Can You Just Drop a Tune in as You Like and Get Away with It DJ? Dance September 2020

0:00 Is it or isn't it in the chop?

Right, ladies and gentlemen, it's all in the chop. Hi-ya! Jee-jee-jee-jee! Hi-ya! Sweet! Chop sweet!

Yeah, whatever. Is it or isn't it in the chop? Now, I've set the decks to the centre position. I am using some dance tracks September 2020 from CD Paul. I have CD number 1 in the left deck and CD number 2 in the right deck. All I'm going to do is I am going to chop from one to the other. That is it. I'm not going to beatmatch, I'm not going to phrase mix, nothing. I'm just going to chop from one to the other. So why would you want... In fact, why the hell... Why on earth would you want to do that? What is the bloody point? Why? I mean, I don't know. But there are... Myriad ways of mixing. There is more than you can imagine. There's at least four. Just joking. It's actually five and a half.

But this is one way. All right, so let me show you. First of all, let's pray, pray, pray, pray... Press on CD 1 for track number 1. And we are listening to... Where is it? This is... Hold on. That's disc number 2, so we'll put that over there. And I'm going to grab this. This one, this is disc number 1 over there. This one here is Head & Heart, Joel Corey and Minx.

Nice jolly tune.

OK, skip it forward a bit. So again, these videos, it's not just sort of tutorials. It's also I'm sort of demonstrating the music that you can expect to get from CD Paul. Right, listen to this.

2:09 This one here is track number 1 which is Armand Van Helden and Salado

What I did there was a little bit sneaky. I waited for the sort of vocal part to finish and then I started the next one. So, I didn't wait for the 2, 3, 4, 1. I waited for the 1, don't want to stop, and boom, and then brought the next one in. So, why did I do that? Well, I didn't really want to finish and break that sort of structure of how the audio, how the vocals were played. I wanted to put it into the track. Otherwise, it would have been, I don't want to, I hope you get it, just rewind and have a listen. All right, so this one here is track number 1 which is Armand Van Helden and Salado. Power of Bass. Right, so I'm going to try something. Let's just skip to a random track. I'm not looking, I'm going to go there.

Track number 6. Now again, what I'm getting at here is a lot of dance tracks, especially the likes of house music. Not all the time, very often they'll just start with a beat. Listen. Now this is a really, really sly and cunning way about getting around, should I say, forming some kind of transition because most tracks, dance tracks, when they start, especially nowadays, starts with a beat and the whole idea there is the producer has gone, hold on a minute, I'm a DJ as well, most of them are, and I want some kind of metronome intro into the mix, into the track. So I'm going to do that by giving me and the other DJs maybe 4, 8, 16, 32 bars of just a beat to get you ready for the rest of the track because like most tracks now they build,

You know, you start off with a beat then you've got beat and bassline, then beat, bassline and melody, beat, bassline, melody and vocals and so on and so on and so on. So you get elements into the track and during the track some of them disappear. So at some point, you may get no vocals or you may get no bassline or no melody or you could have just a beat and a melody or you could have a bassline and vocals or you could have bass and vocals and beat or you could just have beat and melody. It's like a mish-mash but there's always kind of structure there. So this one here is track number 6 and this is entirely, it's entitled Habits, Stay High is the Extended Mix. Okay, so again I'm going to do that random and we're on track number 6.

Okay, now I'm going to, number 7 there you go. All right, do the same thing. I can't himself know what I'm saying. Oh God. Okay. All right, we'll go back there actually anyway. Now here, it's starting with a melody so I needed to be a little bit more careful because if I'd have had a track on the other side with a melody that didn't work with that one, we would have definitely heard that kind of clangy sound. That's what we don't want. Notice as well not touching the pitch controls. All right, even though it has relatively similar BPM, they're going to be, I mean, 123, 126, you see? But did you know that? No, you didn't. Come on, you didn't. All right, track 7 again, where are we? It's Karen Harding, Undo My Heart.

How can you undo someone's heart? Because if you did that, wouldn't they die? Silly. I love you, undo my heart. Oh, okay. All right, next. All right, throw one more.

6:22 I'm not happy with that, but then thumbs up

Careful here. A little bit dodgy though, I have to admit, very, very sly bringing that one in. Should I have done that? Don't really know. I'm not happy with that, but then thumbs up. No, actually, don't do thumbs down. But let me know if you were happy with that. I wasn't happy with that. And by the way, don't forget to like and subscribe. If you do thumbs up, it does help. Okay? Thank you. All right, this one here, track number 9. We'll do one more. And this one is Love Me Land, Zara Larsson. Okay, don't forget, you can Shazam as well. Marvelous.

Let's go just with the beat again. I'm going to pause that. This is, I like this. Have a listen to the beginning of this track. Now then, that little drum pattern right at the beginning does not start on the 1. Have a listen if I start counting on the 1 at the beginning of that drum pattern. One, two, three, four, one. Do you know sometimes when you get so used to counting correctly, it ends up actually being more difficult to count incorrectly. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Track 11, one, two, Tom Everett. This is entitled Patty, the Extended Mix. Okay, so back to this one.

We're going towards the end of this track. There, it was in time. Do it again.

Let's go back a bit faster.

9:06 It will take you to cdpool.com where you can get this kind of stuff

We got it in the end. All right, so I'll finish off with this track and by the way, don't forget if you are interested in getting a few of these CDPool tunes, don't hesitate to check out the link in the description. It will take you to cdpool.com where you can get this kind of stuff. And also, let me show you something. Down here, at most, the many, many CDs is the classic beats. Now, if you're a bit of a CD and vinyl junkie like myself, they do compilations. So if you're ever after like old school collections, look no further. I mean, Alicia Miles, Beach Boys, Faith Evans, Neurotic Soul, The Nervous Track, D'Hall, Meet You at the Love Parade, Sugar Bear, we've got Coco Steele and Love Bomb, Underworld, Dinah Ross, Grace Jones,

The People Movers, Double Exposure. I mean, Robert Owens, later on A Tribe Called Quest. A mix mash of just classic dance tunes. I mean these, these are like, they're worth the weight in gold. But anyway, enough of that. I will do more on these in the near future. Don't forget, check out the link in the description. And if you are going to be using CDPool for the first time, I believe still to this date, you get 50% off your first two months of downloads. It's not for everything, terms and conditions apply. But go and check them out. Link in the description. Give me a thumbs up. Thank you very much. Practice and enjoy. Loving it.

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