I usually just mix Drum & Bass but the scene isn’t that big, especially where I live so I’ve decided to get into other genres. The hardest thing is finding music and learning the ‘genre scene’, for example I know the dnb scene very well and I hear about new releases all the time, whereas with house music I wouldn’t know where to start.
I do have a large music collection so I want to do a cross-genre ‘megamix’ to send to promoters/show my talents.
I was thinking of having an hour long mix and 15 minute sections for each genre.
I don’t know how to order the genres though, I was thinking:
house/electro >> trance >> dubstep >> dnb
Although dubstep sounds very similar to some electro house, so maybe I should start off with trance?
Has anyone done anything like this before? I think I’ll get a lot more gigs if I can play different types of music and not just drum & bass.
Thanks
Basically the same way you search for any new music. find a house song you like, look at the artists other releases, labels stuff, recommended purchases, etc… before you know it you’ll have more than enough for your mega mix.
If you have a mac, beatler is great. I started using it literally the day before Photojojo’s article on the blog and it’s brilliant for checking out new music.
just search around and soon enoygh a tune will jump up at ya, and you will go YEAH THATS A TUNE, then leap frog from that tune just like photo said via artist/labels/remixer etc
there are many really good house tunes to be found on beatport, i find its on average every montn that some good tunes pop up, but ya gotta keep an eye on it to see when the pop up, im very new to beatport myself but the one tune that jumped up at me and made me think “this beatport thing is alright” was
Format:B - Gospel (Super Flu’s Antichrist Remix)
each to his own, different stokes for different folks and all that…
i wish you look in your search
there’s two ways i bounce around from genre to genre:
Easy Way: transition from one genre with the closest bpm as the next genre.
i.e. electro (130bpm) → dubstep (140bpm)
hiphop (80bpm) → drum&bass (160bpm) 80 x 2 = 160
Tricky Way: transition from one genre that has a bpm divisible or multiple of the next genre by 1.5bpm
i.e. dubstep (141bpm) → hiphop (94bpm) 141 / 1.5 = 94
hiphop (90bpm) → breaks/electro (135bpm) 90 x 1.5 = 135
the reason this is tricky because you can’t just do a traditional factory blend because you’re working with triplets - so you have to use looping and fx such as delay and beatmasher to make it work.
