These days I just don't understand why you want to take one hard as nails record and mix into the next hard as nails record. For instance, if you're mixing in a heavy G.Wilson track, and then mix in another track by him or a like-minded artist...you're making it even more heavy and harder during the mix. After the mix is completed you still have a heavy as **** mix. It's boring and easy to do. Lately I've been buying up a lot of old, stripped down minimal records and throwing them on 3 decks. I find that with a little work and creativity you can still make it a hard beatin' set but it's not as monotonous
because soemtimes its fun...sometimes the mystical journey starting from a minimal track all teh way up gets boaring and that style of mixing is a bit monotonous itself..sometimes its nice to just have suttin to bang to for 60 minutes...
grab bag mixes are nice but so are one style mixes..depends on preferences..