How would one approach making a "Power Hour" mix
How would one approach making a "Power Hour" mix Posted on: 23.10.2012 by Doug Neely I'm interested in doing one, Is there any technique in making one that sounds good?How do you effectively play songs for exactly 1 minute and transition to a new song and not make it sound dumb. Considering that I might want to play songs from varying genres / tempos Any tips or suggestions are welcome. -Earl | |
| Rolanda Clodfelder 23.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by ace27
2. Play CD of Set to Huge Audience 3. Jesus Pose, Throw Cake & Cranberry Juice on crowd 4. WIN In Seriousness though - if it were for live purposes I'd just do edits of each Track, if it were for Radio/podcast purposes I'd do it in Live |
| Doug Neely 23.10.2012 | I'm interested in doing one, Is there any technique in making one that sounds good? How do you effectively play songs for exactly 1 minute and transition to a new song and not make it sound dumb. Considering that I might want to play songs from varying genres / tempos Any tips or suggestions are welcome. -Earl |
| Shonda Soulier 24.10.2012 | Don't pick 60 songs and play 1 minute of each...that's so nerve-wracking and there's no way to flow it creatively. I've tried. What if you pre-edited a track that plays a sample every 60 seconds and play it in deck 4, then do a regular mix in decks 1, 2, 3? |
| Marshall Aby 24.10.2012 | Cheap amphetamines or at the very least a packet of Haribo and you should be set... --- You'll be wanting to break your songs down into chunks, Traktor remix decks should be useful for this. |
| Vernie Kuam 24.10.2012 | I thought a power hour was a drinking game where you take a shot of beer every minute when the dj hits the "power hour" sample button... |
| Ike Daprile 23.10.2012 | what i use sometimes is getting a drum on a hot cue and hitting at the same time as the one that is playing so it sounds like its beat - synced and drop the new song just like you would an edm song |
| Doug Neely 23.10.2012 | Yea ive done about 4 minutes so far and ive realized this... any suggestions for doing non EDM songs? |
| Ike Daprile 23.10.2012 | What I would suggest is taking the buildup and main chorus of each song.. then when there is about 5-10 seconds left in that slowly introduce the next drum beat slowly and drop the new buildup.. that should be about one minute of each song.. That way you get a little mixing and not just straight dumb sounding cuts |
| Doug Neely 23.10.2012 | Right.... i wasnt plan on doing it for a live crowd as that seems like a headache... but alot of people seem to enjoy them on youtube / soundcloud or where ever and i had an overwhelming response to people who said they would like one. But yes, I have resorted to doing it in Ableton as I havent yet figured out how i am going to shift bpm's (from 130 to 100 for ex.) as much as i want to. Guess I will need to figure it out. p.s. Cake and Cranberry Juice? I like it. |
| Rolanda Clodfelder 23.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by ace27
2. Play CD of Set to Huge Audience 3. Jesus Pose, Throw Cake & Cranberry Juice on crowd 4. WIN In Seriousness though - if it were for live purposes I'd just do edits of each Track, if it were for Radio/podcast purposes I'd do it in Live |
| Lang Abriel 23.10.2012 | How about not doing it? Nothing good comes of this....I've done power hours live and I just drop a soundbite to have ppl drink, even then its usually dumb |
| Ervin Calvery 23.10.2012 | What about playing at an easily-devisable tempo (120, for example) and using follow actions/quantization to automatically move to the next song? Just move the start point to a not-dumb place for each track and be creative over the transitions. |
| Doug Neely 23.10.2012 | That is alot of edits, 60 to be exact, but yea that is a way to approach it I suppose. |
| Melinda Shick 23.10.2012 | Id make my own edits if i was gonna do that. |
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