So here's an idea… DJing in odd meter time signatures..

with the blessing of hindsight I probably should’ve written “mixing in odd meter time signatures” rather then DJing… but you get the idea…

that sounds pretty cool, I’m guessing it was impossible due to the grooves and loose/free playing?

I’m still very new to live mixing but I encountered that problem with pink floyd’s – time, trying to mix it with some psytrance (sacrilege maybe? but fun nonetheless :P) the part where the tempo drops dramatically and the groove becomes very loose (right near the end where the vox go “home, home again…” etc) thought it’d make a really nice & unexpected mix throwing it in during a big trancy breakdown where the drums drop out.. anyway I ended up using an acapella groups cover simply because they quantized it pretty solidly and it enabled me to drop it anywhere over anything without constant nudging to keep it all beatsync’d…

I imagine keeping things in key would’ve be a headache it you were pitch shifting in order to beatsync? were you using your ears to detect harmony after pitch shifting or use a softwares pitch detection function? I’m still getting used to all the features available these days but so far I’ve realized that the key’s given by the software is only handy if mixing things at their original tempos and once I hit that sync button (without keylock on because keylock generally sounds poo over more then +/-2 pitch difference) I gotta rely on my ears…

I’m into the music by a psychedelic electronic act called shpongle, they draw from a broad range of influences including jazz and latin, a few songs are in 7/8 and I’m interested in incorporating some trad’ jazz into my sets too, coltrane, pharoah sanders, I’ll probably start with ‘take five’, being the gateway song that got me into jazz.. pretty keen to mix some herbie hancock too..

I think the most challenging thing harmonically for me will be when I start mixing indian ragga’s and trad’ chinese music.. or some other kinds of microtonal stuff, tribal instruments and alternate concert pitch tunings..

cheers for the post terry, its got my mind buzzing with ideas again… 🙂
Peace.

Terry! can’t thankyou enough man, I’d not heard of the camelot wheel before but it’s exactly what I’ve been looking for, I thought I was actually going to have to memorize the cycle of 5ths or develop perfect pitch, I was seriously thinking that learning classical piano was my best bet..and along comes the camelot wheel to save me yrs of time… 🙂 cheers again.. off to buy mixed in key now.. 🙂 gotta say this website has turned out to be more of a blessing then i expected.. when I was looking into the mixed in key software you mentioned it was a review from here that I happened to click on.. seems everything I want to know more about so far there’s been a video for from DDJT.. very cool..

Peace

greets to u dj vintage,

yeah I’m thoroughly enjoying learning about all the new tech about these days and how much easier everything is to do, it frees up my brain RAM for creativity… still not into the more automated side of things.. bpm detect, key detect (the way mixed in key does it) and sync I really dig, paired with a good audio converter and mp3gain and i’m set… not so into the automix stuff or ‘beat grid for mixing’ stuff tho..

cheers for the post,
peace