I've just started DJing. Got a silly question about vinyls. How come on some records the BPM is really slow on side A and normal on side B. An example is Signum - Push Through. The Jaron inc mix on the A side is really slow but the mixes on the flip are normal. Any ideas why this is?

Cheers!!

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maybe they run at different rpm?

Thanks for the quick reply. Im playing them on a really dodgy record player as my decks haven't arrived yet - might this be the problem?

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lol

one has been pressed to play at 33.3 RPM (revolutions per minute)and the other has been pressed at 45 RPM

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thanks

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There (usually) should be a setting on the turntable to change the RPM of the turntable to suit the RPM of the record

crap this is something i gotta watch out for when i get my tables...

you'll realize that 45bpm is 90% of the time more DJ friendly then 33 and you'll also notice that if there is only 1 track on one side its 100x more friendly too.

HEHEHEHE - I ve a funny story about this Problem with 33rpm and 45rpm - I have the 12" of dj Icey - searching - and the one side is played with 33rpm and so I thought the other side is played by 33 too - and I always played the original version only with 33rpm - I always thought: oh - "what kind of relaxing Track of Dj icey" until one day (three weeks ago) I noticed that the origial supposed to be on 45rpm - and now it sounds better - but nobody noticed it that I played the records with the wrong speed - Shit happens

Just make sure u know what speed is which when Party Time comes!! I've mad a couple errors in that sense (not with Trance, but hiphop imports!).

its not about what speed they are designed to be played at, its whatever you think sounds best. get creative...

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huh?