What's your average song cycle per hour?

[CapFive]

as a mobile DJ, i really find i have to keep peoples on thier toes, i try to change my songs at least every 3 - 4 minutes (unless you get a cracker that people rush to the dancefloor for) so i guess my cycle is 20 - 30 songs per hour.

do you guys try to have this same principle? or do you just let the songs play for as long as they need to?

[Gandy]

depends what the crowd is feeling, if i drop a track and the floor isnt feeling it ill mix in another straight away, but if there really digging it ill just do a standard mix. Later in the night ill start getting a little creative with acapallas and scratching so if i fuck it up no one notices lol

[Skank]

when im in the zone i like to throw 15-30 seconds of tracks in to other tracks on the fly before mixing in a new track so the total count can be way huge but i try to just play the meat of the song or the hook especialy in party mode to keep every ones attention

[CapFive]

oh skank, just heard your battlemix, loved it mate, your hired

[Skank]

hahanice thats like a yr and a half old man i really gotta put a new mixtape together

[imadje]

yer man...

as mobile it's all about hooks and riffs, folk recognise the song, get on the groove for a minute then i hit them another one they (hopefully) like more... if they dont like it I cut it to something else.

3min is absolute max i would play a song for in this style.

but then there are grooves that have to have time to work on the crowd eg:

I may play just the hook (one or two min) of prince - kiss, grandmaster flash - white lines as a teaser to fill the floor, but then drop a full 5/6 min of sugarhill gangs rappers delight.

If it's really working I'll nip to the bog/have a fag then come back and get back to 2/3min cuts again.

[J0rdz]

I only play in Clubland nowadays.

Amount of tracks is usually dependent on the type of music im playing.

Prog/Tech: anywhere from 10-15 tracks

Breaks: 10-20 depending on how adventurous i am with cutting in and out and how lively the crowd is

[Jaz]

all depends on what im playing, dubstep, less song cycles as alot of the songs are longer, same with trance, trance tracks are pretty long

[Ravni]

depends how much i sample tend to draw out songs abit longer than usually if im dropping sample, acappellas over the top.

Found most people who arent avid music listeners can only hack about 3 mins of a track, people who love a certain genre are more forgiving and tend to like longer mixes, find it a juggling act between the two

[SolDios]

p.s. skank, listing to your battle mix now, those tracks at 5:00 are fucking gold, got me randomly dancing around the room!

Edit: The whole mix is big day out worthy in my opinion, better than alot of the people I heard playing

[mattus123]

just reviving this topic again, in preperation for CapFives comp

how long woudl you guys recommend letting a song play for before u begin to transition the next one?

i heard someone sayin they change teh songs every 2 mins, is this the way to do it

or is it one of those cases where there is no right and wrong?

[CapFive]

Really depends on the song mate, where you find a nice place to drop in the next song, usually look for no beat, no vocals or no riff no vocals with a solid clean beat, those uaully happen at the start and end, but you get 1 or 2 breaks in a song as well where it works REALLY well

[Gandy]

just reviving this topic again, in preperation for CapFives comp

how long woudl you guys recommend letting a song play for before u begin to transition the next one?

i heard someone sayin they change teh songs every 2 mins, is this the way to do it

or is it one of those cases where there is no right and wrong?

just be careful not to mix to frequently can be frustrating for the avg punter to just start getting into a song then it goes into another

[mattus123]

just be careful not to mix to frequently can be frustrating for the avg punter to just start getting into a song then it goes into another

thats exactly what i was tihnking

ive noticed in alot of songs there will be the 'banging' bit, then there will be a quiet melodic stage and then the main baning bit will come again again (dont know the proper technical terms )

would it be a bad idea to play that slow melodic section? or once again, is it alll upto how you want the set to go and the energy of it

[Gandy]

just be careful not to mix to frequently can be frustrating for the avg punter to just start getting into a song then it goes into another

thats exactly what i was tihnking

ive noticed in alot of songs there will be the 'banging' bit, then there will be a quiet melodic stage and then the main baning bit will come again again (dont know the proper technical terms )

would it be a bad idea to play that slow melodic section? or once again, is it alll upto how you want the set to go and the energy of it

all comes down to your own style man, some ppl love doing the quick cuts of chorus to chorus to keep it banging throughout the entire set, some people like doing your more standard intro into outro mixing, some like dropping acapellas on melodic non vocal tracks, some ppl bust out their sample pads and go nuts and some do all of the above and get real creative, just comes down to what you enjoy

few basic rules should never be broken though:

make sure its beatmatched (duh!)

dont abuse the efx on the mixer!

make sure your phrases match up

never do vocals on vocals

try not to let the outro play on its own, ie, if your letting the outro play make sure you have a track mixing into it otherwise you will kill all the energy and its hard to regain the good vibe once the flow is gone

[CapFive]

try not to let the outro play on its own, ie, if your letting the outro play make sure you have a track mixing into it otherwise you will kill all the energy and its hard to regain the good vibe once the flow is gone

this is probably the most important for begginers

[mattus123]

try not to let the outro play on its own, ie, if your letting the outro play make sure you have a track mixing into it otherwise you will kill all the energy and its hard to regain the good vibe once the flow is gone

this is probably the most important for begginers

Id agree with that

i guess im on the right track thou, cause i havent broken any of those rules...intentioanlly =D

but yea thats some good advice right there Gandy,

Cheers

[Gandy]

most important of all, have fun, if you're not enjoying it it will come across in your set