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Good tips for mixing Chill out and Dub
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ziggystardust
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Posted : Mar 26, 2012 14:46
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I'll be having my first set at a psyschedelic/chillout event. Will be playing psychedelic rock. Any tips would be appreciated. -) |
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Gunter
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Posted : Mar 26, 2012 15:23
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My tip sounds like a joke, but it is meant seriously: Practise! |
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DjSchofield
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Posted : Mar 26, 2012 23:08
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Brett from Tibet's post on the previous page lays it down pretty sweetly. I'd say for rock you'd be using his method of mixing intros and outros.
Above all, have fun.
Know your music. And definitely practise - it's good to have something up your sleeve at least to get you started.
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psy-baba
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Posted : Mar 27, 2012 07:45
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On 2012-03-26 14:46, ziggystardust wrote:
I'll be having my first set at a psyschedelic/chillout event. Will be playing psychedelic rock. Any tips would be appreciated. -)
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woah, david bowie dj'ing at at a psy/chill event! would love to witness that.
cool that he chose to come to isratrance for his tips! 
`... and in that moment I knew the answer.' |
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Gunter
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Posted : Mar 27, 2012 09:34
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Yeah, having fun, mostly leads to good results, if one is still conscious of course.  |
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ziggystardust
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Posted : Mar 27, 2012 21:35
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The thing is, that I have zero DJ'ing experience. What I plan to do is mixing live the songs that are already coherent with each others, and whichs introes and outros can fuse together relatively seamlessly. On the other hand, i'll be preparing/mixing in advance the tracks that need precise timing and are trickier to mix. |
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DjSchofield
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Posted : Mar 27, 2012 22:11
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Gunter
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Posted : Mar 28, 2012 09:12
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DJin Chill Out is very easy and very difficult at the same time. It can be very easy, if you only look at the technical mixing aspects (sometimes Intro/Outro is enough). But it can be very heavy, if one has no feeling for the flow. I think, that it is much harder to find a good flow, if you compare it to trance music. In Chill Out tracks can be so different. It is amazing. So it can be a lot harder to create a flow. |
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a3k
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Posted : Mar 28, 2012 18:14
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^^ totally agree with your insight Gunter 
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ziggystardust
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Posted : Apr 7, 2012 11:58
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Hey. Everything went much better than expected. It was priceless seeing lots of heads nod, bang, and people chilling out to the music I was playing. I got a lot of compliments and questions about songs.
Mostly played obscure psychedelic rock/neo-psychedelia, but put a couple of recognizable tunes (White Rabbit, Purple Haze...) for people to sing along to.
I kind of hesitated to put some heavy psych/stoner metal in there, which tend to have heavy guitar distortion and fast bluesy soloes ... but people seemed to appreciate that pure rocking-out material the most.
I'd like to thank everyone who answered my question. All your responses were valued. I did practice a lot, and mainly concentrated on the flow the set, rather than mixing technicalities. Kept it mostly intro/outro mixing.
Peace. |
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