DJ Mix 5 is Finished

Well, although I technically didn't finish DJ Mix 5 until today, I burnt my first full rough copy a week ago (the day I moved in to my apartment), and the adjustments I've made since then were small and were only halted by my move and new obsession with my Xbox. So, although the mix officially took me 19 days to finish, had I been free I probably would have finished it in my predicted two weeks, which is definitely a marked improvement over my past two mixes.

Anyway, I've been kinda up and down with my personal reception to this mix over the past few weeks, but now after a total re-haul of the last half of the mix and some small adjustments during the past week, I feel it's safe to say it came out pretty well. Its biggest flaws are probably its relatively slow build-up and its length of 20 tracks (both of which are related). Although it is certainly the most homogenous of all but possibly my first mix (which I have essentially disowned due to its lack of technique and attention to detail), I think it managed to work fairly well, building up and settling down a few times, making the mix not seem too much like a simple sequence of similar tracks. As always, there were a few new technical skills I picked up when doing this mix, but with the exception of possibly my most compositionally minded set of blends ever (and even my first ever true VS. track), there's nothing particularly new here that's immediately obvious to the listener.

One thing I did learn from all this is how burnt out I am with mixing other people's music lately, so I think I'm going to take a break, doing either a creative reworking of an entire dance album (namely, The Field's From Here We Go Sublime) or redoing/touching up my first two mixes (respectively). And who knows, maybe it's just time for me to start doing some original stuff now that I've got a good feel for the software...