Harmonic mixing is a method of creating a feeling of rising (or falling) energy, by mixing harmonically. With Ableton it is obviously even easier since you can alter the pitch and bpm unrelated to each other. The Camelot Sound website has the basics and some more advanced techniques explained.
I personally use Mixed in Key, since I won it in Loopmasters' competition. I can wholeheartedly promote it, but if you are tight on money, you can check free alternatives, such as Rapid Evolution (as long as you analyze only few tracks at a time to avoid hangups), or just use your ears and a keyboard. The latter is obviously the hardest at first, but gives you good practice.
If you are using this with Ableton, you can add the key to you song name, which might be preferable to naming the track itself. Wouldn't it be so nice to have Ableton understand ID3 tags and have a decent browser to take advantage of them?
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