A Look at the CD Pool Website and What's Best for Your DJ Career

0:01 First and foremost, I'm not getting paid for this video

Right, ladies and gentlemen, let's have a look at CDPool. Now, first and foremost, I'm not getting paid for this video. They have asked me to do a video on the website, but apart from that, I'm free to do what the heck I want, as usual. Anyway, a lot of people are always asking where to get music from, so again, to add to that kind of disclaimer, You're working DJ, so sadly a couple of things here which is very important. If you're a bedroom DJ, you've just got yourself a new controller and you want to start downloading loads of music, I'm afraid CDPool isn't for you because you do have to be a working DJ and you may have to prove that. Also, if you are out of the European Union and say for example you're in Canada or America, then you won't be able to use CDPool either because this is sort of more European based. Anyway, apart from that, let's dive in. Alright, so I'm logged into my account. We can go to Jonathan Lewis up here and this is sort of very similar.

To what you would expect if you join CDpool. So I can go to dashboard, my music, billing details, account and so on. So let's just go quickly to my music. Alright, so what we've got here... Now you can also see here... There are no particular format. We've got underground, we've got house beats all over the place. So what we can do here if we want to, we can go to product and now we can filter through. So these are the ones I'm subbed up to. So let's say for example I only want to choose house. Now what we've got is of course the house tracks. I'm not going to play any of these due to copyright reasons but let's say for example I want to download something, I can click that and then up here I can do either mp3 or lossless so let's click there. I can go WAV or FLAC so let's do WAV and hopefully very soon, there you go, we're at a new page and that should be downloading it.

2:31 They do have an eclectic mix of styles, genres, etc

It's just there we are. It's as simple as that. So let's go back here. Now, CDPool doesn't just cater for your regular kind of if you imagine, you know, your sort of club DJ or mobile DJ. They do have an eclectic mix of styles, genres, etc. So we can go here to the latest editions and if we have a look, now we've got UK chart hits. Now this is great, let's say, if you're a working mobile DJ and you don't want the hassle of having to dig through hours and hours of tracks just to choose the ones you think you can play. What CDPool do is they go through all of the rubbish. I want to say rubbish. I mean, they just go through all the tracks and they pick out the ones they know that are suitable for the dance floor, etc. Radio tracks, now again, these are the sort of things you would hear definitely on the radio. And there's a crossover between radio and mobile.

Dance hits, self-explanatory, you know, commercial sort of dance tracks. Club is a little bit more sort of clubby. Your dance, again, very similar to dance hits but the dance tracks could be more associated say with a fun bar, fun pub where people or DJs want to play danceable music but at the same time not too commercial. UK floor fillers, I mean let's have a look here. So if I click on there we've got all of the floor fillers and these are the latest releases. Now we can download all of these tracks and if you subscribe £12.95 so you've got the price here and again you can go MP3 or lossless. Prefer if people now sort of did lossless. There's no problems and issues with MP3, but because of today's technology where you can get a thumb drive of 128 gig plus, there's really no need to go MP3 now. And a lot of DJ softwares will let you...

4:56 Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor

Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor. Just starting out and you think that your collection of say pop songs from 2000 to the present day will do you, then you're wrong because like a lot of people sort of my age slightly younger and older have been in this business for a very long time and I can tell you now a lot of functions I do they want the classics and you can't go wrong with Motown so the likes of my girl here. Well, not my girl here, but the track My Girl by The Temptations. What an absolute classic track. So what else have we got here? Smokey Robinson, we've got Four Tops, we've got Stevie Wonder. I mean basically the collection here is sort of your must-haves. Jackson 5 again, Temptations, Edwin Starr, Detroit Spinners.

More Jacksons, Supremes, Temptations, Marvin Gaye, the list goes on and on and on. So really if you're not familiar with the likes of Motown by getting the top 100 what you're doing You're putting yourself in a position where if someone comes over to you and says, can you play some Motown? You haven't got to dig through a mass expanse of tracks all over your laptop. They're in one place, there they are, and away you go. Now at the same time we have a Top 100 Disco. Now some people may think Rod Stewart, Disco, but the track Do You Think I'm Sexy from I think it was 70s or so, what a great track. Dr. Love, First Choice. Now that is a South Soul monster. Chic, Everybody Dance. Kelly Marie, Feel Like I'm In Love. Let's just skip through. The Weather Girls, It's Raining Men. Jingo, Candido, Tavares. What have we got? Dan Hartman, Village People. You know, so some of you may be thinking, Village People? But...

7:27 You as if to say, what

What they put together here is almost like more the commercial side of disco. So if you play one of these tracks, you're not going to have people turn around and look at you as if to say, what is this? Because pretty much every single track in the top 100 disco are very playable and everyone including teenagers and youngsters will know what they are. Top 100 rock tracks. Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, ACDC, The Clash, The Who, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Cream, Lynyrd Skynyrd. I mean, need I say any more? Okay, what else have we got here? Now, the Essential Series, Volumes 1 to 5. Now, what we've got here is... is a bit more sort of in-depth into your tracks where let's say for example you're playing

If you haven't heard that track, I suggest you go and check it out because it's an absolute monster. I did see The Joker there as well. You Shook Me All Light Long, ACDC, another one of those classic tracks. Now I'm not sure but I believe you can still get this on disc but you can also download as well. So if we go here let's have a look. Collectibles, £349.99, just this volume, £79.94. Now the prices I'm showing you now are today, so we're in September 2022, so the prices could fluctuate. Let's go over here and the classic series. So what we're looking at here is more your sort of dancey old school but at the same time Classic tracks. Now, I've said myself, I personally think that Insomnia Faithless is the, if not one of the best, top five, if not the best sort of commercial stroke dance rave track of all time because it's timeless.

10:12 You see what else have we got here?

This track is over 20 years old and you play it today and the crowd go nuts. I played it a couple of weeks ago at a wedding and I remember the bride messaging me and she said, Jonathan, when you played the rave set and you dropped Insomniac, the crowd went nuts. So say no more. You see what else have we got here? What's it? Rhythm on a loose. Gap Decor, Express 2, Enjoy, Chic Good Times, again an absolute classic and the baseline of that is Nile Rodgers. Those guys knew how to play music big time. Okay, what have we got here? Again, oh no, I think I've gone through all of this. Yeah, that's it. I've done the house underground, so I'm going to get rid of that window. And before we go there, oh yeah, I've done that as well. So, alright, how can you get in touch? So, the phone number, again, it's a UK phone number, so if you're going to phone up outside of the UK,

So, the actual London number is 2087800612 and email is admin at cdpool.com or you can write to them at Devonshire House in London and then you've got the follow links as well so you can get them on Twitter, Facebook and or Instagram. Alright, so I hope that's a help. Now again... Go and check it out, no obligation. You can just have a look through the website and they're very approachable so you can always give them a call, explain who you are, what you do, where you are and so on. And also if you want advice on the best thing for you, they will help you. Thank you for watching. Don't forget to like and subscribe and leave a comment underneath this video. Let me know if you've used CDPool or you'd like to. Thank you very much. Practice and enjoy.

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