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Im not sure if i'm answering you question but ill try...
in ableton, warp tracks to same bpm and then when mixing tracks on cdj, as long as the pitch is exactly the same on each cdj the songs will mix together perfectly and not drift. example - track A is playing with the pitch at +.9. if you load track B into the other CDJ, and set the pitch to .9 it will be at the same BPM as track A and once beatmatched, will not drift at all how to do this:
warp track CORRECTLY, PERFECTLY. Not always easy but usually is. in ableton, i insert warp marker #1 on beat 1 (not always a beat necessarily) and right click click warp from here straight. it is important to get beat 1 perfectly marked. then i go to end of the track and see the drift and correct it. im not sure about terminology, but it takes me about 10 sec to warp an "easy" track correctly. Hard tracks are done the same way, but in smaller increments (like every 32 beats) but when you get the drift corrected on beat 32, you right click and click warp from here straight. and do it over and over (not always 32 beats sometimes i just go from the first beat after a drop or build. songs with intro's can be done too but you just gotta play with it. the intro might not have snares or kicks at all. so where the waveform starts, insert warp marker 1. then warp from there (straight). then you find the first real beat/kick. adjust any drift and insert beat marker 2 and warp from there. easy tracks usually only have 1 or 2 beat/warp markers (they are yellow). hard tracks can have many. its hard to explain but any person who understands ableton can warp almost any track perfectly, even old rock tracks what were not made with computers, just a live drummer, just gonna have lots and lots of warp markers and take forever.
then after your track is warped, save the file at a bpm of your choice. for example someone who mixes a lot of 4 by 4 and the tracks range from 120-130 would save all of their tracks at 125 bpm. then when they load the tracks into their cdj's they will all be at 125 by with the pitch at 0 default.
of course you dont want to stay at the same bpm all night, and you dont want to play a 130bpm track at 120bpm. so you go through the same logical process you would go through when mixing the set, however you would not need to beatmatch for longer than a few seconds. once you get the tracks beatmatched, they stay. technically you could do it without headphones i guess.
i dont use cdjs or use this method. but i wondered how these djs were doing what your explaining so i figured it out by recreating it.
*** i must add, a lot of these big djs have their own remixes/edits/original tracks. So even though they are "cheathing" its considered ok for them because they put in the work of creating a one of a kind track (for the most part). some djs just do this so they have perfect mixes and can socialize in the booth.
of course EQing comes into play and if you cant EQ or phrase match you still sound like crap.
hope this answers your question, i tried my best. not up on all the proper terminology, but definitely can recreate what you are questioning.
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