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Disco and funk? Anything from 95 to 130 BPM is possible, meaning that the chance that you can realistically beatmix two random tunes is much slimmer. A typical house tune these days is (give or take) in the 123 to 128 BPM range, with similarly tight ranges applying to other EDM genres. We take that precision for granted now, but in 1970s, dance tracks were recorded with a live drummer. Because of this, the tempo of a typical disco track fluctuates ever so slightly, making keeping two tunes in sync by ear very hard. Live drummer. Early 1980s marked the advent of drum machines, which brought computer precision to the timing of drum kicks in dance tracks.

This means that you have very little time to transition into and out of the track.

Short intros and outros. Unless you’re playing a 12-inch “disco version” of a track (that’s how longer DJ-friendly remixes were called back in the day), what you have on your hands is a 3- or 4-minute tune with a very short intro and outro.

There are three things that make mixing classic disco and funk harder than mixing your typical house or techno tunes. In this article, I’m going to share how I address some of the unique challenges to mixing these genres, as well as explain how I approach building disco and funk sets in general. I fell in love with 1970s disco early in my DJ career, but I started to add disco and funk to my DJ sets only very recently.