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Track Selection: Frustrating

I'm trying to decide on what I should put together for a promo-cd and also my live-set to-be at a later date.

Maybe it is because I am practicing, but I just can't get track selections 'right'. I spin electro (techno, trance, house..etc), but mostly house.

I'll spin a tribal house track, then right after mix in a funky vocal one, then a banging vocal house track, then a dance anthem I.e (Mylo Doctor Pressure) then a simply bassy track, then ie a techno track (if the speed is low enough)

I seem to just mix whatever I pull out of my box, and track selection/programming is getting on my nerves. It's true what they say, the hardest part of learning to dj is track programming. (at least I read that somewhere) Should I just do a tribal house set, all the way through?

My tracks seem to clash (a little) with each other.

Any one have any tips for me? I feel like ripping off the EQ nobs off my mixer.

You should consider int ryign to learn mixing in key (Harmonic),

here is the thread

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=125634


If you accomplish these then your records will not clash, but still you need your creativity to choose the right track at the right moment, and i think that you can not be teached it has to flow naturally from you.



Keep Practicing =)

try mixing like genres, then progressing into a different genre..


example:

tribal - tribal - tribalish electro - non minimal electro - electro - electro with some techier shit - tech house - harder tech house - techno..

i think if you listen to my set youll find a lil of what im saying. this set recieved the most priase for track selection and i have

minimal electro
electro
house
tribal breaks
breaks
tech house
nu skool breaks
progressive

all in one set.

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Originally posted by dinoXpress try mixing like genres, then progressing into a different genre.. example: tribal - tribal - tribalish electro - non minimal electro - electro - electro with some techier shit - tech house - harder tech house - techno.. i think if you listen to my set youll find a lil of what im saying. this set recieved the most priase for track selection and i have minimal electro electro house tribal breaks breaks tech house nu skool breaks progressive all in one set.

always subtley promoting the set ehh dino??

yeah download mine too to hear some harmonic mixing and some breaks

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Originally posted by Omega_Blue always subtley promoting the set ehh dino??

always always always!

I think knowing your records (well) plays a big part.

Jay

Appreciate the help! Wierd thing: usually when I get behind the decks I do it with the mindset that I'm practicing; and usually those mixes suck.

I took a few days off, and today I just mixed for shits and giggles. (Had some liquor too) One of my best mixes ever.

I think I need to loosen up, rather than focusing on 'practicing'

Yeah your mindeset can really affect what you are doing. You should also try to record everything you do, it gets you in the habit of trying to record a demo which makes you focus more.

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Originally posted by Ministerio Appreciate the help! Wierd thing: usually when I get behind the decks I do it with the mindset that I'm practicing; and usually those mixes suck. I took a few days off, and today I just mixed for shits and giggles. (Had some liquor too) One of my best mixes ever. I think I need to loosen up, rather than focusing on 'practicing'

Yeah... God is it frustrating.

I might mix some tracks up, and later find that the energy suddenly changes in the middle because of bad track selection.

My take is that you could select any tracks, but the energy should never change too sudden.

And genre-wise, you should not change to totaaly different genres to sudden either, but merely slowly change it to the direction you want to.

Take the crowd to a journey so to speak.

I find the best mindset to have is pretending you're mixing to a big-ass crowd in a meadow in the middle of the forest. That really keeps me going.


God I like meadows...

tracklisting needs practice, experience, good sense. its a skill u learn throughout.

whenever i listen to my old mixes (which then i thought was the bomb), i just cant believe the bad track selection.

first and foremost, decide wut u want, wut mood u want to put out. wut would u like to start with and how would u like to end the set?

second, u really have to know ur music. that is really one of the toughest things for me. u have to know ur song collection.

third, forget about beatflow for an instant. forget about smooth transitions that u cant tell the change in track, because if thats in ur mind and thats what ur trying to achieve, ur gonna forget ur style and just mix songs that have very similar beats.


its really ur taste, its something that someone else cant guide u the way to do it right.

i might have skipped some things or have some typos, sorry im soo tired.

the only advice i can really think of:

when ur playing a track, think of a track which gives u a similiar feeling to the current one, and sounds simmiliar (like if it's bright or dark, etc.).....

once u've decided on a track that 1) GIVES SAME/WANTED FEELING 2) SIMILAR SOUND, THEN, and ONLY THEN, u should even start thinking of the technicalities of mixing it...


that's all i can think of... just feel and enjoy the music, forget technacilities. Enjoy ur DJing, dont' do it to be "cool" (i'm sure anyone on Tranceaddict, doesn't do that), adn don't do it for whoever's listening.

Ur feeling comes first, it should be blended with whoever's listening, only slightly.

Forget what it sounds like, just FEEL the music. The sound should only be a concern once u've decided what to play, and are mixing. If your not enjoying it, whoever's listening won't either....

i hope it helped....

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