More advanced transition techniques and creative tweaks to add more style to my hip hop mix?

Wow there are endless possibilities on hip hop mixing and actually when I mix hip hop I prolly only beatmatch 10-15% of the tracks. The most advanced techniques go into multiple scratches and beat juggles, but explaining this on a forum would be a bit too much.
But I will recommend to Phil to include advanced hip hop techniques into the DJ Masterclass that he is producing at the moment.

henley, post: 44840, member: 8952 wrote: think more about track selection rather matching beats. look for similarities in the sounds, lyrics, themes, artists, producers and overall direction. try to think 1-2 tracks ahead of yourself

As he said track selection is key. Also looping the hook and dropping it in on the hook is an excellent way to keep the energy going. also don’t be afraid to start from the very beginning.

I really struggled mixing hip-hop until I joined a record pool and every song has an instrumental intro and outro making it a lot easier. I agree hip hop is much harder to mix than house with all the varying tempos and without intros and outros most songs vocals will clash if u mix. A creative way of mixing could be to play (scratch, loop, use cue buttons, echo) with a sample or lyric on the outgoing track then bring in the incoming track with the same sample or lyric. Eg on my last mix the outgoing song says “pour it up”, the incoming song says “pour it all up”, so I beatjuggled them (or you could set a cue point and just press it on each track as u swipe the crossfader over each time you press it), then when I played “Pour it all up” on the incoming track the last time I jumped to the start of the track. The BPM were quite different too. Hope this helps.

Download some hip hop mixes and listen to how other DJs do it.

They can have an element that sounds the same like the same snare pattern, bassline, sampled beat or entire instrumental then you can mix, scratch in or cut.

Who Sampled is a good app and website to discover samples. Also listening to DJ mixes and listening with your own music collection. I think a good way to find samples and creative mixing ideas in general is listening to DJ mixes and I recommend Redbull Thre3style competition mixes on Mixcloud, they always have to try and be creative to win. They have to play at least three genres so it’s not all hip hop but it’s still a big part of it.