I’ve mentioned in some previous posts that I’m taking a course on digital dj’ing with Traktor. This is my first assignment: transition betweeen two tracks of the same genre 3 times. I guess this isn’t really all that new for me since that’s pretty much what my mixes have been. But the experience has been really fun!
To get started, I tried to mix using just my laptop on a flight back from MD. It is definitely more difficult than with my Traktor Kontrol S2. But I think the real problem was that the tracks didn’t flow that well together. Yo Gotti’s track Oh Yeah uses Juvenile’s style of ending every line with ‘Ha?’. So I tried to mix the two together, but it just never really flowed.
Back in my Studio, I did the final 3 mixes. Mix B wasn’t really anything new; two R&B track. Mix C was my first mix of Drum & Bass tracks. I picked my two favorite artists from the genre; London Elektricity and High Contrast. It turned out ok. The entry of the 2nd track comes in a little too forceful (as opposed to smooth).
Mix E was the highlight. It’s to electronic dance tracks; which I often mix. But the twist was that I manually beat matched the two! To do so, I turned off sync and BPM display. While you don’t have 100% granularity, I ended up adjusting the 2nd track to 125.03 BPM to match track A’s 125 BPM. That’s as good as I could get.
Enjoy!
Mix B
Mix C
Mix E