Understanding: what are mixes?

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:43

For better or worse, but modern Russian speech is constantly updated with foreign words, the meaning of which is not yet clear to everyone. Hence the quite justified desire to understand what these new concepts mean. Well, for example, what are mixes?

About the meaning of the word

Translated from English, the word mix means "mixture" or "mixing process" (mixing). Since almost everything can be connected, the concept of a mix is not something strictly defined. What they mixed is what they got!

We are most familiar with food mixes: we are used to combining ingredients for different dishes (often using a device that is called a mixer). Looking at the shelves with juices, along with the usual tomato or apple, we find mixes of different vegetables and fruits. Studying the packaging of tea or coffee, we often find the inscription "a mixture of the best varieties." A typical example of a mix is a familiar cocktail where a number of components are mixed to obtain a certain taste.

Mix in music

A musician has his own answer to the question of what mixes are. In the musical environment, a mix is a continuous sequence of compositions (tracks) that are similar in mood or genre. They are composed by DJs for different purposes - for example, for radio broadcasts. A characteristic feature of such mixes is that the change of tracks occurs smoothly, without silence in the sound. In order for the sound at the transition to seem unified, the tracks must match in time signature, tempo, and other features. The duration of the music mix can be from several minutes to several hours.

There is another idea of what mixes are. This may not be sequential, as in the previous case, but parallel mixing of several audio tracks to obtain an integral composition. For example, mixing the sound of musical instruments and the performance of a vocalist to record a single whole - a song.

Mix Fight

You can combine not only products or sounds, sometimes even hand-to-hand combat techniques are mixed. Some fans of these sports are interested in: what is a mix fight? This is a derivative of the English words mix fighting - "mix the fight."

Mixed martial arts is a combination of different styles and techniques of martial arts. Their history goes back to the era of the first Olympics, where the ancient Greeks held competitions in pankration. Types of mixed martial arts were constantly transformed and took on special shapes in different countries. Mixed style competition(say, a fighter against a boxer) at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century were very popular both in the Far East and in Europe. For example, in England during the time of Arthur Conan Doyle, there was the martial art of bartitsu, a mixture of Asian and European teachings, the possession of which the writer appropriated to his favorite hero. In the Soviet Union, there was also an effective version of mixed martial arts - sambo.

And yet, until the 90s of the last century, such techniques were not very popular. One of the reasons is their resemblance to a bloody sport, fighting without rules. Early mixed martial arts competitions really lacked restrictions, which affected the safety of the athletes. Now this shortcoming has been eliminated, and this sport is considered one of the most dynamically developing.

A bit about the counter-strike

Another mention of the word "mix" can be found in the now classic computer game Counter Strike (CS). What is a mix in CS? Although no, first a few words about what the game is.

Its main idea is confrontation between terrorists and special forces. Large groups of users who find each other on the Internet simultaneously fight in the CS. A mix is a kind of team of such players, and this term is not accidental here: suitable game partners are found in a complex way, reminiscent of mixing.

About smoking mixes

Unfortunately, many people, when asked what mixes are, will give the answer - that they smoke. Flavored herbal blends,changing human consciousness have been known since ancient times. Shamans and sorcerers used their effect for their rituals, and in the East, the smoke from such mixtures was used to meditate or bring a person into a trance state. Europeans, of course, knew about all these eastern "amusements", but they really discovered them relatively recently - by the mid-2000s.

So what are smoking mixes and how to treat them? Since about 2007, the European and Russian markets have been, as they say, clogged with vegetable mixtures. This product, which directly affects the human psyche, has become very popular - especially in youth circles. Its sale was carried out quite legally, without restrictions, and even with advertising about the beneficial properties of the product. And only later the doctors sounded the alarm: the product is harmful! In those who used smoking mixes, the appearance of drug dependence was recorded, a psychotropic effect was noted. Studies have shown that the use of herbal mixtures provoked an increase in the number of diseases of the respiratory tract and bronchi, the appearance of malignant tumors. There is now a belated fight against the infernal smoking potion everywhere. And rightly so.