CD Pool for the New Year 2022 WHY You Should Look into Getting on Not

0:00 You want to do something different

Right, ladies and gentlemen, you may have found recently if you watch this channel that I have slowed down on my videos on CDPool. And I think it's because you get to the stage where you want to change. You want to do something different. Now, that isn't to say that I'm going to stop doing videos on CDPool. In fact, this video, a lot of it is about CDPool. But what I want to also talk about is how YouTube has changed and how I have not changed. Now do your own research, but it seems to me that today a lot of YouTube is about promotion. And there is an irony here because when I do indeed, and I admit to it, I openly admit to it, do a CD pull video, I am of course... Promoting CDPool. But I've been doing this now for over 10 years, all right? And the proof's in the pudding. You've only got to look way back at videos and look at the dates and you can't change the dates. It's there in stone until something, somebody or YouTube just vanishes. So it's there. But what has happened more and more?

2:22 What I try to do is keep my videos real

With YouTube, it's become consumerism-based. It's become an advertising tool for the very big companies who have the money and the power to put into it to just promote, promote, promote. Also, to add to that, what seems to happen now is you have to have this thumbnail of someone going, and a scream and fireworks to try and get that clickbait. Whereas what I have done, probably 99.9% of the time, is the thumbnail you see on my videos is basically how it used to be with YouTube and how I still am. Old school and all of a sudden what will happen is YouTube will take a screenshot of part of the video and that is your thumbnail. And I haven't really changed. That's how it's always been with me. Like I said though, on the odd occasion, I have indeed added some kind of thumbnail. But I would hazard a guess to say, apart from the children's DJ lessons, maybe 20 or 30 videos and that's it. Except I think for the live ones, but then that is just a screenshot of a virtual reality head.

What I try to do is keep my videos real. In other words, very little editing, natural crap in the background. The amount of times I've had people say, why don't you tidy your house? It's like, whatever, I don't care. I don't live in a studio. I don't have the money to live in a studio and a green screen and camera action and have some guy or girl going, right, we'll edit it for you and make it look brilliant. I don't want that because this is real. So when I split and splutter and make a mistake, most of the times I'll keep it in because it shows it's real. And I think this is what a lot of videos are losing today. Even other DJ lessons, they're losing the reality. Organic, real feel about how DJing is. Like I said, the sync is there to be used and not abused.

Modern day technology is there to be used and not abused. Get back to the basics. Anyway, okay, so I'm going to do some promotion now, all right? And also, very quickly as well, some people say, well Jonathan, what do you do if you send a product and you think it's crap? How do you promote it? Well, I basically don't. So everything I show... I like, I think is good. If there's anything I think is a load of rubbish and a pile of pants, I won't even show it because I don't really want to put embarrassment on the company by me going, oh well it doesn't really shine very light, it's not very bright or it's not that loud or it sounds shit, it's a waste of time. You don't want to watch videos like that. That's why I don't do that and that's the reason why I enjoy promoting

5:16 January, example, december

The likes of CDPool, because they bring out quality. They don't bring out crap. And again, the proof's in the pudding, because if they brought out crap, they wouldn't be here now. But they've been around for a very, very long time. I can remember even before I started promoting CDPool on YouTube, I'd see the underground releases from like the early 2000s and I'd be like, wow, these are cool. It's a win-win. So what have I got for this month? Now also bear in mind there's a slight difference to the website because what happens now, and there will be a link in the description down there, is instead of there being a whole new load of releases for December, January or February, what they're doing is they're updating those releases all the time. So as a new track comes in, say for example we're now in January 2022, let's say all of a sudden

They find a great track on the 5th of January. Well, hopefully that day or in a few days, it will be actually on the website ready to be downloaded. But then what they will do is at the end of January, they'll take the best of those tracks, for example, House, for example, and they'll take the best and then they will put those on the compilation on a CD. So for example here... We've got December. Now I've only just got these and that's because they went through the December releases, they chose the best, they put them on the December. So there I've got the dance hits, I've got, and you've got to be careful how you say that, hants, hits, hits, house, that was a bit silly wasn't it, radio, underground, beats which is hip-hop, R&B, soul, bit of two-step, club,

7:11 I'm going to close my eyes, right?

And the dance tracks. Now again, if you're not familiar with CDPool, if you are in and around UK, Europe, you can indeed get CDPool. The only criteria is you've got to be a working DJ, so they may ask you for proof of where you work. If you're in America or anywhere like that, you should have your own CD or your own music pools. I'm going to close my eyes, right? So you can see my eyes are closed. I'm going to skip through and I'm going to choose... Let's have a look. Let's choose that one. Okay, the underground. All right. So, okay, so part two, hold on, part two, part two, underground part two. Okay, so there's possibly an underground part one. I haven't got that. Never mind. Okay, so we've got 14, 13. So there is, on part two,

There's 24, 5, 27 tracks in total. Now generally with the underground releases it's very twisty bendy electronic style underground dubby minimal vocals experimental music very often there are the extended versions you get drum and bass on here as well so let's have a look so what do we got um we've got LIT a track entitled beat one stop extended mix Chip E, we've got High Contrast, which is going to be D&B. Well, I thought so anyway. What else have we got here? We've got Ones featuring Just Three. We've got O2D, I think that is. Pillar Grow Boy. Oh my God. Jay Robinson featuring Lynx. So a whole bunch. of underground styling now why would you want to get the underground style well let's imagine you are a mobile dj playing predominantly weddings forget it don't bother that is not for you unless of course you like that style at home on the other hand if you're the sort of person who does weddings then probably something like the radio is going to be good for you and also the dance hits

9:34 Wedding and let's imagine at home

So if we look at dance hits, we've got Ed Sheeran, we've got Steps, we've got Westlife, we've got Faithless, we have John Summit, we have Owen Westflake I think that is, Purple Disco Machine. Okay, so they're more well-known artists and also more well-known tracks. Now very quickly I'm going to give you some advice here as a mobile DJ. If you are, let's say, a bedroom DJ and, you know, you've done your mixing and scratching, you're wicked at mixing in house tunes, you want to start making some money from it but you realise it's very difficult to get into a club so you find out about mobile works and weddings. Don't please for one second think you can go to a wedding and let's imagine at home you've practised this outstanding, I mean it's seamless, hours house set.

Where your mates are just there boogying on the floor, they're loving it. Your mates are like, oh man, this is brilliant, you've got to play this out. And you go to a wedding and you think, I'm going to play this because it's amazing. Just don't do it. Trust me. Unless the client specifically says, we want house music. If you play a blinding house set. You're going to die a death because weddings, most weddings, especially in the UK, they want top 40. They want old school. They want party stuff. They want sing-along stuff. That's what they want. So that's where the likes of the dance hits and also the radio come in handy because again if you're playing let's say to a younger crowd who are into the top 40 commercial stuff then the radio is going to be for you because it's more up-to-date and modern.

Now CDPool will also do a back catalogue of club classics and also a back catalogue of like your cheesy classics, you know, your sort of Madonnas, your Queens, your Erasure, that kind of stuff, okay? So over the next couple of weeks I'm going to be doing my demos on these, have a little bit of a mix on them, generally just show you what's inside the CDs and what to expect, alright? Thank you for watching, don't forget... If you want any information on CDPool, go and check out the link in the description. And I still believe to this day there is a code. I think it's in the description. And if you use that code, I think still hopefully cross fingers, you get 50% off your first two months downloads. And that's of course if you're a new subscriber to CDPool. Leave comments.

Let me know what you think. Maybe you use CDport. Do you like it? Don't you use it? Would you like to use it? Just put some comments down there. Don't forget to like and subscribe, and I hope you enjoy the thumbnail, which can be some random bit of me shaking my arms. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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