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Originally posted by emc^2 Hey, I'm putting together a little mix to try my hand at Ableton and just get some spring choons together. What are your thoughts on using old choons alongside with new ones?

Personally, I really don't care if a DJ plays old tracks or new, unreleased tracks. As long as its good, I really don't give a shit how old a tune is Sometimes you can even have a blast integrating old tracks into a set, figuring out where in the set to drop them and how to mix them in and out, etc.

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Originally posted by emc^2 I also wanted to incorporate Faithless "God is a DJ" or "Long way home" and Black 8 - The Silence.

If you can find a coherent place in your set to drop them, then by all means do so. Like I said above, you might have a blast, specially if you're doing a live gig

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I agree with everyone else. There's no rules. Just have fun Djing, don't stress about it too much. You will see that at the end it will pay off.

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Originally posted by Ugly Duckling THERE ARE NO RULEZ TO DJING you can do whatever you want with ableton. you can do tricks maybe when it gets to the break have it spead down to 60BPMS and then back up to the normal speed you can do anything. heck you can take you favorite tracks and have them on one channel and then have loops from the same song playing through a diffrent channel. you can do so much with it it makes normal djs look rather foolish. there are no rules to mixing once again

THIS. Do whatever gets you going, do whatever gets the crowd going. It's all about your personal style. I try to never stay at the same BPM and the same genre. Getting into playing older tunes now, there's a lot of good stuff out there that's way more danceable than most of today's stuff.

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Only thing to watch out for is that sometimes older tracks were mastered at a lower volume so be prepared to up the gain and maybe a little bass.

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Im actually working on a mix right now. Out of all the tracks I have it took me 3 days to find tracks that worked with a good flow. Wanted to put a lot more new tracks in then I did, but had no choice, older ones were they only ones that seemed to fit with what I wanted. Plus, I always try to mix up older tracks a lot of people may have missed out on with the newest stuff.

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I did a mix a while ago where I was all over the place like this, I went from stuff like Lamb into Imogen Heap and Frou Frou and Jeff Beck, then back into an old Sia remix then Headstrong before going off into Trentemoller and then on and into Lange, Mike Shiver and Above and Beyond stuff. It sounded good (to me at least), but it wasn't really trance and it wasn't all danceable. Heaps of the transitions were quite short, alot of them didn't involve overlapping the beats at all, but they were all in key.

Thats the thing, I find that when working in a more chillout type groove, where I'm not relying on keeping the vibe at maximum intensity all the way through, then its fine to warm up with some really chilled stuff and not do long transitions. But if I'm spinning all trance you have to watch the BPMs to make sure that at least some of the transitions are reasonably long, because its sort of part of the appeal of the genre (to me at least).

Either way, if your splicing in all sorts of crazy genres, your looking at keeping your hand on the BPM the whole time and you'll have to pick points where you can jump in increments of 5 bpm without it being jarring, and also have set planned where you have songs which are in logical progression but also have the right BPM to transition into a song which might be 3 or 4 songs ahead.

I know very little about DJing by the way, I don't do it that often, but I had to mix this set for a friends party the other week and got a lot of practise with this sort of idea. That said, take everything I say with a grain of salt

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