deadmau5 + Kaskade ‎– I Remember

Plenty of structure, easy to mix. Very good for transitions between styles.

Three different grooves for each of the loops of the single verse. First a galloping trance, much like on Armin Van Buuren's show, second very balearic and chill, third very progressive house.

Beautiful rolling parallel major 9th chords, gorgeous voice floating above it.

10 minutes is way too short. Even mixed with the instrumental version at 20 minutes it's too short.

Absolutely gorgeous tune, let's hope for a digital release of the vinyl mixes.

When i listen to or mix dance music i require one thing above all else; Structure.
Unfortunately, IMO this is what is missing in this and most of the deadmau5 tracks i have heard.

Don't get me wrong i think the melody and tune of I Remember are great, but it is essentially just 10 mins of looped melody that starts abruptly almost as soon as the track has started.

From a technical point of view i hate tracks which start like this, it makes the mixing of them just that more problematic, after all if the two pieces are tonally different there will be a clash of bass or worse still melody.

Clockwork is very much the same, great tune "not original go back to 1999 cygnus x" but absolutely 0 progression, all deadmau5 stuff is essentially very long radio edits.

I guess some scenes will dig that, but personally i need more from music, i need something which builds and doesn't just play a single melody for 10 friggin minutes lol.