Cutting when playing Techno

[MrAybar]

Use the echo freeze efx on the track you cut just before blending the new one!!!! works like a charm!!!!!!!!

[LanceBlaise]

I never over think anything while dj'ing. For me being too technical and trying to plan out stuff just never is any fun. I never plan music or anything like that... I just wil try shit while I am djing and sorta hope it doesn't sound like shit, and usually I am ok.

The only time I ever really do anything that is cutting something is when I am playing at 127 or above, and that really would depend on the progression of my sets, being as I tend to really stay under 126 nowadays (i only play techno btw)... its not something I consciously do, but if I did do it, I would generally have one track playing, and one cued and playing in my headphones. I cut the bass on the main track playing and then slam the cued track in with all the levels on the cued track zeroed out, and let that go for like 4 or 8 bars, then cut the cued track out and slam the bass back in on the main track... Just mess with shit like that till it comes natural and you don't need to think about it at all. Then you will be able to just throw effects on top of the main track and do a ton of other shit.

Hopefully that will give you a starting point. Just experiment till you can do it and don't need to think about it...