DJ How and When to Mix with No Need to Match Keys Urban Tunes February 2019

0:00 You're at your gig, you want to play a few tunes

So you're at your gig, you want to play a few tunes. You don't really want to mix in key. You just want to like play some tunes. You don't want the hassle of thinking is it in the right key? Is it in the wrong key? Will it sound any good? Am I going to make the vibe higher or lower? Are the people going to stay on the dance floor? Are they going to disappear? What's going to happen? All you want to do really is play some tunes. So in this video what I'm going to do is maybe give you an idea or one idea how you can play whatever you want. Whenever you want and not have to worry about harmonic mixing and so on. What I will be doing though is making sure that the tracks I bring in are in time and also in phrase because I want the people to not fall over while they're dancing or listening or really I suppose this sort of technique is just about passable.

If, let's say, you don't want anyone to dance at the moment, you're playing it low volume and you just want them to listen. So really at best you want them to sit there and tap along on the table or nod their heads, tap their feet, talk to their mates and just generally have the music in the background. These sorts of transitions... I don't think I'd really want to do at the height of the evening, you know, when the dance floor's chock-a-block because you could have some big harmonic train wrecks even though we're not forming a big transition. So, I'm using tunes from CDPool from the Urban releases from February 2019 and what I'm pretty much going to do is go from track 1 to track 2, 3 and 4 and so on.

2:15 Track number three

Now, these are not harmonically matched as far as I know. What they are though is they are matched alphabetically. So B, C, D, F, G, H, then J, L, M and so on and so on. So the first one I'm playing is a love like that. It's Operata 5 Remix. Okay, so let that play for a while. What I'm going to do now is go to track number two, Chris Brown and Decided. I'm going to plug my headphones in as well. This actually could be harmonically matched anyway, so. Okay, let's spin this forward a bit. Now, I'm going to leave the pitches in the centre. Okay, so what I'm going to do, I'll wait to sort of end of chorus verse. Okay, track number two, Chris Brown, and decided I'm going to go to track number three. Oh, come on!

I'll tell you what, what we should do as well is you should be able to listen to what I'm... Cueing up and listening to, so imagine that's playing in the background. Imagine. Imagine all the people. Imagination. Sorry. Okay. Listen to the beginning. It's got like one, two, three, four. There. I've got it in on the one. So that one, two, three, four really for this track is almost like the introduction to the band starting to play, if you get what I mean. Not yet. Don't really want to chop up vocals unless I'm in the correct time signature with the other track. There, okay. Not really harmonically matched there but a chop won't move straight to the other. Track number three here which This is A Little Blase, original mix. Don't forget all of these tunes you can hear on the new release this February, CDPool 2019. Boom! Just mean for runners. Stop picking your nose. Okay, track number four. Cue that up. Let's have a listen to track number four, beginning off.

5:22 Sounded pretty good

This might work harmonically as well. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Okay, here we go. Yeah. Bridge. There you go. Now that sounds nice. That worked. So the first one sounded pretty good. The second one was terrible. This one is not too bad, do you see? Alright, let's get to track number three. This one here by the way. This is a track entitled Invisible. Where's it gone? I was thinking then, these first few words I go, oh please, please, thank God for that. Listen. Oh, goodness me, Matron. Matron, goodness me. Isn't that disgusting, Matron? OK. All right, so that's playing in the background. Let's have a listen to track number five here, which is Lost in the Fire. Now, please don't forget, the tracks in this order may not be in order on the website. This is just how they are in order on the files, on the thumb drive, in alphabetical do-free. Right.

6:52 You know, I'm thinking echo out, but I don't want to do that

You know, I'm thinking echo out, but I don't want to do that. I just want to like, in and out. There you go. Okay. Sort of words. That was like, ooh, will it or won't it? You know, it's your choice there. Okay, right, let's do a couple more. This is track number six on here. Again, what you're listening to, Lost in the Fire. And this one here is George E. Phileme, which is F-I-L-A-M-E. The Black, which is B-L-A-K-K, Habit Remix. It's not a good idea to have a black habit. I'm actually thinking about it. No, it isn't. Because if you wore a black habit, you need a white habit, don't you? Really. Because if you want to... Then again... Is a good habit a white habit or is a good habit a black habit? Depends what you say as well. Is it better to have a white rabbit or a black rabbit or a habit? Do you see a nun in a black habit or a white habit with a rabbit? Sorry, right, so let's listen to Imagine That's Playing In The Background, track number six here, which is, like I said, filling me with black habit. Oh, here we go again. Shut up! Sorry.

10:03 Again, that's playing in the background

I like the vibe in the background here. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. This is one of those tunes where you just go, yes. Oh! I'm going to check this play. I'm going to walk out and make myself a cover. Groove! Groove! To the morning, ding-a-ding-dong. Bing-bang-bang, bing-a-bing-bang-bang. To the black, to the white, to the red and the brown, to the purple and yellow. Here we go, here we, here we go. Georgie! Georgie! He's funny that way. I'm going to do it now. See, I always got to deviate off subject, haven't I? You silly person. I'm sorry, I know I am. Never mind. Right, so... Sorry. Track number six, we'll do one more. Okay, again, that's playing in the background. This one here is 18 HUNA, which is 18 H-U-N-N-A, explicit. Oh, here we go. I love me mum, I hate me dad, I love me mum, I hate me dad, I don't want to go to school. Right, okay, sorry. And I'm only 12. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. I'm old, I've had enough of the wheelchair, I'm old, it hates me. How old are you? 11.

Sorry, right? Any parents out there, you'll get what I mean. Forgot that moment. Nightmare! Right, here we go. I have to admit, this is my favourite genre of all time. Sorry. Okay, put it forward a bit. Yeah, man. Oh, man. Very clumsy. Spilt his tea on his knee. Okay, I don't know if I said this one. 18 Hoon explicit lyrics. Oh, Lazaro, that's very explicit. You don't want to hear that. God, can you imagine going to school and saying, Miss Lazaro, you naughty boy, go and stand in the corner right now. That's absolutely disgusting. Right, these have been some of the new releases from CD Paul. They are the Urban Releases, which is a mix mash of hip-hop, soul, R&B, mumble rap. Thank you very much for watching. Don't forget, if you're in and around the UK, sort of the latter part of this year, please Google The BPM Show because CDPool will be there. You'll be able to meet, greet, buy, talk.

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