(Updated!) As it turns out, the actual pattern that this track was created is from -- to the best of my memory -- sometime 2001 or possibly 2002, although I'm not sure. Regardless, this bad little ma'amma jamma of a track was created by the mighty John Wang (https://soundcloud.com/#john-wang-2) roughly two decades ago, when we our crew, Eff-Kay, was filtering through the rave scene. Plus, as a collective, we were finally starting to understand how to use sounds effects on my Roland MC-505, and distortion quickly became a favorite to experiment. While possibly being within the first ten patterns John Wang had made on my 505, this is also one for the first tracks he used distortion on. The distorted riff of "Break!" reminds me of something ATB or AK1200 would play.
As for this particular (Hard Prairie Trance) mix, it is completely, and utterly brand new! While browsing my back catalog of potential tracks, I came upon this catchy little tune called "Break!" by John Wang. Me being me, I send Wang a message telling him about this really great old pattern of his. He said he'd like to hear it. So, I made a quick mix to show him. He dug it, and it gave me an idea of how to turn Break's pattern into an actual track.
I love this mix, because it shows how I'm finally learning how to mix a dance track, and make it memorable. There are a couple of parts I would like to exploit more in this mix, but, when I did, it lost the integrity of what you now hear and feel. I'm at the point of my music making career where, if the music stops making me want to move, then it needs to be cut and remixed to retain that progressing feeling; to usher the unconscious foot tapping upon hitting the play button.
