Hi :)

Listened to another set of Levente, much better than the one I listened to first, but still too much in the direction of chill-out. Almost thought I hear Jose Padilla, though it's a little more housy.

i like levente's sets a whole lot. he had one track released on nick warren's renaissance cd.

i can't really talk track-wise, cause i only care for the mixes, for the mixing, for the whole thing, so i very very rarely look up a track..

you've been weirdly unexposed to good progressive and deep house. probably not familiar with tribal house or dark progressive?

anyways, maybe MK (Mark Kinchen) or Jamie Jones would do the trick for you... there are usually previews on torrents, so not have to download always..

Thx for those tips, I'll listen to them, and give my feedback :) .

Regarding the tracks, I thought you'd simply google them, they're all available on Youtube, and as they're masterpieces of very famous DJs, you'd really miss something, if you wouldn't have listened to them at least once. Even if they're not your style, you should find something you like in them, because they're from very high artistic quality, that's what I pay attention to greatly, because I play 3 instruments myself.

And yes, I don't really know that much, I only know very specific DJs and from them, a lot. I'm not really a member of "the scene" yet, because I always am hesitent, to join any groups. My way went from getting to know Berlin-techno because my friends gave it to me, and I continued further with DJs like James Holden, Nathan Fake, Deadmua5 or James Zabiela, who are so famous, that it's impossible to get around them, if one has interest in electronic music. I probably don't know the most of the genres you mention, but I'm always willing to learn something new, so if you have any specific tips for them too, I'd be really happy, just remember, that what I search for is high artistic quality, I get angry, when someone confronts me with something that simple, that I can analyze it completely in 2 seconds, that's also why the "deep" genre is my favourite, I get happy, if a track confronts me with so many things to hear, that I need to listen to it hundreds of times, before I really understood them.

Hope this doesn't sound too weird.

no. not weird. what's weird is having those 4 names in 1 group... why Deadmau5, may i ask? the tattooed arrogant fuck from the usa that only plays his own tracks and is deeply proud of it? the 3 other names - top choice, i agree, but how did the maus get in there?? lol..

as for tracks, there's a section there.. if you want to educate others on good music, it's customary to submit them there.. or in forums. i am sure i've heard all the tracks you mentioned, just never knew what they were called. as i said, i'm really into mixes, tracks don't really interest me as singularities. i know i might miss out on stuff, and due to this fact, tracks are "not well represented" on tribalmixes, i mean, tracklists are posts maybe in 20% of the torrents. and they are text mode, no database of them, nothing, so no charts can be done, nothing like that. it is a big part of current EDM scene. and maybe tribalmixes is seriously missing out on some good traffic because of this, but again... i am not into tracks myself.. hope this doesn't sound weird.. =)

Maus is a great artist, he composes his music completely on himself, and also makes it completely himself, that's something I respect, that's much more difficult then playing records of other people. I saw him the first time last month, and he was not what I expected, but I don't care how anybody looks. I don't like, that he doesn't pay attention to the lyrics of a song i. e., but the songs he produced, are mostly very high quality and have a unique style, that can only be found when listening to him. I have a very good music system at home (a PA) , and his music, though one would not think it and doesn't hear it on a standard stereo system, is really complex, there are really very very small things to hear in it, so he puts a lot of work in every track. I understand, that you don't like him for his arrogance, but arrogance sometimes is necessary to defend onesself, I don't know if he is too arrogant, for that I don't know him enough.

Thx for saying the other 3 are top choices, I think so too. I always wonder, how DJs like Armin van Burren or even Tiesto can be so popular, to me their music sounds totally flat, though I know what people enjoy, when listening to them.

armin works hard and tiesto does too. working hard to.. promote themselves.. this is how they are popular. and don't forget in search of sunrise series by tiesto. he recently changed, but 15 years ago i was really enjoying his music..

Never liked Armin or Tiesto, always thought they were a bag of spanners right from the start...train of thought has been constant on these two and will remain so...only accolade they deserve are social media pop sellouts..trance was long dead beofre they jumped on the bandwagon...they continue to show their  woeful prowess playing to idiots with no understanding of electronic music or the underground

concur with Slash on this...if you want to re-educate yourself on good underground music...tribalmixes via tm-radio.com showcases the best selection of  underground progressive that I know of anywhere...it does seem you have missed the boat on good prog...some of my favourites include: -

Sima Deep
Arthur Sense
Aquadro
Matias Ricciardi
Frangellico
Fernando Ferreyra
Julian Rodriguez
Suffused
Time Differences on tm-radio
jordan petrof
Soulhunter
n-tchbl
marcelo vasami
or just look at the Dark prog section...you can't go wrong ww.tribalmixes.com/browse.php?cat=19

or prog
https://www.tribalmixes.com/browse.php?cat=14

then all the usual on frisky  and more

quivver
lemon8
dave seaman
digweed
warren


you will see the likes of deadrat  & co are merely showboaters, this is how you get back into the midst of the real underground!

Thx :) .

Thx a lot for your tips and insights, Slash and munkyn.

I'll rate and comment on some mixes I heard in the meantime, and I've spend my points for two re-seed requests of James Holden Torrents, bringing Torrents back to life must be good for this site.

What I still don't understand, is, that so few users are downloading the torrents I seed, which are over 300 in the meantime. I seed almost 24/7, because I really want to give back, but it seems nobody is interested in the work of the DJs, from which Slash says, that they're "top choices" .

Good music tips are something of great value btw., so I'm really very greatful that you took the time for writing those down. It's really funny for me, that now I'm getting educated about music. Everybody knows something different though, I do the same for my friends and family. I'll keep my promise from before, and give my part, so this site becomes more alive again. Creating more activity on a site, is a very powerful way to attract users. It takes time and patience, but when users see that something is going on somewhere, many of them get curious and join the croud. Try to keep the weird talk from the site, at least the too weird one (there was some very weird one in the shoutbox a few days ago, and I wasn't the only one, who had a problem with it) . If you have an idea for a new forum topic, that's something very good.

well, lets do something about it.. =)

these days are the slowest i remember in years.. least activity, i mean..

The tips for Sima Deep and Petrof are excellent. Even better than expected.

glad you like them...I have Sima Deep 57, 58 & 59  amongst 40 odd tm-radio mixes on my phone which I listen to durng my working day... some great tracks on there...Slash expect some in the the coming months in DC shows!! :)

Indeed...they say less is more...however never seen it this lean !!