So I always see house/techno/electronica mixtapes… What about my hip hop heads? I’m thinking the normal timeframe… 1-2 hours, 10-15 minutes per person. Would be interesting to see how different DJs with different hip hop styles come together. Personally I’m an underground guy, Roots, J5, Lyrics Born, Dilated Peoples, People Under The Stairs, Swollen Members, Soliliquists of Sound type stuff and would love to see what we can all come up with.
So post up if you’re interested, I figure we can have 8-12 guys in if we run 2 hours… (8 people=15 minutes each, 12=10). Hell if you’re a dope turntablist and just want to throw in a killer scratch routine that’s only a couple of minutes long speak up too, we can throw some of those in there too, could be DOPE!
Once we get enough people interested we’ll start an official thread for it.
That’s the beauty of the mix trains, it will all be kind of different according to that DJ’s interpretation. So what’s the order going to be Tretuna? Lets get this rolling!!
Alright!! Figured I’d get a decent response on this! Sorry I’ve been really busy this week and haven’t been able to get back to you guys.
So here’s the list of people that I’m assuming are wanting in on this (if you simply said “subscribed” you’re not on this list, please let me know if you wanted to be in on it.):
Tre Tuna
Citizen_Insane
Gr0wTesK
Sherlock Ohms - Not sure if you wanted to be in or just saying more info
AyeAreTee
nickel
So that’s 6 people, which I figure is good enough to get started, if anyone else chimes before too long we can add a few more in. I’d say around 15 minutes a piece. If you’re mainly a turntablist and want to do less that’s fine, I know some of those routines can be pretty intense. Just let us know. As for format, it’s hip hop! You can go instrumental, lyrical, old skool, nu skool, turntablistic, whatever you want. Just make it blend, or cut, or just backspin the hell out of it!
My question to you all, is does anyone have an exceptional talent at creating good intros and want to give a crack at the first slot here? Honestly my next week and a half are going to be nuts at the studio so I won’t have time to work one out if we want to get this started quickly.
Sounds good Buffalo Ill! Will definitely keep doing these if we get some good heads together.
Looks like I’ll actually have some time to work on this over the next week. My session at work won’t start until 9-10pm so I’ll get most afternoons to work on some things. I’ll see what I can come up with for an intro unless someone else thinks they have a good idea for one.
I’ve not been following the house mixtrain, so I don’t actually know what’s required. I’m assuming you want a 15 minute hip-hop mix which I must place on this thread?
Oh, and how does this work on here - I’ve done similar groupsourced mixes before for Purple Radio, ‘where it’s add a single track’ . you get sent the preceeding track and mix into it, and send the lot back to someone putting the mix together, who can flag if you’ve used the same tune as someone else …
I’m may be down but I’m haven’t kept up with new hip hop in a long time (Dirty South killed hip hop for me) I do have a lot of old school hip hop though. I’ll think I’ll just listen first but very curious to see the different styles together
Each Dj mixes their set into the previous DJ’s set. Some people let the previous set play and record it and then do their mix live. Some will mix their set and splice it into the previous set. Either way when each DJ is done they should upload one wav file that has their set on the end.
I’ll usually cut the last minute or so of the previous set and use that to mix into, then I do my mix live and paste the whole set back onto the end of the file.
