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    When mixing - what tunes go well together?

    Following on from the earlier thread of mixing, I was wondering what people felt which tracks go well together. For example, I find Musique's Push, Push in The Bush mixes well with Patrick Adam's Phreak (probably because he made both) - I'm sure that some of the more professional (than me :o ) DJ's have their favourites and truthfully I'd like to try them out!

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    Re: When mixing - what tunes go well together?

    SPANK-JIMMY BOHORNE/LETS START TO DANCE-BOHANNON
    NATIVE LOVE-DIVINE/SHE HAS A WAY-BOBBY '' O ''
    TANGO IN SPACE-SPACE/PLANET ROCK-SS FORCE

    Just a couple for you.

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    Try Patti Brooks "After dark" into Macho "I'm A Man" or Amant "If There's Love" into Gino Soccio "Dancer". Sound good in my opinion.

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    Try these:
    Tamiko Jones - Can't Live without your love / T Connection - At Midnight and spice it up with some cuts from Silvetti - Spring Rain Good for a 20 minute mix

    Harvey Mason - Groovin You / Diana Ross - The Boss - 2 Killer tracks that blends perfectly

    Johnny Harris - Odyssey P1 & 2 / Jimmy Bo Horne - Is it in - It's seamless. take bits and pieces from the right parts and put them together in your way and you can do a live mix that no one heard before

    A good mix is like a good .....

    If you're creative and talented enough you can mix almost anything together and achive unforgetable moments of musical nirvana.

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    Edwin Starr Contact and Sylvester you make me feel (mighty real) 8)

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    Quote Originally Written by Arazi440
    Edwin Starr Contact and Sylvester you make me feel (mighty real) 8)
    two songs that have the all important lyrical conncetion rather than the far less relevant key or tempo aspects.

    Two tunes ive always felt fit together perfectly are d-train - youre the one for me into shalamar - right in the socket. Id more often than not be able to get an overlay between the break of dtrain into the extended intro of shalamar mixing perfectly for about 2 mins or so

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    the 12'' of Kiss - I Was Made For Loving You into Tantra - Hills Of Katmandu

    Dance Reaction - Disco Train into Dan Hartman - Vertigo

    Johnny Nash - Lets Go Dancing into T Connection - At Midnight

    Space - Carry On Turn Me On into Cerrone - Supernature


    theres a few for ya i used to do :D
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    Mixes

    How about:-
    Patrice Rushen - Number One, Montana - Heavy Vibes, Montana - Who needs Enemies, Rockers Revenge - Waliking On Sunshine, Cloud One - Flying High, Fresh Band - Come Back Lover, Brenda Taylor - You Cant Have Your Cake, Raw Silk - Do it to the music, Stepanie Mills - You cant run from your love.....
    all good

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    1.Hit and run lover- Carol Jianni/I am so hot for you - Bobby O
    2.cutie pie - One Way/Genius of love - Tom Tom Club/Call me -Skyy
    3.Push - One Way/You re the one for me - D Train/You re the only girl that I like - kwick
    4.I.O.U - Freeez/Don t go - Yazoo
    Rappers Delight - Sugar Hill Gang/Another one bites the dust-Queen

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    As a dj, i even dt ask myself what to put after. i m in complete improvisation, during a track i turn my cd-book+vynils box, like a magic recipes book, i see a title, or i hear somethin' good inside my mind (this is a kind of intuition), i put it on the player and check if it s suitable or not. u have to keep the average same BPM, and find the right moments to end the last record and begin the new one.

    a good dj can blend anything he wants to express his message, his passion by the music. he feels no boundaries between 2 kinds of beats, and must take care to the audience to create something unique, unforgettable.

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    GREAT TO SEE THESE COMBO'S

    THE CLASH - MAGNIFICENT DANCE

    INTO

    NYC PEECH BOYS - DON'T MAKE ME WAIT


    The Clash track is very difficult to mix out of. Don't make me wait, otoh, is very easy to mix into a track. In fact, this song can be mixed into nearly every track with appx the same bpm. Also these two tracks are great!!!

    does anyone know of another track that is very easy to mix into a record? this can be very helpful when running out of time before a mix...

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    Quote Originally Written by Anonymous
    GREAT TO SEE THESE COMBO'S

    THE CLASH - MAGNIFICENT DANCE

    and then

    NYC PEECH BOYS - DON'T MAKE ME WAIT


    The Clash track is very difficult to mix out of. Don't make me wait, otoh, is very easy to mix into a track. In fact, this song can be mixed into nearly every track with appx the same bpm. Also these two tracks are great!!!
    does anyone know of another track that is very easy to mix into a record? this can be very helpful when running out of time before a mix...

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    Quote Originally Written by discolady75
    a good dj can blend anything he wants to express his message, his passion by the music. he feels no boundaries between 2 kinds of beats, and must take care to the audience to create something unique, unforgettable.
    I agree to this, this is how I used to work back in the old days. But still when you find a couple of tracks that works well one after the other, the "ultimate" mix, you save it in the back of your head as a favourite to grab when you want the "unforgettable" moments that you have built up in a "ad lib" session to last even longer.

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    Mixes

    When I did my 80s night, this little lot went done a storm;
    Blondie -Rapture/FYC-She drives me crazy (remix)/Evelyn King-
    Love come down/Forrest-Rock the boat/Shannon-Let the music
    play/Michael Jackson-Billie Jean (Hot tracks mix)/George Clinton
    -Loopzilla/Narada Michael Walden-Divine emotions/Dhar Braxton
    -Jump Back.

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    always combine Man Parrish - Hip Hop Be Bop with Rockers revenge - walking on sunshine and sometimes throw in D-Train's Your the one for me (instrumental version) right after or before.

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    "I Can't Go For That" Hall & Oats into "Never Give You Up" Sharon Redd...
    Always works for me.

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    Right at the start of the Break of Bonnie Pointer - Heaven Must of sent you Start the 12" of The Jacksons - Walk right now run until just before the first horn bursts of Walk Right Now

    Wide Boy Awake - Slang Teacher right at the begining of the clap break start the Man Parish - Hip Hop Be Bop (claps) (orig 12") ends just as the beats start on Man-Parish

    Martin Circus just at the beginning of the dum dum dum de dum start the 12" orig inst version of D Train - Youre The One For ME fade out as it breaks down after the dum dum break down

    Shalamar - Make That Move at the second (longer break start Sharon Brown - I Specilize In Love run untill Specialize runs to its first break down in the intro

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    Try Staple Singers: Slippery People into David Bowie: Sound And Vision. Watch hipsters go aaaah!

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    Some of these posts are phenomenal....from what rock do these people crawl out from???? What songs mix well with what?? All these naive novice, brand new to the world people. God, you people have no idea what you missed! Everything sucks today. You can't even get laid without worrying about dying....thanks to all these people that immigrated here and gave us all these diseases from the jungle...

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    Not disco but also great mixes:

    The English Beat - Tenderness followed by Billy Idols' Dancing with Myself followed by A-HA Take On Me.

    Madonna- Into The groove followed by Kool & The Gang -Fresh - followed by Maria Vidal's Body Rock followed by Taffy I Love My Radio 12" version.

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    Quote Originally Written by Anonymous
    Some of these posts are phenomenal....from what rock do these people crawl out from???? What songs mix well with what?? All these naive novice, brand new to the world people. God, you people have no idea what you missed! Everything sucks today. You can't even get laid without worrying about dying....thanks to all these people that immigrated here and gave us all these diseases from the jungle...
    Thats alot of dancing around the fire talk. The subject is what songs mix good together based on your input you must have no idea.

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    For those who like Spanish flavor,
    "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" by Santa Esmeralda
    and
    "Spanish Dancer" by Kathy Barnes
    go very well together!
    They share the same Spanish guitar and same kind of castanet clicks.

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    Re: When mixing - what tunes go well together?

    my favorite used to be mixing out of Roy Thode's mix of Come On and Do IT by Pouzzez into Funkytown. It took some tweeking....like I think I had to let Come On run into the first 12 beats of the break, plus the ONE beat that Funkytown cuts off at the beginning, and then let them run together. The beat would drop out of Come on, but Funkytown would be there, with the girls squeeling at delight and the Funkytown horn honking behind them. Even when the beat kicked back in with Come On it would still be in time, and you could ride it on out til the squeels stopped...and then the bass kicked in on Funkytown directly after.

    Quite awesome, actually.

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    Re: When mixing - what tunes go well together?

    Used to have fun when I mixed Poussez's "Come On and Do It" with Michael Zager's "Let's All Chant" pretty much in the same fashion you did and it went well as the female is moaning, Zager's girls are saying "ah, ah, eh, eh, let's all chant in time. Great stuff!

    Quote Originally Written by Rugger57 View Post
    my favorite used to be mixing out of Roy Thode's mix of Come On and Do IT by Pouzzez into Funkytown. It took some tweeking....like I think I had to let Come On run into the first 12 beats of the break, plus the ONE beat that Funkytown cuts off at the beginning, and then let them run together. The beat would drop out of Come on, but Funkytown would be there, with the girls squeeling at delight and the Funkytown horn honking behind them. Even when the beat kicked back in with Come On it would still be in time, and you could ride it on out til the squeels stopped...and then the bass kicked in on Funkytown directly after.

    Quite awesome, actually.
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    Re: When mixing - what tunes go well together?


     

     

    I used to like Papa Don't Preach (madonna) - vertigo/relight my fire (dan hartman)....

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