![]() There’s a groovy builder of a house track you like, but it has a two-minute long break in the middle where nothing much happens and which you don’t like as it kills the vibe in your sets – so you do a re-edit where you turn it into a tighter version that holds the groove better.You have an old funk or soul tune you really want to beatgrid / sync mix with, but its BPM varies – so, you use software to “tighten up” the BPMs at the start and finish (the parts you want to mix), to give you your own unique easy-to-mix version.Or, you may have a three-minute pop song you love, but it has precisely four beats at the start before it “kicks in” – so you do a “re-edit” to give it 16 bars of clean beats at the start to allow you to mix it more easily.So you make a “re-edit” where you keep all the long, dubby bits but cut out the vocal parts You may have a long, dubby, dancefloor-remixed version of a pop song that after five minutes, breaks into the pop song itself – at which point, you lose interest in it.(True story: I used to do this as a child to remove the talking from my recordings of the Top 40, and I did it on the beat and everything – I was destined to be a DJ from a very young age!) Here’s some more up-to-date reasons why you might want to re-edit: They’ve happened since DJs could cut up tape with razor blades and reassemble it to make better results. “DJ Edits” are a misunderstood thing, and that’s partly because they can be anything from a personalised version of a song with the profanities removed for that under 18s disco you’ve been booked to play at, to a complete rework of a tune that took you weeks to get right! What “re-edits” (another word for them) all share in common is that they’re down and dirty, they’re made from the original tune that inspired them (no long studio sessions with synthesisers, sequencers and musicians and stuff here!), and they’re made for a particular, specific reason. Essentially, they’re just simple, fast cut and paste jobs on tunes you love, to make them easier to DJ with. Edits aren’t mashups, or productions, or acapella mixes – although they can be a part of all of these things.
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