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CD Pool New Releases Global June 2016 DJ Lesson and a Short Mix

Lesson Intermediate Stage 5: Musical Craft November 2016

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0:01 New releases CDPool time

Alright ladies and gentlemen, new releases CDPool time. This track is taken from disc number 2, track number 1 from the global releases June 2016. There will be a link in the description of course as ever to cdpool.com where you can get more info on this twin CD as well of course as all the other releases from CDPool. So if you want to know what tracks I'm playing... Have a listen to how I explain what I'm playing, in other words track 3 disc 2. Then for more info on that track and all the others go to the website and go and check out track 3 disc 2, track 1 disc 4 and so on and so on. This one is track 1 from disc number 2. I like this one, I picked it first because it's got a really nice sort of vibe to it. The way...

2:46 Um, Isopyrus and Low Vance, a track here entitled Freak

The melody is constructed. It's very soulful. It's got a lot of balls, this one. Check it out. Hold on. There. And the way it changes. Listen. Wonderful. Okay. Let's find something from disc number one. Combine it with this one. Here we go. Yeah. Okay, track number two! We've got loop... Sorry, virgins. Virgins. Virus. No, he definitely wouldn't. There. Sorry. Um, Isopyrus and Low Vance, a track here entitled Freak. Okay, of course don't forget the clip. I'm not going to edit this and start it again. This is like real shit man. So um, global releases. It's garagey style soulful house music, fall to the floor, lots of bassline, lots of melody. Yeah we get the vocals but these are the sort of tunes, deep sort of soulful like deep house that you'd expect to hear.

In some sweaty backyard nightclubs. Love it. Loving it, loving it, loving it. Yeah. Also, you get the CD4 CDs. You get two CDs in each one. And you do have the opportunity to mix from both CDs. Now, you're not going to be able to mix track 1 with track 1, track 2 with track 2 and 3 and 3 and so on. You've got to choose your tracks, but you can... Construct a relatively good set using just the two CDs. Energy, we've got vibe, we've got soul. Now these tunes aren't banging hardcore like give it some. They're not like hands in the air boom. This is here, this is where you feel the tune. You hear it but you feel it as much as you hear it. This one here is track 2, disc 2. Frequency 88 and Steve Westover. Lovin' it! Good track though!

5:30 Let's go towards the end of this cut

Okay, let's go towards the end of this cut. Okay, this one here is track number five from disc number one. This is DJ Rhythm. What we can do is we can change the vibe feel. We've got a nice soul kind of like smooth melody vibe going on and what I want to try and do is give it a little bit more body. I'm making a nice soup here, and what I'm going to do is, I'm going to add some Tabasco sauce to it. It's vegetable soup, so the soup's still good, it's still got veg in it, which is good for you, but I'm going to give it some balls, give it a bit of spike. See what I mean? Go towards the end, see what the end sounds like. Yeah, I'm getting this right, okay. So, we're going to go back to right about the last two phrases. Ah, I missed my cue there, so...

Let's go back a little bit more to loop the end bit of this. I'm going to form a loop here, it's based off from the left-hand side, keep that vibe a little bit more to that beat. Okay, this one here is track number five from disc number two, Greco NYC, Move Your Body, it's the original mix. Loving it. I'll be honest with you, straight to the point, out of all of these CD pool releases, my own personal preference, if I had to choose top three, if the global first, Underground and the club, but that's my own preference. We're going to uplift this mix, we're just going to make it go ooooh! What we're going to do is we're going to give it that sort of like mmmm! Love it! I think we've got to go towards the end of this track though, have a look. Go to about sort of there. It's got the bass line going on there so I'm going to wait for the last phrase. Okay, track number seven, diss number one, sing it back. One, two, three, four.

Butterfly Soul featuring Elena, so it's of course a remix of Sing It Back which is an absolute classic, classic cut. This is along the realms of Robin S, Show Me Love and Reel to Reel, I like to move it. It's up there, it's like, sorry it's not there, it's like up there, boom, yeah. Back a little bit, I'm just going to chuck this one in anyway, it might work what we're seeing. That crazy love, getting into that sort of garage style, I mean like, you know what I mean?

13:52 One second, one, one second

One second, one, one second. You think you're in your 30s or 40s now and you're like too old to be a DJ, then you're a fucking idiot. I don't normally swear, you're an absolute idiot. Because you can be a DJ at any age you want to. The only time you can't really be a DJ is when you're dead and in a box, but by then you'll be spinning the grooves up there. Be serious. I don't normally swear, but... Sometimes you just have to express yourself that tiny little bit flipping more. Right, get on the case, get off your backside, get some decks and have some fun. Even if it's just for yourself, have some fun. I mean it, really. I do. I do all the time. Ah, kind of crazy. We're going to finish with track number nine, disc number one, which is Ja Funk. Why?

15:57 Would you, it's the original mix

Would you, it's the original mix. So why am I going to finish with this track? Well because it's very well produced, it's got a lot of bottle but what the producer has done when they've made that sort of background kick is they've made it so it's on time but it sounds like it's off time. It's almost as though the remixer stroke producer who made this track was a little bit drunk maybe smoked a bit of weed and thought I'm gonna press it there and there. And there and do this and that, but because they're so professional at their job, even though they just went there and there, they knew exactly what they were doing. To give you something that is earthy, it hasn't, even though it's probably been made by a computer, the person who made this has been inside the computer and said listen, I'm in charge, I'll tell you what to do, you may be the computer who will finalise my score.

But I'm the guy, or lady, who is going to make this tune. Have a listen to this. It's got everything. See what I mean? Just, it's got it, it's got it, okay? That's when you hear it and you go like, yeah, yeah, you go like, you know what I'm saying? This is like, excuse me. Heading to New Disco. BPM gonna start. Alright, the global releases, chill dance, house music style vibes from cdpool.com. Check out the link in the description. Right, enjoy.

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