DJ How to Mix out of Key CD Pool Urban June 2018

0:00 Got some tunes here from CDPool from the June releases for 2018

Alright guys, got some tunes here from CDPool from the June releases for 2018. There will be a link in the description, take you to the CDPool website. Right, in this video what we're going to do is play a couple of the tunes, have a bit of a listen, but also I'm going to show you how you can have a mix, but mix out of key. Yes. To mix in key, so you keep the flow, the vibe and the energy in the room. There are many ways of mixing in key but if I brought it down to one sentence, make sure the music content works from one track to the next. So how do we mix out of key? Well first of all let's have a listen. This one here. This is a track entitled, hold on, Contradiction. There you go, it's the original mix. Alright, so I'm going to bring in track number two I've got on here and all of these by the way at the moment now are in alphabetical order so they may not be in this order on the website.

2:03 Let's do that again with another couple of tracks

Party! I'm going to pause that. Let's have a listen to the beginning. Alright, now if you're not sure, let's say, about the music content of two tracks and whether you think they will or won't harmonically mix, here's how to do it. I'll demonstrate first, then I'll explain what happened. Okay, so what happened there was I formed a bit of an echo at some part in the last track, okay? Answerphone. And then I brought in the other track, Welcome to the Party. But what I tried to do is leave a substantial gap in between the two tracks so that the actual music content, the vibe, the energy of the one... Drifted off and left a bit of a gap, leaving then us to be able to bring the next track in. Now if I'd have maybe tried to mix those harmonically it might have worked, it might not have worked. Now let's do that again with another couple of tracks. Let's carry on playing Welcome to the Party. Okay I'm going to bring in...

Giorgio Rodriguez. The way she like it. So again, a slight gap before the next track. Now, this kind of transition is not recommended all night because what you're doing then is you're just chucking out random tracks out there. You're giving out a random vibe, a feel with one and then another one and so on and so on. This kind of maybe transition is great for, let's say, the beginning of the evening. Imagine you're a mobile DJ and people, let's say, are eating their food. Well, this kind of transition is fine at low volume while people are eating because they just want some kind of background music. But you wouldn't be doing this kind of transition main set of the evening because you want to keep people dancing, number one. Number two...

5:21 This is a track entitled Rebel

You want to keep in the flow of the music, so you wouldn't necessarily go from a house to a hip-hop to an R&B to a soul to a jungle to a techno and so on. Even though these are a similar kind of genre and style, these are sort of soul stroke R&B, the new kind of rap, mumble rap as they call it. Alright, let's try another one. Okay, this time I'm going to use the filter. Okay, this is a track entitled Rebel. It's the original mix by Raging Fire. Now, what I want you to do as well, this is a test for you. Listen to a good radio station out there and this is what you will find practically every single time when they play one track. Let's have a listen to this for a little bit though. Alright, I'll talk and you can listen.

When they're playing one track and they will not talk in between, they'll just bring another track straight in. Practically every single time the track they bring in will be harmonically matched with the last one. But have a listen because if they play a track and the DJ, the presenter, talks for a little bit at the end of that track then brings the next track in, alternatively there is a kind of a jingle. They've got some sort of, you know, you're listening to radio whatever and then the next track comes in. What you'll find is those two tracks more than likely won't be harmonically matched so what they're doing is they're adding something in the middle just to change the vibe to stop the energy you've just heard and then you can all of a sudden then listen to a new energy without having that sort of blend in the middle where it's a clangy sound where the two tracks

Don't really harmonically match. Alright, a bit of info there for you. Don't forget these are the Urban releases from CDPool June 2018. Check out the link in the description to CDPool.com. Thank you very much. Practice and enjoy.

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