Help!!! I need advice

Ok misunderstanding then it seems, Podcasts and Demo mixes are very different things.
But generally everyone on this board isn’t at the level of the bigger name DJs who do weekly podcasts (at least to receive the mountains of free tune they do) and unless you know some important people or talented producers we’re all left scrounging the same pool, as unique as we might think we are.

You can get a “spark” without newer tunes, just working on your mixing techniques. I get more a shiver from an unexpected classic.

EoghanRussell,

First and foremost, i am not an “EDM Head” so you might take most of what i have to say with a pinch of salt. Albeit, most of it applies generic to the world of Djaying in general.
I listened to your mix and honestly i could not find anything wrong with it. Transtitions were fine, excellent song selection and nice track selection. I always tell people that “DJs are their own worst critics”. There is a thread here (maybe Phil can dig it up for you) where it asks all the DJays how they feel about their mixes after they have made it. And guess what? Most people felt their mixes were not good enough when there was actually nothing wrong with it.

What i tend to do when i create mixes like that is that i forget about the mix and then listen to it weeks later. If i get the same ‘not good’ feeling then i accept that it is not good enough. Also , send the mix to your friends and ask then for feedback, infact, pester them to give you a feedback. If their feedback tallys with what you have thought then it’s probably right.
Another good thing is to post your mixes online and ask for feedback. You will get listeners unknown listeners from all over who will give you a truthful feedback ( rather than a friend who does not want to hurt your feelings)
One more thing i do is to put on my mixes when a friend is in my car or come to visit. I do not tell them i made the mix. If they ask about the mix then i know i have created something good.

Lastly, whatever you do in your DJ carrer, make sure you create your own style. You can have DJs you admire but your own style should never be a copy but a reinvention. What i am saying in essence is that no matter what advice we give you here, you will have to embark on the journey on your own and discover somethings your own way

My 2 cents

you create impact by using the right records at the right time, most of the tracks in this set are pretty banging, so there will be not recognition of any impact if there is impact all the way through. Its a tough one but the only way you learn to use the right records is to widen the genre you buy and listen to. by doing that you will pick up the way they work. Also the transitions are too short (this may have been on purpose??) to create impact, ride the mix like a surfer does a wave get the energy from both tracks.

you need to create peaks and troughs through out the mix and playing the records you have in this mix that isn’t going to happen. its one of things that comes with time. I bet in a year you wont be buying the same records as you are now. and you wont be mixing the same way.

PS. dont get dragged into effects (my pet hate), if your playing good records at the correct time you don’t need effects.

shr3dder, post: 16334, member: 1473 wrote: Restricting yourself to new music is a terrible idea.

Release date really shouldn’t matter that much. Good music is good music regardless of when it came out.

Then again some people seem to love playing the latest top 10 from Beatport like 5 million other DJs

I agree with this. A lot of DJs use these digital record pools and get all the same tracks at the same time and also play them at the same time. Thats why DJs who only depend on new music tend to get boring now matter how dope their skills are. If Im bar hopping and hear the same songs that I heard at the other lounge, ill be like WTF is this?

Classic tracks are timeless. You need to mix it up with new tracks and classics. Especially when your 15 minutes into a set with all the new songs and then all of a sudden drop in the classic track that came out in 1997. The dance floor will go crazy especially during peak hours when they are fucked up.