DJ Lesson and CD Pool New Releases Club and Dance December 2012

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Alright ladies and gentlemen, a bit of a DJ lesson for you and also new releases from CDPool. This video we're looking at the dance releases for December 2012 and also the club releases. Now the first part of this video is probably going to be the longest part which is the DJ lesson and then we'll play some new releases. If you want any more information about the new releases check out the lickable link in the description. Take it directly to CDPool. The first tracks we're using is the Overtones Hi-Hats 7th Heaven Club Mix. Apparently the first, second and third, fourth and fifth and sixth mix were shit. They were terrible. They spent so long in that studio doing all of those, they just decided to do the seventh. The seventh is pretty good, but I'm sure it would have been a lot better if they did the eighth, but they were that bored and they'd had enough, and you know what? If they hadn't... Sorry, hadn't. If they'd have carried on, poor Jimmy Riddle on the keyboards would have missed his bus home. So he had to say, we're going to stick to the seventh.

1:57 I'd have to double tap Q very quickly

It's a shame, isn't it? Right, so, and the one on the right is Carly Rae Jasper, The Kiss. It's the Digital Dog Club M. No, seriously, it is. Digital Dog Club. You don't believe me? Come here. Look, let me show you. Let me show you. There you go. It's the Digital Dog Club M. There we are. M. So, right, now then, this lesson is quite intricate. But also, it's good fun. This is what I'm going to do now, or this is what would happen if you were in a nightclub or in a mixing environment, etc. You'd have this track on the left start. It would quite happily glide all the way through to a point at which I've set a cue point, but that cue point is just a visual cue point for myself. What I would do then, what I'm going to do is press C, which is the beginning of the track. Now of course I could press Q, but if I press Q, the track would stop. I'd have to double tap Q very quickly. So when I can see point B, I then press C. When I press C, that goes to the beginning of that track, but then I also press C here,

The beginning of the track. So, we've played this song, we're going right back to the beginning of the track and then I'm just going to let that part of the vocals carry on playing happily at the beginning of the track here and then when the vocals have finished, then what I'm going to do, I'm going to press cue point B on this track which is the beginning of this song and then I'm going to press cue point A on this track Which is the end of this song. So what we're doing is we're playing this track as normal. We go into the beginning of this track and overlapping a part of the vocals from the second track. Once the vocals have finished on this track, then we go back to the beginning of the second track and the latter part of the first track to mix them both in. Now of course there's a lot more to this than meets the eye. You've got to make sure it's in time, in key.

There's a lot of practice involved and this is a demonstration. So what I have done, I've just sort of visually got the beats matched up etc. So first of all we'll have a listen to the overtones, the higher, the 7th, 7th, club mix. I did actually have the opportunity of listening to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th. Didn't get the chance for the 6th mix because I had to go to the toilet and by the time they'd finished that they'd thrown it away anyway. The first mix was just like, I don't know, almost like someone putting...

4:33 I'm thinking like that's where I'm going to bring this one in

Power, that track. So I'm bringing the volume down slightly and I've reduced the low to about 9 o'clock. So I'm now going to go to 4 point B. And then the point B now is just my visual look. I'm thinking like that's where I'm going to bring this one in. Almost bringing the middle of one track in to the mix but going back to the beginning of the track, the second track. And then bringing this one back in to the end of the first track. So we did a normal mix. We brought the beginning in with the end, but we then brought in a middle bit from this one. So in the beginning of that one. This is where thinking outside the box sometimes can work, but it's about practice, definitely. Okay, so this is the Carly Rae Jasper and The Kiss Digital Dog Club Mug.

11:11 This one again is track number two from the dance releases

This one again is track number two from the dance releases. Go and check out the, down there. Right, okay. A little bit cheesy, a little bit happy, a little bit sort of like full on, you know, that there. I would say the dance releases you can get away with playing in most mobile gigs. Underground, meh, maybe not. The global is a little bit more soulful and housey style. But again, it's all dependent on the crowd you're playing to. They're the important part. They're the ones you always, you've always got to make sure you keep them happy. As well as the management and your other half. Otherwise, you'll be outside. I knew he was three years ago. Okay, this is Hungry Hearts. Two from disc number one. Pause that a second. We're going to do another bit of a tutorial here. When you do mix two tracks together and you want to mix them in right at the middle and there is a lot going on. There's just so much going on.

One of the key factors is that word, key. You've got to make sure that the keys work perfectly together. Now I found a bit here with this trick, sorry for not speaking correct English. I found a part in this track that will work quite well with this one. Now again, when you're doing your mix, and this is what I quite often do with the likes of here, it's very random. And your mind is continually open to, like, listening. What could happen here? What if I put this in there, there? Not just think beginning, end, beginning, end, beginning, end. I mean, it's like, really, it's like getting a book and going, once upon a time, they died. Right, so, what I've done, I've found a point in this track here, and hopefully you'll hear where I'm coming from. Here being the operative word, not that, no, actually here, because if you were here... No, stay there. Right, so, if we have a listen. That point there, listen.

15:27 I'm going to bring that one at that point

Listen to this. I'm going to bring that one at that point. So, I've only played, how much have I played of that track? Let's have a look. I've played 2 minutes and 26 seconds. We are the people, we rule the world. Quite a big transition there. Sorry, the middle of the two tracks, or sort of in the middle. And these are the sort of transitions where people just go, what the hell is going on? This one here is track number 2 from disc number 2.

Of course years ago we used to have DAT players, so this guy Shave Radio was really unhappy with his piece of electronic equipment, so someone said if you shake it and make it work, so he shakes DAT. The DAT player. Some people may get it. Right. Play one more. Right.

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