I had the night off, so I figured I’d put together a new mix. In ending Mix 29 with Creep, I felt like it had a good beat for a transition, but did nothing. So, as a first for my ‘Rough Drafts‘, I reused a track to take the end of Creep and mix it into Spaceship.
Spaceship is by Galantis who, I’ve mixed twice. Love No More is by Loud Luxury. I’ve mixed their track Body, which has an eerily similar melody. It’s a fun, simple mix with a sound all its own. But it definitely has commonality with some of my previous works.
” Almost everything in life worth doing is controlled by the Dip. At the beginning, when you first start something, it’s fun. The Dip is the long slog between starting and mastery. The Dip is the difference between the easy “beginner” technique and the more useful “expert” approach in skiing or fashion design. “
I think professionally and in DJing, I am experiencing the dip. And on both fronts, I am making progress. For DJing, I’ve committed to practicing skills 10 minutes every day (motivating article here). It’s not much but it adds up to over an hour per week. Not bad for a minor hobby. In my first week of doing it, the improvements are notable. I’ve edited my first beat grid for Little of Your Love in this mix. I also nudged tracks in real time to get the beat syncing a little tighter.
That said, the mixing is fairly light weight in mix. I use a beat jump and an echo effect to skip over a rap verse I didn’t like in Summer Love. Feeling like I always just use the low pass filter to transition between tracks, this time I use a high pass between Summer Love and Little of Your Love.
