Transition from 130 bpm (EDM) to 60-80 bpm (hip hop)...how do YOU do it?

[photojojo]

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[GI Trackt]

Great responses, thank you so much.

Frank, thanks for writing in depth and sharing your knowledge. Youda youda best :-)

[manchild]

And that whole 130-65 bpm just sounds...really bad... not to hate, but 65 bpm is SERIOUSLY slow. I don't even know any hip hop track I'd want to dance and party to that is slower than 80 bpm and even that is stretching the lower boundary of tempos for a party/club event(black and yellow comes to mind). I like to stay in the 95-101 bpm range for hip hop party music.

there are a lot of hip hop tracks that people like to dance that are around the 68 - 77 range.
I just made this to prove my point that it doesn't have to sound terrible (not saying it's the greatest either haha). I let the 130bpm track run for min so you get somewhat used to the tempo before transition. When I dj, I jump around to different BPM's all the time, but I'm sure if you didnt and stayed at a certain BPM range for awhile you get sensitive to any tempo change and it could sound weird. Same goes for blending...if you're blending all the time any drop,cut,slam, etc.. sounds bad cause it's out of character from your mix.

BTW the hip-hop track is mixed in at 65 BPM



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[TwistedPanda]

I do this constantly in my sets. Most of the hip hop I spin that people dance to is around mid-80s to 90s. Sometimes in the 70s for tracks like How Low and Make it Rain. I've got some transitions that I picked up from crooklynclan.net that I use and I actually made one myself that blends pieces of the Day N Nite Crookers Remix and transitions to Make it Rain.

It's yours for free.

[mike_o]

here's another trick but it takes the right record to do it.

1. loop a deep bass/sub bass section of the track thats playing, preferably a bassline only segment.

2.when its just the bass only, start to lower the tempo of the playing track down to where you want it to be so it will fit with the next incoming track.

3. then cut the new track in hard and let it slam.

the bass only loop section of the first record will come down in pitch as you slow it down, making the bass feel stronger/deeper as you go.

the feeling of the bass getting deeper hides the tempo drop, even though your slowing down it feels like its getting stonger and harder, not slower and softer.

when you reach the tempo you want, make the new slower record jump in real hard, preferably with a big kik at the start that will slam through the outgoing sub bass from the first record.

[lethal_pizzle]

this again

[Mi.Lo]

for very slow tempos (as u said, 65bpm) u can mix doubling the grid of the slowest track.
If that's not possible (70+ bpm it's too much), just use the echo freeze. Works fine.

[Sherlock Ohms]

this again

How helpful

Oh and for whoever said it - anyone playing Fatman fucking scoop would get a thorough piss bottling from me.

Yrs

Sherlock

[lethal_pizzle]

@Sherlock - although I quite frankly couldn't be arsed to go back and link to the identical historical threads I thought it pertinent to bring the OPs attention to the fact they are there as an additional resource - in case they subsequently find out where the search button is

@mike_o - good stuff

@OP - I mix quite a few genres and out of 12000 tracks only a few are 65bpm - that is pretty sloooooow. Almost all of my hip hop and related genres are 80-100. Mind you, I usually just move up through the tempos gradually throughout the night rather than ping-ponging up and down

[JesC]

i cant teach you how to do it.

1st. make sure keylock is on!
2. Deck A Drop to 65 bpms Deck B to 130 bpm
3. Mix during the chorus and echo out after its done
4. Rinse and Repeat