Multi-genre DJing?
So I’m incredibly new to the DJ scene, and I was wondering if there are any good ways to mix between genres of music that have very little in common, for instance minimal techno and tropical house? I’ve found a set of genres that really interest me and am dying to drop them at some gig opportunities I have, but everywhere I’ve gone has said that mixing two starkly different genres can be a disaster. Any thoughts?
it can be good and it can be bad. We cant teach you to read the crowd thats something you have to learn.
If you are going to go from playing deep dark techno techno to trop house, it might take like 4 or 5 songs to make that progression upwards, but it can be done.
But you are headed in the right direction, a multi genre set is the ONLY way to go. Keep the crowd involved and keep them guessing.
I personally stick to a sound rather then a genre, if it works it works… if i absolutely love a track, but it does not work, then i would keep it for personal consumption.
It’s kinda hard to play multiple genre, but yeah it can be really great if you do it right,
it’s all in the evolution of your set, you can’t switch as you want you need to apprehend your transition and your crowd
they are hardly starkly different. Both genres feature quantised 4/4 beats. This is basic stuff.
DJs have been blending techno and disco for decades now.
Agreed! Any genre can mix into another if the bpms are similar or half time.
I mix different genres all the time. Alternative Rock, Blues, Industrial, Electro, Electronica,..
It´s not a problem if you use harmonic mixing. I don´t mind bpm changes that much.
This is a great advise it’s not so much genres as it’s the sound… I drop breaks lots in my prog and trance sets it makes mixing more challenging and fun… It’s not uncommon for me to say for instance go from deep house and prog house into breaks into prog trance and then into some real epic/uplifting trance and then back down to prog and deep to finish off…
The hardest part is making sure your track selection all create the overall sound and journey your after
Yes this is the key.
Bingo.
Most of my music is labeled by feel & sound instead of genre.
I posted this guy in another thread (no, I don’t know the guy) but this performance totally inspired me to mix different genres.
An individual song can have different sections that have different feels or could be be categorized as different genres if you looked at them as not being a part of the same song.. so I think it makes a lot of sense if you think about it that way…
Lets say section one is really slow… and then section 2 is really fast… putting them together is going to make section 1 seem slower.. because the context of our perception is something faster.. and the slower section will make the faster section seem a lot faster.
If you look at painting.. if you want to make a shadow you often don’t add black but add the compliment…
Very good point… 
i could be wrong but i don’t think his headphones are plugged in….. lol
He specifically says, my headphones are not pkugged in, they are just covering up my hairy chest.
Yeah he plays both kinds of music, EDM and Pop House lols. How on earth is this considered open format?
I think he averages about one knob turn per every 25 touches. Hes launching a bunch of quantised clips in Live, while pretending its a lot more involved and difficult.
Without all the undeserved swagger, the video might be fun.