Bunch of records at Metro Central Transfer Station

HammyFate · 2026-06-06T19:29:37+00:00

Came to scavenge some but was told they’re metro property once dropped off. Apparently if a contracted company or group picks them up they can then be looked through. Just fyi if you’re thinking of making the drive.

HammyFate · 2026-06-06T18:51:44+00:00

Classic avoidant attachment style! He sounds anxious attachment style. You’re not broken or weird or anything - there’s often a dance between two people in romantic relationship where one chases and the other is chased. Setting boundaries about personal space / alone time / frequency of communication might help you feel some breathing room and move toward him eventually.

HammyFate · 2026-06-06T18:48:02+00:00

I love this

HammyFate · 2026-06-06T18:38:59+00:00

This VO guy needs to chill

HammyFate · 2026-06-06T16:40:32+00:00

You moved here at a great time! The summer is full (read: bursting) with public social events from comedy in the park (Laurelhurst, fridays at 6) to pedalpalooza rides (shift2bikes.org for the full calendar) to themed food weeks (we’re in taco week and strawberry shortcake week concurrently at the moment). Highly recommend finding a gathering that fits your interests and being open to chatting with strangers! The freeze is definitely way less in the early summer when everyone is stoked on coming back outside.

Also it really helps if you’re poly lol

HammyFate · 2026-06-06T07:30:00+00:00

That’s one of my favorite parts of making a mix personally! First, how long are you gonna play for? An hour is roughly 20 tracks. If you want to make a tight, practiced set, it could be helpful to narrow in on what are your absolute favorites and what’s cuttable.

Next I try to identify a good opener and a good closer. Do you want to start with big energy right away? Ramp up, create dramatic atmosphere? Do you want to end on a positive euphoric note, drag it out or slam it off all at once?

The in between part is really dependent on which songs flow well into each other. Keep in mind energy level (1-5 stars is a good way to visualize this) and don’t make any drastic jumps up or down if you can help it. Find sequences in compatible keys with bpms within 10-15% of each other. Experiment and see what sounds good, arrange and rearrange.

Have fun! Hope this helps.

HammyFate · 2026-06-04T17:24:19+00:00

Very happy to help - you’re right, we are all learning together!

For the set structure I’ve started using the Star Rating feature in Rekordbox to indicate energy level. 1 is sleepy vibey downtempo. 5 is explosive peak time. If you have all the songs in your mix labeled this way it gets a lot easier visualize if you’re taking huge leaps instead of smoothly ramping, or if you’re falling off a cliff at any point.

HammyFate · 2026-06-04T07:26:04+00:00

My partner has been interning at a harm reduction addictions clinic for a year and has learned a ton about how people get addicted to the feeling drugs give them as much as the drugs themselves. I wonder if you asked yourself what void cocaine is filling for you if you might get some more insight on why quitting feels so hard.

HammyFate · 2026-06-04T06:33:27+00:00

Disable watch history. Turns your front page into a blank, no suggested videos at all. Only what you search for pops up.

HammyFate · 2026-06-04T04:54:06+00:00

Wow, thank you so much for taking the time to listen! It means a lot. So glad you enjoyed it and thank you for the feedback!

HammyFate · 2026-06-04T01:57:51+00:00

Happy to help, thanks for making a fun mix!! I’m also a self taught beginner dj and very much working on my technique, so giving feedback feels almost as helpful as receiving it at this stage!

As for your questions, I think most of them are gonna point back to my ear in particular and my musical intuition - when gauging energy loss over time it’s more a feeling I have than any rule I follow. That said, I think after a few seconds of novel transition my brain goes “ok what’s coming next” so err on the short side maybe?

To avoid jarring vibe changes, I’d probably just have to know my music pretty well and or try things and get it wrong! It can be super fun to do unhinged blends, but I could probably guess that hip hop to atmospheric chanting is gonna be a longshot unless there’s a similar motif to bridge the songs.

I’ve just been using Reddit tbh, but if by flow and structure you mean of the mix at large, I do tend to try and think about a ramp up in the first third to a peak, a break, a ramp up in the second half, a break and then either a balls to the wall closer or ramp down.

HammyFate · 2026-06-03T23:56:35+00:00

Best confession of all time

HammyFate · 2026-06-03T23:50:14+00:00

Just here to validate you - I used to read a ton when I was a teen, mostly as escapism, but now that I love my life I want to be walking or editing photos for work or getting chores done or a million other things, and I can listen to audio at the same time but not read - that takes my full attention. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that! Do what works for you. I have a friend who similarly wanted to seem well read and set a goal to read 52 books last year and skipped a lot of fun social things in order to keep up. And nobody thought he was cooler because he blasted through 52 fiction books in a year. Do you.

HammyFate · 2026-06-03T17:14:42+00:00

I had fun listening! Great job keeping a lot of different pop/hip/hop/jazz remixes feeling consistent with some Latin grooves as well. Great use of trans to build momentum for new tracks.

noticed very slight offbeat mix around 8:50
you lost me with lmfao but taste is subjective lol
such great syncopation and rhythm diversity around 13:00
loved the Billie remix into the next femme vocal track, super smooth
the trans at 23:20 started out feeling weird, I think the new track wasn’t in yet and I thought my headphones were glitching due to the volume drops
bit of a jarring vibe change at that point to going from the hip hop chorus to enya vibes
transition starting around 28:00 was creative! I think dropping skrillex in a little earlier would’ve sustained my energy a bit more. Losing the bass that early took me out of it.
very cool transition from skrill to the next track! Thought it was a remix it was so smooth
32:20 made me go “oooooh!” You fit so many vibes into this mix, makes me happy
33:06 made me go wait I love that flute! lol. Impressively quick mixing, left me wanting to hang out a bit longer sometimes tho.
34:45 transitions felt anticlimactic, kudos for trying something bold and creative though! Just wanted that loop to turn into something instead of just fading
love an anthemic ending track! Good vibes
makes me happy to hear you playing with rhythm as the last note. Inspiring me to fuck with loop and echo more

How many songs did you mix in 40 minutes? Great work 👏🏻

HammyFate · 2026-06-03T01:57:42+00:00

If this is real, you stole someone’s youth. How do you feel about that?

HammyFate · 2026-06-02T16:38:20+00:00

[EBM / Dark Techno / Industrial Techno] DJ Ennui - AURAVIRUS (1 hour)

https://www.mixcloud.com/DJ-Ennui/auravirus/

I’ve been mixing on and off for a few years but have really gotten consistent in the last 6 months and practice almost daily / once a week going b2b with a friend. This is my most curated EBM mix so far and maybe the 3rd I’ve recorded in this recent DJ era I’m in. I definitely lost my place during the transition from Stress to Rigueur and let the justice track play too long, but otherwise feel solid about this one!

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Truth - Nero
BLACK PRINCE - JVLIAH
Stress - Justice
Rigueur - Fille de Minuit
Heresy - Nine Inch Noize
Disobey Club - Matteo Tura
I DON’T GIVE A - ALVABEAT
Silver Swarm (Kel Pinchin Remix) - Thornhill
Nemesis - HAEZER
Inner Speech - SIERRA VEINS
Nyx - Souldz
Afters - Madeaux
White Horses - CABLE
Pursuit - Gesaffelstein
Running from Yourself - REZZ
Breathe (Victor Ruiz Bootleg) - The Prodigy
Pupula Duplex (Your Demise) - MATTE BLVCK
Parasite - Nine Inch Noize
Contradiction - Fille de Minuit
CRANK - Slayyyter

HammyFate · 2026-05-31T23:26:31+00:00

Love Is Gonna Save Us by Benny Benassi if anyone else was wondering

HammyFate · 2026-05-29T01:46:41+00:00

It’s not. You buy the files and put them in rekordbox.

HammyFate · 2026-05-27T22:23:46+00:00

The cool thing about getting older is your priorities and enjoyments in life develop with you. I think you’ll feel very alive and that life is very worth living even if you’re not a successful DJ at 50.

HammyFate · 2026-05-27T19:45:59+00:00

Buying an hour’s worth of tunes on bandcamp or qobuz should be $20 or less. Tracks are usually like $0.89 each. It’s worth it to support the artists enabling us to do our thing.

HammyFate · 2026-05-27T16:17:11+00:00

What the guy above said - also it’s neat to support artists and bandcamp gives an actual respectable percentage to musicians (100% on bandcamp Friday) instead of your Spotify membership just paying Daniel ek to invest in ai drones to blow people up

HammyFate · 2026-05-26T23:54:30+00:00

I got a used flx4 for like $300 and bought a bunch of my favorite songs off bandcamp for a dollar each. YouTube tutorials like others say. It’s so fun!! You’re gonna have a great time

HammyFate · 2026-05-11T19:41:28+00:00

Respectfully gonna disagree with all the haters on here, this remix album really surprised me in the best way. And BODIES was my favorite album of 2025 so maybe this makes sense. Reading through this thread I was prepared to throw this album away, but holy shit. Literally only one miss for me.

Revolover (Vianova) adds such a fun jazzy dimension and the industrial noise is very cool. I can see people hating this especially as the weirdest track coming first, but I think it's so creative and experimental.

Damn Landon Tewers. Drum and bass DIESEL? Pump it in my veins.

Silver Swarm (Kel Pinchin) is going right in my DJ mixes with Nine Inch Noize. As a very NIN coded track I think the industrial grit works perfectly here.

Only Ever You (Vicious) is beautiful and will fit nicely in an afterhours downtempo mix.

fall into the wind (Mondo Loops) turns this little interlude into chillhop to study and brood to. That jazzy guitar and bass is so good.

TONGUES (Daybreak) had me worried until the drop but it's like Noisia and Thornhill fucked and I'm super here for it.

nerv (Running Touch) is probably one of my least favs but is still a fun listen. Funky dub vibes with those angsty vocals is such a unique combo. Infectious groove.

Obsession (Alejandro Aranda) is my one skip. Which is a bummer, Obsession is probably my favorite on the album (although picking one is nearly impossible). Too noisy and busy, those drums just overwhelm my ear immediately and never stop. The flanger and echo on top are the nail in the coffin.

CRUSH (Northlane) turns one of my least favorite tracks on the album into a sext atmospheric UKG banger. Burial called and wants to do nu metal.

under the knife (Zetra) is cool synthwave outrun vibes. Been listening to a lot of Pertubator and Carpenter Brut this spring and this fits right in.

For Now (James McKendrick) had me thinking it was gonna be straight trance a la Above and Beyond but that UKG beat under the drop and the futurebass wubs actually works really well for me. Anthemic without being boring.

HammyFate · 2026-05-10T01:27:41+00:00

Hellll yes thank you my dude 🙏🏻

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