUM&feature=youtu.be

Just realised two shadows is ripped at 128kbps, i asked my friend who I got the track off why it sounded bad, he said he ripped it from soundcloud ... hence the poor sound ... lesson to everyone, don't be tight and buy off beatport or traxsource. Respect artists and quality.