beatmix
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[edit]beatmix (third-person singular simple present beatmixes, present participle beatmixing, simple past and past participle beatmixed)
- To transition from playing one song to playing another by adjusting the second track so that its tempo and pitch match the song that is ending, resulting in a seamless flow of music with no break.
- 1998, Alistair Fitchett, Young and Foolish: A Personal Pop Odyssey, page 73:
- I could beatmix if I could be bothered, but frankly what's the point?
- 2016, Darren Hudson Hick, Reinold Schmücker, The Aesthetics and Ethics of Copying, page 385:
- Every club wanted the seamless mix, but not every suburban disco DJ was able to beatmix.
- 2016, Tim Lawrence, Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980–1983:
- He showed me how to beatmix and I started to incorporate that into what I was doing at the Ritz.
Noun
[edit]beatmix (plural beatmixes)
- A mix of multiple tracks produced by a disc jockey who employs beatmixing.
- 1999, Sean Bidder, House: The Rough Guide, page 109:
- Hardly inspirational stuff, but this beatmix collection of popular House/garage cuts by DJ Pierre, Roger S, Ultra Naté and others is probably the easiest place to find Farley's anthemic "Love Can't Turn Around".
- 2003, Frank Broughton, Bill Brewster, How to DJ Right: The Art and Science of Playing Records, page 188:
- Don't worry if your mixer has a smoother “beatmix curve” crossfader; it just means you'll have to move it farther for the same effect.
- 1999, Belinda Barnet, “Sound Machines, Flesh Machines and History Engines”, in Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine:
- Another work which utilises sound (and technological imagery) in a novel way is Wade Marynowsky's Diaspora 2000 (1999), an insane beatmix of sample loops and images weaving in and out of Olympic City Sydney […]