Almost 8 years ago I took a DJ class

[dmm]

A strange DJ mix is still up (January 2014):

www.mixcloud.com/Mmmmaven/mishkastudentmixgoascherbakovlifeforms/

Goa to Goa to Scherbakov to Goa to Ambient to Scherbakov to Ambient (17 min, slowdown in the middle right after the transition from Goa to Ambient at 10+ min, so the first half is fast, Goa-trance-like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_trance, and the second half is all slow, ambient-like, from "Lifeforms" by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_Sound_of_London)

This was a "midterm exam" - to compose a mix and upload it to a cloud platform. (The final was to actually play something similar at a club mixing it live during a graduation party.)

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[dmm]

One thing Mmmmaven taught us was to determine which song were compatible in the harmonic sense using Camelot Wheel:

http://www.harmonic-mixing.com/howto.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_mixing

That was very helpful when selecting the sequence of songs in that mix...

[dmm]

modern mixing software has "lock key" feature, which makes it so
that the tonality does not change when you speed it up or slow it
down! (That's rather fantastic, it's counterintuitive that this is at
all possible...)

what this means is that much higher speed ratios relative to
"normal speed" are possible.

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Done with Serato DJ and a pair of physical variable-speed DJ turntables with control vinyl:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_emulation

[dmm]

At 16:18-16:25 mark: this was a completely unintentional sequence "В гости? Сейчас не стоит. Явлюсь к разъезду. Скажу - проспал." followed by "I was awake" during the last transition which was from

http://blackalpinist.com/scherbakov/htmtexts/1997/ryba.html

to a song from the Future Sound of London "Lifeforms" album

I still love this synchronicity...

[dmm]

(The fast Scherbakov song was http://blackalpinist.com/scherbakov/htmtexts/1997/cirkach.html )

[juan_gandhi]

Ничего себе!

[dmm]

В принципе, можно делать чисто на компьютере, и есть даже бесплатный софтвер, типа Serato, но чуть-чуть другой (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixxx ), но с физическими проигрывателями в сочетании с компьютером, конечно, радостнее и удобнее...

Я когда-то давно пробовал без компьютера, чисто на проигрывателях с переменной скоростью, но талантом не вышел, у меня не получалось синхронизировать beats на слух.

А софтвер оба трека ещё и визуально показывает, и визуально гораздо легче сводить две записи вместе, чем только по слуху. Так что, в "докомпьютерной" ДиДжеевской реальности мне это было слабо делать, а с компьютерными средствами уже неплохо получалось...