SEX, DRUGS AND ELECTRO - Dave McNasty - Big Dirty Basslines!!

[dave mcnasty]

If you like huge dirty electro basslines then you'll love this.....I'm pretty proud of this mix.....it's got 20 of my current favourites packed into an hour



1. Theme Code - Donique
2. SOS (Ortega & Gold Remix)
3. Systematic (2Special Electro Remix) - Yuri & Leonid
4. Put Your Hands up For Detroit (Claude Vonstroke Remix) - Fedde Le Grand
5. Hit Record - Le Mode
6. This is Also The Hook - BSOD
7. Lollercoaster (Kinda Funny Mix) - BSOD
8. Play This Game (Original Club Mix) - Flat Mode
9. Massenbewegunsmittel - Miles Dyson Vs. Blende
10. Planet 69 (Williams Remix) - 1gnition
11. Punk Rock Electro (manuel de la mare bleach remix) - Nino Anthony
12. Zelectro World - Nikolaz Nikz
13. Zdarlight - Digitalism
14. Bring it Down - DJ Puku, Magan
15. Peaktime - Bangin Your Club Mix - Filtered Phunk, Mix Master Moody
16. Royal Sound (Mario Ochoa Remix) - Robinson Valentti
17. Jack Up Da Bass - Allan Bangord, Audio Junkies
18. Jacks Funk - Thomas Penton, Hernan Serrao
19. Hey Baby (Original Mix) - Freshmau5
20. Backseat Bandit - Muz & Mann

Sex, Drugs And Electro - Dave McNasty

[Pennywise]

downloading...

[Lazy-Rich]

this is going straight on the ipod

[Ryan Ross]

Downloading right now :)

[FireWire]

Looks good! DL'ing...

And hmmm that CD cover looks AWFULLY familiar. ;)

[MarcelM]

awesome tracks

[Joe Dirt]

Very nice Dave.

[InSoMnIaK*]

dling

[InSoMnIaK*]

not bad at all

[HADES]

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[Greg C.]

Wow

That freshmau5 tune made me poop a little.

Greg

[nipvicious]

sick shit dave.. grats

[nipvicious]

send me that freshmau5 song

[oddmud]

ok well everyone else basically said great things.. i'm going to be brutally honest as i always am.

good choice in tunes, really bad boring mixing. you're right, there was no trainwrecks, but really lame bad mixes.

other than that, i listened to the whole thing and shook my ass in the chair regardless.

:)

[dave mcnasty]

okay

how were the mixes lame or boring?

[oddmud]

Well basically it sounded as though a couple were just faded quickly, very short mixes, like how long were you holding your beatmatch 8? 16 bars? Try blending tunes together for over a minute. It sounded almost like a hip hop dj mixing. I just didn't hear anything exceptional being done. You'd hear a bit of the bassline of the new tune, then you'd fade out the old one as quick as possible. Hope that helps.

[Lazy-Rich]

i think thats being overly critical.

There were definintely a couple of mixes there that I would have done differently, or maybe tunes that I wouldn't have put together, but mixing isnt just about keeping tunes together for over a minute.

I know the approach dave was taking with this as its the same approach i usually take - some tunes just mix better with short mixes - its all well and good keeping tracks matched for a minute, but if thats a boring minute then there's no point at all. I think dave did a good job of keeping things intresting through the whole mix, and while its not gonna win mix of the year i definitely think the mixing was far from lame and bad.

[dave mcnasty]

yeah the thing is i'm pretty new to mixing this many tunes in that amount of time.....so it's really sort of a practice mix more than anything. I just wanted to keep it interesting with a new track like every 3 minutes or so...which means cutting some songs fairly early.......and the difficult thing with these sort of tracks is they have really big basslines, and i was mixing them in the middle too, so if i left mixes for like 1 minute, it would just sound like two big basslines clashing. I planned most of the mixes to take place when one of the tracks goes into a quiet breakdown or somethin.....and those only last so long before they build up and drop again so I usually had to cut them

I could make a mix like you're talking about no problem, i do like long mixes, but it would have half the tunes in it

[oddmud]

Originally Posted by dave mcnasty

yeah the thing is i'm pretty new to mixing this many tunes in that amount of time.....so it's really sort of a practice mix more than anything. I just wanted to keep it interesting with a new track like every 3 minutes or so...which means cutting some songs fairly early.......and the difficult thing with these sort of tracks is they have really big basslines, and i was mixing them in the middle too, so if i left mixes for like 1 minute, it would just sound like two big basslines clashing. I planned most of the mixes to take place when one of the tracks goes into a quiet breakdown or somethin.....and those only last so long before they build up and drop again so I usually had to cut them

I could make a mix like you're talking about no problem, i do like long mixes, but it would have half the tunes in it

It's cool Dave, I'm not trying to be a dick here. I'm trying to give you some critism, because the worst thing an average dj can hear is "GREAT MIX!!!" "THIS IS AWSOME" when it's not. You asked me to go in to detail, so I did.

I guess forcing quick mixes to achive more tunes in a shorter period of time takes some adjustment.

If you have two big basslines going on, you can use the bass cut of the one trailing out.

Listen to my radio podcast, it's a lot of the same type of tracks in the second half of my mix. Big Electro basslines, but I try and mix them deep to change things up. Posted it in this same forum (the antidote podcast) ahh fuckit... http://www.epidemicrecordings.com/radio - check it out there.

Short Mixes = Radio/Hip Hop djs, anyone can do that.

When we're electronic djs, we want to take what's in our bag of tricks, and blend them together to create something different. Not just play tracks.

So again, my mouth always gets people on the defensive. I'm only saying this stuff so it maybe gets you thinking of how you're doing your mixing. Maybe try something different next time around, ya dig?

[dave mcnasty]

yeah it's cool man, im glad someone had some criticism

i just dont think it's as radio/hiphop as you're saying though........if you listen to the mixes closely, every intro beat is live for at least a minute, and then once the bass or whatever kicks in i tried holding the mixes for at least 30 seconds. It was actually much harder to do than a normal mix cuz i was dropping most of those tracks as soon as I could put them on, and then beatmatching while they were live. And then had to EQ/mix the tracks where they're not intended to be mixed (the middle of the track).