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[thinkingthing]

Any quiet time between songs is bad, sloppy, and I've been known to yell obscenities from the dance floor when it happens.

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[DJ_DarkCloud]

I'm no expert, but I think highly of DJs who beat mix, expecially if the songs flow together. Any quiet time between songs is bad, sloppy, and I've been known to yell obscenities from the dance floor when it happens. (usually if I don't like the DJ to begin with.)   

Well the only "quiet time" (if you could even call it that) is when I know the song won't flow but I do want to play it. What I would do is that as the song starts to fade out & I start to kill the bass slowly I would bring up the next song so you have that out/in of the last/next song. Though I have only done that a few times in my short career as a DJ, I am not known to do that.

I do believe that you can beatmatch songs. The other night when the DJ had to take a bathroom break he told me to cover for him & said to play the next song, he was going well into EBM. He said it was ok to use his music, I know that I was being thrown a curve ball, but I went with it. Matched em up and went stright for Unter Null then Combichrist.

I prefer to beatmatch my music. Though when you watch me DJ, because I have hung around with the rave side of EDM for so long, I tend to beatmatch in that style which seems to work very well for me & my sound that I play.

[sinaptic]

Some ideas? Do share these idea's with me.

Well, one thing I'm starting notice after viewing your sets, some sets of friends, and getting out to some clubs recently is that my mixes are a bit "same-y". For instance, a few nights ago I made (technically) decent enough mix of bands like Suicide Commando, Hocico, Aesthetic Perfection, Tactical Sect, God Module, etc. I was really proud of a lot of the transitions, but it needed to be more stylistically varied. Right now I'm using extremely similar songs as a bit of crutch I think... One thing I like about your sets is you move between aggressive songs, more melodic songs and poppier songs within a few transitions. That's where I want to be, but it's going to take more practice and continuing to develop my ear for such things...

Some DJ's I know have told me that in our scene you don't have to necessarly beat match the song.

I've heard the same. I've been kicking around the scene for a long time, and I've found in a lot of cases that it's true. Not that they allow for the dreaded silence between songs, but rather they'll fade the intros/outros of the various songs before the beat kicks in, and just try to keep the tempo in roughly the same place. I certainly don't have anything against that if it's done well, but it's just not how I want to mix.

I'm no expert, but I think highly of DJs who beat mix, expecially if the songs flow together. Any quiet time between songs is bad, sloppy, and I've been known to yell obscenities from the dance floor when it happens. (usually if I don't like the DJ to begin with.)

Agreed, I think highly of them as well and that's where I'm aspiring to go. Like Darkcloud said, I rarely let the beat drop off either, unless I'm making some radical change in the mix. Even so, I'll make sure there's something interesting going on with transition, keep it quick, and never let it drop into complete silence. However, now if I ever get a gig and my levels drop off for some reason and hear someone screaming "go home, dickhole!" I'll have some idea who it might be. ;)

[DJ_DarkCloud]

I recently heard of Aesthetic Perfection, I kind of like their sound. They haven’t really grown on me yet to the point where I like them. But I think that they are a group I can get into. Yeah, my sets tend to do that, mostly because I have an hour in my sets because I share the floor with other dj’s in that night. Though I am quite sure that if I wanted to I could stick to one flow throughout my entire set, but that just wouldn’t appeal to me as much as I think it would.

Hell because of my friend, who is a Psytrance DJ, I have been known to throw some Dark-Psy in the mix of my EBM depending on the track. Though him & I are working on a Psydustrial set of both Psy & Industrial music. I have some things in mind to get it going but it’s going to be all about the music selection for us.
I am honored that you enjoy my sets that I have been posting up. 
Yeah that’s exactly what I mean, they would fade the intro/outro of songs. Sometimes it’s super smooth, other times I have heard em and be like WTF?! And others it would be straight out of left field. Though as I stated before, that’s not how I like to DJ.

[MoonSlave]

Hello....here is my set list from last week (june 13th)
ebm/noise

ARTIST                       TITLE
Sonitus Niger               La Pelle
Monolith of Doom         Amplify my Horrors
Schallfaktor                 Infinity
Hezzel                         Killed Her
Weltkrieg                     Kaltemorder
SaturmZlide                 heLLcopter
Giusy L@ Dingue          Kill the Moon with Noise
Fake Baba                    Bus to Udaipur
Synchromode               Parkport
Void                            Rusting Corpses
969                             Not Paralysed
Zinforge                      Jakked
nolongerhuman            Our New World
Pow[D]Er Pussy            Cateatcuckoo
Boot-Sector-Virus         Zombies Ate my Neighbours...and Made Noise their Dessert
Chainreactor                You Don't Know (What Pain Is)
Endif                           Crack Pipe
Soman                        Phonkey
Pixelpussy                   Made In Germany (remix GmbH by nlinear)
Andromeda 5               Funkgeraet
Stainless.4571             Akustische Massenvernichtung
Weltkrieg                    Kriegtanz
Noiz+Zilenth               Xentag
Endif                          Retina
Pixelpussy                   Teabaggin' Amerika (Kill People Remix by Jeremiah Saint)
Chainreactor                Hexenfuetterung
Andromeda 5               Penetrator
Slayv Axis                   Left for Dead
Preemptive Strike 0.1   Juggernauts Swarm
Dirty K                        High Tension
Weltkrieg                     Verboten
Stoerfaktor                   -=XXX=-
Dioxyde                       Invasive Therapy (Agonoize)
Pixelpussy                    Toxic Testicle Nectar (Cockblockin beats mix by ESA)
Chainreactor                Psychokiller
Preemptive Strike 0.1   Numb Apparatus
Synchromode               Leverage
Stainless.4571              Hirnblutung
Hazing Ritual                Punishment
SAM                             Hardbeat Trauma
Pow[D]Er Pussy             Universalpussynation
Chainreactor                 Incendiary
This Morn' Omina          Momentum II
Pow[D]Er Pussy            Deviatescreen