Hi there. Great first mix. Been doing this DJ-thingy since -85 and I try to think of mixes like yours in different ways, because I don’t want the critics to be wrong because how you made the mix and for what intent. Hope I got that right 🙂 (Swede). If you made this with a controller with sync and auto level enabled, it’s of no use to comment how good your beat matching is and how nice you layered the transitions. That takes some skill and creativity if you do it manually. It’s also important to tell if this is how you’d like to play in front of people, or if this is just what you like to listen to because you, like me, love house music. There is also a difference if your mix is made to listen to, like on radio, or if it’s an attempt to get close to a live situation. For me the main difference is from a technical view, that live mixing tend to get more intense, and the mixing doesn’t involve long overlapping transitions, unless it’s an early warm up. Smooth long transitions is great to show of your understanding of how tracks are build and it’s very nice to listen to. It doesn’t involve effects at all because if you’re skilled, you want the transitions to be as transparent as possible. It’s nice when you after some time, can’t tell when the transitions starts and ends in your own mixes. If I make a set of EDM or Big Room House, call it what you want as long as you know what it is, I usually use about 1 min 45 s of each track which is how I play it live to get that intensity during peak hour. I prefer the long transitions as that is how I once started, but if I didn’t learn new ways to play new music I’d be out of at least some of the jobs I do, and I love to play different genres of dance music. Keeps me on my toes and playing never gets boring that way. Would love to hear you try out some manual gear, doesn’t really matter what kind as long it’s good gear. Booth Pioneer and Denon has some very good equipment you can buy very cheap second hand that will turn something fun in to extremely satisfying fun. Depending on how far back you go, you may have to burn CD’s, at least mp3 cd’s. In Sweden you can get 2 used CDJ-1000 mk3’s for about 3-400£ in very good condition and a DJM-250 for 100£. That setup is very rewarding to play on. It may be a little old school, but when you get that to sound good, you’re ready to conquer the world. I have a 2000Nexus/DJM-800 setup, but when I play a set like yours, I often do it on my older gear, manually mixing by ear. Like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRWxA7VtX1c . Keep up your good mixing and post another one soon. Cheers!
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