Ben Annand Live Mars Bar 04-14-24 at Watch Our Step

This set from 04-14-24 really exemplifies my deep house curation and mixing style.  For 6 months I've been digging through my collection, resisting the urge to buy new music and instead learning my 29-year music collection better. Over that time, I went back through and labeled thousands of tracks by energy and feeling and created playlists from there.  The overall energy of this mix is uplifting and dreamy, starting and ending more vocal. You won't know many, or perhaps any, of the tracks. The tracks were mixed on CDJ 3000s. Never synced, never looped, never wasting time with filters and effects with just one track playing. Fully concentrated on blending two tracks together beautifully with subtle EQ-ing only. It's so weird, I was thinking this was the best I'd ever done with my levels on a live mix, perhaps because I was being a good boy, carefully watching the decibel meter at Mars Bar :) I added the fade in and out in Logic and gave it a light mastering in LANDR. There I got a message that my mix was lacking in dynamic range - meaning there might not be enough difference between the high and low levels of the mix - which on a live DJ mix, I am taking as a compliment 100% :) Ok enough geeky DJ talk... As always, I'd love to know what you think in comments <3 Huge thanks to Chris Phleck and Ryan Stubbs (Duserock) and the Watch Our Step crew for bringing me to San Francisco, it's such a fun and friendly crowd. Another big thanks to David Kiely of Mars Bar for providing a safe and lovely space for people to dance. Final thanks to Anne Plehn for the great photo capture! IG: anneplehn