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  • March 30, 2012 at 2:47 pm #1003428
    gbadegesin
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    DJspin,

    First and foremost, no question is dumb or stupid. We are all here to learn one thing or another.

    Mixes: These are just that, songs that you have mixed together. This can be for a club, party , promotion, burned to CD or even posted online.
    Podcast: These are usually mixes that you post online that people can subscribe to. So once another mix comes out from the same poster, you get notified. A bit like subscribing to a magazine but this time it is online and it is in digital format
    Set: This is a term that DJs tend to use to identify or describe a collection of preprared songs. This collection might be what is about to be played for a session or what was played during a club or mix session

    I am sure others will have their own opinion or ideas.

    Just my 2 cents

    March 30, 2012 at 3:17 pm #1003429
    VinnyBlanc
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    Typically, the difference between posting a mix and a podcast is that a podcast has a little more of a radio-show type feel where the DJ himself interjects between songs to announce the next artist/track and maybe say a little blurb about it.

    This is not always the case but very common iE (Tiesto Club Life Podcast – Avicii Levels Podcast etc..)

    March 30, 2012 at 4:42 pm #17634
    DJ
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    Indirectly related to your question, but something that confused me as well was the difference between a remix and a mash-up. A remix is a version of an original track to which the remixer has added his/her own production (synths, melodies, breakdowns, etc.) whereas a mash-up is two (or more) tracks “mashed” together, meaning the tracks are more or less played on top of each other, creating what sounds like a new track in itself. So basically, if original material is added to the track, it’s a remix. If one original track is combined with another original track, it’s a mash-up.

    I know this isn’t what you were asking, but it’s something that gave me trouble.

    March 30, 2012 at 4:49 pm #1003430
    Spot-Trix
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    “First and foremost, no question is dumb or stupid. We are all here to learn one thing or another.”

    +1 gbadegesin

    March 30, 2012 at 5:21 pm #1003431
    DJspin
    Member

    Thanks guys. I’ve had this doubt for some time, i’ve been listening to podcasts, sets and mixes all over soundcloud trying to find the differences, this is what I found out:
    Podcasts are more commercial, for simple hearing and also very promotive. I follow alot of famous DJs in soundcloud and I realized the radioshows (which are podcasts) they posted had always an intro/outro transition between every song, giving the listener a full play on that song. Also I noticed every weekly radioshow included a tracklist of songs that were released between those last couple of weeks. No old songs. So my conclusions were that podcast are a more commercial type of mix which always gives a good display of the songs it is like that listeners suscription to hear the new songs of the week. Also no rushed transitions, just so people can hear new music like with an ipod.
    Of course all of these are mixes, but when a recording says “Electro Mix or House Mix” I realize it is ALWAYS rushed. like 10 songs in 10 minutes, I guess that’s hard to make but I don’t find any fun in hearing that. Some people might.
    And sets I don’t know for sure but I think they are always live. Everytime I read a set, it says live set recorded on blabla club.

    March 30, 2012 at 6:10 pm #17642
    VinnyBlanc
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    Lets not get started on Edits, Bootlegs or “Stan V Touch” lol

    March 30, 2012 at 6:54 pm #17644
    DJspin
    Member

    If you want to explain those, go ahead. I know what Edit means, the word, but I really don’t understand when a song says (DJ ____ Edit)? And bootlegs, well I simply just don’t know.

    April 2, 2012 at 8:08 am #17755
    Phil Morse
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    That’s not a dumb question it’s a good one, and we’ll cover ti in a bit more detail on the site soon. Thanks for the idea.

    April 2, 2012 at 3:40 pm #1003468
    DJspin
    Member

    And thank you for answering phil.

    April 2, 2012 at 5:44 pm #17791
    Yozakura
    Member

    Actually I would say that Podcasts rnt always commercial. And they also do not all have that intro outro kinda thing to each track.
    It depends of whom you listen the podcast to.
    So Bootleg (correct me if I’m wrong) is a live remix of a song played during a Mix in a club or radio show.
    An Edit is mostly done by the original producer. It is somewhat of a remix but it has a lot less impact on the song itself. Remixes for instance mostly change the song completely to something new, whereas edits leave the general idea of the song and just adds removes some synths.

    Stan V Touch i haven’t ever heard of to be honest..^^

    Somebody else might help out tho!

    April 2, 2012 at 5:52 pm #17795
    DJspin
    Member

    Of course on the Podcast there are many exceptions but overall that is what you hear in my opinion.
    I can’t comment on the bootleg cause I don’t know if that is wrong or right.
    Edit I believe you’re correct there, I think it is just an adjustment to a song rather than a major change in it.
    And remixes are a little obvious, the name mostly says it, you grap a song and you remake the mix by adding your own sounds of course including the original production.

    April 2, 2012 at 8:25 pm #17821
    DJ
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    I imagine everyone has a little different interpretation about bootlegs and edits and they probably depend on where you’re from. Here’s how I know them though:

    A bootleg is a remix that was made by using only the original track in its entirety. The remixer did not have access to the original track’s stems (melody, vocals, bassline, etc.). When a remix is released officially, it is almost never a bootleg because the original artist gives the stems to the remixer to work with. I know many people refer to any unofficial remix as a bootleg as well though, which I can understand because it most likely is.

    An edit is not really a remix in that it is merely altered for time or content. For example, in Armin van Buuren’s A State of Trance albums, many of the tracks used are named “Track Name (Original Mix Edit).” This means that although the original track was used, it was altered (I imagine most likely a break or something similar was cut out for time’s sake) in order for it to better fit in the mix. It’s the same thing when you hear “Radio Edit” or “Vocal Edit.” It is the same original track, just edited for time/content so it can play on the radio, or with vocals added, respectively.

    A VIP track stands for Variation In Production and is a remix done by the same artist who made the original (hence the variation in its production).

    I’m still not too sure about “Dub” though. I’ve heard so many definitions of it I’m not sure if anyone knows what it means anymore.

    April 4, 2012 at 5:24 pm #17951
    Yozakura
    Member

    Dub is another form of a Remix.
    It mostly refers to the remix being “deeper” than the original. It means that the dub is almost always slower than the original. In tech-house you often have a lot of different snares and other percussion(for instance bongos), now imagine a wide part of the snares being taken out, exchanged with some altered and filtred snare which isn’t as loud or penetrating anymore and making the bongos sound deeper.
    But this isn’t always the case, a dub can also simply mean that the baseline is heavier.
    What I find really sad is that in many cases the term Dub is used incorrect these days…:(
    A very good example IMO is
    Kamisshake – Dark Beat (Deadmau5 Remix) and Kamisshake – Dark Beat (Deadmau5 Dub Mix)

    I hope this made it clear:)

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