How we do it? - A brief introduction to GTD mixes

Dear listeners from far and wide,

Though we're already nearly 20 GTD mixes strong, we haven't yet shared you the details on how our mixes are done, except from the basic facts that they: 1) are 100 % from original vinyl; 2) are recorded without Serato or equivalent; 3) include no post-editing with software; and 4) are recorded on one take. Only excepts to these "rules" are our modern funk mixes, i.e. the volumes 14 and 18, which contain post-editing as the whole one hour mixes are parsed together from three shorter live mixed sets.



Here is a small desciption on how the collaborative GTD mixes are usually done. As we currently live at different cities, the mixes are recorded when we hook-up for a GTD DJ's gig or just visit each other. A typical GTD mix session contains loads of records, some beers, a bottle of whisky or gin and several hours of listening to new records while chatting about music, records and life in general... plus a bit more about records. The contents of the mix are mostly determined by the record bag of the travelling person. After the initial session of going through some of our current favourite 12"s, we decide roughly what to include in the mix. Then, we do a back-to-back build-up for the set and select the tracklist in agreement. Finally, the mix is recorded in one take, except if we happen to fuck up one of the first, say three, blends, which strangely seem to be quite hard to nail. The live feel is transferred to the recording by gradually getting more hyped about the mix and sometimes increasingly tipsy towards the end.



It's fun to do mixes together, but we're both too busy to be able to do it as often as we should and therefore there are more individual GTD DJ mixes than mixes we've done toghether. However, a new mix is on the planning board and except more wobbly beats and modern funk appear this way quite soonish. And stay tuned for more Give It Back-mixes and a new "jubilee" 20th GTD mix!