Ruforia: Non-Distance Relationship

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DATE : Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:57:18 GMT
Entered in Database : 2008-06-29 13:57:18
length : 145458085
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What? More than one Ruforia mix in a year?! That's crazy talk right there. I better cut back before I start scaring people. The last mix I did (Chemically Unbalanced), I tried to restrain from allowing too much emotion into the mix, as at the time, they were all over the place. Because there was no clear story behind the mix, it ended up coming out a bit all over the place, which ironically was possibly more telling of what I was going through at the time (or perhaps what I was trying to hide) than if I'd have just blogged my life into music like I normally do. This mix goes in the opposite direction - it's unashamedly a real catharsis mix for me, with a real message behind each and every song, and as such I think this one comes off as being quite introspective and yet imploring at the same time. It's a story of distances too wide for a relationship to survive, of stubbornness, of choices that logically are easy decisions, yet your heart agonizes for weeks on end over, and an unhealthy love for house music. Now that I've typed that out, it sounds like this story sounds like it should be an opera rather than a house mix, but the unique thing about house music is that it encompasses the whole spectrum of emotions, giving you the primary colours you need to paint anything you want just by putting tracks in the right order. I'm happy to report that those Ruforia piano's are on their way back in this mix! Some really beautiful tunage here (as well as the usual selection of dance-your-ass-off tracks), along with a nice smattering of nostalgic old-skool tracks (Everything But the Girl - Missing, Fragma - Toca Me, Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy), some barely-been-released gems (Check out Hagenaar & Albrecht - What Would We Do, I love it :), and some Canadian evil pixie masterminds (I'll leave you to work that one out). Towards the end, the mix even goes a little progressive, which is a first for me, at least on a Ruforia mix. I'd even go so far as to say that "Revelations" (the last track) would be classed as Trance, and much as I detest trance in general, a great track is a great track. There was some great feedback after I uploaded the last mix in much higher quality than I normally do, so I'm going to stick with that from now on. Ok, it takes a little longer to download, but I think it's worth it :) Remember if you enjoy listening to Ruforia, please consider making a donation - Anything you can spare really does help towards bandwidth and music costs, and helps keep Ruforia alive (I'd much rather keep it in it's current form of pure unadalterated music than going the way of most podcasts and getting sponsorship/advertising). A big thanks once again to everyone that donated to Ruforia after the last mix, it really does mean a lot to me :) You can donate securely via PayPal at http://ruforia.googlepages.com/donate.htm . If you can't spare anything, I understand, but how about writing a review on iTunes? Nice words cost nothing, and I'll send some good Karma your way all the same, deal? Enjoy :) Ibiza Love, Rufusx Tracklisting: 1) Deepsky Feat. Jes - Ghost (Trent Cantrelle & Redanka Mix) With: Db Boulevard - Point of View (Acapella Mix) 2) Tegan & Sara - Back in Your Head (Josh Harris Mix) 3) Soul Central - I Need You Now (Deep Josh Mix) 4) Kemal Feat. Foxxee - City Street Walkin' (Main Mix - Rufus's Re-edit) 5) Everything But the Girl - Missing (CL McSpadden Unreleased Power House Mix) 6) Hagenaar & Albrecht - What Would We Do (Original Mix) 7) No Tone - Down Down Down (Matthias Mix) 8) Jason Rooney & Nello Simioli - Without Me (Original Mix) 9) Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso Vs Salem Al Fakir - It’s True (Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso Remix) 10) Stefan Gruenwald Vs Jerry Ropero - Let Me Be Your Fantasy (Jerry Ropero Remix) 11) Fragma - Toca Me (Deadmau5 Mix) With: Fatboy Slim - Song For Shelter (Acapella) 12) Johan Gielen - Revelations (Original Mix) With: Fatboy Slim - Song For Shelter (Acapella) DJ Dove - Memories of Love (Acapella)

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