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Mix DS152: Elcor

Mass Effect 2 is this month's mix title inspiration. I started playing it on the 360 this weekend and have quickly been sucked back in. Of all the alien races in the game the Elcor have got to be my favourites. Although they look quite frightful they are actually quite cute. Hopefully I will be able to recruit one into my posse of dorks, especially if it has trousers as hot as these:- Jazz Thieves - Midnight Hour (Submorphics Remix) - Pushin' Wax N.Phect, Fourward - White Noise Down - Fokuz Basic Operations - 4th Street Sound Click (Kubiks, Lomax Remix) - Phunkfiction Bcee - Heartache (Matrix Remix) - Spearhead Nu:Tone feat. Natalie Williams - System (Matrix and Futurebound Remix) - Hospital Lenzman - Rags To Riches - SGN:LTD Lenzman - Sugar Hill - Deepkut L.A.O.S - Back No More - Large Amount Of Soul Command Strange - So Good - Have A Break Amaning - With Ure Love - Allsorts Soulmatic - Hold Me - Intrinsic Komatic - Beijing - ??? Bcee, Lomax - Love, Hope, Futur...

10 tips for (digital) DJs

Just a few tips for any budding digital DJ's. Please feel free to express your agreement, disagreement or indifference by commenting. Play music you love and trust your own taste. Mix in key. Transitions between songs then become something to look forward to and relish rather than something to get over and done with ASAP. Harmonic mixing at it's best should almost create new music between songs and extend a tracks 'shelf life' or replayability. Be your own harshest critic. Listen to your mixes over to analyse how you could improve. Appreciate what goes right and be realistic about what went wrong or didn't work. Practice new techniques that could help you improve your mixes as often as possible. Keep learning all the time and refine the efficiency of your workflows. Try not rely too heavily on the same old techniques once you have mastered them. It's better to be safe than sorry if you're live. Don't experiment too vigorously and be judicious about...
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