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Originally posted by chewy dragee why did it post twice?

I deleted the second entry for you.

Sometimes when you click post and it takes a while a person (not blaming you) clicks post again and the post is actually posted twice. Sometimes it's just sent through twice by accident.

Happens every now and again..

it has happened alot lately.

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Originally posted by Senator Clay Davis it has happened alot lately.

It's easy to delete a post though so just takes a little more effort.

Dunno why it's happened a lot lately though. Odd.

interesting thread..

this is something I havn't really paid that much attention to, but have noticed once in a while when good DJ's mix...

one time I could've sworn (well i was a bit drunk too) that a famous dj I was watching.. don't even remember who it was.. didn't have a break until maybe 30 minutes after his set started..but during those 30 mins the crowd was moving, not going crazy, but moving..

I guess when you're controlling them by moving, when you whip out that break that's when they'll go crazy..

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but yeah, i'm also curious to know a few techniques as to keep the beat going. Because like thoughtcrime mentioned, most songs do have breaks- well at-least the type of stuff I like to play (pleasurekraftish/format: b type stuff) ..
if people are saying that a break every 3-4 songs is good, that'd be kinda hard because i'd say a good 90% of my songs have a decent sized build up in them.. of course, some shorter than others - but not many are 'very' short or buildup-less.

do you just mix in another song before the build-up comes in? or look through your songs and see which ones don't have a buildup? both? cause I think it'd be pretty hard for me to find songs in the genre I like that don't have some sort of buildup..

This is something I spend quite a lot of time tracking down, i.e. tracks to start off sets with, I like to leave the majority of break downs for the second half of my set as a general rule.

One thing to set straight though is that there are different types of breakdowns, there are those that style have rythmic components in them and these do less damage on the dancefloor energy than a track that actually has a pause.

You also have the option of doing your own edits on tracks. Although I tend to steer clear of bigger tracks for this and focus more on the lesser known tracks simply to avoid messing with the expectations of the clubbers.

I also find that techno tracks that cross the boundries of other genres closer to what I play are very good for this.

Cheers
Nem

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Originally posted by utdarsenal do you just mix in another song before the build-up comes in? or look through your songs and see which ones don't have a buildup? both? cause I think it'd be pretty hard for me to find songs in the genre I like that don't have some sort of buildup..

i'm not an authority at all of this kind of mixing but i generally play the first minutes of the track during the breakdown of the "A" track, usually the breakdown is a part without kick and bass and just a few percussions so the mix doesn't sound muddy and at the same time as the "B" track progress is like a build up, then sometimes i forget about the A track and keep B playing to introduce C swiftly before the B breakdown or i use the hot cues to play A again during the build up/drop.... this is just being creative and knowing your tracks to see what you can do with them and what you can't.

Generally the songs that have a build up you can add the bassline of another track during the breakdown to keep people moving but you'll have to respect that build up and let it drop, otherwise people would feel that it builds and suddenly all the energy acquired is gone which is most probably not what you are looking for.