okay now we all know for digital djs it's extremly easy to transition electronic dance music because one genre is usually at the same speed and the song structures are very simple and easy to overlook.
what i (and most djs i heard) totally suck at is mixing non-EDM type of music like rock, reggae or hiphop as soon as the bpm-rates differ more than a few bpm. i cannot ride the pitch fader and can't even beatmatch since i really started out with virtual dj and then traktor pro and never really used an analog mixer.
what is even tougher then that are good transitions between two genres of totally different speed. i know its somewhat easy to mix hiphop with dnb for example (2x the speed), but how do you achive a good transition between a 90bpm reggae tune to some 135bpm breakbeat-ragga tune?
i read alot of good advices in the "how to transition rock songs" track, but it's really not that easy to learn by just reading. so what i would like from you guys is either a link to one of your mixes with descriptions on how you achived the transitions (as detailed as possible) or a video of traktor and/or your controller while youre mixing.
also i would be thankful for any good advice you can give me. examples welcome!
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