So I'm working with this other DJ right, and he doesn't play below 133 BPM at all, even deep house tracks (Disclosure's White Noise really does show the horrors of +10% pitch increase) and I jumped on cause it was my turn, and I mix in an R&B song at 104 because, you know, it needs to calm down. Then I start looking through my library of which track to drop next when he stops me and starts schooling me on how to DJ urban (Bearing in mind I have a Kontrol F1 loaded with a RnB mashup clips, and an extensive R&B library, and am a massive fan of R&B)
So, his theory goes like this, (and apparently this was taught to him by a pretty well respected R&B DJ) that whe nyou play a track, say 104 BPM, then all the tracks you should mix into it should be lower than 104 and sped up, basically that you NEVER slow down a track to beat match it. Apparently he worked with two other DJs who also verified this and used the same method.
Now, did I miss something, or do Technics and Pioneer make the pitch fader go both ways just to mess with us?
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