Trance is frequently pretty unforgiving about not having the 32 beat phrases matched up, I could see this mattering less with other genres.

That said, you can sometimes get away with mixing in a track halfway through the phrase (i.e. 16 beats) without it sounding too bad.

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DJ Kibon - August 2004

yea halfway can work sometimes. i don't really see why you wouldn't want to phrase a mix, unles you have some cool trixes up your sleeve.

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i mean some full phrases aren't even 32's but rather 16's... and if there was a difference you wouldn't even know.

If you are off by a count of four.. the mix will be a little screwey. Unless you are working with an outro consitinning of a simple bassline

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Breaks/Prog Mix 3-15-04

although its probably better with techno than other genres, it still sounds a bit shit if you put the track down 4 or 8 beats early, although when you get up to 16 beats sometimes it can have a really cool effect.. in my experience it is quite rare for it to sound amazing

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MUGGETS

ok so i spose none of you do, as i dont usually do it either... but, ive been disecting more and more sets from my cds, and a taucher set that i have, which sounds AMAZING, he does sometimes go off by 4 beats on the intro of the incoming track, which gives it quite a nice 'live' feel, like an additional fill a live band would do... but the additional 4 beats that he makes it off by its like the incoming track stops and does a fill of its own, i dunno. i was just wondering if anyone else has messed around with the idea. thanks for the replies-

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