ZitatThis is the second in a series of two breakcore mixes centered around tunes that either sample from or are influenced by classical, orchestral or, to use an ambiguous term, atmospheric music. I believe it's been close to a year since I made the first in the series, and have never moved the second out of my line of sight, but I had many other unexpected mixing projects pop up in the interim, and just haven't gotten to it until now.
Normally I would say mixing break-oriented music is a very precise art, and would even go so far as to say that in most cases, the quality of one's mixing increases or decreases in direct proportion to precision of one's beat-matching. This being said, my experience making this and previous breakcore mixes leads me to call it a much more imprecise art, at least in the sense that the structure often deviates from the typical 4/4 framework of most jungle, and the tunes are often at such a high state of aural climax that there's very little incidence of breakdowns or easily mixable outros - thus forcing the mixmaster to come up with creative solutions to mixing tunes without actually matching their tempos. In cases where I could match them up, I did, but at least a third of the time that simply wasn't feasible.
Even so, I think this came out pretty damn well, and after tinkering with it for the last month and a half, it seems ready to leave the nest. May its wings catch the wind and its skull not end up splattered on the pavement. Expect 180-200+ bpm and near-epileptic doses of amens, but just enough soothing melody to keep you from checking yourself into the local asylum. Tykal - Classicore - Part 2 (classical breakcore mix)
The series is dedicated to the Artbreaker from ragga-jungle.com and Traffic Cone from backtotheoldskool.co.uk - two of the finest and most educated listeners a musician could ask for.
Long live the breakcore. Death to dumbstep. When in doubt, turn it off and pretend you never heard it.