Dyzphazia & Cuedy – Complexity Of Dreams by Cuedy
Sorry for the brief absence, I went into stasis over the weekend to try and be productive, DJ and production-wise. Sadly it didn’t work at all, so now it’s about time to catch up on the massive crop of mixes that have appeared recently.
First up we have Dyzphazia and Cuedy’s excellent Complexity of Dreams, a really nice mix of freeform and breakbeat hardcore. One of the reasons I stopped bothering too much with BBHC is that most of it seems to sound like modern drum & bass with a few trancier melodies (rather than oldskool hardcore with nice production/a focus on the breakbeats, which is what I hoped it would become). Anyway, Dyzphazia and Cuedy have done a great job of sticking with the style, showing what the newer tunes can sound like when mixed intelligently with some nice freeform selections.
That opening half from Mood Music to Concorde flows especially nicely, but the whole set is a top quality listen and in terms of mixing/selection has to be one of the best I’ve heard for a long while. It’s great to hear a few tracks from Ponder, Reese and Strifell, three of my favourite producers in this genre – one of my resolutions this year is to start mixing intelligent drum & bass again, but maybe I should take another look at BBHC, too.
- Devastate – Mood Music (Oli G Remix)
- Alek Szahala – Mermaid
- Ponder – Calling (See The Light) (Click Remix)
- Uplift & Stargazer vs. Reese & Cloudskipper – Substance
- Lukozade – Concorde
- Creative Synergy – Beware Of My Trance (Ponder Remix)
- StrifeII – Enough
- Eric Prydz – Pjanoo (High Contrast Remix)
- XampaNoid – Blue Tripper
- StrifeII – Petrichor
- Gammer – Unforgettable Hope (Douglas Remix)
- Exia – Devils Contract
Its a pitty Reese doesn’t produce anymore, really… He was one of those ‘For the money not for the love’ producers. Not that I can understand being a BBHC producer and being in it for the money – lol.
As for StrifeII, he’s my favourite BBHC producer of the last couple of years. Amazing talent for writing trance riffs and nice basslines. Very well tied together with tasty breakbeats.
Believe it or not, he’s a 19 year old lad trying to make it as a landscape gardener, making his current income flipping Big Mac’s at McDonalds :/ He deserves more recognition than he gets… Way more.
Back to the mix:
This was a really interesting one to put together, the reason it’s called ‘Complexity of Dreams’ is because this is easily the most complicated mix we’ve put together. MANY MANY BPM changes, although subtle. Also we editted many of the tracks, there’s alot of looping in there 🙂
This is the spiritual successor to ‘Break for Freedom’, which is available on my soundcloud if you’ve not heard it.
Glad to hear you enjoyed it, Jon. Anyone else wants to leave me some feedback, it’s welcomed as always.
Some incredible tunes in there and some that I really wasn’t keen on at all, but overall the mix is really well put together and I thought all the bpm changes made it very interesting and attention grabbing!!
Well done lads 🙂
Blue tripper is amaaaaaazing