Plan in Threes
This is a method of organizing music for DJ
performance that I’ve found to work extremely
well in my own experience. When planning a set I
like to find three records that mix well together
at a time. Optimally these three records can all
be played together at once or they can transition
into one another. Next I find another set of three.
Then another. Eventually I have a stack of records
that are organized by how they mix together, and
I start to organize those sets of three into a flow
of slow to fast / mellow to banging. I like to have
60 tracks selected for an hour of performance. I
won’t play all 60 (I usually play around 20 tracks
per hour) and I won’t always play those exact
mixes (spontaneity is still important in a DJ set),
but I have options that go in every direction and I
know that I can find my way from one type of
sound to another while staying deep in the mix
the whole way. Knowing this allows me to be
much more experimental on-the-fly and it always
works better than if I don’t plan.
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