DJ Mixing Tutorial Demonstration on Mixing Tech House Slapfunk Records Raw Joints Vol 4

0:00 In this video we're mixing a genre known as tech house

Right, in this video we're mixing a genre known as tech house. Some people may call it minimalistic house but whatever. These two tracks are orgasmically amazing period. There's you know the way of describing this kind of genre is it's about the energy of the vibe. These are not big room tracks with loads going on. These are just tracks that just give so much energy with the pure, pure simplicity of the tracks themselves. Now they're from Slap Funk number 11. It's from an album called Raw Joints number 4. I hope I pronounced everything correctly here. We have Sagacious on the right hand side by Julian Alexander and then on the left hand side we have Lock Lead, a track entitled Keep Going which is just amazing. Now at the moment what I'm going

To do I'm just going to play you both of the tracks and by the way I would like to say a big thank you very much to Slap Funk for letting me use these tracks in the videos. Now again you're picking up the audio via the camera. In fact if you don't do it I'm going to go to your house and stick something up your nightdress all right. You have got to go and get these tracks because they are just amazing. Amazingly mentally brilliant. Right so let's have a listen to Julian Alexander's cut. He's just got it. Now at the moment as well I've got the pitch, now I have anyway, set to the centre point. So this track you know again I haven't gone through Rekordbox or anything. This is pretty much the

Same thing. It's not so much energy, it's a nice bounce to it but also I can picture listening to that you know outside with your headphones on pitch black overlooking the sea or maybe not pitch black, the moon is out and you've just got a nice quiet evening, an eerie kind of evening. That track would just serve the purpose so well there. It would make you think oh I'm going to be floating away here without any drugs even. Right okay so let's check out Left Hand Side. Left Hand Side. This is by far one of my favourite tracks at the moment. I mean this, something about it. I don't know. Not that one. It's the same damn track. Here we go, here we go. Now this track is reminiscent of Relief Records from years ago. Casual relief

That kind of style. I remember if I can get the name of it, I'll put it in the description there was one track from Relief Records that has got a lot of the energy of this same track and this is one of my favourite tracks out there. So this is one of my favourite tracks. So this just builds and builds and builds into this twisted, eargasmic experience. Amazing. Now again, this track is at the centre point 123 BPM. You've got that nice kind of almost Muse style acid feel in here as well. And there you go. There is that vibe. Do you see what I mean about tracks like this? You don't need much, all you need is the energy and the vibe. The rest does it for itself. Loving it, absolutely loving it. Okay so using tracks

4:34 Maybe have a bit of filter

Like this, especially the likes of sort of tech house styles, what we need to do is we need to form very very long transitions. They've got to be long because it gives the DJ the time to really experiment and just go to town with the fading of one track into the other. And the track that I just played now, what we're going to do is let that intro blend in to the other side. To the other track. So the objective here is to have maybe even a 1632 bar mix and a slow transition. Maybe have a bit of filter. I'm not going to use any echo because I don't want to spoil the track. What I can do though is by using a little filter we can just maybe twist it slightly. It's a little bit like getting a woman's nipple and go

Beep beep beep like oh yeah but whatever I can say what I want. Right now also what I'm going to do is I want to uplift the complete energy of this mix so I have got plus or minus 16 percent on the players so very quickly what does that mean? Well let's imagine if the tempo, the pitch was at plus or minus 10 percent and let's imagine we have a track at 100 bpm that would mean if I move the pitch all the way away from me the track would slow down to 90 bpm bring it towards me it would go to 110 so the same applies with 16 percent bring it towards me it would go to 116 move it away from me it would go to 84. So what you can do you can increase or decrease the speed of the track by 60. Now I'm not a huge mathematician so god knows what it's going to be with 120 odd but anyway

I am going to because I'm going to go from the right hand side to the left I'm going to speed up Julian Alexander tune. Now straight away I have given that tune a lot more vibe and energy by speeding it up. Okay so on about 2 minutes 45 seconds left what I'm going

To do is I'm going to go from the left hand side to the right hand side and I'm going to speed it up so I'm going to go from the left hand side to the right hand side. Now notice as well I just brought in I'm not touching the bass middle treble now that's because this track here keep going he's quite a low volume at the beginning anyway and I know that by looking at the wave format it's a sweep as well if I move the dial to the left we'll start to eliminate some of the energy of the beat on the left hand side chopping it up.

Bring it back in a loop on the other side finish off with a spin back straight in we keep going. What I love about this tune as well every eight bars you've got that

Listen all right don't forget there will be a link in the description to these tracks okay once again a big shout out thank you very much indeed to Slap Funk Records for letting me use these eargasmic tunes. In this video practice and enjoy thank you.

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