Today we dropped MAINROOM SIMULATION on Youtube.
Right now we all need some good escapism. So I went digging through my collection for all the 90’s epic optimism that was promptly killed by the age of ironic distance that followed it. The 2020s will be all about a return to earnestness, and the most earnest sounds of all lies in the monumentally indulgent arpeggiated chords of early trance.
I found minidiscs ripped from TV programs, shady whitelabels, bootlegs, and worse. But all amazing. And we are playing on the internet, so I don’t have to be as particular about sound engieneering as I would at a club. To keep it authentic to a club setting though, we kept all the mistakes and bad mixed in there, I want to keep taking risks so that one third of the time I mess it up. This makes the other two thirds so much better.
I wanted to focus in on a special collection of ambient acid and trance, the stuff you listen to while coming down from a marathon dancing session, lying in a field as the sun rises. This means I included a long chillout section on the end, pushing the peak energy to the middle of the mix. I’m into it!
So get on your living room dancefloor, get a spray bottle of water to simulate other peoples sweat, and join in!
