Curious what groups here like to do for mixing. I started this community yesterday just because I didn’t see anything comparable on Lemmy yet. I’m by most measures an amateur/hobbyist but enjoy looping and mixing songs on 3/4 decks using tracks as ‘soup ingredients’ a friend of mine once observed. I like to play with minimal and techno a lot which I think lends itself to those techniques.
What kind of mixing do you like to do? What kind of genres do you prefer playing?
Deep house, tech house, house (Chicago and Garage), minimal, techno. I started out on trance and progressive house, then I discovered deep house. Deep Dish was my biggest influence, followed by Steve Lawler, Dave Seaman, Miguel Migs, and a bit of the old masters like Marshall Jefferson and Larry Levan himself. Sadly I haven’t had equipment in almost 10 years, but I was last doing everything with the Traktor Kontrol S4, which does most everything in one neat device with included software. I started out back in the day with two Technics SL-1200 Mk3G’s, a Vestax 4 channel mixer, and a little effects box (I forget the model). I never got into using reel-to-reel for loops like the OGs did, but thankfully with the software and digital decks we have now, you can sample, chop, loop, etc., on the fly in real time.
I gotta say, as someone that started out back when turntables were the norm and CDJs were just coming on the scene, having watched the technologies evolve, beatmatching is almost all but a thing of the past. Trust me, if our house music forefathers didn’t have to worry about having to do it manually, they wouldn’t have. They would have loved to be freed up to do other things like loops, samples, juggling, and even playing an instrument(s) live over the track(s). So anybody that’s still talking shit about it is dumb. I dunno, maybe nobody cares anymore, which, would be good, but like I said, I haven’t been in the scene for a while. I do miss it, but it’s expensive to get back so I just listen and reminisce.
