Well, I was going to do a good in depth description, but theory28 raped any mixing strategy I could have gone deep into. So, I will give you a short but sweet description of my thought processes when I mix dubstep; keep the crowd moving, keep the crowd consistent. What this means for me is that you want to keep your crowd dancing, and you want to keep the surprises out of the mix. The best way to keep the crowd dancing is to keep the music's energy very similar, slowly bumping it up (like making a set from ascending BPM's) when the maximum energy level that you want to reach is hit, don't bring it down too much too fast. Otherwise, it's all basic stuff, keep the volume of the new track low during the breakdown if it has a long intro (gold dust (flux remix)) . If it's short, it probably has a really quick and abrupt drop (Woo Boost) if it's average length (pro nails (rusko remix)) try to keep the frequency lower in the beginning of the intro and slowly increase up both the volume and frequency until the drop or pre drop breakdown. That's pretty much my strategy. Consistency with volume, frequency and energy.
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