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DJ n00b diary: I finally got in the groove of mixing

Hey, so the past few days, before Valentines, I was stressing out trying to make a love mix sound good, and it always came out like shit. I didn't understand how to smoothly mix one track to another. Until today.

I made a playlist of 10 progressive house tracks. I discovered that the best way to introduce a new track on top of a playing one is by starting the next track with the bass killed until the current track drops into the outro kick stage, if that makes sense. And all the while have an 8 beat loop of the next track playing until that outro of the current, open the bass, and then wait for the new track to go into the "first stage" of its "journey" and then kill the first song's bass. This allows the first song to then be under the new one, and since there is no bass, only the high parts make noise and you can fade it out gradually as the new song gets going.

It always sounds good, unless the hi-hats get in the way. I also discovered to lower the treble if needed. All basic shit, I know.

It's why I referred to myself as n00b.

There is no "best" way.

Your method should vary slightly each time depending on the tracks.

Experiment a bit and you will find other interesting ways of doing things.

Wowing a lady with prog house?

Impressive... most of the girls I know fall into one of three categories: only liking cheesy pop, emo indie stuff or hardcore (the latter tending to be the result of one of the cheesy pop people discovering various substances).

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Originally posted by Stu Cox Wowing a lady with prog house? Impressive... most of the girls I know fall into one of three categories: only liking cheesy pop, emo indie stuff or hardcore (the latter tending to be the result of one of the cheesy pop people discovering various substances).

Why is it that (generally) women have such shitty taste in music?

I have female friends who enjoy trance and similar music, but yeah, like you said, they have to be "on" something.

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Originally posted by Beat Blog Why is it that (generally) women have such shitty taste in music? I have female friends who enjoy trance and similar music, but yeah, like you said, they have to be "on" something.

Sadly true. A lot of my female friends don't care for electronica unless they're high on something. For shame!

You guys need to be looking into the Anime cons for chicks that like EDM. IDK why, but chicks at those conventions have at least a base knowledge (ie "Tiesto") of EDM compared to elsewhere. Part of it could be the fact that the cons that I went to hold "rave" (that's what the con calls them) events on the last night, usually with some sort of Goth/Industrial act and a cheese DJ.

Also, dressing up like hot anime chicks =

FromAbove: Good to hear you are learning about EQs! Like others said, there's no one way to mix tracks together. Try messing around with mixing in the next track at different points or with "cutting" a new track in.

I'm not too into the animecon girls

my theory is that 98.9% of women (at least in miami) only like what is "in" and heavily overplayed on the radio.

It works for me

You guys need to meet higher quality women. Hell even this girl who works in my lab and is pretty cute asked me what kind of DJ I was. I told her electronic, and she said 'Like what? house? trance?" So yeah go find yourself some better women.

you guys don't know where to look then.

i go party with a few girls and they all love the music and are really heavily into the scene.

my lady is self proclaimed my biggest fan

she's probably the only person to have every single mix cd i've ever recorded, she has mixes i don't even have anymore, if i want copies i go to her

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Originally posted by Stu Cox Wowing a lady with prog house? Impressive... most of the girls I know fall into one of three categories: only liking cheesy pop, emo indie stuff or hardcore (the latter tending to be the result of one of the cheesy pop people discovering various substances).

girls generally have awful taste.

i asked a really hot girl what kind of music she like, and she said "i like dance music", so i ventured further, "what kind of dance music do you like?" , "emmmmm, you know that song the anthem?". life isn't fair.

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Originally posted by ZeJayMan girls generally have awful taste. i asked a really hot girl what kind of music she like, and she said "i like dance music", so i ventured further, "what kind of dance music do you like?" , "emmmmm, you know that song the anthem?". life isn't fair.

Haha at least it's a start.

We had Dave Pearce playing at our uni a couple of years ago and afterwards loads of girls were on the union messageboard saying "I like dance music, but the music he was playing was awful with no melody and you couldn't dance to it, I didn't know any of the songs".

He just played his usual load of seriously cheesy chart trance, old skool and all the bog standard classics like Insomnia etc - my Mum would probably have known just about everything he played and she hates dance music.

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Originally posted by Stu Cox Haha at least it's a start. We had Dave Pearce playing at our uni a couple of years ago and afterwards loads of girls were on the union messageboard saying "I like dance music, but the music he was playing was awful with no melody and you couldn't dance to it, I didn't know any of the songs". He just played his usual load of seriously cheesy chart trance, old skool and all the bog standard classics like Insomnia etc - my Mum would probably have known just about everything he played and she hates dance music.

It sounds like they're better than you give them credit for...that's probably what I would have said too about the music that you're describing, minus the "I didn't know any of the songs"

My theory about this: girls like music with words, guys are more into rhythm. (It's not a rule, of course, it's just what I've noticed.) Anyone with me?

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Originally posted by Shad0wmaster My theory about this: girls like music with words, guys are more into rhythm. (It's not a rule, of course, it's just what I've noticed.) Anyone with me?

Well...they DO like to talk A LOT.

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Originally posted by Shad0wmaster My theory about this: girls like music with words, guys are more into rhythm. (It's not a rule, of course, it's just what I've noticed.) Anyone with me?

Interestingly I've heard that chicks really dig shpongle.

I'd say in general chicks are more balanced in their lives. IE they don't delve very far into the abstract or unpopular music.

Another thing is that, usually when chicks go to a dance club their main focus is on dancing and feeling good about themselves. The darker more brooding music seems to turn off chicks, but gets guys into it from my experience, who generally respond to the quality of the music as opposed to how easy it is to dance to and how good it makes them feel about themselves.

A chick on the dance floor can be thinking of WAY more things than a guy can usually. a chick may be thinking about who all is around them, scanning everyone to determine who has social value, making sure she looks good/sexy while she dances, and trying to get over negative emotions in her life by experiencing happy popular songs while dancing with friends.

All my opinions, feel free to tell me I'm 100% wrong.

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Originally posted by Zild You guys need to meet higher quality women. Hell even this girl who works in my lab and is pretty cute asked me what kind of DJ I was. I told her electronic, and she said 'Like what? house? trance?" So yeah go find yourself some better women.

You act like that is a common thing.

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Originally posted by DJ Neovig Another thing is that, usually when chicks go to a dance club their main focus is on dancing and feeling good about themselves. The darker more brooding music seems to turn off chicks, but gets guys into it from my experience, who generally respond to the quality of the music as opposed to how easy it is to dance to and how good it makes them feel about themselves.

Yep, we like indulging in our moodiness and getting a little bit emo about it.

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Originally posted by DJ Neovig All my opinions, feel free to tell me I'm 100% wrong.

+1

God is a woman and she dances on house music!


I don't think I've seen a girl in over 2 or 3 years who wasn't into house music.




I love going with my girl to house music parties... We went to Nic Fanciulli on Valentines!

oh and...


bitches really like Steve Lawler lol

most of the girls i met in rome loved the darker stuff

then again those were the kind of parties i was going to

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