Can't Do a DJ Mix No Matter What TRY This Way Urban CD Pool Tracks February 2020

0:00 There is info in the description on how you can

There are people out there who are very scared of a transition where the two tracks are overlapping. Now, if I told you that you're not mixing track 1 into track 2, you're actually playing track 1 into track 3, then you'd think I'm nuts. But once I explain, it's just very obvious because your transition is... Track number two. So if track number two doesn't complement three and one, then it's going to sound terrible. So how can we get around this? Now for this demonstration I'm going to be using some Urban releases from CDPool from February 2020. There is info in the description on how you can apply to get these tracks. But really... I want to concentrate on these sort of transitions where you don't really have to make a transition. You can just play whatever you want. So how can you play whatever you want and still get away with it? Well, there are ways around it. So track here is all me, the explicit. Now, to prove a point here, I'm going to go back...

I'm on the tracks here, so I'm going to turn my back and I'm just going to twiddle the knob until it stops somewhere. So if I move it that way, it's up and down. So I'm not going to look, I'm just going to go down around there, press down, and I'm going to load it to the right track. Ball of me, explicit again. Let's go back to the same one. Right, so let's do that again. Let's go down. Am I? No, hold on, the other way. Sorry, right, go the other way. There, right, so down. Right, Godzilla, explicit. So, cue that up, let's have a listen to this. Alright, so, in radio, I don't know if you ever, well I'm sure you do listen to radio, but make note of when they play a track, it finishes and then bring the next one in without anything in the middle like an advert or a promotion or the DJ talking.

It's just one track and then the next one. Now very often, or more often than not, those two tracks will be harmonically matched. But if they let's say have an effect or they talk or there's an advert or something before they play the next track, then very often those two tunes aren't harmonically matched. So what happens is that interlude, that bit in the middle, is the changeover from one to the other. So we can sort of do that... Just using maybe some effects or maybe also the microphone. Okay, so let's do the same thing again. This one here is Godzilla explicit. I'm going to go back and we want to go that way. So I'm going to go down there, press down, unload the next one out. Alright, cue that one up. Let's have a listen. This is Rude Boy and Friends, the remix.

3:23 I'm not really thinking about timing or anything here

So I'm not really thinking about timing or anything here. Oh, let me go to quantize. I just want to get it... I just want to get it on the massive. Okay, I'm not thinking about... Don't quantize anything really here. All I'm doing is playing one into the next. So maybe this time now, I'm going to use maybe some echo. So we're going to echo. We are on channel 2 here, so I'm going to go to channel 2, which is sort of about there. There, I need a bit more echo than that. That's a bit better. I can swallow a bottle of... Let's go forward a bit. To say we're going to play close towards the end. Now let's imagine you just don't know how to beatmatch, mix or anything. You just want to make two tracks like go into each other. That is a fast rap.

5:11 Listen, this is like the intro and then it kicks in around about there

There you go. Alright, so we'll do the same thing again. I'm going to go back, I'm going to go that way and go down. Sorry, right, I'm going to go there because I've got a couple of tunes here from Karmic Power Records. I don't want to use those in this video. Alright, the next one is Savage. So, let's have a listen. Now, if anything, alright, this track... is very helpful because it's sort of got a bit of an intro before anything happens. So listen, this is like the intro and then it kicks in around about there. So what we could do is just play it from here. So you've got to think about the track as well. The track, this track is saying, guess what? You know, you don't have to mix me and you can start me right from the beginning.

Let's go forward a bit. Back a bit. So I'm just going to press play. Maybe use a sweep this time. There, alright. Now, I don't see anything wrong in that. Nothing at all, okay? Let's do one more. So go back. Right, there's that one there. Alright. So cue that up, have a listen to the beginning of this. Okay, this one, no rap cap, the explicit. Alright, this time I'm going to do a spin back, so... So spin back, I'm just going to spin it back and then start the next one. There, straight into that. Okay, so these transitions are really really rough but it takes away... You having to think it's got to be in time, in phrase, in key. It's just about making something different. So try these out. And even if most of the time you form this kind of wonderful like 8 or 16 bar mix, on the odd occasion to do something like this, it works, alright? There's nothing wrong with this. If you think there is, of course, then, you know, you can get very angry in a comment. Otherwise, practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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