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ComfortEagle:
Thank you kind sir.

dancarter:
ElCapitan, the mix was excellent.  Really nice stuff with good mixing and nice variety.

Khar, for industrial djs, you should check out Distorted Circuitry.? They have a radio program every Monday evening for stream and download.? They can be found here: http://www.distortedcircuitry.com/.

The two djs that run the program are both excellent as well.? DJ Morgana and Razorgrrl.? They do live sets and can be found at http://www.djmorgana.com and http://www.razorgrrl.com.

I can almost assure you that there is very little(though some) Apop(thank god), Razorgrrl does more noise based stuff, like Terrorfakt, Kiew, Schwefelgelb, Asche and Manufactura.? Morgana is a little more old school, though still pretty diverse in style.

KharBevNor:
It's not that I hate Apop that much, it's just he must have played three or four songs by them. Also, I requested four songs off this guy, and he didn't have three of them. The three he didn't have were Funker Vogt - History, Covenant - Call the Ships to Port and Neuroticfish - The Bomb. And that wasn't anti-futurepop snobbery either.

nuisance:

--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 14 Oct 2006, 14:38 ---I'm listening now, problem is, I don't know any of the songs. Is it just crossfades/drop ins between the tracks, or are two tracks being played at once, or are you shifting in and out between two tracks? I really can't tell.   

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I'd only heard the first track before but it's easy enough to hear the changes.  There's a bunch of cross fades, which I guess involves two tracks being played together, but not for very long, e.g. at about 4:43 the second track is introduced quietly and is faded in.  Flat Beat gets muted at 5:12. 

I think the same thing is happening around 9:30 when the beat comes back in and there's a looping laugh and a bit of David Albarn falsetto.  Can't hear whether the second track is faded out by the time the guitar breakdown happens or whether it's just muted at that point.

Same again around 15:15, sounds like third track is faded out by about 15:40.  This track is so rushy... love this kind of mad synth work-out. :D

Next cross-fade starts about 21 minutes in, you can hear the synth stabs on the first beat quietly, then the bassline comes in and the preceding track is killed at 21:35.

etc.

Thanks for the mix elcapitan.  Not all to my tastes, but then I'm a fucken snob.  :roll:

elcapitan:
Thanks for the comments guys, I really appreciate it.

Khar,

Essentially all that's going on is just crossfades and drops. Tracks overlay each other for sections, but I haven't jumped back and forth between tracks in this mix. I'm not trying any crazy Mixmaster Mike stuff with multiple tracks going at once. :) The idea is that this is the kind of thing you could play in a club and people could dance too - interesting and relatively quick-changing, but not so rapid that you can't find a groove and stay in it for a few minutes.

Some of the mixes are relatively quick, some are quite a lot slower. Nuisance is pretty much spot on with the first couple of fades - mostly, what I've done is start the incoming track playing on my monitors, synced the beats and tempo up, and faded in in between phrases. Most dance tracks (breaks and DnB can be fiddlier) have some kind of a breakdown after four or eight or twelve phrases, so once you get the hang of it, it's easy to time it so that tracks overlay for maybe sixty-four bars giving a nice polyphonic overload, you can slap totally out of the old track into the breakdown for a few bars, hopefully followed by a drop that puts the dancefloor on rinse cycle.

The switch between Feel Good Inc. and Electric Disco is a good example of this. Around about 14:45, FGI starts calming down a little, and I'm syncing ED going on my monitors. At 15:20, ED is faded up to about 40%. It takes a little tweaking to get the beats lined up, I slowly bring it up to about 75%, only ever fading up in between phrases. At 16:04, I pretty much just ramp the crossfader across, the breakdown happens, people on the dancefloor take a breath. At 16:34, the drop comes along and people theoretically go nuts. Not very complicated, but it's surprisingly hard to do on the fly.

The hardest mixes on there were getting into and out of Bucky Done Gun.

EDIT: Guys I am intrigued by these industrial sets. I sorta started getting into industrial when I was 18 or so, but then I got sidetracked by hip-hop and more general electronica. I might have to look into it again.

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