A Great Track to Me Could Be Not so Good to You

0:00 I'm always on about mumble rap and how I

Alright, so I'm always on about mumble rap and how I... Actually, I'm not here, am I? Well, let me start. I don't particularly like the modern day style of hip-hop, mumble rap, because it just seems to be very repetitive, it goes on and on and on, it isn't very well put together, it's like bassline with some guy going, yeah man, mmm gold diamonds, mmm yeah, doesn't even rap, and it sounds like the producers thought, oh, tea break now, I'll just make five songs and then I'll go for my tea break. Now, I'm not going to be playing you some of those tunes, in fact, with the CDPool urban releases, they very rarely choose that kind of not well-produced music. A little bit controversial, maybe this video, but what I'm trying to explain is that with CDPool,

They will spend a great deal of time choosing good tracks, so let me give you a sort of an analogy. Let's imagine you've got someone like Morrisons or Lidl or Aldi, what they do is they actually have people who shop around the world and find good product to sell in their store, because they've got to think about the name. So if person number A... What person number A? Person number one! Hello, I'm number one! Hello, I'm number one! If they're selling tomatoes and they're rubbish, then they're going to get a person number two who sells good tomatoes. Even though the good tomatoes may be very more expensive than person number one, they want to make sure they sell good product in the shop. That's exactly what CDPool will do.

Now these are the urban releases from March 2019. This one here is track number six from disc number one, Don't Call Me Up. A nice kind of two-step to this, nice sort of feel. What I like about this tune, it's very simple but it's very soulful. It's got that deep feel to it, all right? Now I've gone through these CDs and I've taken out the ones I like the most. So this is number six on CD number one. Bearing in mind these are the CDs, so if you go to the website there will be a link in the description. I can't remember, I think you may have them in order as though they're on the CD. But just look up, if you're not sure, Mabel, a track entitled Don't Call Me Up. Okay, so I need you to go to track number seven on disc number two.

Now then, right, round of applause please and a drum roll. Do you remember a young lady from many years ago who released a tune entitled I Feel For You? I think I love you, I feel for you, I think I love... It was Shaka Khan. This one here is a track entitled Like A Lady. It's the original mix, listen to this.

3:02 What we've got here, we've got that new feel but also you just

Okay, so what we've got here, we've got that new feel but also you just... If you're like me, you've been around for quite a while.

I'd say about half an hour and that's about 45 minutes I've been around for. You will listen to this track and you'll think there is a bit of the 80s in here as well. So Like A Lady, the original mix, Shaka Khan. Now a lot of the releases on the Urban CDs, also the downloadable version, are the radio versions as well. Radio friendly about three and a half minutes. Track number seven on disc number two. Let's go to track number seven on disc number one. This one here is Girl Gang. Now Two Step Garage, it's great, it's got a nice vibe to it. But what I'm going to do, I'm going to change the energy of this tune very simply by going from plus or minus 10% to 16. I'm going to increase that now quite dramatically.

So the original speed was 132 BPM. I'm going to put it up to about 146. Now that sounds a hell of a lot. It is but have a listen.

Now you may be thinking, my God, that sounds fast. But... You can still dance slowly to it. You know, you don't have to dance like a Muppet. Like that. All right. If you think about it, when you watch people dancing to drum and bass, you will get the nut heads trying to dance in time with drum and bass. You want to see them because they're there at the beginning of a tune. Dom, dom, dom, dom, dom, dom, dom, like this. And within 30 seconds, they're like... Whereas a lot of people are just doing that anyway, half time. And they're the ones who can carry on dancing like... Not all... Well, all the time. Whereas people are just like that. Halfway through the tune, they're hooked. They're hooked. They're hooked. I didn't say the F word.

I said hooked. Right. So here we go back with this one here. Gilgang Properting UKG Extended Remix. Right. And then on this side here, we're going to get to number 12.

5:47 Let me speed this forward a bit

Let me speed this forward a bit. Hold on.

Now, what I like about this one, it's got that B-Fone vibe.

And this one's a smoocher. Nanny, nanny, I'm just saying nanny. Of course, it's rude to say poo. Nanny, nanny, uncle, nephew, grandpa, nanny.

OK, this one here is what I like to remember over here. Got a track, I think track 10 was a good tune as well. Now, even though I'm only choosing a few tracks based... Well, I'm choosing these tracks based on I like them. So if you had ten DJs in a room and ten DJs listened to the two CDs, I'm hoping that not every single DJ would like the same tracks. This is the great thing about you being you because you may like track one, seven and nine. And I may not like track one, seven and nine. I may think they're absolutely pants, but that doesn't mean to say they're bad. It just means that I have a different ear to you, which is why we're DJs, because we're different. Be different. Be yourself. Yeah, this one here is track number ten.

Yeah, number ten, which is Dr. Dunphil featuring Pink Sifu. My God, what a mouthful. The doctors, I'm sorry you've got Pink Sifu. I'm sorry, sir, but you've actually got Pink Sifu. Am I going to die? Yeah. Worse than that, it's going to fall off. Oh my God. Imagine catching Pink Sifu. Let's...

Go on. See, see, I'll see one of the ones that I choose. You see, we got we got jazz here. We got soul. We've got laid back. It's almost quite Tricl Questy. Bonita Applebum, you gotta put me on. Mama don't play this till I'm oldish. I don't play this, just die to the beat. OK, so once again, these are the Urban releases from CD4 March 2019. If you want any info on these CDs, then check out the link in the description below and don't call me up. Practice any joy, thank you. Shout it, do whatever she do. Yeah man.

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