APC40 mix - The Crystal method + Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax mixed by Steve Gregory

Busy Child by The Crystal Method is one of my favourite tracks, and it just happens to work really well with Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. This is a live remix (not prerecorded) using the Akai APC40, running Ableton Live on my Mac. I had to EQ and compress both tracks quite heavily to get them to work together. I am using the Effectrix, Lucifer, and QuadFrohmage plugins to add some of the incidental effects.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• The Crystal Method
• Busy Child
• Frankie Goes to Hollywood
• Relax
• Steve Gregory
• APC40
• Akai
• remix
• big beat
• electro
• electronica
• crystal method
• reason
• ableton live

[FMIF1028]

awesome man! so is this apc40 good for live djing as well as producing and remixing tracks? id like to know because im doing a hefty search for a controller, this seems to be my leader!

[stephencgregory]

@FMIF1028 It's perfect for DJ, probably more so than producing. There's loads of DJs who use it. 

[MrCydia]

ay bro sick mix! I want to buy a mixer too.

What do you think if you know, what mixer is better this one or the native instruments maschien?

[stephencgregory]

@MrCydia they are two different things. The maschien is a standalone instrument really, this is a controller. For getting fast results though, I use this more than any of my other music equipment.

[electrickabuki]

I have an apc40 and was just about to buy a mixtrack pro for djing, but after seeing this I might just use the apc40, what software are you using?

wicked mix btw!

[mannyd]

@MrCydia The Maschine is not a mixer.

[Nanpiper]

WOW!!!!!!!!

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[ChuLose]

should add a nice intermission without the drums and it'd be perfect. Nice though

[DoctorIncredible]

@repfreedomforce would be very easy mate. just run your laptop audio output into a spare channel on the dj mixer you are having the decks on, and when you want to noodle around your own remixes just transfer over to the apc... mind you, you might ACTUALLY have to beatmatch your laptop to the decks (and then when you come back off the APC) ...i think a lot of "modern" djs dont even know how to beatmatch anymore!

[dxw3895]

Good mix. Who`s remix is that Relax track @ background?

[repfreedomforce]

How is this setup for going from a DJ set, into a live remix session like this one , and then back into a set? In other words, is it good for DJing, AND doing live remixes within the larger set, are are those different aspects of this setup not really to be used together?

[Mattyice999]

sick!!!

[epictangent]

That was awesome... make me miss the days when I did this shit