Songs That Beat-Mix Almost Perfectly

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Sweet but you havent truly adventured until you mix Push It (Salt N Pepa) into The CIRCUS POLKA!!
 
It's scary - once you've been mixing for a long time, you start to hear mixes in your head when you hear a song for the first couple of times. As an example, a couple of years ago, the very first time I heard Weezer's 'Beverly Hills', I knew that I would be able to mix Joan Jett's "I Love Rock'N'Roll" out if it to get a great response from the dancefloor. And, when I actually did that mix for a crowd, I was pleased to get those "Ooohs" and "Whoas" from the crowd.


And now a favorite from "back in the day"....

"What's On Your Mind" - Information Society

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"Security" - The Beat Club


Great as a transition into darker dance music. And once you match them up, the long intro on "Security" and the long mix break in "What's On Your Mind" work great as you can let them interplay for nearly a minute.
 
Ed The Sawk said:
Sweet but you havent truly adventured until you mix Push It (Salt N Pepa) into The CIRCUS POLKA!!
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I used to mess around all the time, mixing bizarre combinations and laying them onto my old cassette four-track TasCam. If only I had those old tapes now...

One of my faves was looping down a techno drum bed. And then over the top I dropped Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl". It was a lot of fun! A few of my DJ buddies wanted me to put it onto vinyl and sell it as a remix, but it was too much cash out of my pocket, so I never did it. :sqmad:
 
That circus polka thing evolved into a techno track as well around time Sesames Treat and Oh Fortuna first broke. I had a guy who wanted to take me to his vinyl cutting friend to produce it.............it never happened but Im sure it would have been unique and possibly enjoyed.
 
do you think that sticking to exactly one genre of music is important in order to beat-match? i've seen people at the school dance switch between trance and ballads.
 
L142 said:
do you think that sticking to exactly one genre of music is important in order to beat-match? i've seen people at the school dance switch between trance and ballads.
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no need to stay in same genre....
I'll mix Sweet Home Alabama to In Da Club by 50 cent.....freakin' cool crowd reaction...
 
Sorry for the hijack but I just heard Ozzy and Dwezell doing a cover of Stayin Alive...:sqerr: it's freakin awesome.. I Swear ..
 
jtnichol said:
no need to stay in same genre....
I'll mix Sweet Home Alabama to In Da Club by 50 cent.....freakin' cool crowd reaction...
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but trance into ballad? or vice versa?
 
L142 said:
but trance into ballad? or vice versa?
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Take the end of "I hope you dance" and slowly bring in your favorite trance song. The end of "I hope you dance" will have a half time feel compared to the straight beats presented by the trance.

I do admit that its somewhat of a stretch, but with good song choice anything is possible....
 
Thinking Out Loud

L142 said:
do you think that sticking to exactly one genre of music is important in order to beat-match? i've seen people at the school dance switch between trance and ballads.
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Hey, whatever works. Did the kids stay on the dance floor? If they did, then it worked, eh?

I beat-match all kinds of genres together--Country AND Western! :p

I nag about this all the time, so I may as well nag some more:

Do not confine your talents. For the same reason that DJs should NOT choose to mix songs JUST because the BPMs match, DJs should not constrain their creativity by thinking that the GENREs have to match.

You playing in front of a COUNTRY crowd in a hole in downtown Abbotsford? DO NOT mix genres.

You want to follow the latest hit at a wedding with a crappy 50 Cent song just because the BPMs fit? DO NOT.

You mix genres and people are happy? Maybe do it again next time. People aren't happy? DO NOT do it again with those songs.

You play WE GOT THE BEAT at a slightly slower speed, and mix it into YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG at 45rpm AND increased speed and then slow it down so it sounds less like the ANGRY CHIPMUNKS and people like it at a college party? Maybe try it again, but maybe still DO NOT go out of your way to try it at a wedding.

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U cant touch this by MC Hammer to Super freak by Rick James.

Im going back to Cali by Notorious BIG to More bounce by Roger & Zapp.

My Humps to Push it.
 
Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy into Hypnotize by Notorious BIG. I've done it a few times at bar gigs.

Lately I've been playing a 16 beat loop from Sexyback over the last verse of the Ca Ca Slide, switch to Sexyback, then mix into Say It Right by Nelly Furtado.
 
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