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Caru, post: 9717 wrote: I really need some new ideas for this. At the moment I’m only using beatport, I usually give their sales charts for my preferred styles a quick listen and then decide I don’t like them, so then I listen through the DJ charts for the same styles and usually find tracks I like. It’s worked so far, but always wonder if I could be doing more.

Mixcloud is the best for this, find a mix with a good set of choons you like, and click through the tags on the tunes, to find other djs using a tune you like and see what they have mixed the tune with.. make a note of the ones you like, click on the “Buy ” tags to get a copy of the tune , dead easy…
Unless you go on some handsome sexy god of a dj’s mixcloud profile – called something like Ulysses i think,
the sounds he mostly uses might be a bit harder to get your hands on legally.. 😉

Ha ha i got sidetracked my mate released his new EP on to Juno download today so i’ve been messing with some of his remixes… Watch this space!

Every good DJ i know is harder on themself then any critic, i’m sure its what keeps them good!
For example, your mix, its sounds great to me, but you, i bet when YOU listen to the rip, your thinking “i could have brought a certain choon in better then that, i could have done that differently to get it sounding better”

Hey i STILL do that after 20 years lol!
To be honest live you’ll get away with it, in fact the crowd will buzz off tweaking the mid / hi eq’s to give the kicks on the incoming tune more presence ( Shhh its a secret 😉 ) but remember to bring them back in line once the transition is done, or you’ll risk taking each mix higher and higher every time and clipping eventually
Recording a mix is a bit different because the audience can rewind and listen over n over.. And on that point i have a mate who is older and a million times more experienced then me, who when recording a mix, even though to my ears is note, gain and drop perfect, he will run that “Perfect” mix through Cubase until he’s satisfied

I dont especially look for new music, i get ideas from other DJ’s mixes or if i am searching its on Discogs for odd or unusual remixes of stuff i already have

^^^ What Hessler said, but..
If you do take it apart, here is an old Auto mechanics trick..
Once disassembled and the case or cover is off, put all the screws BACK in to the holes that they thread in to, where possible, and if knobs or controls had to be removed, place them back on too.

And definitely the last point.. Unplug before inspection! I have forgotten the number of electrical belts i have got off faulty dj or sound gear in the dark distant past, its a miracle im alive today when i look back…

Consider yerself bein’ followed..
Aint got time for the full half hour tonight, ill get on the rest of this mix tomoro and report back 😉