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Alright then, finally feeling motivated to type this out - might get a bit wordy or "preachy", but I figure with this being your first mix I'd really like to see if I can toss you some pretty specific advice that I think might help you out.
As many have already pointed out, this is a pretty good effort for a first mix, and considering you're working with a mouse and a keyboard I'll give you even more points 
That being said, the thing I guess I'd say to start focusing on is how your tunes are phrased. The best advice I have ever been given as a DJ is to work on the phrasing of mixes more than anything else, because when you can figure out how many beats/seconds/phrases you have until X happens, you can really avoid the longer drawn out mixes. This is something that to this day I feel like I have a lot of work to do on.
Programming is important as well, and that's obviously something a few people have pointed out already, so I'm just going to say that IMO, programming comes along with starting to know your tracks, and it just gets more and more natural as you practice and play more.
Now, as for advice - I basically have two things I'd say could really help, though some may disagree with at least one of them.
First, listen to your tracks, all the time. Make a playlist, throw it on, and do this as often as possible. It may seem very, very obvious advice, but honestly, the times when I fall off as a DJ are when I don't know what the fuck it is I'm playing. Like anything else, good study habits will breed sound DJ'ing, and also like anything else, if you stop doing this for an extended period of time you can get rusty.
Second, and I don't know if this will sound stupid or not, but maybe try to do an arrange view mix sometime, even if just for yourself. In doing this, you're going to learn very, very quickly how your tracks are phrased, you'll also be able to visualize what some of the more clever mixes you can come up with look like. Sometimes it's just seeing something from a wildly different perspective that makes our understanding of it more complete, and you might find that what you have to do on a mixer/MIDI controller in the future makes more sense when you have a visual aid attached to it.
Your taste is music is pretty darn good, and for a first mix that has some ups and downs with regard to flow, the tracks do all fit together nicely as a total package, so you're further along already than lots of folks.
Now just keep it up. 
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