I have a gig for about 50-75 13-year-olds.I have been getting music from the top 40’s but not sure how to mix that stuff (well). I mainly mix house/electro… are there techniques similar to mixing electro and house that I can use in music for this gig? ALso where can I find some more stuff that 13-year-olds will like (while keeping the parents happy no dubstep or at least no heavy dubstep) Also what about mashups and I need to keep the music clean, no explicits.
I think you need to join a digital record pool they have a lot of clean mashups of popular songs. It will cost you like around $20 for a month’s subscription but you can cancel after you get what you need for the party before the month is up.
First, be warned that the musical taste of pre-teens & teenagers has the shelf life of a banana…so anything you buy now will get you a roomful of rolling eyes in 6 months.
Radio Disney has a Top 30 playlist that will give you some idea of music that is still current enough not to get an eye roll from the kids. Most (all?) of this music will drill a hole in your head…it is all heavily engineered pop music with a drum machine - so it is dirt simple to mix.
Mashups will be OK to “sprinkle” into the mix…but the kids will know the original versions and IME prefer that to any remix or mashups.
