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Craig Bradley

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  3. Dance Music Scene

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    firstly, Tom Bailey is absolutely right. This #trancefamily thing is fail. The kids dont acknowledge what came before. Trance means nothing to me anymore, it's true, as you get older you prefer the groove to euphoric breakdowns. Anyway, i stopped playing trance about 3-4 years ago, going way more into house and tech. I've always seen myself as house dj who plays a bit of trance anyway.

    I've always kinda agreed with Briggsy. He;s right. These days, tunes are quite weak because everything can be done in one DAW. No hardware or knowledge of how to use it is needed. People simply go on the forums asking "i want to make the bass sound that Porter Robinson or Skrillex use" and you get guys make half arsed tune using those sounds, i mean, look at Deadmau5, when "not exactly" came out, it was fresh, then for the following year or so , you heard endless 8th note ripoffs. Copying basically. Whilst this has always gone on, i think its now more prevalent, seeing as back in the day, copycate tunes probably got turned away at the demo stage in some record execs office.

    My take on it is, labels now dont have to take the risk. They get a bunch of .wavs and put them out. It hasnt cost them anything in terms of promotion. No test pressing, acetates, videos or anything. Now record labels idea of promotion is to stick a hyped tune on some trendy blogs. Tunes now have a shelf life of about 2 weeks, whereas the late 90's and early 00's tunes had to be promo'd 4 months in advance to build the hype. You dont get that anymore either.

    Another things is, as Briggsy said, everyone now has access to the same tunes. Which i suppose is why people now do re=edits or bootlegs, to try to be different.

    When vinyl stopped being the main form factor for dance, i think a large part of it died, the grass roots if you will. I know that sounds old and snobby, but i think its true.

    That's why i love it that i can produce as you can play material out that nobody has heard before ie. own remixes and own material :) and majority of my stuff doesn't get signed as it has a 99-2000 feel to it but i don't care that's what i love and will continue to make that :D

  6. Guest Mix On Ollie Jaye's Club TX Show On Radio Cardiff

    in Members' Audio & Promotions

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    Here's the guest mix i did for ollie jaye's club tx show on radio cardiff :) plus i've put eivissa as a free download :)

    http://soundcloud.com/craig-bradley/guest-mix-on-ollie-jayes-club

    Tracklisting

    1. Ayla - Ayla (Dj Taucher Remix)

    2. Lost Witness - Fade Away (Craig Bradley's Fading Away Remix)

    3. Craig Bradley - Amber Sky (Original Mix)

    4. Ian Brown - F.E.A.R (Craig Bradley Remix)

    5. Craig Bradley ft Lucy Clarke - One Life (Full Vocal Mix)

    6. Solar Stone - Seven Cities (Craig Bradley Remix)

    7. Craig Bradley - Rendition (Main Mix)

  7. Dance Music Scene

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    Wankers!! I mean, Ayla moves me when I play it at home, on my iPod, watching Kevin and Perry.

    Though I do have a depressive illness. :rolleyes:

    In fact I avoid listening to it because of this, even though I do love it.

    If I heard it out I'd dance.

    Now I dunno if that's good or bad.

    1 of the best tunes :) wicked!

  12. Craig Bradley - Eivissa

    in Members' Audio & Promotions

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    No worries mate. I checked out 'Venus' too and loving that as well. I think that's my favourite but both great tunes. I'm well thankyou mate, just busy busy busy over the summer with work. Trying to make time in between it all to keep up the mixing and checking out new tunes! Hope you're well

    cool :D yeah thats the one thats coming out in august :) cool yeah you need to get back into mixing :) i hope trance will come back it just needs more uplifting and melodic melodies and the energy back and it will be there haha :D it's funny cause every post i read on here people aren't happy with the way the dance music scene is.

  15. Craig Bradley - Eivissa

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    Another good one mate. Look forward to the new releases! Good to hear more proper trance being made... loving the 90's sound

    Thanks mate! that's what i'm going for :) this new stuff i just don't wanna make it i could make it easy but i just don't feel it , thanks for listening mate it means alot :) i have another tune called venus coming out soon on ollie jaye's global state recordings label , how are you anyway? how's things going?

  22. Tiesto Rapture TV Broadcast Gatecrasher NEC 2001

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    MIKE - Sunrise At Palamos to kick off!!!! Wooooo! :mrgreen: Jules also played this in his set... sums up the sheer quality of tracks back then. Wonderful.

    This should really be in the archives sirs as a complete video... along with Jules's one too.

    Another great upload Craig, thanks sir! :thumbsup:

    No worries mate glad I can give something back to this awesome site

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