[quote="dtl"]As for mixing skills, I have stressed this before, most European producers are very bad djs, and they dont produce tunes with a Dj-friendly appoarch, a lot of tunes have an extra bar here and there, if you want a long tight phrase mix and chop around would become very awekard since it gets out of pharse very quick. So it reduces Djs to mix short in these short phrases, alternatively, you can be innovative to do some nice sharp mixes (With tunes that sound extremely similar would work a treat.) Obviously a sampler and effects would minimise the dullness of such -short-boring-non-chopping mixing.

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i agree, especially the harder german guys....
i haven t heard a good hard techno mix for ages, all they do is pitch up to 155bpm, let a track go for 5 mins and then bring another track in with always the same formula (like Ze Mig L said)......

to me it´s not the tracks that kill it, but the lazy way they r mixed....