#beatmatching for babbies

[oranjank]

turns out if you go to the trouble of beatmatching your playlists you can get away with some batshit insane song choices.

like my Halloween party playlist has a section that pairs Cannibal with Judas, follows that up with Master and Servant, then slams right into a Rave in the Grave/Spooky Scary Skeletons (Undead Tombstone mix) double whammy and it absolutely rips (to me. you might disagree but then again you might also be lame) which isn't all that surprising since all of those songs are ~130 bpm club bops.

mainstream electronic music tends to use similar-sounding drums and even intros/outros so if you line up the bpms many songs will bleed right into each other. the beatmatching trick still works when you want to mash songs from disparate genres together, but you have to be more careful about matching keys/mood/production/etc. sometimes it's better to just throw a slow, mostly beat-less song in between sections as a transition and move on.

obviously none of this applies if you and your guests don't really give a shit about what music is playing as long as it's music. if you want to safely mix your own weirdo music with crowd-pleasers at a party, however, this is how you do it.