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here's some tunes that work good when changing styles:
Akira Yamamoto - Always (good for taking it from harder to uplifting)
Space Frog - X Ray [Follow me] (useful for bringing things one step harder)
Project #2 - Bad Dreams (good for right after the climax of a really hard/bangin tune. this is still a hard tune, but it is a bit darker. neway, it works)
some of you guys were talking about dreamland. what do you guys think sounds best, mixing in the intro part, or waiting till the kick/bass comes in and mixing with that??
A quality transition:
DJ Remy - Pumped Up ---> John Rees vs Helios - Beta Blocker (JR Trance Mix)
OK,so PvD has done this several times.But it just works so incredibly well.It even works just as well reversed,too!
what a cool thread
Lotsa good combinations...
Urban Train -> Eternity(AvB Rising Star remix)
Monkey Forest -> Rapture(AvB remix)
"Silver Bath" into "Dust.Wav sounds awesome!!!
"Fancy Fair" into "Rococco" works fine for me...
I guess it's all down to practice.. find the key tracks to your set, the ones that define your style and build a tracklist from there at home. practicing a lot at home can give the experience you need to know what tracks go well with each other. also listen to sets from your favorite dj's, it can give a lot of ideas.
word of advise, don't let this get in the way of your creativity, if your gonna mix epic monolith into massive everytime it becomes waaaay predictable and people (including yourself) get bored, i would only use these if preparing to play out, then you know what to do with what, but repetition IS NOT the key 
anything will go nicely together.....if you just practice, practice, practice x 102874318273173283
Yea, after having spent loads of time practicing you'll find yourself amazingly without even thinking picking up records that magically fits on to the next track after track after track.. once you've done that you'll the nfind yourself jumping like a freak around the room like no djs have played you before and wishing only if you were playing this set out live you could have literally changed people's lives like others have changed yours. And after all that you're still jumping and only to find that your dad's standing at the door shaking his head..
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| Originally posted by Project T word of advise, don't let this get in the way of your creativity, if your gonna mix epic monolith into massive everytime it becomes waaaay predictable and people (including yourself) get bored, i would only use these if preparing to play out, then you know what to do with what, but repetition IS NOT the key |
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| Originally posted by Narcissus Yea, after having spent loads of time practicing you'll find yourself amazingly without even thinking picking up records that magically fits on to the next track after track after track.. once you've done that you'll the nfind yourself jumping like a freak around the room like no djs have played you before and wishing only if you were playing this set out live you could have literally changed people's lives like others have changed yours. And after all that you're still jumping and only to find that your dad's standing at the door shaking his head.. |
that reminds me of something similar that happened once. I was playing Push - Strangeworld at what mustve been about +6-7% sounds amazing fast 
Look up to see my dad standing in the doorway, with the funniest look on his face and he said "thats a bit fucking fast mike." i cracked up 
lol, my dad tends to tell me off for using the effects on my mixer lol 
and he sees me dancin away, but he just dances to lol, he doesn't give a shit, but then again, he plays his guitar louder than i spin
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| Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike that reminds me of something similar that happened once. I was playing Push - Strangeworld at what mustve been about +6-7% sounds amazing fast Look up to see my dad standing in the doorway, with the funniest look on his face and he said "thats a bit fucking fast mike." i cracked up |
priceless..
Guardians of the Earth - Starchildren -> Dreamland
from PvD's politics of dancing..
also
Free State - Release (Dirt Devils Dub) -> 4 Strings - Let It Rain (Original)
from PvD's Mayday 2003 set
i think the important thing to remember is to try stuff out and you'll know if it works or not.. although sometimes two songs i mix together sound tite and sometimes when i mix those same two songs it doesn't sound right. there are a lot of factors that go into making a great mix.
1- the momentum of your mix has to be right
2- the beats must be somewhat similar
3- vocals can never interfere with each other
just take the vinyl you have and try mixing them into random songs and listen to see if they sound good. what makes you a good dj is your originality as well as your mixing skills... not the fact that you can mimic another person's work. so try out stuff for yourself and you'll find some good mixes forsure..
pEy
You want songs that mix well together... Download a set by a DJ that you like and reproduce it. Simple.
Hardcell - all tunes ---> Hardcell - all tunes
muhaha
I love this one...
Solid Globe - North Pole -> DJ Ernesto - Urban Cowboy
Exact key.
Scott Bond vs Solar Stone - 3rd Earth into Jan Johnston - Calling Your Name (Thrillseekers Mix) <--- these two tracks were MADE for each other, you can overlay them with no problem at all
also Kirsty Hawkshaw - Fine Day (Mike Koglin Remix) into Matti Laamanen - flakes
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shad0wmaster
Scott Bond vs Solar Stone - 3rd Earth into Jan Johnston - Calling Your Name (Thrillseekers Mix) <--- these two tracks were MADE for each other, you can overlay them with no problem at all
you're so very right. these tracks have very similar beats and melodies. you just have to make sure that the "callin" at the beginning of the song doesn't disrupt the end vocals of 3rd earth... but they are a great match
pEy
also, for changing styles smoothly, ive found:
from trance/prog into hard techno, you can drop the alltime
classic, Underworld - Bonr Slippy, and because of the melodic
intro, it won't clash, not to mention everyone will sing along.
i like to mix in Solid Sessions - Fatal Morgana, afterwards, and
from there you can go hard enough to make some ears bleed...
from anything hard back into softer stuff, ive seen the Atomic
Substance Mix of Born Slippy (its a breaks mix, few people play
it, amazing track) work wonders, i saw Anthony Pappa play some
crazy tech tribal house, drop in that track, and then finish his
set with Xpander (original). this is just an example of what you
can do.
and FEAR NOT OF BREAKS. breakbeat tracks work great for transitioning
from one style to another. since breakbeat is more of a beat pattern
than it really is a style, you can choose from trancey breaks,
chill breaks, proggy breaks, electro breaks, and even those techy
tribal breaks, and move to any style you choose and the crowd
will be nothing more than pawns of your track selection.
(james zabiela can own a crowd like no one else, and ive seen
him drop techno, electro, breaks (in many variants), trance and
house, switching from style to style, genre to genre with much
ease, all whilst attacking those CDJs to scratch)
so, selection, programming and fine mixing are the key.
Armin feat Ray Wilson - Yet Another Day (Attention Deficit Multi-Task Mix)
into
Andain - Beautiful Things (Gabriel & Dresden Unplugged Mix)
Here are the four tracks I used in transition to close my sets with from the year '01...
CRW - I Feel Love (RAF By Picotto Remix)
Starparty - I'm In Love
Digger - Church Of Ra
Skip Raiders Featuring Jada - Another Day (Perfecto Remix)
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