March Mix: "Shade & Aura" Vol. 1 - Shade [Dark Mix]
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Neverrain Listeners,
We all go through dark times at one point or another in our lives, but we must make it our mission to find our way back to the light. I wanted to create a series of sets that explore this through sound, not necessarily all in one set, but in a 2 part mix.
It is my pleasure to bring you Volume 1 of this special 2-part series I am recording for March and April, centered around themes of light and dark.
This month's mix is the darker of the two sets, consisting of tech house and tribal/progressive trance. I don't typically spin alot of dark material...so I turned to my collection of tracks by an amazing producer, Rick Pier O'Neil, who's many releases find their way to the shelves of my wall of vinyl. O'neils tracks typically lean toward a very dark progressive sound, but are so well produced that I often stay up to date with everything he puts out. His sound really helped me to construct the feel I wanted for "Shade".....dark, intelligent, and very dance-floor worthy.
Stay tuned next month for the emergence into the light, with Volume 2 "Aura".
So please, put on your headphones and crank the volume for the next two months on Neverrain.
This is "Shade". Enjoy.
*Tracklisting:
1. Eelke Kleijn - "The Beginning" - Eelke Kleijn Ambient Mix
2. Jeff Griffiths - "Ayahuaska" - Monodrive Remix
3. Rick Pier O'Neil - "Noise In The City" - Part 1
4. Hawaii- "Pure" - Janicki Mix
5. Rick Pier O'Neil - "Frozen" - RPO Remix
6. Rick Pier O'Neil - "Human Mind"
7. Rick Pier O'Neil - "Dark Day" - Part 3
8. UDG - "Workshop of the Devil " - Part 3
9. Jay Lumen - "Turn Off feat. Mister A" - Jay Lumen More Dialog Remix
10. Rick Pier O'Neil - "Wave" - Part 3
11. Rick Pier O'Neil - "We Come From" - RPO Rework mix
12. ADF - "Selection 1"
13. dPen - "Closer"
14. Lemon 8 - "Lights Out" - Lights On Mix
Comments
Wow !! really great mix !
I adore it, thanks a lot, Eric and I'm really waiting for next month :)!!
Posted by: LaUrEnT | March 4, 2007 02:44 AM
Another plane has been introduced --- simply brilliant!
- Jed
Posted by: Jed | March 4, 2007 06:43 AM
This mix is also nice. I really liked the mix of March 2006 beginning part. Sorry that I made this comment wrong on Feb 2007. :D
Posted by: Min Thu | March 4, 2007 09:18 PM
Wonderful Eric, your work is admirable and I wait for your next work. I looked for to you in www.pandora.com and you are not. So that? (google traductor, sorry)
Posted by: Xelda45 | March 7, 2007 11:57 AM
i gotta dload this on a pc that has quicktime lol.
if its 80 megs how long is it?
and the cover art is sick. love the blue colors. anyway can u tell us what font it is? both the "eric jordan" and the "shade and arura"
plus is that u in the pic? looking fresh...
Posted by: sam | March 7, 2007 04:54 PM
Sam,
You don't necessarily need Quicktime to play the file. If you right click on the listen link you can "save the file to disk" and play it as a standard mp3 file.
The Mix is about 60 Minutes long.
The "Eric Jordan" font is AvantGarde Medium, and "Shane & Aura" is Astrolyte.
And, yes, that is me on the cover of course :)
Eric Jordan
Neverrain Recordings
Posted by: Eric Jordan | March 7, 2007 06:32 PM
thanks for the quick reply.
and thanks for reminding me that idea, about that right click save.
sam / statix.
Posted by: statix | March 8, 2007 02:32 PM
Groovy, Eric!
Shade (Dark Mix) is a fabulous mix!!
Looking forward for the Volume 2, "Aura"...
From a BIG fan of 2advanced.com
Posted by: Lv Chong | March 12, 2007 09:02 AM
Super cool mix !
Waiting for "AURA" :)
you can use some Maharaji's mantras ... ;)
anyway I'm 2Advanced Fun and sure you have "The Gift" :)
Cristi
Posted by: Cristi | March 20, 2007 02:42 AM
The mix rockzz!
I always wanted to know Eric whats the font u used in "neverrain".
Please if u could have 2 min to check out my site.
U inspired me always, and I love all ur work!
my site is www.digitmotion.com
Cheers
Posted by: Shkumbin Ferizi | March 20, 2007 02:47 AM
Shkumbin,
The font I use for the Neverrain logo is a custom typeface I developed called "Attractor". It's the same font I used for the Attractor logo in 2Advanced v5. The typeface is not available for sale at this time, but may be in the future.
All the best,
Eric Jordan
Neverrain Recordings
Posted by: Eric Jordan | March 20, 2007 09:42 AM
Great mix! It is a sound that I really miss, and haven't heard in years due to the minimal trend of things. The mixing is top notch, and the track selection is classic. I respect the fact that you are standing by the true progressive sound - not too many are doing so nowadays. Do you think you may be playing a set here in Houston,TX some time in the future?
Best,
JPH
Posted by: Joshua H. | March 20, 2007 11:33 AM
Grate Job! As usualy :)
Thanx for many hours with good mix!
Posted by: Filip | March 22, 2007 04:16 AM
Hey Eric!
Great mix man, deep, groovey, bouncy and tripy!
Cant wait for the 2nd part man.
All the best.
Danny
Posted by: Danny | March 30, 2007 08:32 PM
Gr8 set! These dark and progressive sounds from the likes of RPO are just so amazing and groovy. Keep up the good work, your sets are always well-produced and interesting.
Greetings from JP in Sweden
Posted by: JP | April 26, 2007 03:22 PM
Wow! I just read about your music from the LA Times West magazine story on you. I love it.
I've tried right-clicking so I can download the mp3 file onto my iTunes but don't see an option to "save file" "save target" or anything of the sort.
The only options when I right click on the Listen link are all about opening, bookmarking, saving, sending or copying the link itself. Nothing about saving a file.
What am I doing wrong? I'm on a Mac using either Firefox, Camino or Safari browsers. None of them offer a right-click save file option.
I so want this on my iPod.
Posted by: Rick | May 17, 2007 10:28 PM
hi Rick,
in Safari, right click the "download this file" link in the little player window and choose:
"Download Linked File"
it will download to your desktop.
then double click to launch, and it will be added automatically to your iTunes playlist.
enjoy, and thanks to Eric for another fantastic mix
Posted by: macmarts | June 6, 2007 09:05 PM
Another cracking mix! Thankyou & happy birthday.
Coop.
Posted by: Coop | July 30, 2007 01:56 AM