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I really wish I could enjoy all types of music, but sometimes, I just can’t. It’s like asking myself to enjoy Coors Light.

From Dustinland.

A few months ago, I recorded several mixes that turned out pretty well. There were parts of the mixes that had mistakes and weren’t stellar, but there were also parts that showed a lot of potential and had movement and direction.

Well, since May, I stopped mixing for a couple months, and over the past few weeks I’ve been getting back into mixing, with bad results. I don’t know why but I couldn’t get songs to start at the right time, I’d be playing songs that didn’t feel right (even though I bought them and used them well before), and I’d rush mixes, do sloppy mixes, not gauge parts of songs correctly… I’d basically be doing everything equivalent to trainwrecking on Ableton. Melodies and voices would come in and out whenever they pleased, and I had a hard time bringing songs in and out of mixes.

Last Thursday, Sellers came over and we mixed for a couple hours, and over the past week, I’ve been frantically listening to my old mixes, DJ mixes, and my songs to figure out where I was going wrong.

I don’t know how it happened, but over this past weekend, it all came back to me. I could predict when those filter sweeps and breakdowns would occur, and how to phrase mixes correctly. I’m not perfect, and probably not quite close to how I was in May, but it’s nice to be able to do mediocre mixes again.

I’ll be posting some of my more recent sets soon.