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Chill Out And Lounge 1 – Music Playlists

Chill Out And Lounge 1

Lounge Music Playlists By DJ White Hawk

This DJ lounge playlist set has been arranged harmoniously and beat matched in sequence.

1  Matenda – Floating Sky

2  DMT – Maillon Faible

3  Eli Kazah – Let Me Go.

4  Shen – Flood Plain

5  Jean F. Cochois – Dusty Playground

6  Nightmares on Wax – Capumcap

7  Solar Fields – Discovering

8  Black Star Liner – Harmon Session Special

9  Emotional – Daylight- ArenaBG

10  Mono Deluxe – High Hopes

11  Love Gypsies – Fantasy – Can You Feel It

12  Rauschfaktor – Aquarium (Cafe Rmx)

13  Nada – Earthgarden

14  One AM Radio – Witness

15  Cheb I Sabbah – I’m Ninalou

16  Zero 7 – Out Of Town

17  En Voice – Impressions

18  Atlantean – Starbound

19  Zaharamusic – Aire

20  Zico – Hope

Some parts are only harmonically mixed with no beats, that’s up to you to do the mixing.

Some tracks might be difficult to find.

Enjoy

DJ White Hawk

How To Make A Good DJ Playlist

DJ PlayList

Aspiring DJs should build a great library of music FIRST.

YOU MUST KNOW YOUR MUSIC

• Know the BPM of your songs

Beats Per Minute. Arranging your dance music this way creates consistency in tempo and provides better continuity for people who are dancing.

• Know the harmony notes of beginning and end of songs

You can find software for that too. Here is one new software which I haven’t checked out yet but I won’t need it anyway for myself. Mixed In Key. I use Mixmeister Fusion which has all those features. It’s a great DJ software.

More about harmony mixing here at DJ Prince

• Trim your songs

Long fade outs or talking and skits at the end can be trimmed.

A good piece of free software for trimming unwanted bits from the beginning and end of songs is   Mp3Trim or   Mp3Directcut ( is my preferred one).

If you use Wav files then try Audacity but don’t convert to another format. Always keep your original files backed up.

• Normalize your songs

Normalizing your songs will bring the volume levels in line with each other, so that the volume stays fairly consistent.
An easy way to normalize a collection of MP3s is to use a free piece of software called  Mp3Gain . For Wav files you can use Audacity.

• Select and combine

Select tracks into the same BPM harmoniously if possible. If harmony can’t be done then just beat match it and that should be OK.

Keep building the playlist.

• Building A CD Mix?
  

Try this!

First track should be an instrumental (no vocals) and the duration shorter than 2 minutes 30 seconds.

Second track should have vocals and should not be longer than 4 minutes.

All  the rest of the tracks should be less than 5 minutes each.

• Take in Requests?

As a commercial DJ, you are EXPECTED to know just about everything and HAVE just about everything they will ask for.

Take your DJ career serious? Then GET serious!

Peace

DJ White Hawk

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