I stick to around 2 mins on average but it depends on if the crowd are feeling the song or not but remember you can use different effects on a track to really boost another, so don't be afraid to experiment.
Joe.
I stick to around 2 mins on average but it depends on if the crowd are feeling the song or not but remember you can use different effects on a track to really boost another, so don't be afraid to experiment.
Joe.
if you do just short transitions you will sound like an ipod shuffle.
if you do just long transitions you will sound like a jukebox.
change it up. do a good measure of short transitions, medium transitions, long transitions on all different measures of a song.
play songs for just 10 seconds, play some for their full length.
that's where you can get really creative.
Pretty much this. There are songs that work best when slammed in, there are those that have nice long intros that can be woven into another song. There are no rules. I would just say if you want to keep the energy up don't just play an entire song, loop the last 2 bars and mix into the intro of the next. Or do. If that's what's best.
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Playing 4 minutes of a loopy minimal techno track is unlikely to go over well, whereas playing 4 minutes of a progressive psy track is... how you play progressive psy. I know that I mix much more quickly when playing techno than when playing deep house.. because there's less in the music, I have to be more active "in the mix" ...
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True if you are playing trance or something like that, you probably are letting that track to go for about 5-6 mins. Trance tracks are long and have build ups that take forever. Cutting it short or cutting out the bang can really ruin some trance tracks.
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I play top 40's/Electro/Dirty Dutch so anywhere from 30 seconds to essentially the entire song. There just aren't very good - or there are very predefined - mix points in a lot of these songs. I find myself swapping drops during dutch house tracks a lot. Sometimes I'll just string drops together. Electro is pretty much the same thing. It's very frenetic mixing with less blending and more cutting from track to track. Finding interesting and new ways to mix is actually one of the more fun parts of what many would consider shitty genres to DJ.
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