The EDM Key library for harmonic mixing

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The EDM Key library for harmonic mixing

Hey guys,
I’ve just started to sort all my tunes based on Key to quickly see which tunes could potentially go side by side without sounding like the avarage american Idol audition. I’m updating this list weekly and I’ll keep on updating this post. Use it if you’d like. There may be some single mistakes but all in all its very accurate!

Like i said, I have only just begun doing this, and haven’t really had time to finish, so the list is pretty meager as of now. Feel free to post your own libraries if you have any!

Most songs are around 126-129 BPM

I’ve learned all the music theory words and stuff in Swedish, going to try to explain this in english though.

How to use it:

The song in each section are in the same key, they will be able to blend into each other harmonically.
Note that there are always exceptions to this, and some tracks have melodies that clash into the incoming tracks melody, odd kicks and whatnot.

Tracks in each section can also be mixed with tracks from the section above and the section below, because they are in parallel scales. There might be clashing notes here and there but in general it works and sounds…harmonical.

Again, these are only guidelines, there’s no guarantee that a song in the same key will sound good with another one from the same key.

Am

Right Here, Right Now (Mixin Marc) - Fatboy Slim
Bad Romance vs. Viva La vida (Djs from Mars Mashup) - coldplay vs. Lady Gaga
Wait for me (Laiback Luke Remix) - Moby
One Nation Army (Jerry Rekonius Mix) - Swedish house mafia vs. The white stripes
Watch Out (Dirty South Remix) - Ferry Corsten

Em

With you forever (dirty south remix) - Pnau

Bm

Can’t Sleep (Ali Payami remix) - Adrian Lux
Teenage Crime (Original Mix) - Adrian Lux
Jaded (Original Mix) - Deadmau5
El Toro - Leventina

F#m

Soma - Deadmau5
Commander (Sidney Samson Remix) - Kelly Rowland, David Guetta
Day ‘n’ nite (Crookers Remix) - Kid Cudi
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Deadmau5 & Glenn Morrison Remix) - Daft punk
Ma Ma Se (Aqua Diva Club Mix)

C#m

Dynamik - Michael Woods
Use Somebody (Eric Prydz Remix) - Kings of Leon
Warp 1.9 (Feat. Steve Aoki) - The Bloody Beetroots

G#m

Strobe - Deadmau5
Praise You (Fedde Le Grand Remix) - Fatboy Slim
Weapon Of Choice (Lazy Rich Remix) - Fatboy Slim
Some Chords - Deadmau5
Togheter (Joker & kyamran SIlence 2010 Remix) - Axwell (Not really sure about this one)
The World Is Yours - Sidney Samson

D#m/Ebm

Dancing On My Own (Michael woods remix) - Robyn

Bbm

Handguns (Dada Life Remix) - Alex Gopher
Bombs over Baghdad (Dj Elipsis mashup) - Outkast vs. Deadmau5
8001 - Moguai
Mitsubitchi (original Mix) - The Subs (crazy scales and shit so do not rely on this one)

Fm

Oyster (Moguai’s Lyve at Brixton Re-Edit) - Moguai
Club Kid (original Mix) - Adrian Lux
Flex, rex, Mansion (Original Mix) - Moguai
Telephone (Crookers Vocal Mix) - Lady gaga vs. beyoncé
Machines can do the work (Ado done most the work Mix) - fatboy slim vs. Herve
Kiss My Trance - The Subs

Cm

Ghosts’n’stuff - Deadmau5
Pon De Floor - Major Lazer
Bruk Out - Major Lazer (121 BPM)
It Began In Africa (Mehrbod Chris Garcia Darren Correa Bootleg) - The Chemical Brothers
Rockafeller Skank (Original Mix) (Koen Groeneveld Remix) - Fatboy Slim
Rockafeller Skank (Riva Starr Snatch Remix) - Fatboy Slim
Solaris (avicii greets Joia Mix) - Roman Salzger
Clockwork (Robbie rivera juicy Ibiza remix) - Deadmau5
Dansa Med Vapen (The Subs Remix) - Maskinen
Panorama (Original Mix) - Sidney Samson
Malo (Adrian Lux & Flores Remix) - Avicii

Gm

FREAKS (Tocadisco Comandeur remix) - Moguai and Tocadisco
Stay Planetary - Moguai
Monorail (Niklas Gustavsson Remix) - Sebastian Gnewkow
Our Feeling (Khoma Remix) - D.E.R. And Julius Beat
Sofi Needs A Ladder - Deadmau5
Painted Faces (Avicii Remix) - Paul Thomas
F this Club - Matteo DiMarr

Dm

Word Problems - Deadmau5
Put Your Hands Up For Detroit - Fedde Le Grand
4 O’clock (Adrian Lux Remix) - Salem Al Fakir
Don’t Fucking Tell Me What To Do - Robyn
One (Original Mix) - Swedish House Mafia
Hey Boy Hey Girl - The Chemical Brothers
Bad Gal (Crookers remix) - Savage skull & douster ft. Robyn
Strawberry (Marcus Rombo Remix) - Adrian Lux
Limit Is The Sky (Original Mix) - Sven Kirchof
You Gonna Want me (Hey Today! Remix) - Tiga

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Have you heard of “Mixed in Key”?

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Harmonic Mixing Resources

An online harmonic mixing database is available at camelotsound.com. It contains musician-keyed information on over 60,000 records. Email camelot@gte.net for free trial access to this work-in-progress project.

http://www.track-finder.com offers a 400,000-record EDM harmonic mixing database keyed through MIK.

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http://www.mixshare.com/ also has key info and a lot of other info free of charge, and a nice little program that can key your tracks called Rapid Evolution.

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Why would I want some software which some costs heap of money when I can use the ears evolution gave me. It’s a great musical practise too! Love taking shortcuts usually, but in this case I really like to rely on myself.

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Time is money, so in essence, keying all the tracks yourself isn’t free either. I understand the DIY mentality and the musical practice aspect, but when you have thousands of tracks, sometimes it just doesn’t make sense to do it all the long way. Not a dig, just my opinion.

Also with Rapid Evolution, it pretty accurately detects the mode that the song is in as well as the key.

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Productivity

Even if you have perfect pitch, the ears evolution gave you will not enable you to easily identify those 1/6 of tracks that are harmonically compatible. This enables you to be 6X as productive in evaluating compatible mixes. Using other filters, such as BPM, genre, and age, further enhances your productivity.

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Yup all that true, but I still can’t look away from the fact that using this method has given me some sweet mash ups and cool transitions that I would never ever have thought of otherwise. Like around 6:20 - 9:ish on this mix

https://soundcloud.com/patient267/el-toro-grande-267-mix

This method works nicely for me, it points me some directions of things to try, it is guide lines, not rules. Anyway, just wanted to share my library if someone else wanted to use it for their own personal use, wasn’t a post on weather you should use harmonic mixing or not.