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| quote: | Originally posted by DJ-Fuq
Thats because almost all normal trance isnt suitable for that shit. Its far too melodic, and less emphasis is given to percussion, so its hard to be creative and fuck about a lot with it. Thats why i prefer mixing techno/hard house/tech trance etc. |
Not really, not even those 32-bar melody tunes (which are not that bad when dropped every now and then, instead of being played one after another). Although I'm a programmer rather than a DJ...
1) Build-ups: This gives you a lot of opportunity to play another music in the background and fill the "gap". Not to mention that (i don't know whether this is possible when you're playing live) but you could also play the build-up along with the final beats of the previous tune: this way, you don't have empty beats nor straight melody, but a combo of both (which makes the transition even smoother).
2) Harmony: Tunes with simpler harmonies fit better when played on top of each other (like Lucid's Out there with Robert Miles' Children) but when you have a music which is far too melodic, there's no problem if you play some tribal techno to fill build-ups or to strenghten the beat. If you have a sampler, or you can loop samples using something else, that's even better... a thing I like to do is to loop a random bar of an epic tune and develop it into a transition to another tune (usually not trance).
3) Crossing genres: Epic trance fits nicely together with nrg, hard house, tribal techno/trance, acid techno/trance... and if you have problems with the bpms, you can use the build-ups for this purpose 
I could go on and on with it 
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