Can't find a simple five-word subject, so:

I'm a fan of techno and trance, and love listening to continuous mixes. Therefore, with the aid of AudioCatalyst (in CD->Wav mode), BeatCounter, Cool Edit Pro, and a few odds and ends (Excel) I have put together the first in what I hope will be a series of mixes done digitally and 'in the studio' rather than life from (CD) turntables.

I am moderately proud of the result. I'm gradually perfecting both the blending of two tracks into one another (by stretching/compressing the time of the 'lower' track without altering the pitch) and the choice of music. The process I use allows me to have extremely long fade times - two to three minutes where you can quite clearly hear both tracks - and synchronise the two tracks perfectly to ensure interesting features occur together. The current "PaulWay Infinity Mix" stands at about 200 minutes of continuous music. I'll be compiling shorter mixes for CD-length and other projects.

If anyone is interested in listening to them, the first two installments (0:00 to 93:40 and 93:40 to 201:45) are 87 and 102 megabytes respectively at 128kbit (with the Fraunhofer encoder). These are ludicrously impractical to email, and I don't have a spare FTP site around, so if you want them please suggest a place to upload them. (This I can do from my 2mbit connection at work, but I have nowhere to store them that's accessible from the outside world :-( ) I'll consider producing CD-Rs containing the two files and a track listing (the two contain about 45 tracks) but I don't want to be producing batch lots of them at my own expense...

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Please reply to [email protected].

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Well, I'm interested.

If noone here with a Linux box can give them a semi-permanent home, I'd be glad to set up an FTP server on my Mac with a good network connection for a week or two.

Me too! If you find a space let us know where to get it. CHeers, j.

Just to follow up the progress in the last couple of days.

I'm going to upload the full Infinity Mix so far to one, maybe two, sites. If people want it from there they can email me to get the exact address and details of a download-only account.

This music is still copyrighted and as such it shouldn't actually exist. I'm doing this not as an attempt to shaft the record companies but merely as an experiment and to let people hear new music. This means:

1. Whatever you do with it, it's not my responsibility (as far as that goes). Don't get my name into things and keep it quiet.
   
2. Don't ask for any other MP3 files for trade or whatever. If you must, use Napster, for Ahltman's sake.
   

Further details as I get organised and get to a reasonably speedy net connection.

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Update 2:

You'll get a URL (much easier).

The track list is:

Track Number	Title	Artist
1	Teqtonic	Beaumont Hannant
2	Mindstream	Meat Beat Manifesto
3	Break Away (Deep Trance Mix)	Quazar
4	East	Humate and Rabbit in the Moon
5	Shapes of Sleep	The Grid
6	Original	Severed Heads
7	Fanatical	South End
8	Dämmerung	Frontside
9	Dreams	Quench
10	Escape from Noise	Ultimate Life Experience
11	Mind Distortion	Frontside
12	Sweetness and Light	Itch-e & Scratch-e
13	Two Full Moons and a Trout	Union Jack
14	Redemption ambient	Quench
15	Hope	Quench
16	The Point of No Return	Itch-e & Scratch-e
17	Work My Mind	Headman
18	The third rebirth	Jones and Stevenson
19	Everyone's Future	Pablo Gargano
20	Autumn (Personal Generator)	Mijk's Majic Marble Box
21	Granada	Power Source
22	Paraglide	Paragliders
23	Are Am Eye	Commander Tom
24	Moonwalk	Phasis
25	The Milky Way	Aurora Borealis
26	Controlling transmission	Final Fantasy
27	Bring Your Mind Back Home	Boo Boo & Mace
28	Down In My Mind	Frontside
29	Interference	Itch-e & Scratch-E
30	My time is yours	L.S.G.
31	Lollipop Man	Union Jack
32	Tempest	Salamander
33	Major Frequencies	Witchcraft
34	Stress	Madely
35	Red herring	Union Jack
36	We Mess With Your Head	Josh Abrahams
37	Onyx	DJ Dan Efex vs. J Scott G
38	For an angel (club mix)	Paul Van Dyk
39	Schoneberg	Marmion
40	Gouryella	Gouryella
41	Transamazonia	The Shamen
42	Gouryella	Gouryella
43	Texas Cowboys	The Grid
44	I Feel Divine	S-J
45	Barber's Adagio for Strings	William Orbit
46	Aquarius Orbit	Cosmic Baby
48	You Know	Third Eye
49	Swamp Thing	The Grid

The mix starts from around 130BPM, climbs steadily to "Bring Your Mind Back Home" at 174BPM, and back down again to 134BPM. Those who like that sort of thing can play "Spot The Australian Dance/Techno Bands".

The mix, in its preliminary two parts, is available now courtesy of Dionysius. I will be emailing people the URLs. As before, if you want a copy, email will be the only way I'll tell you where it is - and I'd like that wish to be respected.

More in the future (as always).

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