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IMO Paul van Dyk plays alot of songs that have a soild bass beat thus its just a matter of matching the beats and limits the amount of trainwrecks from occuring. Record A plays .. Boom...Boom...Boom.. whereas Record B plays .Boom...Boom.. Boom as well. Paul's style imo is one of the more easier stlyes to "flow" with. Even if he fucks up its not an " annyoing" fuck up since its just soild base beats moving off." PVD's Style" recently has been typified by his "hard trance" stlye i.e. simple hard beats for intro's and outros and brief light melodies in the middle.
Tiesto and Armin are more pure Trance Dj's Their songs they play have differing base lines and melodies. Thus it more difficult IMO not only to match base lines but also meleodies. The Flow of thier sets becomes more apperent because of the changes in base lines and meleodies. Thus when they fuck up it harsh on the ears because you have clashing meleodies and baselines.
Sasha, DeepDish, Warren, etc. play prog. and house . As a result these records are desigend for long transitions and record over play (i.e two records played o top of each other).The minimal sounds and soild base lines invite this type off play.Simialr affect as PVD but with different sounding music. The slower BPM of this genre also makes a a good dj quickly and unnoticably fix minor errors before they become trainwrecks. Also when you spin prog. and house IMO more emphasis is placed in the technical aspect of spinning since without it prog. and house can be quite boring; as a prog. As a prog DJ you need to constanly add new elements and sounds from other tracks to spice up a quite lame track without.Thus more involment is needed when you DJ as a prog./house DJ. Just look when you seen your favorite prog. or house DJ plays live vs. your fav. trance dj. On the contrary, IMO, trance never has stressed technical skills as much but more track selection and flow( i.e. armin , tiesto, and ppvd are know for the sound they push not their mixing ability as is say Sasha). Thus two cultures and skill sets occur between these two areas.
To spot a trainwreck all you need to do is listen to the music and dance. Once you stop dancing or no longer feel like you can move to the beat or something sounds weird than more likely a trainwreck is happening or is about to happen.
Examples of trainwrecks can be off beats..which produce an obvious double beat which sounds like a train moving over tracks ..its not dancable and sounds sh!tty. Good djs hide when they do this by a) quickly cut out of the transition (.i.e. backspins, or quick cuts) or they kill the base eq from one of the records to minimize the fuck up so the casual listener can not tell.
I also consider trainwrecks to happen when clashing melodies occur. i.e. the transition just sounds weird. Instead it should sound like the sound hasnt stopped and a subtle change has occured in the music. this is by far the worst and most noticable mistake to happen. Tiesto seems to this a bit becuase I think he is just throwing records on rather than thinking about what will harmonically mix well.
Flow means that the entire set makes sense..i.e. It tells a story. One song compliments the next. This imo is what makes a DJ. Otherwise WTF get a cd player at a club. I think this is a CONCEPT foreign to DJ who soely tyry to p;ay for the corwd or for wrong reasons since they are just throwing one track to the next. This is a telling sign of a sh!t dj beciase everyone can buy the same tracks but it s the ordering the timing that make it key. Flow doesnt mean ...Ill play shit tunes until everyone is bored and annoyed and then Ill drop some anthem. I have found teisto and armin sometimes do this.
Excellent example of good flow are: Sasha, Markus Schultz,Ronski Speed,Deep Dish,Digweed,Armin ( 85% of the time atleast). Those PVD lovers check PVD amenisa set (9-13-03) good flow.
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