Spinning multiple genres

[ppcock]

Originally posted by soma
I've had weekly residencies since I started djing. Starting as a top 40/hiphop jock I learned playing a wide variety of music.

can't afford to buy them all but in the last 8years now I have been able to collect most types of electronic dance, club music and left field. Who wants to play the same shit every week? no one and if you limit your self to one genere..... you are doing only that there is too much good music. I'm a real pack rat with my records I'd eat the shit for breakfast. but will not trade or sell my records, (been know to make a few exceptions) If I'm parting with a record I'm giving it to a someone who will put it to work.

dnb
jungle
happy/hard core (mostly old skooter reccids)
break beat
2 step
garage
All sorts of house
Progressive house
Progressive breaks
Progressive trance
Hard Dance
Hard Techno
Hard Trance
Goa
Left field
Euro dance ( me and miss B inside the cheese area)
Hip hop
synth pop

And a couple thousand classic rock/ pop pieces from back in the day.

So if any of you buggers want to play some reccids give me a call cuz I am always looking to play my other tunes

hey man.. ya cant go wrong with dj panda and old atc. (old euro dance)


I have a few scooter records myself. scooter is the man.

[soma]

123 fire !!!hey hey hey!

[Wood]

i'm currently working on a cross-genre mix. it will incorporate all different styles of stuff that i've accumulated over the years, hip hop, downtempo, dub, dancehall, funky breaks & electro, disco, pop & rock, ambient, even some soundtracks & field recordings...

i think if you're spinning a multi-genre set, the trick is to create a theme or story line with the music, lyrically or otherwise. I'm not really impressed by DJs who go from one type of DJ-oriented dance music to another in a set, unless they can take multiple genres and put them together into a cohesive and natural sounding set (ie: someone who plays a half hour of jungle, then a half hour of trance vs someone who plays a mixture of breaks, house & techno mixed seamlessly over an hour set). If you're playing music that wasn't designed for beat mixing, then sometimes you have to find other ways to make effective transitions without dropping the energy level...

[soma]

^ like to hear that wood

i like to mix according the musical keys when I'm doing the cross genre mixing alot of the older tracks weren't made for seemless mixing but if you can hold down a groove with complimentry rhythems and keys it can have a real heavy effect on the mix. Got to love the programing.

[ppcock]

i'd like to start producing some trance tracks that incoporate dnb

like make a dnb remix of airscape - l'esperanza

[dSl-DuDe]

i usually play a mix of everything.. bit of hip-hop, bit of trance, bit of club and a bit of house, sorta makes things more interesting... ;)

[normal josh]

i like to mix most anything with a simillar bpm count wether seamless or not but its fun with a broken beat...

eg. nu-school to funky to florida to old school hip hop to miami bass..

florida works really well with hard trance as well as hard house... its all fun to play, why limmit to one genra, that would be borring

[soma]

Originally posted by ppcock
i'd like to start producing some trance tracks that incoporate dnb

like make a dnb remix of airscape - l'esperanza

mmmm interesting idea... love most of airscapes work

[ppcock]

i got a scooter record with an airscape remix

its a wicked track.

Airscape is the best for uplifting trance.

[ebbomega]

"I can only keep my hands in the air for so long" - Dale Crossley

A good DJ never limits themselves to a single mood/tone/genre for their entire set.

[Moon]

Originally posted by ebbomega
A good DJ never limits themselves to a single mood/tone/genre for their entire set.

werd

and seriously why would you limit yourself? it takes out pretty much all the fun of mixing records. you might as well be a robot.

[soma]

(robot voice)"WE ARE SEARCHING FOR HUMANS"

[Moon]

(robot voice) meeerrr i am super nerd robot dj merrrr

[Bevvy Swift]

Tha best shit to hear is a deep ragga track (like 80 or 90 bpm) then droppin in a dnb beat (160 - 180 bpm) sp they blend beatifully. i do the same ort of ting with beatboxing, when someone is doing a bassy hip hp beat, i throw in a jungle beat over and it sounds siiiick. props to anyone who can smoothly blend trance with dnb.

[soma]

^ I used to do that when I played top forty! dre. vs. the rocka fella skank 76 bpm/152 bpm

[Bevvy Swift]

siick! could you send it to me or something?

[soma]

^ like a recording of it? next time I get some cd decks I'll put it together for ya

[Bevvy Swift]

werd! that would be clutch dude.

[DoS]

Currently in my record box that i carry with me to house parties you will find hardhouse, nunrg, hardtrance, abit of breakz, maybe a couple house records, a few speed garage, some hip hop, d&b

[Bevvy Swift]

ppcock, don't you have to get copywrite permission to use my words as your signature? :finger: ahahha

[Moon]

damn i'm totally feelin the new house tracks i've been playing around with lately. really fun to mix it up with dnb.. hahaha damn i'm gonna have to record some of this stuff

[Dr. Doom]

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