Mix Between Decades With This Melodic Trick – Free DJ Tutorial

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Sometimes in DJing it’s good to play a track people aren’t expecting and maybe don’t even know, just because you know you’ve got a fantastic transition into something they’ll recognise coming next!

For this trick, we go from 90s pop/trance track “Rapture” by Iio into the 2017 chart hit “Breathe” by Jaz Jones. Despite them being 20 years apart, they are both broadly dance tracks, and both sung by female vocalists, which helps us.

But the real key to mixing between these genres is that they share a melodic motif. Listen to the “da da da da da da” main hook from the Iio tune, and compare it to the melody in the Jax Jones track where the words are “I don’t want to sleep / It’s quarter after three”. This similarity in melody gives us all we need to work out a great smooth mix – the type of transition that many in your crowd simply wouldn’t notice had even happened, hence our title.

We needed to loop the drum from the end of the Iio track to extend them to the point where we wanted to remove them from the mix, but that’s technically all there is to it – apart from of course picking the right place to start the incoming track playing. Note that there was not even any need to key match these songs, because by the time we hear melodic elements in the Jax Jones track, it’s just drums playing in the Iio one.

*This video is using music for educational purposes only

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