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Posted by Tilo on Jun-24-2008 15:04:

Spinning Pop/Rock/HipHop

So tonight I will be spinning pop/rock/hiphop at a party in our rooming house. I've done this a couple of times but this time I want to be really mixing the tracks. My gear will be a bcd 2000 + Laptop with NI Traktor 3.2. Any advice for a this kind of music?

I hope I can sneak in some EDM

Posted by david.michael on Jun-24-2008 15:18:

Make a spreadsheet of all the songs in your "crate" with 3 columns:

1/2 bpm | bpm | 2x bpm

for quick reference.

Mix away.

edit: also utilize Traktor's looping function.

Posted by Tony Morello on Jun-24-2008 19:22:

mixing hip hop is easy

know that your mixes won't be long and drawn out like EDM, they usually last on average ~30sec

just make sure you pick tunes in the same bpm range

also, realize that you don't need to beatmatch every mix, it sounds good but ultimately, your average top 40 crowd could care less about beatmatching, it's more about the actual songs you play and how they flow, quick, on beat cuts or quick fades will work (think radio mixes)

Posted by djsaekone on Jun-24-2008 20:15:

this may give you some ideas

check this out

http://djsaekone.com/Files/MP3/08/j...S1_rapdemo2.mp3

Posted by Tilo on Jun-25-2008 21:41:

the night went really well...I was mixing 9 hours and everybody had a great time. The last song was Violet from Coldplay(at 7:30 AM) and still some people were dancing.

now I'm completly fucked up and hung over

Posted by Zeiben on Jun-26-2008 05:56:

At least some top 40 crowds know how to party. Still dancing at 7am. Awesome. Sounds like you did your job.

Posted by Dj Dizzy on Jun-26-2008 18:45:

quote:
Originally posted by Zeiben
At least some top 40 crowds know how to party. Still dancing at 7am. Awesome. Sounds like you did your job.

x2 good work

Posted by Tilo on Jul-03-2008 23:17:

yeah and I could slip in some trance and they fucking loved it...timing was right and everybody was jumping after a huge breakdown(I think is was the SVD remix of Sias Cocaine Song)