mixing soca and dancehall

im learning how to DJ I FIND A LOT OF YOUTUE VIDEOS ON MIXING BEAT MATCHING FOR OTHER GENRES NOT SOCA AND DANCEHALL...I FOUND ONE GUY WHO HAD A VIDEO ABOUT MXING DANCEHALL GOSPEL MUSIC JUGGLING WHICH HELPED ME A LOT

MY QUESTION IS SIMPLE WHEN MIXING TWO SONGS THAT NOT ON THE SAME BEAT OR RIDDIM....AT WHAT POINT IN THE SONG SHOULD I START TO MIX THE NEXT SONG IN - IS IT AFTER THE CHORUS ?

 

Mix where you think it sounds the best to bring in the next track. I typically begin the transition during the chorus and fully transition to the very end. There is not clear rule on when to mix its when you think is the best time.

 

Play by ear what sounds good to you

 

When I mix Dancehall, I quick-mix, mixing verse 1 & the chorus , then mix out to the next song (on some songs, some people wanna hear the whole song but I typically mix quick).

With soca, I mix quick (but only with the fast soca songs, like 140-160 BPM which is being driven into the BPM of DnB and I mix quick to keep the energy up) and with slower soca, mix a little slower/long-mix (mixing up to the second verse, avoiding the bridge).

To answer the question about the different riddims, I recommend that after the chorus, echo out (backspin if you wanna add more impact) then (optional) scratch in or just drop the next song on a different riddim. Or, when you gonna mix, scratch/drop the instrumental section of the different riddim song, then echo-backspin and jump to the intro with a cue point (with the drums and harmonics) (I also use this method, but only use this if the both of the songs are in keys they won't sound like crap. Or: you can use software like the new serato 3.0 or Neural Mix Pro/DJAY Pro AI to isolate the track stems, which is the drums, harmonics, vocals.)

For example, I'm mixing Sweetness (Azryah, I believe) and Uber Everywhere (Motto), I scratch in the intro of Uber Everywhere then isolate the vocal and harmonic of Sweetness, keeping the vocal disabled from Uber Everywhere, then I echo-backspin after the chorus of Sweetness and add back the vocal of Uber Everywhere and jump back to when the vocal comes in of Uber Everywhere, this is using stem-seperating DJ software.

if you using rekordbox or some other "non Stem-Seperating software, then just scratch the intro of Uber (loop the intro if needed), swap the bass on beat, then echo-backspin Sweetness after the chorus, then cue-jump to when the vocals of Uber Everywhere comes in) Hopefully this helps out.

EDIT: Rekordbox now has Stems, so the technique on using Stems is available on Rekordbox

 

An easy option would be to use the cue button... So let's say a dancehall track is running and you want to bring in a soca, bring your cross fader to the middle and tap the cue button of the soca track to the beat of the dancehall song currently playing.... It will tease the upcoming song and then you can bring the fader across.
This is a good technique for bringing in a track at a completely different BPM than the one playing.

Good luck!