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Posted by hiram on Dec-12-2005 13:23:

question for those of you who spin house and trance

lets say you want to create a predominantly trance set but would like to throw in some house tracks. would you start off the set playing house and drop all the house tracks in the beginning or would you scatter them in your set?

Posted by Trance Nutter on Dec-12-2005 13:26:

I can't think of anything more horrid than scattering house amongst a trance set.

You gotta have progression in your sets. So unless you are having a 6 hour set where you may have peaks and troughs with respect to the style of music, its not gonna be good.

Posted by hiram on Dec-12-2005 15:59:

quote:
Originally posted by Trance Nutter
I can't think of anything more horrid than scattering house amongst a trance set.

You gotta have progression in your sets. So unless you are having a 6 hour set where you may have peaks and troughs with respect to the style of music, its not gonna be good.

lol, im not a house lover but progressive house isnt so bad.

Posted by Liam on Dec-12-2005 16:52:

Re: question for those of you who spin house and trance

quote:
Originally posted by hiram
lets say you want to create a predominantly trance set but would like to throw in some house tracks. would you start off the set playing house and drop all the house tracks in the beginning or would you scatter them in your set?

i try and stop myself from thinking too much in terms of genre. for example, the boundary between prog trance/prog house is hazy at best... i don't want to limit myself, by trying to mix and stay within the boundaries of one or two specific genres. just fool around and mix what sounds good. i know i can try and accomplish a certain sound in a mix, while dipping into various genres.

i'm not trying to say you can mix anything with anything, it's just that sometimes you'll be surprised with some really random mixes.

as for your trance mix... play with the programming of your mix. only you can decide where certain tracks fit. who cares, if you have some house in your trance set... as long as it sounds good :P remember that genres are subjective, and they aren't there to limit a dj.

Posted by SVGmethod on Dec-13-2005 08:43:

my sets always flow like this:

house ---> electro/prog. house ---> prog. trance ---> melodic trance ---> hard trance ---> techno

Posted by Vero on Dec-13-2005 09:03:

its all up to you and what kinda stuff you have in your arsenal. i think the easy way to do it would be to start house, move into some prog and then bust out the trance. if you have enough transitional records, and a long enough set, you can throw them in wherever you want, just make it "flow"

Posted by SVGmethod on Dec-13-2005 09:06:

the drill - the drill is the perfect record to transition from house to trance.

Posted by Soliman on Dec-13-2005 11:03:

quote:
Originally posted by SVGmethod
the drill - the drill is the perfect record to transition from house to trance.

+1
another track is:
Parc-silver cell