Originally posted by klusta
I wouldn't really call it offbeat mixing more cuttin and jugglin between beats because runnin two tunes in offbeat sounds pretty shit.
Hard to explain, but here goes
Basically when u normally drop tunes in your dropping a kick ontop of a kick so the snares are in time...easy, 1 type of offbeat mixing is when you drop the first snare in a bar on to the first kick of a bar; this gives a sort of double snare/kick effect (sounds really shoddy if ya is runnin both tunes but it's sounds crazy when u flick between the snares and the the kicks of the seperate tunes) Sounds best with identical tunes but its the case of finding tunes with similar drum patterns if ya gonna mix different ones.
Another form is where u drop the 2nd tune in 1 hihat behind, sounds good when u flick beween kicks but sounds shit if ya runnin the two tunes over each other. This one gives more of an echo effect.