ahh, the elusive funk.

things ive done to get out of a funk.

1) get drunk. spin in front of people, even just your friends. suck. don't care. at one point, you may start mixing like a champ, out of nowehre.

2) play a set in front of people. suck. make sure it's an early set. be disappointed in your own skill. at about 4am, when everyone is too fucked the fuck up to care to listen to music, get on the decks. many a time, you'll get their attention.

3) mix it up a bit. do something different. i was in a funk once. so i whipped out Technasia - Acid Storm, which is acid techno, at 143BPM on 0%. that's a bit of a stretch, being as i normally playing minimal and electro at about 126-132BPM. but i went with it. some tracks had to go at +12.2% to be able to mix them, but it was fun as fuck. discovered how fun it is to play 3 tracks at once.

4) go out. try to play to a crowd that doesn't get your music. feel them out. i did this, took me about 2.5 hours. it was at the class fashion show rehearsal. they wanted a dj, and i tried out. after the break, when i started spinning, everyone eventually just started dancing and forget the modelling. and no, i wasn't spinning DJ sammy, just some tech-house and electro i felt would go down well.

in any event, stop recording. spin a couple of times for the hell of it, not caring about the long, smooth transition, and just fuck with shit for fun. do cuts, some crazy effects, backspins, scratch even though you suck at it.

and when i said "suck" in the above solutions, i don't mean suck on purpose. just you WILL suck if you're in a funk, most of the time.

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Originally posted by Inertia and when i said "suck" in the above solutions, i don't mean suck on purpose. just you WILL suck if you're in a funk, most of the time.

A truer statement I have never heard in my life...

Thanks for the tips Inertia... maybe I should just buy some Psy-Trance and start all over

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to get out of my junk-funks, i spin a dozen of my favourite tracks to mix. if they go bad.... i wait a week. if they go good.... i stop after the last one and then start recording a decent set. it usually works. cuz you get familiar with what you love to spin.


as for getting my own style... i thought i'd only ever buy trance records.... but i've bought progressive house and even house and much prog-breaks records and mp3s .... and it's developing my style.... definitely dofferent fro mwhen i started out

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get a good nights sleep and wake up and mix when youre in the mood, but at a time you normally wouldnt mix. (ie i usually mix at night/evening - so id wake up early and spin before class or something) the change + extra sleep always helps me if i have a bad night.

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