Gig advice please!

I have a gig for about 50-75 13-year-olds.I have been getting music from the top 40's but not sure how to mix that stuff (well). I mainly mix house/electro... are there techniques similar to mixing electro and house that I can use in music for this gig? ALso where can I find some more stuff that 13-year-olds will like (while keeping the parents happy *no dubstep or at least no heavy dubstep*) Also what about mashups and I need to keep the music clean, no explicits.

Here are some samples of my mixing.

Dirty Dutch Mixing


House Mixing


Electro/Progressive Mixing



THANKS FOR THE HELP!

stuff like this lol . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfC4FWwh42w

I think you need to join a digital record pool they have a lot of clean mashups of popular songs. It will cost you like around $20 for a month's subscription but you can cancel after you get what you need for the party before the month is up.

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Originally Posted by djkevind

I think you need to join a digital record pool they have a lot of clean mashups of popular songs. It will cost you like around $20 for a month's subscription but you can cancel after you get what you need for the party before the month is up.

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What exactly do you mean/ where can I find these? Links please
Thanks for the help!

http://digitaldjpool.com/ Only $11 per month.

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Originally Posted by Pow3rs

I have a gig for about 50-75 13-year-olds.I have been getting music from the top 40's but not sure how to mix that stuff (well). I mainly mix house/electro... are there techniques similar to mixing electro and house that I can use in music for this gig? ALso where can I find some more stuff that 13-year-olds will like (while keeping the parents happy *no dubstep or at least no heavy dubstep*) Also what about mashups and I need to keep the music clean, no explicits.

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First, be warned that the musical taste of pre-teens & teenagers has the shelf life of a banana....so anything you buy now will get you a roomful of rolling eyes in 6 months.

http://radio.disney.go.com/

Radio Disney has a Top 30 playlist that will give you some idea of music that is still current enough not to get an eye roll from the kids. Most (all?) of this music will drill a hole in your head....it is all heavily engineered pop music with a drum machine - so it is dirt simple to mix.

Mashups will be OK to "sprinkle" into the mix...but the kids will know the original versions and IME prefer that to any remix or mashups.

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Originally Posted by djkevind

http://digitaldjpool.com/ Only $11 per month.

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Cool thanks