Tracklist? Whats the vocal “my feelings for you” Is that MJ in his J5 days?
In all seriousness, no disrespect, but if it’s THAT much of a premeditated process to DJ for you, Traktor has a cruise control function. You could be at the bar drinking long islands! What happens when you have a couple back to back gigs the same week in a city someplace? Are the people at both gigs going to hear the exact same order with fx even put into the same places? Or do you have to hustle shit down in your home studio and come up with two tracklists with all these different things already set up in preparation for both gigs?
I mean, everybody has certain tracks they like to mix together. Sounds like you need to smoke a giant blunt before you open that dj program and loosen up a bit. hehehe
@ Owners1 no offense dude but if i caught you doing that at a gig i’ d have to slap you 
All good for a recorded mix tho. Peace
IMO this is what it’s all about for me. When that unexpected magic happens, I get just as excited as anybody on the floor could! There’s also alot to be said for hearing tracks you love on a great sound system. Takes the fun out of it completely if your playlist is picked out by a robot.
3-4 Carlsbergs and a puff do wonders 
Just listened to that mix sounds good I am like you very self critical you ant got anything to worry about m8 a worthy demo !! 
get on it !!!
Ive taken a lot from this thread, I have only just started to work on My first mix, Really im just playing tracks together and trying loops underneath other tracks. If I find something that works. I go to Text editor, open a fresh page, Name the title track, then listed below it. anything I have found that works with it. Eventually i should have a file with most tracks in my collection. As im only new to this, I dont know how I will eventually implement it.
@ xolunt tracks that go together is all well and good mate, but i think with a proper recorded mix you really need to think also about the whole vibe, feel etc of what you are trying to say in that 60 minutes or whatever. Hard to explain really. Have a listen to a few full mixes and some will stick in your head as fantastic because a lot of thought has gone into the “vibe” whereas a mix where just a whole bunch of random tracks have been thrown together won’t do it for ya, if you get my drift don’t mind my waffling lol
Make a little note of good blends for a track in the comments tag field of your audio files. DJTT’s blog has a couple of fantastic track organization tutorials in the archives which will give you some good ideas.
I know a lot of people who use their tags creatively to help them in the throes of a task-saturated/drunken DJ set. From obvious things like Mixed In Key sorting, to using the star rating system to annotate the track’s dancefloor energy level or groove intensity.
agreed that defeats the object of the demo for me, because you won’t be removing clangers when playing out 
thus why all mine are as they were mixed no editing.
Really?? It’s all part of being digital imo.
And how on earth is anyone going to know if you edited out a mix??
Sometimes i’ll change my mind about a couple of tracks on a mix so i’ll take advantage of the technology available to me. Or if I try something big and it goes a bit wrong and ruins the mix, rather than redo the whole mix from scratch i just edit in the new mixes. No biggie
I’ve done my time putting down mixes in one go (for about 10-15 years on cassettes) and so know what that’s all about.
I also would encourage newbies to try and do their mixes in one go as I think it is a good discipline - making all those tapes defo honed my beatmatching on vinyl.
But i’m an anal perfectionist when it come to putting out mixes (although i’ve mellowed a bit in the last few years).
When I play out, i’m always improvising and reading the crowd but if something doesn’t transition 100% perfectly it’s forgotten 10 secs after it happens with the phat tune that’s playing. On a mix it’s there forever.
It’s digital. If I write something i don’t like i cut and paste it out. Same with mixes. That’s what the technology is there for. 
all i meant was don’t call it a live mix when you’ve edited the shit out of it
I have already done this with my Collection, however I didnt tag other tracks that fit it, as IMO Its to much info to read in the TP Tracklist page. Instead an example of what I have taggd in Info might be:
HP 4 - BFV, Gorilla groove.
This Translates as : Proggresive House - Energy level 4/5 - Black Female Voice, Gorilla groove is a code waord for a type of track that has a particular vibe.
I use the energy rating - for overall energy, but my star rating is just a measure of how much i like the track.
Yep, I agree with you, the whole vibe thing is very important. I imagine the play book will just be a tool for jotting down ideas,
say I had one track, with another 10 sutiable tracks listed beneath it with certain footnotes, Instead of scrolling through my TP tracklist, I can just make a quick refrence, Pick a track i deem suitible to carry on with the Vibe and away i go…
how practicle this will prove, i have no idea, as I have never played live, and to be honest im really only just begging to really get into it.
i love to listen to mixes where i still can hear that it was a human that mixed it. like little mistakes only some would recognize.
I downloaded a mix off my soundcloud group today and i liked it even more because there were some less than perfect spots in it. granted it was a live rec from a full moon party at new years!
I agree with your point that’s why the technology is there, but in that respect I am still old fashioned i still mix like i would on 1210’s albeit with loops and fx and not using tt’s and i prefer to do an hour or longer without errors, mainly because if i was to ever play out again, then i would want to be 100% satisfied i could easily go for an hour or two without clangers,on top of that as you said I am seriously anal about bad transitions and bad beat grids! I have even had people comment that i should actually be a little bit easier on myself as my mixes are good lol, awful at taking praise too
I did the old TDK 180’s myself back in the day with the old tape deck switching over automatically so you could fill the whole thing, i was awful about errors then too lol.
admittedly my mixes aren’t to promote myself as it’s not something i am aiming for it’s more for people to appreciate the music i select and me to enjoy people listening to them on top of the fact I wanted to mix EDM again as i missed the feeling and hated buying mix cd’s!,hopefully that makes sense, don’t get me wrong if a gig came along then i would jump at the chance but if it doesn’t then that’s fine also.
but your right use what technology you have imho that’s just how i do things from a personal perspective.
The best thing for me is i listen to EDM a lot when i am driving to and from work, and i listen for my mistakes and rectify them by doing them a different way, it’s kinda like i teach myself new tricks new places to drop loops different fx by listening to my mixes over and over.
Oh yeah, that would be nonsense agreed! I would never edit a live mix and call it live. :eek:
To be honest, i love hearing live mixes too and I agree that the occasional ever so slight dropping beat does add a certain humaness to it too. I used to love old skool jungle mixes where the needle would jump and the mc would say something like “easy easy jumping needle… must be jeremy beadle”.
A recording from a live set or a demo or mix just for people to listen to are different ball games.
Anyway, i’m gonna listen to this dudes mix and let him know my thoughts!
Much love
for my first demo i just opened up my mixed in key and picked my favorite song at the moment as a starter. from there i worked my way down the mixed in key playlist to find other songs with compatible keys. some of the songs i knew fairly well, the others i just had a look at their waveforms. i use ableton, so i threw them into the clip view and warped them and mixed them together. i could have put the songs in session view but i didnt want to pull something that i couldnt do live.
some tips i learned here on the forum: usually you’ll be looking for an opening dj slot (1 hour slot) so keep that in mind. try to make it an hour long (though i doubt that they listen to the whole thing) and dont start off with a bloody beetroots track lol. try to create a progression =D. i started with some smooth nu disco to indie dance to electro. worked pretty well. dont go overboard with fx! its very easy to do, especially with ableton.
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