Reed Richards meets Mr. Freeze – Great Winter Mix
In an effort to keep some content flowing on this site, I’m going to start blogging on a wider variety of DJ related things. I’m also going to share more mixes that really impress me, starting with an expertly constructed new winter mix from Reed Richards.
If this is your first time hearing about him, Reed is the younger brother of DJ Bozak, and apparently an impeccable ear for tunes runs in the family. Reed’s new mix, Reed Richards meets…Mr. Freeze?, almost immediately conjured up in my mind a vibe similar to what Sonar Kollektiv was creating in the early to mid 2000s.
No stadium-size club will be bumping this mix, and the drop-obssessed new generation of American ravers might find it dull, but an audience with an appreciation for the deep and the contemplative dance music won’t be able to listen for long without imagining that there has to be some cool, off the beaten path, club/sound lounge somewhere that plays this type of stuff to a dancefloor big enough for only 100 people on a perfectly constructed sound system.
The mix is made up of more than just one sound, but Reed uses more than the basic similar BPMs or the right keys to link these tunes together. Reed makes it sound easy to move between the multiple genres that he covers in the course of this hour mix, but he has pulled off some blends that sound particularly tricky and I’m quite impressed how subtly the mix moves along from track to track. And no matter whether it is slow house, moombah or even some hints of dubstep, the vibe never waivers.
Most of all, I’m impressed/glad that it is really clear that Reed is trying to take his mix to different points over the course of that hour. And even after my first listen, I felt like I had not only gone from point A to point B, but probably to points C and D too.
Some DJs simply slap together tunes without any regard for their flow, and certainly not trying to say something larger than “Hey! Listen to all of these tunes!” But Reed, with the structure of his mix, and the tunes he has found to fit that structure, shows that it is possible to say something with DJ mixes, even if it’s just giving a little hope that the winter will soon thaw to sunny days.
Give this mix a listen and start following Reed Richards on Soundcloud!
