there was a thread on this forum (it's still here, somewhere) talking about the best transitions between two or three tracks. Typically, the baguio track-music saved my life-useless and the first two tracks on NE: East Coast, and a few tracks on the first disk of GU: San Fran come up. Of course, it's not limited to these three particular transitions, but they always come up. You know, the mixes that really really build a set and push it forward. Another one that comes to mind is the first three tracks on Sasha's St. Ives Dance Parade mix.
So anyways, I'm listening to some more up-to-date sets of both Sasha, Digweed, even Nick Warren, and I'm wondering....what happened to such wicked transitions? So I go and start listening to some of Sasha's older live mixes when he was using vinyl, and start listening to some of his more recent stuff using Ableton. His earlier stuff is really full of this building energy, and his more recent stuff, not so much. I mean, the tracks of course are obviously different over the span of 8-10 years, but I get the sense that there he rarely does this anymore, usually relying on that clickety-flanger effect between tracks. I could totally be the only that has noticed this, and I could very well be wrong, but I'm curious if anyone else could come to a similar conclusion about this. Alternatively, another explanation could be that tracks today don't melodically weave as well as tracks years ago. Food for thought and discussion I guess. Bring on the fire.