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i've got an idea for a topic which could help us all out !! what popular songs mix together ?? i dont mean the obvious ones like groovejet into lady into starlight ( do h . giving my secrets away here !! ). heres a good one for example : play reach s club 7 then beat mix into mambo no 5, cue past the intro ~ try it !!! another one i always do is i will survive ( dance mix ) into copacabana ( dance mix ) into cant take my eyes off you ( boys town gang ). lets share some ideas....
[QUOTE]lets share some ideas....
Nice one Jeff
I like the idea of finding out how fellow dj's work.Knowing their playlists or tricks is not going to effect them getting work. If you are good enough it will come no matter what.When I am not working I often go to venues and check out how other jocks work.Most of the time we play the same tracks its just the order or the presentation thats different.
Not long ago I sent a playlist to Chris(via email-but it never got on the forum?I assume you got it Chris) that went down great in a pub;floor packed,singing,arms waiving,just everyone having a good time.The next night I thought I would use it again at a private do;WRONG.They didnt want to know.
There is a big difference between a residency at a social club or pub where you might just be playing "background" music and going out on the road to somebody's birthday,wedding or anniversary where everybody expects to be entertained. I have learn that to my cost. The social club scene was a doddle compared to mobile work. I have a lot to learn about the mobile work before I can even think about being in the same league as Chris,Mikee,Spin,Ian.Where better to learn than on this forum amongst fellow dj's.
Nice one Jeff
I like the idea of finding out how fellow dj's work.Knowing their playlists or tricks is not going to effect them getting work. If you are good enough it will come no matter what.When I am not working I often go to venues and check out how other jocks work.Most of the time we play the same tracks its just the order or the presentation thats different.
Not long ago I sent a playlist to Chris(via email-but it never got on the forum?I assume you got it Chris) that went down great in a pub;floor packed,singing,arms waiving,just everyone having a good time.The next night I thought I would use it again at a private do;WRONG.They didnt want to know.
There is a big difference between a residency at a social club or pub where you might just be playing "background" music and going out on the road to somebody's birthday,wedding or anniversary where everybody expects to be entertained. I have learn that to my cost. The social club scene was a doddle compared to mobile work. I have a lot to learn about the mobile work before I can even think about being in the same league as Chris,Mikee,Spin,Ian.Where better to learn than on this forum amongst fellow dj's.
Hello all
Just a quickie, one of my favourite mixes is Stuck In The Middle (original) looped (the bit where the first beat happens) into Superman Lovers Starlight 12"(when it breaks down into just beats and fade out before he belts out Starlight again or it sounds REAL pants!!).
It keeps all the dancing people dancing and gets up all the sit downers (usually) plus is a good way to go older with no one really noticing..
Hope this makes sense and helps!!!
Regards
Tony
Just a quickie, one of my favourite mixes is Stuck In The Middle (original) looped (the bit where the first beat happens) into Superman Lovers Starlight 12"(when it breaks down into just beats and fade out before he belts out Starlight again or it sounds REAL pants!!).
It keeps all the dancing people dancing and gets up all the sit downers (usually) plus is a good way to go older with no one really noticing..
Hope this makes sense and helps!!!
Regards
Tony
thanks for the tip about stuck in the middle, ill try that but my pioneer cdj100 dont loop !! but ive got an old pioneer cdj500 in the garage gathering dust so ill get that and try it at home !! Rappers delight goes into good times quite well !
It definately works!! I use two cdj500 mk2s, looped it and played it last night and the floor was absolutely filled!!!
Admittedly, lost em all straight after that - Damn you "Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel" I though I could always count on you!!!!
Admittedly, lost em all straight after that - Damn you "Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel" I though I could always count on you!!!!
Come with us and all around the world very nice smooth beat match sounds nice.
Following on from the "Reach">>>"Mambo #5" mix above... I normally mix between several of these tracks (below), picking/dropping certain tunes depending on the age/activity of the audience/dancefloor etc.
Reach - S club7
Cant Hurry Love - Phil collins or Martha Reeves&Vandellas(?)
Everybody needs somebody - Blues Brothers
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & the waves
You can pull off any of the above, into any of the others above, but seamless loop and Key Adjust(aka Master Tempo/Key lock) help tremendously - especially on "Reach" where the viable "mix-points" are very short...
Reach - S club7
Cant Hurry Love - Phil collins or Martha Reeves&Vandellas(?)
Everybody needs somebody - Blues Brothers
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & the waves
You can pull off any of the above, into any of the others above, but seamless loop and Key Adjust(aka Master Tempo/Key lock) help tremendously - especially on "Reach" where the viable "mix-points" are very short...
well tonight i mixed out of starlight into stuck in the middle with no loops at all !! it does work that one !! this was what my idea for a topic was all about, it not just bpms that have to match !!
Kewl.
Did it work well for you though? Did it keep em on the floor??
Thats the main thing I s'pose - Not just that they mix together!
Did it work well for you though? Did it keep em on the floor??
Thats the main thing I s'pose - Not just that they mix together!
yes !! stuck in the middle is one those songs you can count on !!! i followed it by lets get together, byan ferry ( not mixed ) !!
Never tried playing that at any recent gigs....
Anybody got any others to try? Or are some of you shy in sharing your secrets?
Anybody got any others to try? Or are some of you shy in sharing your secrets?
Here's a couple of 'Themes' to try out in various different ways.....
Works great with pitchlock and PCDJ.
You Can't Hurry Love / It's Not Unusual / Everybody Needs Somebody / Grease Mix or You're The One That I want
Livin La Vida Loca / Mambo No#5 / Reach / Ketchup Song / Maneater / Hit Me Baby One More Time
I'm your Man & I Don't Wanna Be A Star
Hot Hot Hot / Samba Rio De Janero / Quando Quando remix / Bombolero remix
Only Way Is Up / Get Ready For This / Don't Leave Me This Way / It's Raining Men
Somebody Else's Guy / I Found Lovin' / Never too Much
Check your cue points are tight and right on the beginning of the bass beat.
Some slight adjustment is required for intro's lead.
DD
Works great with pitchlock and PCDJ.
You Can't Hurry Love / It's Not Unusual / Everybody Needs Somebody / Grease Mix or You're The One That I want
Livin La Vida Loca / Mambo No#5 / Reach / Ketchup Song / Maneater / Hit Me Baby One More Time
I'm your Man & I Don't Wanna Be A Star
Hot Hot Hot / Samba Rio De Janero / Quando Quando remix / Bombolero remix
Only Way Is Up / Get Ready For This / Don't Leave Me This Way / It's Raining Men
Somebody Else's Guy / I Found Lovin' / Never too Much
Check your cue points are tight and right on the beginning of the bass beat.
Some slight adjustment is required for intro's lead.
DD
An unusual mix that I did tonight for the first time and which sounded good, was playing The Smiths-This charming man, then mixed in Happy Mondays-Step On.
Smiths is around 208 and Mondays 104. I looped the first 8 beats of the Step On intro and brought that in.
The mix was helped a great deal by the fact that I use the Allen & Heath Xone 62 mixer, and I was using the filters on the mixer to cut out the bass from The Mondays, and then gradually brought in the bass on the Mondays as I cut out the bass on the Smiths. The crowd certainly seemed to appreciate the mix, even though it was a wedding!
Smiths is around 208 and Mondays 104. I looped the first 8 beats of the Step On intro and brought that in.
The mix was helped a great deal by the fact that I use the Allen & Heath Xone 62 mixer, and I was using the filters on the mixer to cut out the bass from The Mondays, and then gradually brought in the bass on the Mondays as I cut out the bass on the Smiths. The crowd certainly seemed to appreciate the mix, even though it was a wedding!
Well Kylies: Slow....certainly is...
However, a great tune from 2/3 years ago, mixes in well with it... "Sugababes: Overload", if you've got a seamless loop (or two, or four) on each CD-deck, then you should be able to keep instrumental sections of each tune running over the top of the other tune all the way through both.
Also, "Love Bomb" by Girls Aloud goes really well (in terms of "feel") with Ricky Martin: "Livin la vida", and "Odyssey: Use it up wear it out" (which in turn, goes great with "Oliver Cheatham/Room 5: Get down Saturday night/Make luv".
However, a great tune from 2/3 years ago, mixes in well with it... "Sugababes: Overload", if you've got a seamless loop (or two, or four) on each CD-deck, then you should be able to keep instrumental sections of each tune running over the top of the other tune all the way through both.
Also, "Love Bomb" by Girls Aloud goes really well (in terms of "feel") with Ricky Martin: "Livin la vida", and "Odyssey: Use it up wear it out" (which in turn, goes great with "Oliver Cheatham/Room 5: Get down Saturday night/Make luv".
My Favs are:
Lou Bega - Mambo No.5 into S Club 7 - Reach into - Ricky Martin Livin La Vida
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance into Madonna Into The Groove into Michael Jackson Billie Jean into Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
Kylie - Can't Get You into Modjo - Lady into Room 5 - Make Luv into Lional Richie - All Night Long (dance mix)
Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts into Foundations Build Me Up into Baby Love
Got loads more but that will do for now
Merry Xmas Everybody
Lou Bega - Mambo No.5 into S Club 7 - Reach into - Ricky Martin Livin La Vida
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance into Madonna Into The Groove into Michael Jackson Billie Jean into Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
Kylie - Can't Get You into Modjo - Lady into Room 5 - Make Luv into Lional Richie - All Night Long (dance mix)
Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts into Foundations Build Me Up into Baby Love
Got loads more but that will do for now
Merry Xmas Everybody
For a POP 'Party Set'... 4 tracks in the Mix...
Don't Forget To Adjust BPM Tempo's!!!
You Can't Hurry Love (start the Tom Jones track mid Phill Collins from 2nd chorus exactly from the word "CAN'T" on You Cant Hurry Love - Perfect!)
It's Not Unusual....
Everybody Needs Somebody....
Grease megamix or You're The One That I Want
Ideal for 'building' towards a 'climax set' or towards the end of a 'main set', however, for those that don't mix music, the 'set' still works well for 'party' crowds.
Don't Forget To Adjust BPM Tempo's!!!
You Can't Hurry Love (start the Tom Jones track mid Phill Collins from 2nd chorus exactly from the word "CAN'T" on You Cant Hurry Love - Perfect!)
It's Not Unusual....
Everybody Needs Somebody....
Grease megamix or You're The One That I Want
Ideal for 'building' towards a 'climax set' or towards the end of a 'main set', however, for those that don't mix music, the 'set' still works well for 'party' crowds.
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean into S Club 7 - Don't Stop Movin'
They've got basically the same beat anyway!
You have 2 cut out one when the vocals start tho unless u can loop Michael Jackson
Joe
They've got basically the same beat anyway!
You have 2 cut out one when the vocals start tho unless u can loop Michael Jackson
Joe
No need to mix them, just get your hands on the mix of them both together works really well with a cheesy crowd
Jamellia - Superstar
LibertyX - Just a little bit
INXS - Need you tonight
LibertyX - Just a little bit
INXS - Need you tonight
On the subject of mixing Liberty-Little bit; it has a difficult intro. I'd be interested to hear how others bring it in?
I loop the first lyric: 'sexy' which is the first 2 beats, and then gradually bring that into whatever track I'm playing. It often works quite well, especially using filters on the bass.
I loop the first lyric: 'sexy' which is the first 2 beats, and then gradually bring that into whatever track I'm playing. It often works quite well, especially using filters on the bass.
One that works well when you want to get out of Heavy rock and back into party stuff is status quo down down into mud's tiger feet slides together perfectly even I can do it 
This little mix set is rocking my xmas floors right now...
Kick off with scandelous by misteeq and punch in over the top at opportune moments the vocal stab from indipendant woman where they holler !question". (hot starts on a pioneer deck make this easy) create a loop at the start of indipendant woman and beat mix through, the bpm's are around the same.
Towards end of indipendant woman create a looping 8 bar of "rock your body" and introduce this at the wining at the end of indipendant woman. release the loop and run.
Throughout the latter half of of "rock your body" introduce a loop with no bass or mid from beyonce "crazy right now", the section at the start of beyonce is a male vocal and goes " or yes,...feeling crazy right now". Intoduce the bass and mid whilst creating a 4 beat loop at the end of "rock your body" . Like this "rock your body" ... "rock your body" ... "rock your body" with beyonce looping underneath,
cut the bass and mid in "rock your body" to run the mix whilst reintroducing beyonces basss and mid.
Punch in the fist beats of black eyed peas "where is the love" over beyonce and beat mix through at the end of beyonce. Loop "where is the love " towards the end of the track and do a "deck-stop" whilst introducing the scrating section of jamelia'a superstar. If you get it right it sounds the "dogs". To finish this little set I the loop a couple of bars of Lemar's - dance,dance,dance and spin this through the end of jamelia.
Do it right and you'll be fighting them off with a "mucky stick", beat waffling in-between the tracks and you'll look like you know what you're doing- big time!!
Try it
Naughtydog
Kick off with scandelous by misteeq and punch in over the top at opportune moments the vocal stab from indipendant woman where they holler !question". (hot starts on a pioneer deck make this easy) create a loop at the start of indipendant woman and beat mix through, the bpm's are around the same.
Towards end of indipendant woman create a looping 8 bar of "rock your body" and introduce this at the wining at the end of indipendant woman. release the loop and run.
Throughout the latter half of of "rock your body" introduce a loop with no bass or mid from beyonce "crazy right now", the section at the start of beyonce is a male vocal and goes " or yes,...feeling crazy right now". Intoduce the bass and mid whilst creating a 4 beat loop at the end of "rock your body" . Like this "rock your body" ... "rock your body" ... "rock your body" with beyonce looping underneath,
cut the bass and mid in "rock your body" to run the mix whilst reintroducing beyonces basss and mid.
Punch in the fist beats of black eyed peas "where is the love" over beyonce and beat mix through at the end of beyonce. Loop "where is the love " towards the end of the track and do a "deck-stop" whilst introducing the scrating section of jamelia'a superstar. If you get it right it sounds the "dogs". To finish this little set I the loop a couple of bars of Lemar's - dance,dance,dance and spin this through the end of jamelia.
Do it right and you'll be fighting them off with a "mucky stick", beat waffling in-between the tracks and you'll look like you know what you're doing- big time!!
Try it
Naughtydog
On Liberty X's Just a Little, I cue up after the guitar riff, to the first 'stabs'.
(So in effect, you start it from the 4 stabs into the vocal 'Sexy'...) although from the vocal is as good!
Some Handy BPM example tracks:
BPM ROUGH 'Measurements' RATES:
Search For The Hero (M People) 100.00
Boom Shake The Room (Jazzy Jeff) 100.01
Never Leave You (uh Oh) 100.01
Stuck (Stacie O) 100.05 - 100.09
La Isla Bonita 100.06
I Can't Stop Loving You (Collins) 100.14
No Letting Go (Wayne Wonder) 100.15
i Want You Back (cleopatra) 100.26
Get Busy (Sean Paul) 100.28
Happy Talk (captain Sensible) 100.34
The One's You Love (slick Rick) 100.35
Jumpin (Liberty x) 100.45
Superstition (Stevie Wonder) 100.47
I Just Wanna Make Love To You (Etta James) 100.77
Nobody Wants To Be Lonely (R Martin) 100.85
Dancing Queen (ABBA) 100.95 - 104.50
Rock Your Body (Justine Timberlake) 100.96
Be faithful (Fatman Scoop) 101.03
Remember Me (The Bluboy) 101.09
Solid (Ashford & Simpson) 101.22
Safety Dance (Men Without Hats) 101.48
High (Lighthouse family) 101.95
Just Like A Pill (Pink) 102
Kingston Town (UB40) 102.03
Kung Fu Fighting (carl Douglas) 102.45
You To Me Are Everything (The Real Thing) 102.45
Somebody Else's Guy (Jocelyn Brown) 102.83
Macarena (los Del Rio) 103.11
Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees) 103.59
Simply the Best (Tina Turner) 103.78
Just A Little (Liberty X) 103.95
The Tide Is High (Atomic Dog) 104.03
I'm In The Mood For Dancing (The Nolans) 104.68 - 105.10
I Found Lovin' (The Fat Back Band) 105.40
Oh What A Night (Ben Liebrand Mix) 105.83
Come On Eileen (Dexys) 106.61
Last Xmas (Wham) 106.78
Stayin Alive (Ntrance) 106.80
Jump Around (House Of Pain) 106.84
Let's Talk About Sex (Salt n Pepper) 106.93
(Far Too Many To Type Here... more another time)
BPMs will work with PCDJ and Pioneer Counters.
For those who measure 'fast BPM tracks as lower than 100BPM's, for example, The Piranhas, Tom Hark, 74.60BPM, just double the BPM to give 149.20BPM!!!
(So in effect, you start it from the 4 stabs into the vocal 'Sexy'...) although from the vocal is as good!
Some Handy BPM example tracks:
BPM ROUGH 'Measurements' RATES:
Search For The Hero (M People) 100.00
Boom Shake The Room (Jazzy Jeff) 100.01
Never Leave You (uh Oh) 100.01
Stuck (Stacie O) 100.05 - 100.09
La Isla Bonita 100.06
I Can't Stop Loving You (Collins) 100.14
No Letting Go (Wayne Wonder) 100.15
i Want You Back (cleopatra) 100.26
Get Busy (Sean Paul) 100.28
Happy Talk (captain Sensible) 100.34
The One's You Love (slick Rick) 100.35
Jumpin (Liberty x) 100.45
Superstition (Stevie Wonder) 100.47
I Just Wanna Make Love To You (Etta James) 100.77
Nobody Wants To Be Lonely (R Martin) 100.85
Dancing Queen (ABBA) 100.95 - 104.50
Rock Your Body (Justine Timberlake) 100.96
Be faithful (Fatman Scoop) 101.03
Remember Me (The Bluboy) 101.09
Solid (Ashford & Simpson) 101.22
Safety Dance (Men Without Hats) 101.48
High (Lighthouse family) 101.95
Just Like A Pill (Pink) 102
Kingston Town (UB40) 102.03
Kung Fu Fighting (carl Douglas) 102.45
You To Me Are Everything (The Real Thing) 102.45
Somebody Else's Guy (Jocelyn Brown) 102.83
Macarena (los Del Rio) 103.11
Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees) 103.59
Simply the Best (Tina Turner) 103.78
Just A Little (Liberty X) 103.95
The Tide Is High (Atomic Dog) 104.03
I'm In The Mood For Dancing (The Nolans) 104.68 - 105.10
I Found Lovin' (The Fat Back Band) 105.40
Oh What A Night (Ben Liebrand Mix) 105.83
Come On Eileen (Dexys) 106.61
Last Xmas (Wham) 106.78
Stayin Alive (Ntrance) 106.80
Jump Around (House Of Pain) 106.84
Let's Talk About Sex (Salt n Pepper) 106.93
(Far Too Many To Type Here... more another time)
BPMs will work with PCDJ and Pioneer Counters.
For those who measure 'fast BPM tracks as lower than 100BPM's, for example, The Piranhas, Tom Hark, 74.60BPM, just double the BPM to give 149.20BPM!!!
I wouldn't call a BPM to 2 decimal points a 'Rough' guide - that's almost quantam physics 
I'm just ruff!
For those of you with a seamless loop (or 20, like me) try looping the pre-"la la la" part of Kylies floorfiller of "Cant get you out of my head", into "Do they know its Christmas". Leave the loop running for as long at you dare...
Also, the current tune of "Girls aloud: JUMP" ends with a lovely repeating oscillating bass synth...which just happens to mix perfectly with the opening, rising cresendo at the beginning of "Its raining men" by the Weather girls, with a very slight pitch adjustment.
Also, I've been playing around with either "Black Eyed Peas: Wheres the love" and/or "Mary J Blige: Family affair" loops over "Jona Lewys: Stop the Cavalry" with varying results.
Also, the current tune of "Girls aloud: JUMP" ends with a lovely repeating oscillating bass synth...which just happens to mix perfectly with the opening, rising cresendo at the beginning of "Its raining men" by the Weather girls, with a very slight pitch adjustment.
Also, I've been playing around with either "Black Eyed Peas: Wheres the love" and/or "Mary J Blige: Family affair" loops over "Jona Lewys: Stop the Cavalry" with varying results.
Room5 - Make luv into Diana Ross - Chain Reaction.
Might sound stupid, but...
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood (Ed Case/Sweetie Irie Remix) (on Now 48) and Kylie Minogue - Can't get you out of my head
(Needs a lot of BPM twiddling with kylie tho')
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood (Ed Case/Sweetie Irie Remix) (on Now 48) and Kylie Minogue - Can't get you out of my head
(Needs a lot of BPM twiddling with kylie tho')
kylie vs blue monday (you know the one i mean?) into starlight
This is a very good thread, does anynone have nany more ones..........
This is an excellent topic and over the last few weeks I have been trying some, what a difference a bit of practice makes.
Any more on offer..........
Hopefully soon I will also be bale to give some guidance to what mixes well....
Any more on offer..........
Hopefully soon I will also be bale to give some guidance to what mixes well....
Flippin eck! Mixing dj's eh? I am lazy and just play premixed stuff anyway. No, i am not actually lazy, i am just crap at mixing, there ya go, honest or what? 
Im finding this thread very helpfull, any more?
TV Rock - Flaunt It
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Bodyrockers - I Like The Way You Move
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Max Graham - Owner Of A Lonely Heart
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Armand van Helden - My My My
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Sunblock - I'll Be Ready (Baywatch Theme)
I've just this moment assembled that one using Mixmeister and I have a feeling that this little mix might make my accelerator pedal pressure just a little greater for some reason!
into
Bodyrockers - I Like The Way You Move
into
Max Graham - Owner Of A Lonely Heart
into
Armand van Helden - My My My
into
Sunblock - I'll Be Ready (Baywatch Theme)
I've just this moment assembled that one using Mixmeister and I have a feeling that this little mix might make my accelerator pedal pressure just a little greater for some reason!
| QUOTE (Rendezvous @ Jun 4 2006, 04:36 AM) |
| I've just this moment assembled that one using Mixmeister |
Ummm that's cheating !!!
...and of course, here in UK land storing/recording a mix of tunes isn't legit.
Nice idea though. A pre-recorded mix/medley gives a DJ a few mins to nip to the loo, interact with the guests etc.
Let me be your fantasy into smack my bitch up..
(brian heard me do that one at an 18th sound great with the volume turned upto maximum)
relight my fire into Instant replay (takethat to dan hartman works best)
pro widow (tori amos) into closer (liquid)
beat mix it before the slow bit of pro widow and then as the slow bit starts turn the deck off so it winds down real slow...
(brian heard me do that one at an 18th sound great with the volume turned upto maximum)
relight my fire into Instant replay (takethat to dan hartman works best)
pro widow (tori amos) into closer (liquid)
beat mix it before the slow bit of pro widow and then as the slow bit starts turn the deck off so it winds down real slow...
| QUOTE (Gary @ Jun 4 2006, 10:56 PM) |
| Mixmeister. Ummm that's cheating !!! |
I saw your smiley, but I sometimes get that comment from other DJs. In no way is studio-mixing a set cheating. I've done my time on the turntables (sold my Technics 1200s a few years ago), I mixed live on CD with my original Denon DN200f and then later on my Denon DN2500f. Both of those are now sold.
Live mixing is something I can do, but premixed sets of between 8 and 25 minutes are very powerful medicine for my types of events. I've still made the mix myself, my crowd still love it and I never mess up a beatmix any more, which happens to all of us at some time.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming... what other non-club mixes work well for you?
On Saturday I did a good mix of Love Shack and Tiffany's I Think We're Alone Now.
From the bit where she says Tin Roof, Rusty start Tiffany from where the beat kicks back in in Love Shackand it sounded good and worked well....
Was in my residency where the volume is really low, so it may have sounded pants, but it sounded alright in the headphones and the reaction was good so.....
From the bit where she says Tin Roof, Rusty start Tiffany from where the beat kicks back in in Love Shackand it sounded good and worked well....
Was in my residency where the volume is really low, so it may have sounded pants, but it sounded alright in the headphones and the reaction was good so.....
I think Gary is referring to the automation on mixmeister software Richard
| QUOTE (Rendezvous @ Jun 4 2006, 08:26 PM) | ||
I saw your smiley |
I certainly wouldnt have said that without the smiley. :-)
It depends alot on the working environment really. Obviously, for a club DJ who's supposed (or at least, expected) to be mixing live, then actually pressing (or double clicking) "PLAY" and then miming to a pre-recorded mix for the next 80 minutes would find few supporters.
However, in radio for example - some stations are almost entirely automated as far as music playback goes, with no DJ/presenter selection of tunes taking place at all.
For mobiles however, some might say its more simply down to "let the guy/gal at the front entertain us in any way they wanna".
If you're in a real 'old school' kind of mood, try
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
into
MC Hammer - Pray
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
into
MC Hammer - Pray
ok then
wham - i'm your man
lionel ritchie - dancing on the ceiling
weather girls - raining men
irene cara - fame
laura brannigan - gloria
pointer sisters - jump
tiffany - think were alone now
proclaimers - 500 miles
great 80's set.
wham - i'm your man
lionel ritchie - dancing on the ceiling
weather girls - raining men
irene cara - fame
laura brannigan - gloria
pointer sisters - jump
tiffany - think were alone now
proclaimers - 500 miles
great 80's set.
Any other great non-club beatmixes?
Chain Reaction (If you can, loop it before it does it's breakdown) and mix it into Man! I Feel Like A Woman..
Works very well....
Works very well....
Sash - Ecuador
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DJ Jean - The Launch
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Beatfreakz - SuperFreak (countdown of DJ Jean... when it says ignition, beatfreakz should say "EVerybody dance now")
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Fedde Le Grand - Put Your Hands Up
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DJ Jean - The Launch
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Beatfreakz - SuperFreak (countdown of DJ Jean... when it says ignition, beatfreakz should say "EVerybody dance now")
into
Fedde Le Grand - Put Your Hands Up
I try to do something different if I can and most of it is on the spot.
A great mix for my alternative nights is 'Closer' by NIN with 'Sweet Dreams' by Marilyn Manson. I use the guitar intro to Sweet Dreams over Closer and it works well.
Another one is the 12" version of Fedde Le Grand with New Order 'Blue Monday'...the bass drum stabs at the beginning give the punters an idea of what is coming up and then if you search for when the actual snares come in on Blue Monday and beat match with Fedde le grand as the song starts to end (just the drums) it works well.
I also did a mix off the top of my head on saturday night which worked well..
DJ Casper - Cha Cha Slide
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Fedde Le Grand - Put your hands up
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The Egg - Love don't let me go
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Bob Sinclar - Rock this party
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Reel 2 Reel - I like to move it
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Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom
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Arrow - Hot Hot Hot
That worked too.
Good topic!
A great mix for my alternative nights is 'Closer' by NIN with 'Sweet Dreams' by Marilyn Manson. I use the guitar intro to Sweet Dreams over Closer and it works well.
Another one is the 12" version of Fedde Le Grand with New Order 'Blue Monday'...the bass drum stabs at the beginning give the punters an idea of what is coming up and then if you search for when the actual snares come in on Blue Monday and beat match with Fedde le grand as the song starts to end (just the drums) it works well.
I also did a mix off the top of my head on saturday night which worked well..
DJ Casper - Cha Cha Slide
into
Fedde Le Grand - Put your hands up
into
The Egg - Love don't let me go
into
Bob Sinclar - Rock this party
into
Reel 2 Reel - I like to move it
into
Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom
into
Arrow - Hot Hot Hot
That worked too.
Good topic!
QUOTE(DJ Ben @ Dec 12 2006, 10:55 AM) 
Sash - Ecuador
into
DJ Jean - The Launch
into
Beatfreakz - SuperFreak (countdown of DJ Jean... when it says ignition, beatfreakz should say "EVerybody dance now")
into
Fedde Le Grand - Put Your Hands Up
Aren't the BPM's of these tracks a little too far apart for comfort?
They're roughly the same... and having Sash to start sets the bpm for everything else. I tried starting with other songs, but it didnt work aswell, because the bpm's WERE all over the place..
QUOTE(DJ Ben @ Dec 12 2006, 04:06 PM)
They're roughly the same... and having Sash to start sets the bpm for everything else. I tried starting with other songs, but it didnt work aswell, because the bpm's WERE all over the place..
OK. I thought Sash was about 130, DJ Jean was about 140, Beatfreaks was about 128 and FLG is 128.
That is about right, but seeing as DJ Jean doesnt have much of a bass beat for the first minute or so, it doesnt hurt too much to nudge the bpm up 7 or so... well.. never hurt me anyway :)
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