Some people, who aren't born in the seventies or eighties, don't exactly know what edits & cuts are. Probably even don't know how it was done. Check my hyves for a video how it was done with a tapedeck. For some screenshots ..... continu (lees meer)

Nowadays you can use addons in mix programs like Ableton. I prefer to do it manualy in Ableton. First searching through the tracks to find very small parts usable for the cuts. Then rearrange and copying until the cuts are blended into the mix. During mixing I will put some samples from MEC2011 here below.

The yearmix starts at 70 bpm... t h a t ' s     s l o w  ... but 2 x 70 = mmh euhh 140, so why not use a 140 bpm track in the beginning.

Don Diablo has been cut into pieces of beats, beats and swirl, beats and hi-hats. Ordering it right and a new track has been born.

What about this change to the original tracks?

Coming from "Natasha Beddingfield - Stripped", to "Rihanna - California King Bed" and into "Rochelle - No air".

To add an extra and/or different rhythm to the tracks I cut created my own beats track. On several spots a little rearrangement and the mix is 1 minute longer.

These cuts are used very often by mixers and producers.

In this screenshot you see 3 tracks together. In track 1 is "Greenville Massive - What a wonderful place", track 2 has "Sub-ann ft Beckford - The lovers tonight" and track 3 runs "Bassfort - Last night".

Greenville Massive has got a lot of text in a talking way. I've cut out several parts and rearranged it within the track itself. In this case the beats, hi-hats, keyboards and all other instruments needs to continu although the vocals are changed.

In track 1 you can see the cuts of vocals from "D-Jastic - Up to no good". Every single block is one very small part of a word. As you can see the last part consists 26 soundparts.

In track 2 you can see the original track of "D-Jastic - Up to no good". This is the trance-part (no beats) building up to the soundpart (taken somewhere in the middle in the original radio version)

The last pack of cuts has been rearranged to match the trance melody and together they give a special addition to the mix. BTW: it lasts only 4 beats long, so about 3,5 seconds.

In this part it sounds like a bedroom scene between "Diddy Dirty Money ft Skylar Grey - Coming home" and "Grey Parys - Why don't we just fuck". And does it goes well there?

Here I repeated and rearranged some vocals of "David Guetta ft Taio Cruz & Ludacriss - Little bad girl".

By using a trancy basspart of "Swedish House Maffia - Save the world" it all merges together.

This results in a climax which starts at Eric Prydz and fades away into Stars on 45.

In the original song of "Krystl - Fool for you" they've used some edits and scratching. Those are nice to copy to the underlaying tracks.

In this case the mix is coming from "James Blund - So far gone" and is going to "Los Angeles the voices - Loop naar het licht".

By rearranging some beats and keystrokes the two tracks are following the edits and the scratches giving it a special effect.

This last preview shows you some key edits of "Rihanna - Man Down" in the top track.

In the second track are two types of beats from "Sean Paul ft Alexis Jordan - Got 2 luv u".

After these edits comes more like in "Jessie J - Nobody's perfect" and in "Gavin Degraw - Not over you".

DJ-MEC