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From: "Matthew MacQueen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>ha... no worries! Such is the life of someone who chooses to mix
this mad style! it's a cross to bear i hear ya ;) i feel like
some of it does work well for a fast cut-n-paste fashion, while
others (esp. the stringy ones) you can really ride and wring them
out over some acapella beats. But to always take the safe
transitions, intros and outtros is just too boring.
really, its impossible to play a tight beat matched set of broken
beat. the snares and kick drums just never line up exactly, so
youre going to get some weird drum hits. its like mixing old
jungle, theres just nothing you can do about it except try to make
it sound as decent as possible.
>I have yet to hear a super-locked-down-tight mix of something
with this much differing percussion signatures and polyrhythmic
breaks and disjointed action going on... and in the cases where I
know the tracks being played, I can often hear even the most
experienced DJs taking a mixture of risks and 'safely mixes' (ha)
the ambient or beatless break areas as places to 'take' to the
next new track, Orrin Walters included.
ive heard that Dego does that as well. what i usually do is to try
to alternate a minimal track and a complex vocalish track. that
way you can do decent mixes without too much clanging around.
trying to mix 2 really lush stringy broken beat tracks with
different beats can and usually does just sound really akward.
> Not the noodley, faux-jazz wonky stuff, (which i am fading fast
on) but the real experimental 'technosoul' side of it, like
mustang, titonton, domu, aardvarck(!difficult!), rednose, genre,
numbian mindz, seiji, nu era, son of scientist, moonstar, total
science, etc.
that stuff is the bomb for sure. especially the recent titonton,
that guy is totally crushing things.
>frankly i think it is (and should be) mixed with other genres to
really stand out and create impact.. I love to hear it with
similar 'feeling' 4/4 stuff too, UR especially comes to mind,
Ibex, Recloose, As One, Urban Tribe, even Plaid.. (not exactly 4/4
but you know what i mean).
ive been playing some housier things with it as well, like some
osunlade, KDJ, etc.
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From: "Phonopsia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>This is both my experience of it clubbing, and my inclination
musically. I
>think most of the tracks on this mix reflect that sort of track
selection
>too. I especially wanted a lot of it to have a sting-y or tech-y
edge and
>wanted to get a lot of stripped-down stuff in there (for [313]
appeal), even
>if it wasn't all as minimal as some of those more recent Seiji
remixes, like
>his remix of Titonton which almost seems to be going too far in
the other
>direction towards a broken beat tracky-ness??? Weird. I mean
there's nothing
>wrong with it, but it kills the appeal that draws me to this
stuff if it
>isn't very lively.
yeah i was really suprised by that especially because seiji's
opaque stuff is usually my favorite of his tracks. however the
titonton original makes up for it by being a track that might
never leave my record box, the perfect combo of techno and broken
stuff.
>Hehe. That's why I was so surprised by trying to do this. I've
always been
>adding it into house and techno sets, which I think works really
well as a
>transition, or just some spice. I'll probably never try another
all-broken
>beat set again, unless I get booked for it or something.
the best part about broken beat stuff is that it varies so much,
you can really play house, techno, electro, or 2-step stuff with
it and it will sound pretty decent. i think its the current
perfect meeting of the best dance music avaliable.
tom
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