beatmix

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English

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Etymology

From beat +‎ mix.

Verb

beatmix (third-person singular simple present beatmixes, present participle beatmixing, simple past and past participle beatmixed)

  1. To transition from playing one song to playing another by adjusting the second track so that its tempo and pitch match the song that is ending, resulting in a seamless flow of music with no break.
    • 1998, Alistair Fitchett, Young and Foolish: A Personal Pop Odyssey, page 73:
      I could beatmix if I could be bothered, but frankly what's the point?
    • 2016, Darren Hudson Hick, Reinold Schmücker, The Aesthetics and Ethics of Copying, page 385:
      Every club wanted the seamless mix, but not every suburban disco DJ was able to beatmix.
    • 2016, Tim Lawrence, Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980–1983:
      He showed me how to beatmix and I started to incorporate that into what I was doing at the Ritz.

Noun

beatmix (plural beatmixes)

  1. A mix of multiple tracks produced by a disc jockey who employs beatmixing.
    • 1999, Sean Bidder, House: The Rough Guide, page 109:
      Hardly inspirational stuff, but this beatmix collection of popular House/garage cuts by DJ Pierre, Roger S, Ultra Naté and others is probably the easiest place to find Farley's anthemic "Love Can't Turn Around".
    • 2003, Frank Broughton, Bill Brewster, How to DJ Right: The Art and Science of Playing Records, page 188:
      Don't worry if your mixer has a smoother “beatmix curve” crossfader; it just means you'll have to move it farther for the same effect.
    • 1999, Belinda Barnet, “Sound Machines, Flesh Machines and History Engines”, in Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine:
      Another work which utilises sound (and technological imagery) in a novel way is Wade Marynowsky's Diaspora 2000 (1999), an insane beatmix of sample loops and images weaving in and out of Olympic City Sydney []