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Originally posted by nefardec Well I thought this mix was fabulous. For a first techno mix it's really impressive. It's groovy, funk, deep, proper techno. It's the soundtrack to a great techno night out. Nice work. My only suggestions would be be firstly to be careful with the phrasing of your transitions - a couple of the transitions were an eighth note out of phase. It didn't sound bad because it's techno, but it can disrupt mess up the groove. I think mixing out of phase like that only works when the tracks work on both the upbeat and downbeat, and it can cause a really great mindfuck effect, but it needs to sound deliberate. Secondly, the intro track was good, but I thought the track after was a bit too hard and dark and late night for the beginning of the mix. Overall it had a really nice flow though, not much to speak of in the way of narrative progression, but it was just straight up brutal techno, so it was good. Thanks for sharing.

Yeah, I had an issue with phrasing with the last one I tried to make. I was told to use the 32-measure rule as a guideline. I'm just going to need more practice to figure this one out.

Thanks for listening!

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Originally posted by shortyspice Yeah, I had an issue with phrasing with the last one I tried to make. I was told to use the 32-measure rule as a guideline. I'm just going to need more practice to figure this one out. Thanks for listening!

well any multiple of 8 bars really. 32 bars is a long time. that's 1 minute at 128 BPM.

The issue was more that the beats were aligned 1/8th note off from one another - so the downbeat of one track was coinciding with the upbeat of the other.