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1st be purely objective which tracks are good or not, last years i found hard to pick 25 for a 2 hour mix because most weren't good enough for me to be on a best of the year mix, trance went so downhill...
2ndly when you have 50-60 tracks or so that you feel are the really best and that you can't exclude them analyze their bpm's and keys and build your set on paper seeing how you'll progress through bpms/keys and mainly the mood of the tracks, generally you can't go from an energetic feeling happy track to a slow sad one unless you want to have it as a "breakdown" in the middle of the set and start building again from it.
About how to build a 3 hour set properly we could write 15 pages and i don't consider myself an expert on this kind of sets so i am not going to give you advice on this.
So when you have 50-60 tracks and have decided the kind of set you want to build half of them will go to the bin because simply won't fit in the kind of set you want to build, at this stage is when you really know which tracks are worthy or not, some tracks won't hurt much if you quit them others would do so keep this ones on the mix and skip the rest.
And here you go, you have now 30-35 tracks ready to mix, decide if you go for quick energetic transitions, long blends or a mix of both that progresses (i usually start with energetic transitions and short tunes and then i get to more melodic tunes blended softly).
Altenatively if you can't discard that much (which as i said in my case is easy because i like very few tracks from each subgenre and they don't blend that well) you can try the ableton live megamix , you can easily play 100 tracks in 1 hour and i confess i love this kind of mixes that go straight to the point.
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How do I decide which tracks to pick for a set?
With nearly 300 songs to pick from, how does one choose?
