First off I’d like to say that by no means am I a DJ, just someone who plops on the phones and listens while I’m letting the cash pile for some proper tables. Only thing that I can do right now really that I know of to “advance” this career is to keep on stockpiling songs in various Notepad folders that I can dig through later to pull out the good stuff.
I dig Hip-Hop and House a lot, two of my favorite genres for sure and I DEFINITELY plan on mixing the two together. My problem is, I don’t see how I can go from Flylo to say Will Sparks or some shit without it all going to hell. Producers like Flylo, or at least Hip-Hop in general, do not follow that same pattern that dance music does.
So tell me guys, is this possible? Could I blend some Hiero with Hardwell?
that is quite hard since hip hop is in the 75-100 bpm range and house is between 115-135 bpm.
there are several threads in the forums that talk about transitioning different bpms. make sure to use the search function.
Damn the one thing that I tell people on boards that I frequent is to use the search and I just broke my own rule! But I’ll look around, see what I can find. If I can’t find a thing bro I hope you know that I will find you.
I’ve seen it done. Wolfgang Gartner was going hard with his electro stuff and then out of nowhere…BOOM!! “Hypnotize” by Biggie comes on and the place went insane!!! He basically looped a part of the two songs and starting and slowed down to the hip hop tempo and them dropped it perfectly…
Here is him at Electric Zoo last year coming out of “Hypnotize”…I was in that crowd and it was AWESOME!
I’ve got friends who do this by taking an “accapella” of a hiphop song and mix it with a house, techno or electro track using Abelton and mix it down. Essentially making their own mashup/re-edit.
Wolfgang Gartner isn’t actually mixing in Hypnotize live in that video, that’s a pre-made track with the transition in already.
Whilst it’s perfectly possible to do such things live, pre-made transitions can often be pretty dope.
When Harlem Shake was ‘a thing’, I mostly played the TJR mix, which starts at 128, goes to 140, then back to 128. That gave me the option to carry on mixing at house tempo afterwards, or switch up to 140 whilst that section was playing.
Some transition tracks are rubbish, you’d be better off doing it live, but there are a lot of gems out there. Check out places like Crooklyn Clan for good examples.
cut on the 1, echo freeze, find a trap remix then mix in the original song during the break or at an appropriate time. thats a few ways to do it. I’m not gonna give away all my secrets lol have fun man
Look up mixes done my “open format” DJ’s. Most popular in recent times was DJ AM. Also check out the Skam Artists they have a line up of some very talented open format DJ’s. Mr. Mauricio, Camilo, Joe Maz, etc. You can jump around genres without having to do many tricks. Echo out works — but it gets old fast, you can also work on faster transitions and work up and down BPM ranges.
I live in Miami, and most big clubs that play “open format” it’s hip hop, reggae/ton, main stream dance tracks, and progressive big room anthems. In a very creative flow, not cheesy echo out/delay freeze all night.
This dude moving thru all sorts of genres new and old tracks and BPM ranges. Effortless going thru BPM ranges and the crowd is just along for the ride.
Why was AM so popular? I’m not trying to look down upon his skill or anything, just blatant curiosity. My parents both know a lot about him and only my mom was really into the scene
He was the Dj’s Dj, so when fellow musicians/dj’s would talk him up it built his credit up (from reputable sources). That’s my opinion atleast…and he found some pretty creative mixes that just worked, he didn’t need to doctor up and edit the tracks to make them work like many dj’s do now (not hating on the new open format stuff, but he basically started that whole scene).
