All right folks, just done a video which was basically a mash up in the mix. A couple of people asked me about this and how did you do it. There is lots of interpretation of a mash up. A mash up could be the collaboration of two different records, put together to make almost like a new record.
Also a mash up could be let us say two of the same record where you are editing, you are going from one to the other. Some people call it blending, some people call it a mash up. There is no real honest defined way of explaining what it is.
This is what you can do. Let us say you have got your set, and it is all working nicely, you start one record, you bring in the next record, maybe halfway through or the end of the first record, then you start the second record and you bring the third record in at the end of the second record so you carry along quite happily.
The crowd will like that. It is good, it is nice, they are chugging along and then all of a sudden, if you can bring an extra dimention into your mix, if you can bring what is known as a mash up, blend it, whatever, in the middle of the mix somewhere were all of a sudden, they start hearing one of their favorite songs but you then incorporate another song into that. It brings it to a new dimension. People do not expect it. They cannot comprehend it. It is all of a sudden, there is something else going on. It does sound really good.
The one I did was thrown together so marks out of 10, I would personally give it a three, maybe you would give it less but there you go. There is the idea for you.
That is what a mash up is all about. It is taking your mix to another dimension so instead of just getting 10 tunes playing one to 10, get 11 tunes but still only play 10 so you incorporate one of them in with either two, three, four, five, etc. If you can do three or four mash ups.
There is a guy called Carl Cox and is he is one hell of a big DJ. What he will do, he will use three turntables, quite often. The reason he can use three turntables, is simply this, a lot of the time when he does three turntables, he is mixing techno. There is not much going on in techno. It is very minimalistic. In other words, there is beat, there is baseline, a tiny bit of melody but there is very little vocals and so of course, there is very little melody so there is very little chance of melodies and vocals clashing so he can actually blend all of these songs together.
What he will actually do is this. He will have one record here, and then he will have another one here but in the middle, he will have a third, and then if you imagine, one start, let us say he is starting his set. He will play a record and then he will bring another one in. So all of a sudden there is two playing together. Both playing together and then he will bring a third one in.
When the third one is in and playing, he will take the first one away. Then he will bring a fourth one in and he will take the second one away. He will bring the fifth one in and take the third one away.
He is very good at doing that. I admire him. What he is really doing, he is doing a mash up, a blend, he is incorporating two songs continually which is very difficult so initially, what you want to do is this, just try it once during the course of your set, knock in a mash up, the crowd will love it.
Practice and enjoy. Thank you for watching.
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