I always loved listening to chillout and downtempo but I suck ass at mixing it! All I do is simple crossfades...

Is there any technique you can do to make the mixes sound better?

Oh yeah I tried beatmatching but the songs BPMs are way to far apart.

whenever i try to mix ambient/chillout i just focus on the melodies, pads, and fx because usually there's no percussion.

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UnauthorizedTranceAddict Youtube Channel where I post older mixes from the TA DJ Promotion Forum

My mixes:

Still up:1:2

Down:3:4:5

Often you can beatmatch a track that doesn't have any beats by looking for other cyclic sounds such as keyboard presses on a synthesizer or piano. But that is probably best done by preliminary work with a computer and Ableton or Traktor software. Not really essential since the tempo is so slow and usually the tracks are not mixed very long in the transition.

Thanks, but I was talking about mixing downtempo stuff like Ulrich Schnauss, BoC and Vibrasphere.

Like stuff with beats.