How I started DJ mixing + Free Music Beats

I have always had a passion for mixing and have seen methods and techniques change a great deal. This is how I first got into mixing.

Stage 1: My 1st crude mixing method:

When I 1st started mixing I used to use the old cassette tapes which was a very crude method of mixing. Yes it was some years ago! Basically I had a double tape deck with pre-recorded music on it and I would play both tapes back simultaneously and mix the tracks. I would count the beats of each track manually using a stop watch then sequence tape cassettes with tracks of the same speed. So I would have about 10 cassette tapes all lined up but I had to ensure each tape would start in the right place when I mixed them into the preceding tape. So I would stop and start each tape until they were all exactly in the right place. I numbered each tape then mixed each one into the other in sequence. It was not easy but it was all I had to work with

Music I mixed:

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