Song selection: solid, lots of fun choices. A bit too many vocals for me, but that is a taste thing - I only mention it because there a few parts where they get strung together for a while, and this may create to much repitition.
Mixing/transitions: starts off not so hot - a few of the first transitions are jarring (first one, into "power of bass"), distracting/conflicting (after the gorgon city song), or sound a bit strange with the 2 songs chosen (danny glover & everybody dance). You mention that you do a lot of echo fades, which isn't a huge problem, but you definitely could use some variety (especially when some transitions really cry out for beatmashing, gating, etc). However, a lot of these get smoothed out as you go, and the last half~ is much more fluid and intuitive. There is a phase near the end where you mixed things very well, so good work there! (from about "thong song" onward iirc)
Timing: You use the fun, upbeat parts of each song. "Love too deep" is a great example of timing, hinting at what will come, and then using the compelling part of the song. "F for you" is an example of being a bit overaggressive with this - you just had a catchy vocal during the previous track ("power of bass"), but we get hammered with another with little to no downtime/closure. I would encourage to have some more space in your mix.
overall, solid and enjoyable. hope this helped! I will post to mixcloud as well :)
Thanks for the criticism, I've been hard at work on my technique and it's cool to go back and listen to where I was to where I am. I used to try and cram as much as I could into mixes but now I focus on getting the mix perfected over quantity of songs. Thanks for listening!
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Song selection: solid, lots of fun choices. A bit too many vocals for me, but that is a taste thing - I only mention it because there a few parts where they get strung together for a while, and this may create to much repitition.
Mixing/transitions: starts off not so hot - a few of the first transitions are jarring (first one, into "power of bass"), distracting/conflicting (after the gorgon city song), or sound a bit strange with the 2 songs chosen (danny glover & everybody dance). You mention that you do a lot of echo fades, which isn't a huge problem, but you definitely could use some variety (especially when some transitions really cry out for beatmashing, gating, etc). However, a lot of these get smoothed out as you go, and the last half~ is much more fluid and intuitive. There is a phase near the end where you mixed things very well, so good work there! (from about "thong song" onward iirc)
Timing: You use the fun, upbeat parts of each song. "Love too deep" is a great example of timing, hinting at what will come, and then using the compelling part of the song. "F for you" is an example of being a bit overaggressive with this - you just had a catchy vocal during the previous track ("power of bass"), but we get hammered with another with little to no downtime/closure. I would encourage to have some more space in your mix.
overall, solid and enjoyable. hope this helped! I will post to mixcloud as well :)
Thanks for the criticism, I've been hard at work on my technique and it's cool to go back and listen to where I was to where I am. I used to try and cram as much as I could into mixes but now I focus on getting the mix perfected over quantity of songs. Thanks for listening!