nice!! It is nerve wracking playing in front of a crowd, gj. I'm not much of a trance/prog dj these days but I can still enjoy it.

good shit techniik!

It was exhilarating man.

Thanks flip

Techniik play levels, crowd loses their shit.

Haha not my style, but I can tell you made some good blends/cuts in it.
Maybe you could try some longer blends in there? Like a full 16 bar intro slowly mixed in.

Also appreciated the fact you sped things up a bit at the end, pushing 140.

i can vouch that the crowd loses their shit when levels by Avicii is played.

I was using a lot of 8 bar blends with low Mids.
I did play Levels, the fucking faces, I'll never forget, honestly that made the night haha.

I also like the fact you were dicking around with the phaser/flanger the whole time. I hear a lot of people got way over the top with effects during breaks in the track.

Would you care to hear something completely different that I play?

Phaser, Flanger, and Treble is all I bother to fuck with aha.

Shoot it man, I'd love to hear new sounds.

https://soundcloud.com/djstatical/dj-statical-fully-charged

Awesome! Not many people like hardstyle here in the states, but I follow it like a religion.

If you want to hear a transition, fast forward to 4:15. 23:06 isn't bad either.

DUDE I WAS A HARDSTYLE METH HEAD.

This mix is fucking sick by the way.

Get outta here, no way! If I even hear the word hardstyle here I have to double take.

I know you said "WAS" into hardstyle, but you could actually work some of the newer lighter/melodic tracks into your mixes. Some of the bigger names like Headhunterz and Wildstylez make hardstyle remixes out of popular trance and house tracks that go over better with crowds who aren't complete hardheads.
Example: https://soundcloud.com/djwildstylez/david-guetta-nicky-romero-feat
I personally prefer darker tracks, but I think tracks like that might actually be viable for you to use with your current style, maybe slowed down a bit. Let me know what you think.

I may have said was, but I still have my Bass Agents Hoodie in my closet, I have a pair of phats and I plan to buy another pair before this years EDC!
I'd never let go of my roots, if it wasn't for Hardstyle I'd still be listening to mainstream music haha.

But yea I'll definitely implement some Hard tracks into future mixes, I might even drop this at the next club I hit up haha.

I'd rather hear more breaks and electro house, but that's just me :)

I'd need some good names of Electro House haha, you can shoot me some good tracks to help out

Qun once scolded me for calling it EDM.

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/rave-culture-a-handy-guide-for-middle-america

Unless he calls it Electronica I don't see what else would work.
But it's fine w/e he calls it as long as he can appreciate it for what it is.

I do find it kind of funny though, "All dance/house/bass music is electronic."
Dance music is the most general term I've ever heard.
You can dance to anything.

Great sets man! I also DJ and I too know the nerve blasting that goes on while on stage. Here is one night, 2 sets opened and closed.

https://soundcloud.com/dj-tkm/tkm-live-characters-set1

https://soundcloud.com/dj-tkm/tkm-live-at-characters-set2

I hope you guys enjoy them :)

EDM is the most disgusting and cheapest "style" of house music there is, I'm ashamed most of it comes from The Netherlands.

It's mostly Americans listening to it though. If it becomes it a hit in The Netherlands it mostly likely came from the US charts first. Afrojack would have never became popular if it wasn't for the horrible taste of Americans.

Only people from Detroit have permission to talk about house/techno music.

yeah the phrase 'edm' cracks me up.

also a tracklist wouldn't go amiss.

Definitely not my thing, but if the crowd enjoyed it, you can't complain.

Also, you might wanna remove the option to download it, unless all the tracks are under creative commons, which I doubt.

woah woah woah let's not be too controlling here. Considering I helped BUILD the rave scene in North American 20 years ago, I've earned the right to talk about it in it's purest form. People use the term "EDM" in place of what they used to call "techno" before people realized techno was it's own genre. I was lucky enough to throw and DJ some massive warehouse parties with the likes of Plastikman, simply jeff, the Hardkiss brothers, carl cox, john digweed, etc.. Heck I brought some guys in from Holland back in 1991 who just stayed here and never went home, lol Zadek.

What is painful for us old timers to see these days is Dub step... *shudder*

Whooooaaa

Either you're a troll, or you're really thick. Putting Deadmau5 in the same genre as Villalobos is silly. Just listen to a Kompakt/Perlon/Hessel compilation and then compare it with EDM and you will see that they are manifestly different things.

I was just referring to EDM as a group of genre not one single genre.

"EDM" = electronic dance music, its a wide spectrum as kuza mentioned

most american dubstep is annoying but the good stuff is always overlooked. don't be so hesitant to listen to new music just because the synths and basslines aren't "old school".

are you implying that "edm" is one genre? it's not. and it's pretty silly when people call modern edm bad when they only point out mainstream artists. edm is exponentially growing in hundreds of different directions. and when i say growing, i'm not talking about the fanbase.

i'd expect the old school guys to know better than to disregard entire genres because of some mainstream stuff you heard.

The offending sentence to which I referred. edm =/= techno.

Also, the tag of edm is stupid. Just call it electronic music. Then you get to talk more generally about artists like Autechre, Gas and Merzbow (music to which one could not sensibly dance). Plus it's almost tautologous, given that the last time that dance music was made without electronics must have been like dub dance hall stuff.

edit: also general dubstep bashing is stupid. There was and indeed is amazing dubstep, see Burial, Pinch, Kode 9, Benga, Skream, Shackleton, Scuba etc. The whole marriage of dub reggae and 2-step garage has rather gone forgotten by the brosteppers.

Pretty sure America invented dance music in 2012.

Logged in to say I dig this. Are you mordmartin on youtube? Crazy mashups.

Also:

Thats what kuza meant. Dumb people in America call things shit that its not. For example in the south we call Pepsi "Coke." We call Mountain Dew "Coke" as well. For a long time all 'electronic' music was referred to as 'techno.'

Thanks man appreciate it! No that isn't me on youtube, i'm not really networked on a bunch of sites yet. I plan on putting serious work in on my online presence soon though. I have another more recent mix if you would like me to forward that to you!

So I did a bit of a listen to these and you're right, they aren't all that bad, but honestly, they don't all sound like dubstep, some are so minimal they are still breaks in a 2 step.

But still, the way dubstep works, breaks music in my mind. It doesn't flow properly, the lines come in at the wrong time and don't travel the same speed as the rest of the song. I'm a break beat, electronic dance freak so I like music that is good to dance too, and I just don't see that with dubstep. Even back when it was still "jungle" I wasn't a huge fan. Sure I like to odd song, but I like the odd country song too and I generally hate country.

This to me a huge dance break track, as cheezy as DJ icey has beeen in the past, this is just has an awesome flow to me:
http://www.beatport.com/track/do-dat-original-mix/4102603