My first online mix

I just finished listening to your mix as well, and I’m glad GroovePunk was able to give you some tips. Any time that big room sound is in my ears I have a hard time getting past it to think critically about the skills being used. I have a strong bias against that sound; lot’s of people love it and I’m not a hater. Just really biased. LOL.

More on this though:
“- The transistions between tracks are very close together in a lot of cases. While this can create drama and excitement in a mix, it can also be quite tiring to listen to and frustrating if you’re just starting to get into a tune and then it vanishes! It’s a great skill to be able to move quickly between multiple tracks, but perhaps use it sparingly.”

I do this a LOT when I’m mixing but I play in a style that supports it. Since I play things that are either a bit minimal/more basic in their structure or the opposite, really heavy and distorted and layered, I can usually pull it off and the drama and tension GroovePunk mentioned comes across. If you have your heart set on the big room style and want to move quickly between songs then you should spend some time looking at the waveforms and imagining them superimposed over each other. Visualize your music. These types of tracks, viewed instead of heard, are a totally different color on the palette than what I play for example. The tunes I play get to the point fast, drop hard, and drop long; so the building of said tension and drama falls to the DJ and how he uses that particular bit of ammo. They spend the majority of their length in the groove whereas this big room stuff is the opposite; it spends most of it’s time creating tension and drama through build up and breakdown and build up again. The actual meat of the track (as I see it) is usually in two very small sections. Let those sections breath. Mix in key and learn to mix looong instead of short, like Sasha and Digweed did back in the dayo. Master your EQ and weave those parts together because you’ve chosen a sound that demands that.

“Utility bangers” can be mashed up, double dropped, beat juggled, and otherwise manhandled because they’re essentially produced to be just that…ammo, colors to be mixed into something else. The big room anthem stuff isn’t…it’s more musical and elaborate and needs to be manipulated differently.