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Kev, you want to go ahead and give an example of this?
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[[music plays in Background]]
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I want you all to watch very closely. As he moves his hands from table to table and see who does this. Ok, now here's our basic piece.

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Now, it's on the other turntable. Same piece. Back to the first turntable.

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And what he's doing is after that piece plays, when he queues it up on the other turn table, he takes that needle, pulls it back to the beginning of the segment that he wants to repeat.

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He's got the headphones up to one ear so that he can queue the records up. Now how many of ya'll, if you closed your eyes, could tell exactly when he moved from one turntable to the other turntable.

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Back to the first turntable.

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There we go to the second.

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Let's have a hand for "Cosmic Kev".

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Now that is the most basic form of mixing of this sort.
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Now we're going to show a little artistry and get a little complicated.
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There's another form of mixing, which is called speed mixing.
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Sly, could you tell us what speed mixing is, and then we'll have Kev try it again.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Speed mixing is a lot like what ya'll just saw.
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But, it's going to be done a little bit faster now.
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It's a lot the same, but it's just going to be a little bit faster.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Kev, before you actually start this,
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Do you often do the speed mixing when you've got a dancing audience or is that (--)
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Well, there are two types of speed mixing.
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Alright, the first type that I will demonstrate, I'll do it a lot at, you know, parties, disco's, and so forth and so on.
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But, the second type is not really demonstrated so much, only, in contests and challenges and things like that.
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But, it's not really done at a regular party or a regular disco.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Why not?
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Because for the second speed mixing that I will demonstrate,
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It has a tendency of throwing the people offbeat. It will throw the public off the beat.
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It's like, It's a repeating of the record but it's in a faster pace.
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It's so fast that you can't dance to it.
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It's not really a rhythm.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
So, what you've got then is two different forms of speed mixing. One which is used actually on the dance floor.
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The other which is for flash.
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The other which you use in a contest situation. In a demonstration situation, where you want to show your skill.
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But, you don't necessarily have to keep that precise beat.
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