I’m just so glad to see harder techno making a comeback. Also, that track selection and mixing is absolute fire! This is to all the people who say: “They’re just turning random knobs. All they do is press PLAY”
Replace hard techno with hard groove and then you have a point. That’s what’s about to take over the scene with chläer, alarico, x club, JXXXO, Beau Didier, Isaiah and so many more
Absolutely loved it. Great mixing techniques. Techno Peak Time/ Drive is my genre. I've learnt a lot just by watching this, even though I've been DJing for a few years. Everyday is a school day. Well done Danny
I'm glad to see your tutorial on mixing my favorite genre of music. Some of the mixing elements seemed interesting to me, and I am grateful for the opportunity to learn something new and use it in my DJ sets in the future.
Nice! Been mixing hard techno for a couple years. Could never really find lessons, just winging it. Cool to see them coming up. I need to brush up my mixing.
Can't believe I'm listening to a schranz mix on crossfader the crazy thing is my mate is one of the best producers of this style and also the best at mixing it he's called dj instigator
The fuck you are friends with Instigator!!!! I found his music back in 2012, after Viper XXL. Bro 😭😭😭 I’m gonna cry. You have to tell him he was ahead of his time for me please!!!! I listen to music nowadays and I cant even compare it to Sweet Fuck album that shit was 🩸🩸. His music is my gatekeep music. Only sharing it with my closest friends/udrgnd Djs. Bro one of my catch phrases is “FUCK U ASSHOLE” because of instigator.😭
@@ownedbyjosdude you are on a techno video and use „gay“ with a negative vibe to it. I hope you stop going to every techno event. Just don’t go anymore thank you
@@ownedbyjos1. Using gay as an insult is just funny, are u a 13 years old? 2. Maybe you need to know more about the history of techno and “hard” techno
@@K.mersch Although I highly disagree, you're welcome to have your own opinion. Personally I think hardstyle/hard dance is better than house, techno, hiphop/rnb, and most other mainstream genres but that's just my opinion and I know many people will disagree.
@@elektra81516 You can say the same about techno. Just straight up kicks and bass for hours and hours with some slight changes in melody. Still fire tho
Isn’t it a useful technique to always just have the phrases alligned? So tthat when mixing in track 2 u have it in an 8 bar loop ans u don’t have to think about looping again?
I think when you have a short timing you just try to mix in as soon as possible, introduce the first elements, then sometimes you are not phrased correctly, but you correct as you are close of a change in the phrasing of the master track
06:17 how did you beat jump to align phrasing? I saw you've set a marker for this prepared transition, but how did you beatjump? so how did you know how much you had to jump?
I know this might be a lot on the editor of the video, but wouldn’t it be cool if when he turns down the bass EQ, the color of the video fades out the RGB of red? That would be sick.
Hello, i'm new at using a DJ Controller, i have a Hercules Inpulse 200 MK2 to start and i would like to know if there's a way to do the reverse play like you did it in 00:48 Thanks!!
I have question, why hard techno and techno peak time is really hard to harmonically mix the tracks with each other because I listen to psytrance and I find that the DJs can harmonically the tracks without any issues🙄
Because techno has a huge variation of kicks, in different keys, some long some tight, sometimes multiple kicks together, while most all psytrance kicks are similar and are A-tonal, meaning they do not have a key, making it easier to transition from track to track. When you hear a psytrance kick you immediately know it's a psytrance kick, while techno on the other hand is way to diverse to single out so easily, and is usually only given away by it's hi-hat patterns. Another reason is that techno is such a broad genre, that has massive variations of sounds and styles.
@@klubstompers Thank you so much for this information, I have tried many many times to mix techno tracks with each other and I always feel that the tracks doesn't go along with each other thus I lost hope and decided to choose another genre 😕
@@kahs1180 You need a huge library of tracks so you can find something that fits, and a large variety of transition skills. Some mixes are long, some are short, some are teased in, some are brought directly in, etc. A good skill to learn is hi-pass filtering the old track before u bring in the new bass line, anywhere from 8-32 beats before the drop, to make the transition sound better when going from one bass line to the next if they don't compliment each other. Another good thing to do is wait for one melody to end before u bring in the new tracks melody. Give it 16 or so beats of no melody before the new melody drops. Dont try to mix 2 melodies or vocals together unless they sound really good together. You can try pre looping your new track to get a solid beat match if you want to bring in the track from the first beat, so you dont hear the track being shuffled in the mix. You can also put a 4 beat loop on the old track near the end of your mix, to make sure your drops line up, if you need it. Don't give up on techno, it is super fun, when you nail the mixes, and will learn a lot when working out mixes and sets.
Getting phrasing on point is quite different I suppose. On the DDJ400 with rekordbox I line them up as you can see on the waveforms that are on top of each other. On the CDJs it looks much harder?
You can use hot cues to make that easier and you can also see the full waveform of the songs on the bottom of the CDJ screen, so maybe you don't have a waverform on top of another, but you still know at wich point of your track you're at. You can try mixing that way con your DDJ400. Just select the browse option in Rekordbox (instead of, for example, the 2-deck horizontal) and you can try it out.
Lot of ear training and counting i guess. Most of 16 bar have some kind of signal like change in drum pattern for example at the end of each loop to make the track less boring. Count my friend, count
Has anybody else noticed that the cdjs aren't connected to the mixer that's wired And also why are they using the 900nxs2 not the a9 Just wanted to point that out.. Anyways great video guys I definetly learned a lot espacially because there aren't many techno tutorials out there. I would love to see more genre specific mixes like this one.
The mixer is connected to Rekordbox on a laptop via USB on top of the mixer and all going to a network with the CDJs. No need for the audio cables from CDJ to mixer 👍🏻 Also didn’t have access to a DJM-A9 at the time of recording so the DJM-900NXS2 had to do 😊
Hey crossfader team I have a question about virtual DJ how come when I don’t have my DJ controller the two songs end at the same time but when I have my DJ controller connected the two songs don’t end at the same time what can I do to fix that
Meaning it was big in 1 area does not mean it is world wide known like nowadays, tomorrowland mainstage was 90% techno this year, I think this speaks enough of what is happening in the music world@@djstuc
hmm its almost as if they said in the description there was a lot of requests for hard techno, if we really dig deep into some stats this may even have a correlation to it being more popular now!
Learn to DJ with our dedicated Techno Mixing Course: app.wearecrossfader.co.uk/online-dj-courses/Techno-Mixing-DJ-Course
Hi
I'm wondering if you have a dedicated course for organic house or melodic house as these are my two favourite genres.
Thanks in advance.
now do mainstream hardcore please (real mainstream hardcore no piepkicks!) :-)
I’m just so glad to see harder techno making a comeback.
Also, that track selection and mixing is absolute fire!
This is to all the people who say: “They’re just turning random knobs. All they do is press PLAY”
Love this! Thanks a lot for this comment
making a comeback? it has been the most commercial techno i feel like on the scene for the past year
@@Crossfader Its nothing special to mix Hard Techno. Play live instead of DJing
Replace hard techno with hard groove and then you have a point. That’s what’s about to take over the scene with chläer, alarico, x club, JXXXO, Beau Didier, Isaiah and so many more
@thecreepysilence4290 you are comparing BMW with Rolls Royce
Absolutely loved it. Great mixing techniques. Techno Peak Time/ Drive is my genre. I've learnt a lot just by watching this, even though I've been DJing for a few years. Everyday is a school day. Well done Danny
The best genre of Techno right now! And the perfect tutorial to boot! Thanks!
So great that you found this valuable!
I'm glad to see your tutorial on mixing my favorite genre of music. Some of the mixing elements seemed interesting to me, and I am grateful for the opportunity to learn something new and use it in my DJ sets in the future.
Awesome to hear that! That is exactly why we made this particular mix
Nice! Been mixing hard techno for a couple years. Could never really find lessons, just winging it. Cool to see them coming up. I need to brush up my mixing.
Can't believe I'm listening to a schranz mix on crossfader the crazy thing is my mate is one of the best producers of this style and also the best at mixing it he's called dj instigator
im a fan of that guys tracks!!
Glad you liked this dude!
YOURE FRIENDS WITH INSTIGATOR!!!????!!!!!
@@sharayenpather4934 I am yeah, I haven't seen him for a while but yeah definitely a mate
The fuck you are friends with Instigator!!!! I found his music back in 2012, after Viper XXL.
Bro 😭😭😭 I’m gonna cry. You have to tell him he was ahead of his time for me please!!!! I listen to music nowadays and I cant even compare it to Sweet Fuck album that shit was 🩸🩸. His music is my gatekeep music. Only sharing it with my closest friends/udrgnd Djs. Bro one of my catch phrases is “FUCK U ASSHOLE” because of instigator.😭
Finally a tutorial on how to mix hard techno on youtube.
Thank you very much for your support of my track. Temprano - Crossword (Available in Audiocode Records)
I love it bro. I bought your album off bandcamp after hearing it here!
Great mix! I love seeing mixes from different genres. I have the Techno mixing class and highly recommend it- it's a gem!
I love it. thanks...
Insane mixing skills
Mate! Awesome dj skills , I really love your content!
For me techno is very difficult to keep that energy up there especially on 2 decks m8 this is fire thanks for the tutorial.
are there actually techno djs who consistently use more than 2 decks?
@@cLutchCeeS most of them. look up tham or ki/ki
Great tutorial! Thanks for the visual infographic tips, very helpful!
Glad it helped you out!
Excellent stuff, i love the harder stuff and worry all my transitions sound the same but these sound excellent and give me a few new ways. Thanks
Thanks For the tuturial. Hardcore next pls!
Insane Mix Bro !!!
Great work, more tutorials like this are neccesary
we need more videos on hard techno!
Crossfader AWESOME 😎😎
😍
Thats the best set I heard from crossfader
Awesome! Could you do this for Trance too? :)
trance is gay
@@ownedbyjoshe can play what he want to Play
@@ownedbyjosdude you are on a techno video and use „gay“ with a negative vibe to it. I hope you stop going to every techno event. Just don’t go anymore thank you
@@ownedbyjosrespect trance, a lot of techno djs incorporate trance into their mixes
@@ownedbyjos1. Using gay as an insult is just funny, are u a 13 years old? 2. Maybe you need to know more about the history of techno and “hard” techno
Nice mix 💚
Sehr geniales Set. Fetzt ordentlich! Rave on❤❤❤
Now you can make an hardstyle or rawstyle mix 😈🔥🔥
no sorry, Crossfader only plays good music
these good musics that get crushed at festivals, you don’t know what you’re talking about 😂
What’s your favorite style ? Let me see 😂
Whooaaaaa! My MacBook speakers are about to explodeeeeeeee lol ! ❤
Finally! 🖤💣
love parade vibe ❤
The most banging education ever 🎉
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Sleep Is Cousin My Dreams😊
Hey,
Great mixing! But how did you connect the cds the mixer?
thank you so much!
Good tutorial. Even i prefer a 8 bar loop on CDJ's. It gives you a little bit more time to mix
I didn't expect a hard techno mix on the channel, can you guys make a hardstyle/rawstyle or hardcore mix in the future?
No because Hardstyle is trash
@@K.mersch Although I highly disagree, you're welcome to have your own opinion. Personally I think hardstyle/hard dance is better than house, techno, hiphop/rnb, and most other mainstream genres but that's just my opinion and I know many people will disagree.
@@Kurt20051YTHardstyle fans be like "This distorted kick on its own for 5 minutes straight is fire!"
@@elektra81516 Lol I mean you're not entirely wrong tbh
@@elektra81516 You can say the same about techno. Just straight up kicks and bass for hours and hours with some slight changes in melody. Still fire tho
Thank you!
Rocking
Isn’t it a useful technique to always just have the phrases alligned? So tthat when mixing in track 2 u have it in an 8 bar loop ans u don’t have to think about looping again?
I always thought phrasing was the basis of mixing, but I guess I was wrong :|
I think when you have a short timing you just try to mix in as soon as possible, introduce the first elements, then sometimes you are not phrased correctly, but you correct as you are close of a change in the phrasing of the master track
Flawless
Stable mix, more of it please😃👍
Stabil auf englisch übersetzt haha
06:17 how did you beat jump to align phrasing? I saw you've set a marker for this prepared transition, but how did you beatjump? so how did you know how much you had to jump?
I think beat jump is a cdj feature, and I guess he can estimate the amount of bar difference by comparing the waveforms of both tracks
Tunes!
Awesome
nice tracks
sick!!!
I know this might be a lot on the editor of the video, but wouldn’t it be cool if when he turns down the bass EQ, the color of the video fades out the RGB of red? That would be sick.
Can you do an hour long set
great! could you make one for Acid techno? (Deborah, Amelie, etc.)
Hello, i'm new at using a DJ Controller, i have a Hercules Inpulse 200 MK2 to start and i would like to know if there's a way to do the reverse play like you did it in 00:48
Thanks!!
12:40 is brutal
Niceeeeeeeee!!
Why he leaves sometimes the filter slitly in the high position? That should take energy of the music but he makes looks easy and sound good
The slip reverse he uses throughout on the CDJ..is there an effect within rekordbox that would sound similar. I have a flx4 so basic
playlist please?
i love
waw well done
lets gooooooo
The shxt you don’t know you are looking for until…🎲🥵😜😎🖤💸🍭👽
where do you take or get your music from?
how do you know when to play the next track? do you alway press play button when the first track beat drops?
Is it harder to mix on 3000s than on 2000s? Or even the good old 500's?
nice mix ! Don't you quantize your fx ?
I have a question, is there a chance to see the bars on CDJ 300? @crossfader
Nice
I have question, why hard techno and techno peak time is really hard to harmonically mix the tracks with each other because I listen to psytrance and I find that the DJs can harmonically the tracks without any issues🙄
Because techno has a huge variation of kicks, in different keys, some long some tight, sometimes multiple kicks together, while most all psytrance kicks are similar and are A-tonal, meaning they do not have a key, making it easier to transition from track to track. When you hear a psytrance kick you immediately know it's a psytrance kick, while techno on the other hand is way to diverse to single out so easily, and is usually only given away by it's hi-hat patterns.
Another reason is that techno is such a broad genre, that has massive variations of sounds and styles.
@@klubstompers Thank you so much for this information, I have tried many many times to mix techno tracks with each other and I always feel that the tracks doesn't go along with each other thus I lost hope and decided to choose another genre 😕
@@kahs1180 You need a huge library of tracks so you can find something that fits, and a large variety of transition skills. Some mixes are long, some are short, some are teased in, some are brought directly in, etc. A good skill to learn is hi-pass filtering the old track before u bring in the new bass line, anywhere from 8-32 beats before the drop, to make the transition sound better when going from one bass line to the next if they don't compliment each other. Another good thing to do is wait for one melody to end before u bring in the new tracks melody. Give it 16 or so beats of no melody before the new melody drops. Dont try to mix 2 melodies or vocals together unless they sound really good together. You can try pre looping your new track to get a solid beat match if you want to bring in the track from the first beat, so you dont hear the track being shuffled in the mix. You can also put a 4 beat loop on the old track near the end of your mix, to make sure your drops line up, if you need it.
Don't give up on techno, it is super fun, when you nail the mixes, and will learn a lot when working out mixes and sets.
Psy trance is the harderst genre of electronic music to produce but easiest to mix and play.
your middle bottom fader was off center the whole mix btw
Getting phrasing on point is quite different I suppose. On the DDJ400 with rekordbox I line them up as you can see on the waveforms that are on top of each other. On the CDJs it looks much harder?
You can use hot cues to make that easier and you can also see the full waveform of the songs on the bottom of the CDJ screen, so maybe you don't have a waverform on top of another, but you still know at wich point of your track you're at. You can try mixing that way con your DDJ400. Just select the browse option in Rekordbox (instead of, for example, the 2-deck horizontal) and you can try it out.
Episode 7:
Which one is genre?
House
Deep
Chill
Electronic
harosh!
see what really confuses me, how do you know when 16 bars is here ready to mix into? I'm setting cue points directly telling me when 16 bars ar coming
Lot of ear training and counting i guess. Most of 16 bar have some kind of signal like change in drum pattern for example at the end of each loop to make the track less boring. Count my friend, count
Has anybody else noticed that the cdjs aren't connected to the mixer that's wired
And also why are they using the 900nxs2 not the a9
Just wanted to point that out..
Anyways great video guys I definetly learned a lot espacially because there aren't many techno tutorials out there. I would love to see more genre specific mixes like this one.
The mixer is connected to Rekordbox on a laptop via USB on top of the mixer and all going to a network with the CDJs. No need for the audio cables from CDJ to mixer 👍🏻
Also didn’t have access to a DJM-A9 at the time of recording so the DJM-900NXS2 had to do 😊
🎉🎉🎉❤
Hey crossfader team I have a question about virtual DJ how come when I don’t have my DJ controller the two songs end at the same time but when I have my DJ controller connected the two songs don’t end at the same time what can I do to fix that
Are you using cdjs to control rekordbox or traktor? Because I don't see audio cable going from cdj into mixer
I do not get it.....advice on how to get startet?
We have a Techno Course where all the techniques shown in this mix are covered: wearecrossfader.co.uk/techno-course-sales/
Could've used this about a week ago LOL
Sorry we were late 😅
@Crossfader Better late than never haha keep it up guys
i need your tracks
Can someone tell me the best way to download hard techno on to your laptop?
ruclips.net/video/yg-1RMzrMGo/видео.htmlsi=mE73ITzk8PgOGm2f
10:13 you missed the bass dude ;)
Now everybody is going to mix Techno like a pro :(
5:00
Unterhang
techno mixing is the easiest thing in tha world
TikTok Techno
schranz sounds better at 160bpm
*How To Mix Mainstream Techno on CDJ 3000s (Step-By-Step)
What if you guys try making a Trap EDM mix, artists like Yellow Claw, ISOxo, RL Grime, Flosstradamus, Skrillex?
THIS IS FUCKING TECHNOOO!!!
What kind of reader is he?
Klingt von Anfang bis Ende gleich.. bissel EFX und Loops ist auch nicht schwer.. aber schlecht gemixt ist es nicht... passt schon
I see you guys are also picking up whats hot and trendy nowadays, its also funny seeing someone standing still and chill while mixing hard techno 😂
Meaning it was big in 1 area does not mean it is world wide known like nowadays, tomorrowland mainstage was 90% techno this year, I think this speaks enough of what is happening in the music world@@djstuc
When something gets popular, DJs will want to mix it, why not make a video on it?
hmm its almost as if they said in the description there was a lot of requests for hard techno, if we really dig deep into some stats this may even have a correlation to it being more popular now!
LOL for all the noobs who will never rock a vinyl set
Gg
wtf this is lsd vs industry baby crankdat remix. i just made a mshup of this...and now i come on youtube and see this.
Ok a musica più sbagliata da mettere x mixare!!!!
ma taci
Anything above 145 BPM isn't Techno imo...
Obviously, it's not techno, it's Hard Techno, master.
Oh look, here comes another techno snob...
@@JuLi3v2 even if it's hard techno, 150 BPM is too high, 145 is the sweet spot. Anything above 150 is already DnB BPM
@@elektra81516 not really a techno snob. been playing techno for many years but never at 150 cause that's way too fast. 145 is the sweet spot