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Strange stones

uploaded: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 @ 3:40 AM

by	colab
Featuring	Vidian (and a cast of thousand!)
length	7:30
BPM	125
Recommends	Recommends (35)

I got assigned Vidian for the Nov 2009 edition of Secret Mixter. I had heard and liked his music over the past year, but had no real appreciation of his history at ccmixter. I found out that he actually signed up back in Sep 2006 and has been uploading remixes since, making him something of an old-timer around these here parts. :)

I thought a bit about what to do with the materials available to me. He has a few samples uploaded that I could have used to create something around, but I do that all the time with my normal uploads at ccM, and when I do that there’s always a risk of that being more about me than about him - so I decided to do something to showcase as many of his tracks as I could pull off, using a few from his whole time at ccM (more or less). It helps that Vidian is an outstanding dance music producer, so there were a lot of great tracks to choose from.

So here it is - 10 Vidian tracks in 7 1/2 minutes, representing his three years and counting so far at ccmixter (tracks ranging from Oct 2006 to Sep 2009). I have tried to stay out of the way of his music and let it speak for itself. Play it loud and on good speakers or headphones.

/ Mikael, Toronto, Canada November 3, 2009

P.S. - the “how I did it” has a more detailed breakdown of how I went about doing this.