CD Pool New Releases Global and Undergroung September 2012 and Genera Advise

0:01 Some more new releases for you from CDpool

Alright guys, some more new releases for you from CDpool. Also in this video I'm going to talk a little bit about genres. People are always asking me how do you determine what a certain track is in relation to like what genre is it? You know, you hear something, you like the groove but what is it? What genre? Right, this is known as Garage or Soulful House. Again, Very difficult to perfectly pigeonhole. Some people may call it a certain type of genre, others may call it another. But what you generally find is even if someone calls it A, someone else calls it B, A and B will sort of slip into their own little category. So it's like very soulful garage style. Garage, this kind of garage, is still quite a low BPM. We do have the likes of...

2-step garage, which is more like a... That's more like 130 BPM. By the way, listen to the new releases, global releases from CDPool. This is taken from disc number 2 and this is track number 11. Follow the link down there, it'll take you directly to the website. We want to see you, by the way, at the BPM show NEC 2012, first weekend in October. Be there, CDPool will be there as well, alright?

1:53 Electro House

120 BPM was the original kind of speed for house music in the beginning of, or the mid-80s. That's the sort of tempo it started but it just increased in speed. Here we go. This one is garage. Chugging, chug, chugging. Chugging sort of 4-4 to the floor, tempo and also we've got that smooth bass line. Look at Electro House. Electro House is Quite a new kind of genre, probably from the past 10 years. And a lot faster, more like 130 BPM and you do have that more electro, it's more, the vibe is a little bit more modern because of course as time progresses, technology gets better, we're able to use different sounds. After this, we'll look at dance releases. I'll give you an idea. We're going to go to the underground. This one here is track number 7 from disc 1. And please, if you want info on these, follow the link, go to the website and check out the numbers. Alright, so this is track 7, disc 1. We've got a track 7, disc 1, September 2012. Okay, we're going to bung in track number 9 from disc 2. Literally bunging it. If we listen to this right at the beginning,

5:02 What kind of genre is this?

What kind of genre is this? In other words, you all of a sudden heard this track, never heard it before, you go like, what is going on here? Straight away we've got more drum. So we could be listening to a breakbeat track, but we need to listen a little bit more to determine what genre it is. Beat class as funky house. That underlying bass line which does bring it a little bit more into the garage realm. We do find as well with garage, nice... Soulful vocals. Track number three, decimal one. You're counting as well. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. If you're halfway through a trune, that's halfway between a trune and a track, which is halfway between a... Never mind. If you're halfway and you don't know where to start counting, one, two, three, four, listen to a break, as in one, two, three, four. Garage releases in track number two

8:37 Even before I looked at the artist, I could tell this was Todd Edwards

We're going to do it that way, because if I do it the other way, it's rude. I've done that one before. Now you'll see exactly now why I'm talking about genres, because The Underground has got more variety of genres in it. Even before I looked at the artist, I could tell this was Todd Edwards. This is completely his kind of style. Again, sometimes when I do a mix, I like to... Just mash it up. When you're in a nightclub and they want you to play house, of course you'd be rather stupid to all of a sudden play some 60s or 70s because they'd probably shoot you or like rip your balls off and stick them in a cocktail. Ooh, nasty. But of course, you know, you're in that sort of club and they just want a house, you just play house. Hip-hop, you just play hip-hop 99.9% of the time. If you can slip one in, all's good.

10:09 What I like to try and do though is mix and mash it

What I like to try and do though is mix and mash it. Have a bit of fun. In other words, just completely rip it apart. You've got to remember music has no colour, music is universal. Enjoy it. This one here is track 1 from disc 1. Twisted, and there are lots of different genres in here. You find electro, electro house, bit of dubstep, bit of drum and bass, all kinds of... Now, oh yes, I could eat that bass line for breakfast at the dinner table. Litter, dinner, lunch and wake up in the middle of the night and have a midnight feast with this guy here. Very nice. It's confusing because we're playing a similar kind of tempo at about 123, but if I bring it up, it is about 126. So it's a lot faster than Garage should be, but you do have that underground vibe. So what category should we put this track in? Progressive, because progressive progresses.

12:39 Run of the mill, electro house

Like, sort in a comment. Also known as drum and bass. Let's get this straight. The reason it's called drum and bass is because the emphasis is on the drums, the drumming, and the bass. Very simple. Also with drum and bass, again, I can't stress this enough. If you're finding it difficult to mix it, just listen to the snare. Listen. Underground September 2012. Run of the mill, electro house. The words aren't rubbing out properly today.

17:05 They've done is they've taken

The next one what they've done is they've taken a couple of genres and gone, do you know what? We're going to get some superglue and glue the buggers together. Love it. Beat, if you listen to it, breakbeat, not drum and bass, it's almost hard Also as well, don't forget... We've still got the BPM breakout mix, the Pioneer mix where you've gotta get your piece of Pioneer kit, make a mix, upload it, I'll put it to the video underneath and you could be in with a chance of winning some HDJ 1500 headphones. You get to go to the BPM for free, you get your travelling, your accommodation, and you get to play all for free, gratis and for nothing. And you get scenes! That's good. Finish off here with track nine from disc number two.

September release is CD4, go and check them out, practice and enjoy.

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