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Posted by toxa on Jan-13-2003 16:37:

Starting your sets off with non-trance tunes

I have tons of classic rock vinyls which i love, ie, pink floyd, led zeppelin, that I always try to fit into the intro of my sets somehow. Unfortunately I very rarely come out with a successful transition.

Can any of you suggest anything that might help me out?

Posted by Mod1 on Jan-13-2003 23:35:

Re: Starting your sets off with non-trance tunes

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Xtronic
I have tons of classic rock vinyls which i love, ie, pink floyd, led zeppelin, that I always try to fit into the intro of my sets somehow. Unfortunately I very rarely come out with a successful transition.

Can any of you suggest anything that might help me out?

you could sort it by not playing rock records.....best for everyone really

Posted by toxa on Jan-14-2003 15:49:

maybe i didnt make myself too clear.
What i was reffering to was more like, pink floyd stuff that start off very melodic, and usually i try to kick some bass in there from another song. Has anyone done that before?

Posted by Dj Flesch on Jan-14-2003 23:46:

Part of the problem is that the BPMs of most of those slow melodic tracks are very very low...120 or lower. That's a trainwreck without the bass beat overlap

Try, throwing in a beat with the crossfader that is "beat"matched with your intro track. You'll have to play around with it for a while until you find something that works.

Posted by djmorph on Jan-15-2003 01:01:

wurd

Yea, i've wanted to do the same thing. Kinda like how Paul Oakenfold did w/ radiohead and Led Zepplin in a couple of his sets. I think you'll get the best results if you do a remix using your computer or something instead of trying to do it on the fly. Then just run a line to your mixer if you can.

Posted by Kid Lax on Jan-15-2003 05:02:

me and a buddy spun a versus set at a friend of mine's wedding reception (he had his real family wedding reception, then a party that went all night at a hall)

we started the set off with the Mortal Kombat theme song, thought that was pretty cool because it was a versus battle and the who wedding/reception was all oriental themed

ive also been toying with starting a set with Tubular Bells, but its really hard to mix out of that into trance because its 3/4 as opposed to the standard 4/4 in trance

Posted by mettkea on Jan-15-2003 07:51:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Xtronic
maybe i didnt make myself too clear.
What i was reffering to was more like, pink floyd stuff that start off very melodic, and usually i try to kick some bass in there from another song. Has anyone done that before?

If you want to end with some pink floyd, i suggest using Goodbye Blue Sky from the Wall. I works really well imo.

Posted by Nrg2Nfinit on Jan-15-2003 11:43:

rps - unforgiven (dj shah mix)

hehe lovely tune.. it can work well depeneding on what kind of set your spinning

Posted by Gluegun on Jan-16-2003 01:58:

Uh... you realize that a lot of pink floyd HARDCORE is about as far from 4/4 as you can get? talk about hard to beatmatch..

Posted by sirhiss on Jan-18-2003 01:50:

^Yeah, what you wanna do is really hard, and I doubt that even among the pros there arent many that can successfully pull this off.
I play at club sometimes, and I usually start when my mate plays his last hip hop/rap tune.
I tried mixing my own tunes in, hell i tried everything I had, break beats, ambience etc...
Fuhgettaboutit.
Now I just go "fuck it" and slam the x-fader.

Posted by The Greener on Jan-18-2003 09:10:

Done it many times. Most are very hard or impossible to pitch on Standard Technics&transition unaccordingly. Some i've done In total Amazement of the the result

Most of the combinations sound BAD over 90%
Some are like they where made together, but those are Secret!!

Posted by evil_bastard on Jan-18-2003 19:36:

quote:
Originally posted by Kid Lax
ive also been toying with starting a set with Tubular Bells, but its really hard to mix out of that into trance because its 3/4 as opposed to the standard 4/4 in trance

I found a remix a while ago of tubular bells which was 4/4 on mp3 but I lost it when my computer crashed. It was called the "maxi version" or something. It wasn't bad, it'd do for an intro and the melody was just the same but extended to 4/4. The BPM was only about 120-odd though, but it didn't sound that bad when notched up to 130, which is enough for a progressive set at least.

Posted by Luke Terry on Jan-18-2003 19:54:

thing is, stuff like that is real bands, with real people playing real drums so they are not perfectly in time like it would be if electronically programmed, hence your main problem...