DJ Mixing Lesson Going from Techno to Tech House with a Bounce BY Ellaskins

0:00 Another demonstration strip tutorial

Alright ladies and gentlemen, another demonstration strip tutorial. In this one what we're going to do, a lot of things, we're going to go from one genre to another, similar genres actually, we're going to go from a techno tune into a tech house. So for example if the last DJ plays techno, you want to lift the vibe slightly, I'm going to tech house, then maybe this is a good way or a good transition, a good way of going from a techno tune to a tech house. So we're going to go from one set, one style of music to another. Also by using this technique, you're teasing the crowd a little bit, you're adding a bit of spice to the mix, but you're making it sound different instead of just a very basic mix towards the end. But that's what I'll be doing at the end. But during the mix, we'll be chopping it up.

Right, this is, I suppose I'm going to call this video bouncing around the bass lines and I'm sure you'll understand very soon. So what we're going to be using is Joseph Capratti, C-A-P-R-I-A-T-I. God, names honestly. And this one here, if I just do that again, we should get the name scroll up. Awake, it's the original mix and on this side here, just stop that, we have Akabai, Mossy Mossy, it's the original mix. So it's O-K-A-B-I, Mossy Mossy. Fair enough. Okay, so I'm going to go to the point, now again, this is a demonstration, so you'll see what's going to happen because we're not going to use any headphones, you'll hopefully get the general idea. So I'm going to go to a point in this tune where, if you listen to that, to begin with, that is the part of the track where I really do want to concentrate on more.

2:44 In other words, techno is very minimalistic, so have a listen

So we've got that set, just form a cue point there. Right, that's our beginning. Now then, if we have a listen to the techno track, if you're not familiar with the genre known as techno, it's very minimalistic, yeah stuff happens in it, but what you do find with techno tracks, they seem to stay at a constant, they seem to just sort of do that. Yeah, that's pretty much it, they sort of start here, they sort of jumble around a little bit, you know, maybe do a little bit more. Maybe do the washing up, go and get a cup of, I don't know, get a bottle of milk from the shop, but they just sort of stay like that. Not like other genres where they'll just go on holiday, they'll drink bottles of vodka and they'll take their clothes off and just strip jack naked down the road and then they'll just...

In other words, techno is very minimalistic, so have a listen. I mean you can hear there's not much going on. If we have a look, closer look at... Shit, just knocked someone over. If you look at the waveform up there, it's pretty straightforward, not much going on, whereas Tech House, a few more breaks, if you could see it a lot closer, in fact what I'll do is I will do... I'll take a couple of pictures of the tracks and put them on my Facebook wall, I'll put links in the description of this video so again, you'll actually see the names of the tracks as well. Carry on. See? Bassline. It stays at constant. That's what this video is about, it's bouncing the bass, it's making it sound a little bit more different.

Alright, so right about halfway through we've got a break. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to bounce the basslines even before we mix. Oops.

5:00 It comes into the Tech House tune

It's going up and down. How you do that is entirely up to you. What I did do is I set my cue point here at the end of a break where the bassline comes in. It comes into the Tech House tune. So I will just hit C and I'll just reverse a little bit so you'll see exactly what I mean. Here's the break. So I set my cue point. Oops, sorry. There.

There! And I chopped it in. I could have waited a little bit more towards the latter part of this track but I decided for this demonstration to bring it in there. So let's imagine we are two thirds of the way through this track. I bounce the basslines and then all I've got to do when I get to the end of this track, go to the beginning of this track and start mixing it in. So we will do just that. So we'll go towards the latter part of this track. There is a break there. There. Bass down. Again no headphones. That's coming in. Just about finishing and finished. Break comes in. Straight into the break. And then I would say we've got about eight bars or so of break and then we come back into that bassline. So again, we teach the crowd with a tiny bit of this tune before we actually mix it in.

8:07 It was absolutely fantastic

We bounce the basslines and we've gone from a very minimalistic style of dance music into something that's slightly more uplifting. So again if you do want a very smooth transition but you're playing a different style of music, what you're doing here with this sort of mix, you are giving the crowd an idea of what to expect with the next tune. Practice and enjoy. Thank you. It's not over yet you know. Right. First of all I'd like to say thank you very much to everyone who played a part in the Mobile Beat Show in Las Vegas. It was stunning. It was absolutely fantastic. There were too many people to mention but there was a group of us who went out and we did stuff and it was just, it was magic. It was, I had a wonderful time.

After that I went to Colchester, went to get in the mix, did a few tutorials. This is what this particular video's about mainly. Well actually this end part. I did some videos and there are still more to be uploaded because I've got them ready and I'm going to do more on mixing Bangra. Now some people are saying like God you're on drugs or what on earth is this music or scratching your head thinking, what's going on? Well let me explain something. Bangra has been around for a very long time. Indian music has been around for a very long time and believe it or not you Western people like myself it's damn good. In fact there are probably the same if not more Bangra or Indian style or Indian music tracks sold in the UK

Than there are probably Western style music. So, why have I done those tutorials? It's because people want to learn how to DJ. People want to learn how to mix. So when you teach people how to mix you're not just teaching them how to mix this style of dance music or EDM or deep house or techno or trance I want to teach people how to mix everything. That is what I want to do. So when I'm giving tutorials on mixing Bangra I'm not doing it for fun, I'm not doing it because it's cool I'm not doing it because I'm strange or weird I'm doing it because I want to do it from here. So to everyone out there thank you very much Practice and enjoy And if you like Bangra music get out there and do some shit Practice and enjoy Thank you

Go for it If you haven't ever listened to it before listen to it The vibe is up there Thank you

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