Am I just completely off, or am I in the right direction? Much appreciated, actually want to learn this.

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Meanwhile also in Holland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1OtfTIKwrI

Dutch EDM festivals just blow everything else away.
Also lots of white people lol.

Too slow for me and not a fan of rimshots lol, but I honestly like the main hook. It's really bouncy and it sounds great with those voice pads in the background.

I feel sorry for the guy that has to listen to my track haha. No offense taken if you don't dig it. Pretty heavy stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnIUexWhedg

Ok glass, what's HIS power level

Electronic spans over literally hundreds of genres, so yeah it would be best to focus in on a similar style throughout the set. I really like the psytrance-ish stuff that Waldo and Fooby posted, but that would never go in the same mix as popular electro-house.

Not saying that you can't switch between genres during a set, that is actually a good thing. It's just you probably shouldn't go from one extreme to another. So yeah, no mixing a 150 bpm psytrance into a 120 radio-hit electro track haha. Otherwise I'd just recommend you a bunch of my hardstyle, industrial, and DnB stuff.

So seeing as you will playing at around 115-130 range, I'll go with...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U7k7cjgKqg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I5zV15zVIg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im9SYb48JN8

All by Tim Van De Stadt. A little too slow/cheesy for me, but I know the guy is really talented and recommend him to people who don't like my faster mixes. He has a hardstyle sideproject called Atmozfears which is how I found him. Good luck on your next set man!

He sounded nervous as hell when he rattled off that line. He just mumbled through it as fast as he could.

Rather than sounding tough or crazy it came off as scared and immature. If he is really trying to play the psychotic card, he's doing a piss poor job.

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.

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.

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?

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 love his writeups and enjoy comparing our top 10s against each other. He certainly knows his fair share about Open as well. The more content the better right?

I'm just a little upset that ESEA has all of their news content hidden away from the main site that makes my/fog/djc's articles incredibly hard to stumble upon. Teamfotress.tv has greatly increased our views thanks to their "Community News" feed in the sidebar. Ups to enigma for including that!

Good news is that my ESEA Open rankings will still make it out this week to give your readers something else to glance through.

You and conductor have been doing a great job so far, looking forward to your week 5 writeup.

Yes, Nujabes if you appreciate well made instrumentals.

Then DZK if you want a master lyricist.

I don't watch anime so I can't speak for the series, but the written novel version of it is absolutely fantastic.

The amount I could relate to the main character is pretty scary. And it honestly taught me to stop being such a pathetic shut-in. Not trying to be offensive when I say a lot of guys here could probably learn something from it as well. Basement dwelling is not good!

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Hats make everything better