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Originally posted by PartEgurl I strongly disagree with mixing genres. Once a listener begins to get into your set, you change the style completely and loose thier interest. Also, have fun fitting the tracks together !! It just won't sound right...

i would say the complete opposite of this. the more diverse and eclectic the better a dj is! you just need more talent to pull it off.

a set of 100% uplifting trance is suckage.

my favorite djs are Danny Howells and Tijs because I like how they spice it up and make it interesting. If they stayed with one style it would be boring shit. i really hope PartEgurl is not a DJ, lol.

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Good thing you're not a DJ. think it's the exact opposite. All the best sets I've ever heard combine a number of genres, as do all the best DJs. Look at Adam Freeland's 2003 Essential mix, he plays Nu-Skool Breaks, Electro Breaks, Funky Breaks, Hip-hop, a Rage Against The Machine song... and it's a flawless set. The more genres you use, the more interesting the set is. As you keep playing different stuff, they never know what's next. More genres mean more variety, and the more variety, the less of a chance there is that the listener will get bored. It's true that if done badly it can suck, but done well it makes for a much better set than it would be if you were a wuss and stuck to one genre. Trance is easy to mix anyway.

I completley agree with you...these days Im finding myself listening to more non electronic songs to see if any of them can be incorporated into the tech trance/house and progressive style that I spin.
And yeah...trance is easy to mix.

obviously you would play connector tunes, ie tunes which blur the boundry of genre thus can mix out of one and into the other. like going from trance to tech trance to techno. but obviously with 5 hours youd use more than one tune, and the tunes would blend more smoothly like a trance tune with a tech element, the a bit more tech, then more etc.

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Originally posted by YaleTrance i would say the complete opposite of this. the more diverse and eclectic the better a dj is! you just need more talent to pull it off. a set of 100% uplifting trance is suckage. my favorite djs are Danny Howells and Tijs because I like how they spice it up and make it interesting. If they stayed with one style it would be boring shit. i really hope PartEgurl is not a DJ, lol.

yeh, i always mix dark trance then tech trance then techno then back to harder tech trance and maybe hard trance if theres any decent non cheesy tunes about, more genre's make me happy and make the crowd happy and thats what its all about. although tbf tijs is a bit random in his genre usage

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I DON'T AGREE TO STICKING WITH ONE STYLE IN MY MIX SETS I PLAY A VARIETY OF CHOONS (NON CHEESEY CHOONS)RANGING FROM TRIBAL,TECH AND DISCO HOUSE TO PROGRESSIVE ,HARD,TECH AND UPLIFTING TRANCE AND TECHNO AND BREAKBEAT.THIS WAY YOU KEEP THE CROWD ENTERTAINED AND UR EXPRESSING UR SELF IN MORE THAN ONE STYLE.BUT I ALSO LIKE TO PLAY MORE THEN ONE STYLE

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I strongly disagree with mixing genres. Once a listener begins to get into your set, you change the style completely and loose thier interest. Also, have fun fitting the tracks together !! It just won't sound right...

thats the dumbest thing ive ever heard.

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a set of 100% uplifting trance is suckage.

but armin just gets me off

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to be honest, if i se someones tracklist with all sorts of genres in it, i think it looks pretty clueless. especially if your mxing trance with tech house..i just dont think its gonna work. the two genres are just so different its unreal. like when vandyk tries to play a housey tune before a marco v remix i really wonder.

Get some newer Marco V sets. He combines progressive trance, trance, techtrance and techno in his sets.

BTW usually if you mix several genres you start with the slover ones i.e. progressive and then build thru trance/techtrance to some techno. That's how i would do it. I dj that plays many different styles is so much more interesting to listen to than a regular dj that only plays one style of music...

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to be honest, if i se someones tracklist with all sorts of genres in it, i think it looks pretty clueless. especially if your mxing trance with tech house..i just dont think its gonna work. the two genres are just so different its unreal. like when vandyk tries to play a housey tune before a marco v remix i really wonder.

that what makes paul the best dj in the world. U think djs play so you can download and listen to their sets at him. Im sure if u got off your ass and went out you wouldnt feel this way. Nothin is better then playing a few proggy, housish downbeat, not exciting tunes, then hammering hard shit. It makes it soooo much better.

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i start either with prog or tech house and then move to trance....those genres are amazing starters

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