i just been looking at a lot of recent sets.. people seem to go for 'flow' rather than lots of tracks, but imo its kinda easier.
two new sets on dj2k (which were the winners of the itwt dj comp) only have like 11 and 12 tracks.. in about 75 minute mixes.

that doesnt take too much skill, i dont think? like sasha and digs only had like 15 in 120 minutes!!!!
cmon i mean if u cant get it right after that long give up!

well anyways to the point, usually i dont put less than 13 in a mix unless maybe its under 70 minutes, then maybe 12.

how about yall?

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i just put as many tracks until my time is up.. usually when we (my crew) spin parties, i only get an hour so i try to fill it up.. unless im recording a cd (or at least trying to) i just fill up the tape or as much room can fit!

well, as most of you probably know I put between 18 and 25 tracks in a 75 minute mix on average.

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two new sets on dj2k (which were the winners of the itwt dj comp) only have like 11 and 12 tracks.. in about 75 minute mixes. that doesnt take too much skill, i dont think?

same thought here. When you use this few tracks, you have to concentrate on harmonics, build, "flow" as you called it. Prog DJs seem to go for little track numbers, but I never got the argument of "you need to spin the track this long so you can "feel" it". I can feel a 3 minute track. I try to avoid having the "main theme" twice in my mix, so I use the space between for my transition.

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I guess that depends on several factors. And most of all it depends on the style you are spinning.
If you compare progressive vs hard techno... Progressive is much slower in buildup and so, you can say it's calmer. There is quite a lot happening in this music. So when mixing, you let the tunes speak. Let the buildup going, breakdown, and then when it's going towards the end again, you can bring in the new tune slowly (and in progressive mixes can last for very long, sometimes 2-3 minutes, addd that up and your time passed in a breeze).
As for techno or any other high energy music, you need to follow the energy of the style too, so you'll mix quite fast and quite a lot of tunes.

It's also a matter of how you wanna progress through your set. It's not only a matter of choosing the right tunes (calmer in the beginning, harder at the climax, and then calmer again), you can control it with the speed too. You can start mixing slowly in the beginning, and start to speed up more and more towards the climax.
Add triple turntable mixing to that, and you'll have even more speed (if you do it consistently, you can get to 50 tunes an hour, but that's hard as hell).

But, as I'm more a high energy music fan, yeah I try to avoid intro-outro mixing as much as possible. My ratio is about 20 tunes per 70 minutes.

hehe well my stuff aint really high energy so 20 is like *whoa* to me.. but ya id say around 15 or so is standard.

i think, dawn, that the harmonics ain't a great excuse.. i had a really dated tracklist planned (For the original TA mix comp) that had about 15 tracks, almost every transition about a minute harmonic mashup or so.

of course that called for too much skill (with too-old tracks) and i scrapped the idea, but ykno what i mean

that being said im still not so impressed with the s&d mix, i mean hooray for nice tracks but so whut if u have 2 of the 'best djs' in the world!

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i'm more into the slow prog, long drawn-out mixes. in the one 74 minute cd i made i believe i had around 11 tracks. when i used to mix uplifting trance i could get about 15-16 tracks in 74 minutes but the days of trance are dead for me. i like the steady chugging beats.

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At the moment, I let each track play for a bit, because at least that way, if it takes me ages to complete a particular mix, I havent got a load of really short tracks, and one huuuuge track!!

When I'm as good as Sasha & Digweed, then I'll start cramming

and then u get DJ Jean who manages to squeeze in 19 tracks in an hour

I prefer my mixes to be really long and smooth, and in the middle of songs there's just too much happening and it sounds horrible. So i usually wait till the end of a song before mixing, which means I only get about 10-12 songs on an 80 minute CD.

usually 10 for a good hour...it seems so long after beat matching so many songs! it gets tiring on the mind sometimes to beatmatch more...the longest ive done was 2 hours at a party.

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Originally posted by DJTJ I prefer my mixes to be really long and smooth, and in the middle of songs there's just too much happening and it sounds horrible. So i usually wait till the end of a song before mixing, which means I only get about 10-12 songs on an 80 minute CD.

Same here... there's too much going on in trance songs to mix through them quickly and have the mix sound good.

I usually end up with about 13 tracks on an 80 minute cd. I much perfer that the tracks play as long as I can let them with it still sounding good. What's the purpose of playing a track if it's not on long enough to let the crowd enjoy it and dance to it!