I tend to enjoy others tracks that are about 4 - 5 minutes long. I try and keep my shorter than 5 mins but it's difficult what with dj in and outros.

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my longest was 13mins, released on joof. i recently found out the perfect length and tempo though. 8 minutes at 128bpm. that allows every 32bar section to be one minute long which is perfect for setting up a standard track setup: intro, part1, part2, part3, part1, part2, part3, outro; each 32bars (one minute) long resulting in a 8 minute track. im gonna do 10 tracks like this, resulting in a 80 minute album. for radio edits you can skip the repeated parts and shorten the intro and outro with 50% allowing a radio edit to be 4 minutes long. perfect hu?

Last edited by Zak McKracken on Nov-01-2010 at 14:11

mmm i'd say my fetish bpm is 136 , that 128 idea is cool but a house track of 8 minutes is very boring imo. If i like one thing of house music is that you can play a lot of tracks in a set, with trance you've usually a breakdown that kills the flow and it's difficult to skip it and get back to the interesting part.

i dont see any problem with 8min house tracks really. infact most is exactly that (because they really are in 128 lol, i guess im not the only one figuring out its the perfect length and tempo). they can be mixed rather fast anyway as they usually are very static and mostly about a groove only.

Longest track was my house/trance mashup that sits at 6:35.

The lower energy trancy stuff I typically do around 5-6 mins, while the higher energy stuff sits around 4:20. (I'm a stoner what can I say)

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Originally posted by Kenny Rogers my longest was 13mins, released on joof. i recently found out the perfect length and tempo though. 8 minutes at 128bpm. that allows every 32bar section to be one minute long which is perfect for setting up a standard track setup: intro, part1, part2, part3, part1, part2, part3, outro; each 32bars (one minute) long resulting in a 8 minute track. im gonna do 10 tracks like this, resulting in a 80 minute album. for radio edits you can skip the repeated parts and shorten the intro and outro with 50% allowing a radio edit to be 4 minutes long. perfect hu?

Hahaha. Nice.

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