Listen to a lot of music on headphones/ear buds? Me too. If you are on the go, exercising, or just walking around the kitchen, headphones are a great option. And I noticed some of those older tracks from the 90s are a little easier on the ears.

Back in the day the underground stuff often did not have all the modern sonic treatments. Today it is common to apply loads of limiting, intentional distortion, sonic carving and the rest. It’s not something I do in the beginning but a club track has to keep up the pace with the rest of the music out there. So either I will add some of that in at the end, or else the mastering engineer will be doing that (quite rightly) to make the track competitive.

One day I was out for a run and I was thinking about all this. I thought – hey why not try to bring back some of that underground headphones friendly vibe. Instead of piling things on, let’s try subtraction. So for this mix I took out all the drums and then redid the drums entirely. I did a lot of subtraction on vocals. And no mastering engineer on this one. The result is Let Go (Astramental Headphones Mix) and it’s headed your way 1/15/25. So I hope you enjoy this mix and let me know what you think. Should I add headphones mixes for my future tracks? Drop me a line and, as always, thanks for listening!