CD Pool Classic Beats a Great Way to Get an Old School Dance Collection

0:00 Firstly I've been in the DJ stroke music industry for quite a long tim

Alright, so firstly I've been in the DJ stroke music industry for quite a long time. Secondly, yes, I started on dodgy turntables with belts that bounced all over the place and an all-in-one console that didn't even have a tone control, let alone bass, mid and treble, and no one had even heard of a crossfade. And I started buying 12 inch singles, LPs and... 7-inch singles. So, been there, seen and done it. But of course, modern technology takes over and you go to CDs and you go to downloads and MP3s and the malarkey and away you go. Now, I can only give you a bit of advice here. Only give you some advice and hopefully inspire you. But if you do choose, which there's nothing wrong with it, to get downloads, by all means...

Fill your boots. Wherever you go, just get what you can. But of course don't just start downloading any Tom Dick or Harry track. Make sure you spend your money correctly because the worst thing in the world is to turn up to a gig... With millions and millions of songs thinking, yeah, I've got all these tracks, wow. And then you've got too much and you can't sort the wheat from the chaff and you end up having chaffy bits. You end up then someone coming up, have you got so-and-so? And you're trying to find it or it's, you know, you don't want to confuse yourself. But what you also have to remember is if you are just relying on MP3s, make sure you have a backup. If you're a muppet, it's your own bloody fault, isn't it really if you do that? You know, make sure you have a backup. And don't quote me here, but if any law said out there, any law sort of said that oh you're not allowed to make copies of the tracks you've just bought,

2:36 These are the classic beats

Then I would, I'd go against that because if you think about it, if you've paid for a file, a music file, and you lose that file, then if you go and get it again, you've got to pay for it again. Now that to me isn't fair. On the other hand, if you pay for a music file and you copy it and then you play one of them and the other one is there for backup purposes, I do not see a problem in that at all. I do not see a problem in that at all because you can't play two tracks at the same time unless, of course, you're doing a mix. But even then, you're only playing one audio source unless you've got two sound systems playing. Oh, whatever. All right. Now, I've got some CDs here from CDpool. These are the classic beats. They're in three folders and there is meaning behind the madness of this video. Because even if you buy downloads, you've got, OK...

Like I said earlier, you've got your backup on a hard drive. Can you rely on the hard drive? I mean, can you really rely on CDs? I don't know. Can you rely on vinyl? Because vinyl scratches, CDs eventually might wear away. I have had old CDs that have started to fall apart. But then what can you rely on? But the one thing about CDs, at least you've got some form of hard... Physical copy. You've got something that's tactile, that has intrinsic value instead of maybe... Ooh, look at my... Hold on. Look at my collection! Oh, it's a thumb drive. That doesn't work it for me. I'm sorry. All right, so now let's get that out the way. Okay, so I honestly think it's always a good idea to have other backups. So whether it be...

A hard drive with copies of your MP3s or also CDs as well. Now CDpool have got these classic beats. Now the main reason for doing this video is because time and time again people are asking me where can I get a back catalogue of tracks? Well, you know, you can search the web, you can spend about 50 years going to different download tracks finding... You know, the tracks that you want to have one from there and one from there, but it's going to take forever. On the other hand, what CDPool have done is they've got a compilation together of classic beats. Now these are the sorts of tracks that would go down really well in an old school kind of dance event. So for example, if you're a new DJ and you only want to play dance music...

5:45 What a bloody tune!

But you started collecting maybe a year to five, ten years ago then this potentially possibly is for you. Alright so these collections are there's 20 CDs in each one meaning you get 60 CDs okay and they're in folders and these are the hard copies now what I'm going to do I'm going to sort of flick I'm going to do that and we'll go to Classic Beats. This is Volume 6, so what have we got? Voices of Life, we've got Chicane, we've got Faithless, BT, Flaming June, Great Track, Jack's Sisters, En Vogue, Hold On, A Man Called Adam, Barefoot in the Head, New Atlantic, I Know, Funky Green Dogs, Fire Up, Wink, Higher State of Consciousness. What a bloody tune! That defined the era of dance music in the 90s. That was the rave tune. That is up there with Faithless, Insomnia. They're there, they're right up there in the sky. You can't get better tracks. The great thing about those two songs...

If you're in the dance culture and you bring out those tracks in a modern day set, and I quote, a modern, modern day set, at the right time and right place, people will go nuts. For example, Josh Wink, Higher State of Consciousness, where he goes... And then... You know, high-state consciousness. Excuse me, please. And then you get, I can't get no sleep. And then the drop. I mean, man, those two tracks. Just even when I think about it, it just makes me shivers down every little part of my body. Okay, so that's... All right, let's have another look. So I've got 12. What have we got here? Degrees in motion. Phasing, Reaching, Rufus and Shaka Khan, Ate No Body, Seal, Killer, Too Bad Mice, Bombscare, again, Porn Kings, Up To No Good, In The Neighbourhood, It's Up To No Good. Now something as well I want to talk to you about what I'm just, the names I'm describing. Primal Scream, Come Together.

8:05 Mr Fingers, brass construction

What else have we got? Another Primal Scream loaded. There we go. Dream, You're the Best Thing, Womack and Womack Teardrops. Now you'll notice as well, even from the first pack, that it's not all house stuff. It's all kinds of dance music. This is the great thing about the Beats. It's all kinds of, it's not just modern day house. For example here, let's go to, alright, there we go, number 35, Craftwork. Tina Marie, T-Connection, Rene and Angela, Snoop Dogg, Talking Heads, Primal Scream again, Chocolate Puma, 49ers, Smoke City, Barry White, South Shore, Ripple, Sheila E, Public Enemy, Adam F. Mr Fingers, brass construction. You know, so we've got a good selection of all styles. So it's not just from the 90s, it's even further way, way back in the day, possibly before you were born. Let's have a look here. So let's look at 50. Cool Magang, Jungle Jazz, what a tune. Jocelyn Brown, Ain't No Mountain High Enough. Oh my God. Classic.

The SOS Band, just the way you like it. Maybe just be good on here as well, but still, just the way you like it, great tune. Cool G Rap and DJ Polo, Streets of New York, Colonel Abrahams, You Don't Know. Again, Colonel Abrahams, what a guy. Sadly he died as well, all alone and penniless, which is not good. The Fog, Been A Long Time, full intention club mix. Is it true that you don't really love me baby? Is it true, oh baby is it true? Been a long time, what a tune! Alright, let's have a look. What else have we got here? Visual, the music's got me. When the weekend comes around... I can't wait to hit the dance floor, cause the music's got me feeling like I never felt before. See, I know some of the words here and I just went flick. I didn't go, oh, I'm going to choose number 48. Nope. Todd Edwards, Save My Life. Oh, Save My Life. Good old school kind of two-step, garage style. Jamaraquai, Little L, FBI Project. Rich in paradise.

Again, a classic piano tune. Another Keane-Laberhams, Music is the Answer. That's actually true. Do you know what? I'm going to finish there. Seriously. Goodbye. No. Because music is the answer. Music fills the soul with love. Music is inspirational. It's fun. It's exciting. It makes you happy. It makes you sad. It gets you right here. And this is what we need to carry on doing. This is why we do what we do. Because we get people here. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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