For me it's all about the track selection. If I don't love and I mean love each and every track, then I won't put it in my set. Also as a rule of thumb never use a filler unless it's absolutely necessary.

all of my songs are categorized under key, bpm and energy level. i will typically start off with mellow tracks and build from there. of course it totally depends on which dj you are folling and which dj is following you. it is considerate to the dj following you if you set him/her up properly. It's also a good idea to arrive early so that you don't end up playing a track that the previous dj played within the last hour. the one thing that i always make sure of is that i mix harmonically, otherwise it just sounds like ass. Unless, of course you decide to just drop a track in without mixing the melodic parts.

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Originally posted by stevieboy32808 For me it's all about the track selection. If I don't love and I mean love each and every track, then I won't put it in my set. Also as a rule of thumb never use a filler unless it's absolutely necessary.

agreed to some extent.. I don't think you need to love each and every track to death, it just needs to be good tracks

another thing that will making a set better is obviously: know your collection and try to remember things like intesity level, atmosphere, what feelings does this track create, etc. If you don't know what tools you're dealing with your sets will be crap

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Originally posted by X-scream agreed to some extent.. I don't think you need to love each and every track to death, it just needs to be good tracks another thing that will making a set better is obviously: know your collection and try to remember things like intesity level, atmosphere, what feelings does this track create, etc. If you don't know what tools you're dealing with your sets will be crap

Actually I think Stevie is right. Loving each track makes the end result that much sweeter. For me anyways.

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Originally posted by stevieboy32808 For me it's all about the track selection. If I don't love and I mean love each and every track, then I won't put it in my set. Also as a rule of thumb never use a filler unless it's absolutely necessary.

i agree here.

i make a set by comparing rhythms and basslines

as with some tracks u just have to play them early in the set and some other tracks are fillers and then u got the late tracks

its about the flow, dont wana be straight in there with the banging tunes then it gets weak towards the end?

and i always end with a 'feel good' type tune just to mark it off like

i dunno

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Originally posted by sr126 i'm always hearing music in my head... it's like my brain/imagination is always playing/creating/mixing music... i basically try to be as receptive as i can toward ideas, and try to create opportunities for ideas to be conceived in and outside of my normal thought style. (i don't know if that make sense or not...) then when i have a chance, i mix it all up at home and see how it comes out... and tweak as a go along...

same here...

especially when i'm really tired, the music just flows...

I just wing it...when recording Ill do a test run and add or remove the few that didnt feel right.

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Originally posted by idoru It's all about the build.

A day shy of two months later and I still agree.

I just pick up a track to start with and wing it from there. Doesn't always work very well, because I would often find that I'm running out of fitting tracks.

re: winging it from a random track

that will 'fly' when you're practicing


but i think you'll mostly get lackluster sets that way



i'm not saying to make a tracklist, but generally when I buy music I have it my head where I would play it in a set and I have a general desire to play my new music as well