Posts Tagged ‘dj’
my first trance mix (transcendental dreams)
As much as I loathe anything that begins with “My First” or “My”, I guess the time has come to make one. I threw together some tracks with my handy dandy xponent mixer-controller. The mix weighs in at 64 minutes, so it’s CD-able (meaning feel free to burn it onto a CD, if you still use those 
It’s far from perfect since I am still trying to learn beat matching better (they say it takes months and months of practice), but hopefully you enjoy the track selection. Some newer tracks, mostly old tho since that’s what i know better.
There’s two versions, one that’s a zip of split up into individual tracks and one long mix (you’ll need to right click (or ctrl-click on the mac) and choose Save As.. if it instead starts playing in your browser). If you like to skip around the songs you’ll want the former, if you don’t care and always listen to it straight through from beginning to end, the later should suit you fine.
Tracklist:
- Plastic Boy - Twixt (Original Mix)
- Ian Van Dahl - Try (Micheal Woods Remix)
- Insigma - Open Your Eyes (Instrumental)
- Ayu - Connected (Push Instrumental Dub)
- Space Brothers - Heaven Will Come
- Deepstar - Pacific
- Rusch & Murray - Epic
- Robert Nickson - Close Your Eyes (Vocal Mix)
- Rising Star - Clear Blue Moon
- Tilt - The World Doesn’t Know
- DT8 - Destination (Instrumental)
- Oceanlab - Sky Falls Down (AvB Mix)
- Plastix - Release
I spent a ridiculous amount of time on this trying to make it as perfect as I can (at my early stage DJ’ing), so hopefully it doesn’t suck too bad If you like trance, check it out!
learning to DJ..
I got pretty interested in mixing, ala dj-style a few weeks ago and purchased a mixer, well, sort of. It’s actually software based but has a usb controller (via midi). The one I went with is the M-Audio Xponent. I already found Torq beforehand, had to [k]rack it myself so i could get familiar with it but yah, having a dedicated controller is way more productive than trying to use mouse clicks in multiple places
reason i wanted to try my hand at this (yet another) hobby is because for a long time i wish i had more control about what songs go into a mix cd you make for people. plus dj’ing hip hop is a lot of fun but dj’ing trance is actually a lot harder than i ever imagined :-\
As for a DJ name, well everything i could think of was taken (esp. DJ cynikal).. so i decided to use DJ Loose Key, as my dj handle, since it’s basically how people mispronounce most of my last name