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Here are 5 types of transitions. Be creative, use these transitions for a more versatile dj-mix.  1. Overlapping 1 beat over the other, also known as beatmatching. Here you need to have the same tempo on both decks. Crossfading from 1 track to the other. 2.Eq transition, Cutting the bass and dropping in the other tracks deck (also with the bass dropped). Then bring back the bass on the new track 3.spinnout. rewinding the main track by backcueing the record back. 4. FX. Put a echo on the outro section and then bring in the record from the other deck. 5. Breaks, breaking the record, pushin motor off to stop the turntable. The sound of the turntableplatter makes a unique sound.  Also in  FX-section in traktor, serato etc for controllers.

The dj/producer role, rather than just producer? The dj plays other artists records, even if its just 1 genre of Music. The playlists are a multicolor palette and the artists own music is just a single color. Its all about listening, both as a dj and as a producer. It makes you understand song composition, arrangement, style so much better. Even if you dont get the time to produce as many songs as when just producing, your exposure to a audience will increase doin more things than 1. More things to see, more sides of a artist. Learn djing from producing, and vice versa Things like harmonic mixing can be more easily understud if you have a musical ear. What key a track is in. This can be inherited from your part of also being a producer. Timeing, rhythm and pitch. These are all common things shared between dj and producing. They are the basics of making sound. Music theory with things like if its in major or minor, if its a fast or  slow. Measures for frequent used time division

I have collected vinyl records since the year 1999. Hip hop records, soul, funk and records of interest. The turntableism scene was huge back then. Buying records was my hobby. Records never been cheap. But when not affording brand new records, I started to dig in the crates at fleemarkets. Always looking for sounds. Nobody of my friends digged for vinyl at that point. I was a outsider. Visiting recordshop as often as I could. By somewhere in the 2010's Ive collected over 500-1000 vinyl records. The Music wasnt that important at that point, vinyl records became underground again. Recordshops closed, I moved back to a city were the there hardly were any recordshops at all. I was a fleemarket vinyl collector more than a dj. After a period I got a big interest for cassette tapes. This was the thing for me. No more snobby audio formats. Music was so good again that I could listen to a noisey version on the worst quality cassettedeck and still enjoy the music. I gave away

Looking at vinyl on the internet I notice alot of self distributed vinylrecords, without the help of recordlabels. Todays musician doesnt allways need a recordlabel to distribute a record. It can be directly from the artist. The independant self powered musician today is perhaps as big or even bigger than the  recordlabels. Since there are more musicians than recordlabels, the vinyl scene is a huge thing with indie artists, if you are looking for vinyl from commercial artists. Then its common that they only make limited releases on vinyl too. The whitelabel vinylrecord: Is worth more than a recordlabel printed vinyl. This is because of the limited copies. But what if there are more whitelabel vinyls than there are industryprinted LP records. Then the whitelabel is pointless? A artist discography is often more exclusive if there is a limited amount of whitelabel vinyls before he or she starts to release with a record label. But if the limited copies of the record labels are les

Most of us who have produced Music for more than perhaps a decade have a nostalgia for old gear. Often very basic setups, but enough to maybe make a first record with it. But were they really that good? or did they just make us more creative? I started making electronic music with software, then moved to a hardware setup with just a few pieces of gear. I remember my first sampler, the Zoom ST224 phrase sampler. It had 8 voice polyphony, 16 mb of ram, 8 drumpads, 3 banks, Effect processor, sample editing and  resampling capabilities. It didnt have a perhaps say a AKai s950 sound but it was special and its limitations made me work around it. I finished a first demo in the early 2000's with it, slaving the device over midi to a 4-track portastudio and then importing the wavs to a computer. This was my 1st music setup. Using my Technics 1200 to sample from, and then editing and looping on the Zoom st224, making the arrangement as a live session and recording it over to a zoom

super fresh deeper house songs, 30 minute spotify playlist for the x-mas holidays. Energetic songs in deeper house style. Playlist on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Gfmp5BP6QXHtvteO3Rpfk?si=B_Eqm-c7QgGFAdgOosjeTw

If you you look at DJ's today and wonder why they are so popular, they just blend records. Then the Picture of the dj seems more like a pop thing then a profession. Lets go back to the beginnings of the radio broadcast. Radio was the center of the livingroom. Families gathered around the radio in the evenings to hear the latest news. During the 40's this technology was a important thing to have. The radio DJ wasnt a profession yet, the workers were simply called radiostaff. They had 78rpm records and early magnetic tape to play pre-recorded media on the radio. Fast forward to the 60's with the beatles era, new music was broadcasted. The 7inch vinylrecord became popular. Radio Djs became a thing. They played radiosingles. Youth culture made its way in the world. You had peoples in US listening to British popbands. Beastles, Rolling stones. The record was the thing for the new generation. But media wasnt still focused of youth culture yet. It was still for the older ge

Are there many differences between a DVS and a dj controller? Dj controllers are portable, there are lots of midi mapping capabilties, Everything is direct. controllers often has a built in soundcard. There are many ways to mix music. There are no rules really to what type of gear you should DJ with. 1 dj can say this is the prefered mixing equipment wile the other say he likes totally different gear. Its really up to you with what dj-gear you think works for you. I wanted to see what the main differences are between a digital vinyl system, and a dj controller. Here are my experiences In terms of gear you need when mixing with timecode vinyl: 2 vinyl players, preferably with direct drive, 2 pickups(needles), 2 timecodevinyls, a 2 channel audiomixer, a soundcard, a laptop, and software. With a dj controller you only need a laptop, thats it. and the software. controllers: -faster song cueing -custom midi mapping -often includes pads for hotcues -only usb cable to c

There are different types of deejays. Some dedicate the mixing for the club, and some to mixtape recording. Then there are also scratch dj's, radio and wedding dj's, but I'll focus this article on the club vs mixtape dj this time. In a club you have the DJ working a fullnight in a lowlight enviroment, High volumes, perhaps also people interacting with you. This takes a lot of effort, djing involves lots of things simultaniously. You need to know mixing really well to fluently blend records in a club. Specially if its for a dancefloor. Then you have the social media posters, selfies, mobilephones constantly taking photos. If there is a fluent mix going on, harmonically to the what the dj intend the dancefloor to be. This is positive and works for promoting the dj. But if the dancefloor is almost empty, there are any technical problems. This can give bad promotion. Many things can be problematic as  a club DJ. But there are also advanteges. Club DJ Good - nonstop

Serato Dj Lite is a free version of Serato. It can be used with or without a dj-controller. This latest version include beatgrids that shows lines on the beatmatching dispay. It helps give a visual representation if its in sync with the other track. The Demo tracks are well produced, they sound and they are real tracks. There are 3 hip-hop and 3 housetracks to get you started with the program. What I like about this version is that it has help and a new features section when the program is launched for the first time. There are basic mixing features in this version, but enough to get you thru a mix session. New features in the Serato Dj Lite software - beatgrids - Free demotracks - in app onboarding Serato is a dj standard, the program has a wide support for many dj controllers. But to unlock features for using timecodevinyl you need to buy the pro version. You can use this DJ Lite version only with a mouse, but I recommend using a DJ-controller instead. There is also

Cassettes started to make its way back again after the resurgence of vinyl records in 2017. Music genres like hip hop, punk and dance Music, were a great part of making it popular amongs Music listeners again. The format was more or less gone and absolete before that. In postmodern Music culture there are allways retrotrends coming back every now and then. That ment a format of the past were all of sudden supertrendy and its characteristics were in spotlight to how music should sound. Music is very much focused on whats right. That ment also looking at a format that was so wrong that it became "right". The only stock left from The BASF Company that manufactured magnetic tape that remained in the 2010's were embraced by small indiependent companys to rescue the format for new music listeners. A format isnt all about its sonic quality, but also about its culture around it. The audio cassettes were a great part of hip-hop Culture in the 80's. The mixtape movement cr

7 bandcamp releases from 7 bands. great productions, some of them established artists and producers, and some newer to the scene. All producers tracks are in similar tune and mood. Recommended! Go check them out. 1. Caliti - Rose Quartz (Original Mix) https://caliti.bandcamp.com/track/rose-quartz-original-mix Gooey EP by Caliti 2. DejayKul - No Stoppin' https://enyoiyouzelfrecords.bandcamp.com/track/no-stoppin No Stoppin' EP by DeejayKul 3. Long Island sound - I Still Love you https://longislandsoundsos.bandcamp.com/track/i-still-love-you Broken Signals by Long Island Sound 4. Martin Bausch - Drum Me https://soundsoverseas.bandcamp.com/track/martin-bausch-drum-me Various Artists by Sounds Over Seas 5.Capeesh Society - Midnight Blues https://capeeshsociety.bandcamp.com/track/midnight-blues Blues EP (CAPSOC005) by Capeesh Society 6. Iivyy - Something https://iivvyy.bandcamp.com/track/something iivvyy EP 2 by iivvyy 7. U-tracks -

Lets look at a OLD Torq Connectiv digital vinyl system that unfortnately is discontinued and is no longer supported, But I kept it because I find the software intresting. I recall liking this alot a few years back when it was available. The Timestretching were really complex. If i remember correctly it was called elastic timestretching. It was developed by m-audio. The vinyl system was called TORQ and was sold as a package with a connectiv soundcard, a pair of timecode vinyls and timecode cd's along with the software. They also made dj-controllers for the Torq software. This DVS version like other systems it featured  stereo ins for both decks and stereo out for both channel to the mixer. It had a really powerful realtime processing capability and supported heavy scratching with wav's. The software supported both win and mac. The user interface in Torq had a dark ambient theme. It had a browser for navigating to folders in the bottom and on the top an bea

Old vestax Product catalog from june 1999. Showing the pdx turntable series. Mix master mike is featured in it with a pdx turntable, note the pdx-a2s has an red tonearm, and on the Picture hes holding one with an grey tonearm. Perhaps a prototype version? Last page shows accessories and a hifi turntable, the BDT-2000 

Giving my reflections on the Technics 1200. Recently Technics started to manufacture the iconic turntable again with the mk7 series. Are they still relevant as a dj-turntable? It was 1978 and technics released the Technics SL1200MK2 Hi-fi turntable. It featured an rubbercasing bottom, an aluminium top, direct drive quartz lock motor, an adjustable antiskating system and tonearm, rubber feet. a 8 +- pitch adjustment. This turntable was very early picked up by the dj-comunity and its features became a standard in the disc jockey World. Technics is an exclusive brand, they handbuilt their equipment, still to this day. but after a 40-year is it still relevant? Its very classic in its design. But it doesnt color the sound like retro gear do, like lets say like a old neve recording desk, or a urei dj-mixer. the sound is perhaps too transparent. The turntable allways had a high pricetag, its an HI-Fi turntable. Its handbuilt in Japan. The fixed rca cables in the ba

I made  an review of Native Instruments traktor Scratch pro 3 upgrade recently, so I thought I could do a Review of Traktor's Slipmats too. They are developed by thud rumble and native instruments and are called butterrugs. Its a ultraslim feltmat with a Traktor print on 1 side and the butterrug on the other side. The slipmats are stiff and allows the backcueing of the vinyl record to go without to much of friction. But the backcueing is not superloose either. Maybe thats why the slipmat has different fabric on each side. I dont experience any diference when turning it upside down on the turntable. The friction stays the same. These are with turntableists in mind and are ment to be used for scratching. There's often an noise generated from slipmats when backspinning, but these give an much lower noise than with normal slipmats when backcueing/scratching. Because of the thinn fabric there is maybe less vibration absorbing on bigger P.A systems. The price is 20

Another great playlist for ya! Still Deep, still house! These tracks are on the Hype and new releases section on beatport in the Deep house category december 2019 with songs from: Franck Roger - Bazzy Rick Wade - Angry Orchestra Silkwormagic, Tillman - TTB-11LD - Tillman Remix The Checkup - Want me Max Telaer, Rawdio - Do it - Rawdios Rollin' Remix Listen to the 30 minute playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1I8TqR4Z0TaiisJIfZrGsx?si=XWlAbkJaSZuCvJov7JnFgg buy the songs on beatport www.beatport.com/

Add some vocals to your set. With a microphone you can easily add flavor to a mix. You can use the vocals to transition to another track, with a small paus between the songs you can drop the vocal just before the next song comes in. Most DJ-mixers have a microphone input. But make sure  not to overdrive the microphone when speaking, or the sound might go into cheap karaoke style. There are useful techniques when speaking into a microphone by holding your thumb inbetwen the microphone membrane and your mouth, this is to reduce the "pop" sound or just by turning the mic at a 45 degree angle. Using these techniques will make your vocals sound cleaner. Have a notepad with some words are maybe rhymes written on it, just to know what to say when you want to drop the vocals. If mixing and speaking is not possible at the same time, then wait until after you transitioned the track into the other, the intro to the next track is often not as busy as a Chorus section. Also do speak

New and improved features in Traktor pro 3. Best DVS? or just better? use Traktor pro 3 Scratch from any soundcard Harmonic mixing land on beat with FLX new timestretch algorithm new effects new look Lots of new things with the new Traktor Pro 3. First of all the user interface is updated, and many other things like the algorithm for the effects  & timestretch is new. Also new features for mixing  in harmonic key. It looks good and the program feels solid. No crashes since upgrading from Traktor scratch 2. All my playlists are still there, and the music. I had to re-configure the external controller I have allongside the DVS. And the mapping for the old controller didnt migrate 100%, but after manually mapping the system was up and running again. Im not a user who uses all of the functions in the software, so I visited native-instruments to see exactly what the new features were. Harmonic mixing is a new feature for me. The efx list is updated too. But first into th

Finding hard to find Music? - Bandcamp is the answer Maybe not as hard to find as the beatles first pressing on vinyl, but when looking for house/electronic Music made by indiependant artist and labels and sold directly from them, then bandcamp is the best Place around. When the demand for vinyl and cd records is the thing for the listener, then places like bandcamp is the Place to go digging. good search and discover function lets you find the artist your looking for, and a gengre category plus a category for best sold and newest release of the Music genre lets you discover completly new artists. Recovery mode Underground house on cassette on bandcamp. check out their releases. https://recoverymode.bandcamp.com/album/rm01 Capeeshhsociety Deep house with plenty of vinyl records on bandcamp https://capeeshsociety.bandcamp.com/album/blues-ep-capsoc005 Nondreamers techno & the label area20 on bandcamp https://nondreamers.bandcamp.com/album/modular-musings

Fresh out of beatport these 6 track of Deep house songs makes it a really hi level of quality for a first playlist. The style is mainly minimalistic and lots of minor chords, chopped vocals and Heavy basslines. Im am not a deephouse expert but if your looking for new releases on beatport, Itunes etc these Deep house producers delivers good house thats brand new for 2019. Even if this is the last month of the year, these will garanted be a good listening experience this Winter and early next year too. The track order is made with harmonic mixing in mind. Using mostly the new musickey feature of Traktor Pro 3.2.1 and alittle bit of  ears for a smoother mix 1. Cosenza - Weiss(Original mix) 2. Mr Fowks - Funky(Original mix) 3. jay Hill - Beckoning(Frink remix) 4. Okain - Stade Varembe(Original mix) 5. Ryan Nicholls - Something like(Original mix) 6. DJOKO - Astral Home(Original mix) Hear the playlist on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7Fa6JCZPloOW1qnSuoIayO?si=

Introducing this musicblog for the Electronic producer, music listeners and the dj. - posting dj friendly music playlists - reviewing record releases - audiocassette & vinylrecord culture - tips and trix for the musicproducer. So yeah, cant start this blog without sayin welcome! Most definitly cant blog about dj- culture if Im not djing myself, So I recorded a bunch of housemusic mixtapes allready. 7 tapes this month. explored the digital Music stores and where I could find good stores with digital / analog records. More on that in this blog. Offcourse Im going to review records that I Think needs promotion. Im a house Music head so if your producing housemusic feel free to leave me a link or a message to a album you think should be reviewed here. Then for the musicproducers, with promotion Tools, where you can find good places to feature your music and musictechnology. Using the experience I have as a musicartist  for this musicblog.