Xavier D
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Xavier D
ParticipantThis is kinda funny because as much as I listen to some artists that you would probably call “real artists”, “the real deal” and stuff, I still love Aviciis songs (he’s obviously the one attacked here, even if it’s a way to talk about every big DJs in the game) and been to his concert at Bercy. Even if I know that most of the producers making the main stages at Tomorrowland (and the other big festivals…) don’t focus on djing and just sync-play-pause, this is pretty cool to see them live in my opinion. Anybody else thinking the same ?
ParticipantHi ! Well I already played for this type of event, well actually it was not a rock afterparty but… I knew everybody here listened to rock and ONLY rock… I started with some “chill rock?” band I know, Wild Nothing you should check their tracks (Golden Haze especially is probably the most famous and a really nice one), they loved it and they were drinking a lot also, so I knew I could play some chill electro songs, they wouldn’t even notice since it was very close to Wild Nothing, but a little bit more… electronic. Then I started playing more energetic songs and ended up with making about 40 rock lovers dancing to Far Too Loud which is not really what they listen to !
So my advice would be to make transitions with genres that are somewhat related ? You could make the same thing by playing electro songs that have a rock vibe, Robot Rock by Daft Punk, Everyone Is Someone by Felix Da Housecat or Proper Education by Eric Prydz (I’d be afraid to shock people that know the original song in that case though) for example and then go to the songs you want to play
ParticipantIn fact we downloaded the acapella and made the full instrumental. We didn’t use any sample from the original track and tried to make our own “happy” style melody and chords etc…
Little excessive Chorus/reverb thorough the whole track
Yeah every producer who listened to the remix said that we were using reverb way too much ahah 🙂
Btw if you want the original track (but as I said, we created our own instrumental so the only thing that you could compare is the acapella)
In our opinion the track was cool but not really “emotional” so we tried to do a more emotional version.
ParticipantThank you for all the replies guys. I’m probably going to play more originals, I’m afraid that I would play a track that everyone loves and then mix it with another song and the crowd goes like “what the hell is he doing ? we were expecting this to be the original”…
ParticipantI said this a lot here but there’s a nice website if you want to find artists that make similar songs : http://audiomap.tuneglue.net/ 🙂
Participanta) Have separate sections for mixes and tracks?
Yeah, I would do this !
ParticipantOh and if you want to collect a lot of tracks, of course you can find a YouTube channel that plays songs you like (Discothrill for nu-disco/funky house songs for example) and you’ll find a hell lot of new songs ! And there’s a website I find really useful too : http://audiomap.tuneglue.net/ you can find a lot of similar artists with this !
And then there’s the “dig beatport” thing, you may spend hours searching for labels, artists, suggestions and Top 100 lists but most of the time it is worth it. The problem comes when you think that tracks on Beatport are too expensive, and some of them are only available here…
ParticipantWell you made a nice list of what you should play, it’s pretty good I guess.
the current keylock on Intro isn’t that great (I hear artifacts even when I’m only +/- 3 BPM, on Lossless AIFF tracks, anyone else have issues with that? Maybe I’m just hearing things).
I’m sorry guy… But if you take a perfectly lossless 120bpm aif song, put keylock on and drive it to 123bpm, there will be some “bitcrusher effect” noises here and there, and you could use any software you want with the most powerful computer in the world and the best sound system, the same thing will happen. I don’t know about other djs but I rarely use keylock, and when I do, it’s only for +/- 1bpm during the “no-beats” part of a song.
I’ll have a look around for some non-beatmatching transition tutorials (feel free to post any you can think of). And it looks like I’m gonna need to collect a lot more tracks!
There’s one that is very easy, it’s probably the transition I make the most when I can’t beatmatch : in Traktor you have the delay T3 effect (I guess it’s available on most of djing softwares), there’s a tutorial I found on DDJTips where I learned how to do this, really useful when you have to go from, let’s say, a 140bpm dubstep song to a 90bpm old-school hip-hop song.
Also you can use tracks that include tempo changes, I say it a lot on this forum lol. There’s one song that I use everytime I need to go from house to hip-hop : Boy Oh Boy by GTA & Diplo, it starts at 130bpm and there’s a break at 110bpm. Then you can easily bring tracks like Beat Down by Steve Aoki & Angger Dimas, DJ Turn It Up by Yellow Claw, this type of songs. 🙂ParticipantI suffer from permanent tinitus too (I’ve just turned 20 btw) and you took a good decision to buy earplugs. All I can say is that mine perfectly fit under my headphones, I must admit that it’s more comfortable when I don’t wear them, but comfort or earing, the choice is yours… 🙂
ParticipantWooow guy thank you so much for this 🙂
Well it was a bit hard to make the first mash-up but I think that I should about a new mash-up with way more songs ; I wanted to add a Madeon-esque feeling to it so that’s why I used several tracks, to get this “complextro” sound, but I should try to make a better one. 😉If you want the tracklist of the first mash-up here you go :
ParticipantI just listened to Bangerland 005. Nice mix, good songs 🙂 Transitions are okay. Maybe you should start your mix with a less “hard” song, or use the part at 01:36 to start ? Because that’s definitely a banger, I’m not sure I would start a mix with a drop like this one, without introducing it smoothly before. Anyway the mix is cool 🙂
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March 14, 2014 at 3:32 pm in reply to: Mixing from house tracks (128 BPM) to trap (70 – 75 BPM)? #2010836ParticipantYou could also use tracks that have bpm changes. GTA & Diplo – Boy Oh Boy for example, you can use it to go from 130bpm to a 110bpm rap/trap song. You could do the same with Deniz Koyu – Rage, that’s just an example.
ParticipantHey ! I’m back this time with another remix, in a completely different style ! Big Room Progressive House remix I made with a friend of mine (Paris By Night is our band).
http://play.beatport.com/contests/tritonal-paris-blohm-ft-sterling-fox-colors/5320c3aa753a0d72b9b243e9I hope that you’ll like the melody, we worked hard to mix it the best we could, but we obviously have a lot of things to learn.
I’ve got an important question : do you often add volume to some frequencies ? I always cut off what the mix doesn’t need, but I almost never add more… I’m so much afraid to do something wrong about this ! I did as Weaver said, add a bit more frequencies into the mid so that the bass can be heared on laptops… It seems like it works ?ParticipantIt didn’t work really well but anyway let me repost it :
Could you share the tracklist ? So that we can know exactly what you did here because it seems like there is definitely no beatmaching problems but also very few tracks used ? 🙂
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