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I usually have the fade out then in to the next track, then i remember that their is no crowd and im alone naked in my room.
What an accurate description of my life.
Scream.
Just as the last beat of your first song ends, grab the microphone, shove it as far as you can into your mouth, and unleash the loudest, most blood-curdling scream you can muster, and hold it. Keep it going for as long as it takes you to load a new song on your single LSDJ cart in your single A/C adapter-powered Gameboy Pocket with a single working output channel (the left one, specifically) and stop the scream right as you start the second song.
Rinse/repeat/reduce/reuse/recycle/shake well/buy often.
Haha... This is awesome. Thanks for all the suggestions though guys. I think eventually I'll just need to get another copy of LSDJ. I have a mixer, not a DJ mixer but a good enough one to use. Maybe I'll consider getting some effects processor type stuff too. Reverb/looping on outros and then fading to another gameboy seems like it would work well.
You might try re-writing all your songs into one giant continuous track, and between songs just have drums going and change the tempo up.
Last edited by ShintarouMusic (Mar 19, 2013 9:45 am)
Bring an Ipod/mp3 player and have some samples on there. I can imagine using a synthesized vocal sample could have a good effect to 'fill-in' the silent gap. Or you could just create a loop on your gameboy record it and then just fade it in/out when the loading of the track is complete. Could be a potential solution to fill in the gaps?
Your audience's applause and cheering should fill the gaps between songs.
Just a thought, couldn't one (using dmgx2) put all the sound to come out of the left stereo Chanel while turning down then bring up the next track in the right while turning it up?
I have a suite of samples I use to fill space. My favorite is Matt berry impersonating Christopher lee making a porn. English humour is tops.
My transitions suck because I do not know how to write music that is even close to being in one BPM range. Typically, I use the ending of a track as a transition piece. A lot of my songs have arpeggios or sustained notes fade out at the end, this is a good starting place for a new track. Sometimes, if I actually have two songs that are in a similar BPM range and their style is suited for transition between each other, I do beatmatch. I've only been using one Gameboy lately, and a DMG at that (fucking loading times), but the "silence" between tracks has been filled by the applause of the people, so it's worked out.
Bring another gameboy and a child assistant to make noise on MuddyGB/Rez/MusicTech while you load the next one.
This thread is quite an inspiration for me. I would to contribute some ideas of my own.
You might try re-writing all your songs into one giant continuous track, and between songs just have drums going and change the tempo up.
An idea: You let the melody of the first song play alone and put the most ridiculously massive reverb on it, as well as delay, until it is nothing but a sound-puddle of high-pitched mud. Then you start bassline and drums of the next song, let the reverb fade out, and then start the melody of that next song. In fact, I will try this idea out myself.
Provided you use 2xLSDj and the rhythm is similar, you could keep the drums and some melody or arps going, then mess with the transpose feature in order to make it fit the next song.Then you start the bassline of the next song. And finally, you bring in the melody (or some arp riff) and the drums of the next song.
Last edited by Direktor (Apr 7, 2013 12:57 am)
Your audience's applause and cheering should fill the gaps between songs.
That is not a good way of conduct if you try to make electronic dance music, which requires the maintenance of a continuous rhythm. In the event I visit a dance club, I am always put off when the music stops between songs or the rhythm of the next song is too different. It stops my dancing. My dancing should not stop.
Ive done a couple of things
1-Use a program like nanoloop (GB, GBA, Android, iOS)/Trippy H (GB camera) and write a little loop to play while changing songs.
2-Run LSDJ on another device (I use a PSP, but i hear emulators work pretty well) and mix between the two DJ style
hope this helps!
child assistant
why hasn't anybody ever done this before?
It's pretty braindead easy to transition between songs on nanoloop, I've found. So my advice would be to use nanoloop. (Join us.)
My personal method to not having any dead air between songs has been to make ambient transition noises in a DAW and just fade them in and out on an ipod or something while I switch between songs that don't blend together well. It masks my dumb fumbling around and also helps set the tone of the performance I think.
Just make a huge 20 minutes set using every single LSDJ slots in one proyect. It takes a lot of practice to use it all (if I can recall correctly nullsleep does this in is Depeche mode minimix).
I've manage to make a 24 minute mixes with this technique. Then just tell a joke and while you're at it simply change into another same lengthy song proyect.
I've seen meneo playing 4-5 minute songs with a single gameboy, and loading them in 20-30 seconds. Meanwhile he justs speaks to the audience telling fun stuff. But you'll need a good stage-persona to connect with the people.
just write your sets in a single piggy tracker save, problem solved