This mix feature many of my favourite discoveries of the past 3 months- lots of percussion-heavy groves and elegant melodies.
I made the mixtape using only the crossfader to blend the tracks. Like most electronic music mixtape makers, my usual style involves a lot of EQ work to shape and fit the different parts of the sonic spectrum of two tracks together.
For this set I used the very very very old-school method of playing both the incoming and outgoing tracks at full volume and controlling the mix only with the crossfader- the way it was done in the early vinyl days, before mixers had EQ controls. It requires that you know your music very well and have a large enough library to select tracks with naturally complimentary passages- however with the right two tracks, it's possible to add more musicality to the blend by making crossfader adjustments in a rhythmic way.
