What to mix with DJ Unk 2 Step Remix

What are some songs that can be perfectly mixed in with 2 Step Remix?

When I play it, I always find myself waiting for the end of the song to play another song because of the extremely "cold" ending.

Any thoughts?

 

2 Step Remix?

Is that the name of the song or is that the type of track you have?

 

The name of the song mate lol

 

dude... are you sure? surely there's more info, like artist, track name etc.

I would guess you will probably need some more 2 Step tracks to be able to mix in with it.....

 

As crucial_d says: how about another 2 step track? Or a breakbeat track. 2 step can also go into a 4/4 drum beat to up the energy levels.

Or use the tools that Traktor provides such as loops. Loop the end of the 2 step track (and poss the beginning of the next track) and then very gently move from one to the other. You can use FX to spice things up if the transition is going to be a long one.

Glad to hear that people are still playing 2 step! I'm from the old skool of UK Garage - none of this newfangled grime or dubstep for me!

 

Are you guys serious? This is a song by DJ Unk... called "2 Step". It's not a genre of music.

2 Step (Feat. T-Pain, Jim Jones, E-40)

"2 Step is the second single off of Unk's album Beat'n Down Yo Block. It was released in 2007. It has a dance with the song called the "2 Step". The video was released on February 23, 2007 on Yahoo! Music. At the end of the music video they play a couple of seconds of the song Beat'n Down Yo Block. A remix has recently been made that features T-Pain, Jim Jones and E-40."

Song: [ame]http://youtube.com/watch?v=ftNrPS-dF08[/ame]

 

Erm, 2 Step IS a genre (or sub-genre) of music. Its part of the whole UK Garage scene.

Check out the UK Garage section in Wikipedia if you want to know more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_garage

I think we've managed to sort out the source of this confusion!

 

No offense to you or T Pain, but seriously, not everyone will listen to your choice of music.

Whenever I play techno, all my friends say heck no. So...

I say it depends on who's listening...

If it's someone's Bday, play that R-Kelly Stepping in the Name of Love remix... if it's just a rukus filled event, throw on some Two Live Crew. That would do.

Then again, I haven't listened to hip hop in a while, I'm not sure what is in now...

Outkast always worked for me in most situations.

 

Actually 2 Step is an incredible club banger. Everyone dances to it and no one misses out on it.

I just need to know what's a good song to mix it with so that it doesn't sound like iTunes crossfading the song for me... lol

 

All depending on the tempo (I haven't heard the track), a good electro track might mix well if you start pitching up the tempo during the mix. I try stuff like that pretty often and it never fails to gets the crowd jazzed up.

 

LOL. unfortunately (for you and me) you'll not find many people here spinning black music

i'll check what i usually play with that track and then come back to you!

and for all electronic heads here: there is another *2step* in the (hiphop) world that doesnt mean the british breakbeat/2step thing.

 

First there is no such thing as " Black Music" . its hip hop. But to answer the persons question, there are alot of songs you can mix. you can speed up partyl like a rock star to 6.3% and mix that in hit me up on the IM toungeringer69 (aim) or visit my youtube page and leave your contact ifo we can talk about song selection

 

Well, "black music" is certainly a term, and it spans a helluwalot wider than just hip hop.

WJ

 

nobody here has said anything yet about the 'genre' of this track if it *isn't* 2 step. so... what the hell is it?

 

What a completely pointless discussion. Stop basing your decision of what track to play next on the criteria that "it mixes well with the last one tempowise". You'll be a horribly boring dj. Your job as a dj is to be a selector, not a bloody beat matching machine. Beat match, blend, fade, scratch the record with you elbow or your forehead, hit the bloody stop button or do whatever gets the job done. Beat matching is a tool, not a criteria. Having quite a few years of experience as a dj, I can assure you that not a single person on the floor gives a rats ass if you mix well. They're there to have a good time, and to provide them with that, you'll have to play good tunes in a good order. That's it.

*rant over*

WJ

 

I would agree, but then again, you also wrote:

How many people you think don't know this? I bet a few...

And yeah, good tunes are the most important thing, but ehh... When I'm off my rocker and zoning out cause that Bleep is beeping to the beat and all of a sudden Mr. Elbow scratcher decides to play two tracks together that momentarily sound like a recording of his shoes in the dryer, then Mr. Sparko is no longer lost in space, he temporarily wants to throw his water bottle at the DJ...

Ok, maybe one or three of those is acceptable through the night, but if it's done on a constant basis, one track after the other, then there're problems...

 

Not sure if you're agreeing with me here or the opposite, mate. Either way, I didn't say I was the only one who had realised this.

And for sure: I agree with you that beat matching is a tool you need as a dj, and I use it when it helps my cause (which is to get people to dance). It can easily become a bit constraining if you focus too much on it though, and I think this thread is a good example of just that. I always find it more interesting when tempos are mixed up a bit. Nothing bores me more than hearing the same bloody beat for hours and hours.

And I don't agree with you that no beat matching is necessarily a bad thing. The extreme example would be David Mancuso. Doesn't mix at all, but he's still a helluwa dj.

But, I know the views on this aren't universal. If I presented this view to a drum'n'bass dj, there are small chances he'd agree with me.

Different worlds I guess.

 

I'm agreeing there!

I mean to write,

"I bet just a few"


The only thing I don't agree with you is that you can just throw one great song after the other and it be ok no matter how it comes out... And you may not have phrased it just like that, but that's what I got from it.

Although I haven't heard Mr. Mancuso, some genre's do require the mixing ability in there.

Like the Drum N' Bass guy for example...

But yeah, all music is different. I'm sure most DJ's can tell if their crowd thinks they suck or not, especially if they're dodging bottles all night!

 

I hear you, mate. Don't think we disagree too much on this topic to be honest.

 

Talk about recording shoes in a dryer... the DJ at this club I go to nearly every time I go out is just pathetic. Even people that aren't DJs can tell how horrible he is. This is basically his routine:

Before 11: Just plays house the whole time/mixing non-house songs with house and plays the same songs EVERY DAY (consists of The Percolator, Magalena, and some others)
After 11: Starts with a 90 BPM song, instead of working up or down, he'll play a 65 BPM, then a 100 BPM, then a 160 BPM. For example, Buy U A Drank (160 BPM) with This Is Why I'm Hot (80 BPM). He also has no idea how to use microphone talk over and apparently doesn't "need" key-lock when pitching up/down songs

He also: mixes vocals with vocals, cuts songs off early when people are still enjoying the song (i.e. dancing to Yung Joc's "It's Goin' Down"), loves to hit the break button in order to cue up next song (an effect which quite frankly, is only cool once or twice), and then thinks he is the best DJ in the world by giving people advice.

When I started out... that's how I used to be. Dropping the brick (not mixing songs but rather just cueing them), mixing vocals with vocals, and not playing songs in some sort of BPM order.

Overall, this DJ is the worst DJ I know. Period.