DJ Lesson & CD Pool New Releases Underground Feb 2013

0:01 This CDpool video is going out to Trevor Fennelly from Ireland

This CDpool video is going out to Trevor Fennelly from Ireland. Alright ladies and gentlemen, another new release here from CDpool. The last new releases, I didn't use any headphones, I had a bit of a mess around trying to mix without headphones so my hearing was a little bit more alive. I had to work harder to find what tracks went with what. So I'm going to do exactly the same with this one. Another new releases for you February 2013 and I am playing the underground releases. If you want any more info go and check down there in the description. This is track one from disc number one. Delphic I think, is it? Yeah, Delphic. Beautiful tune. Very deep, soulful but at the same time it's got a little bit of a twist of a, sort of a hint of a twist or twin... It's twisted. Like it. Keep it locked.

2:10 I'm not going to bother putting the covers on

The DJ Tutor is available for purchase at Ellaskins.com. I'm not going to bother putting the covers on. From a key point of view, that sound might work quite well over this cut. Number one, this is a wretched, fake blood mix. Wang it forward a little bit. Think about the underground releases. They're very twisted, very experimental. You never know what to expect. You never know what to expect. Right, here it's quite a bit faster.

5:13 We're going to try something that is really difficult

We're going to try something that is really difficult. We've got a bit of a drum and bass tune here. A lot faster, yet it's also a lot slower. We can listen to two or we could have two time signatures here. One, if we listen. One, two, three, four, four, one, two, four, four. Alternatively... Oh, sorry. Two, three, four. One, two, three, four. So, I'm going to do something that's almost impossible. It's not if you're mad as me, I'm going to set master tempo to, no sorry not master tempo, I beg your pardon, to the tempo to wide. I hate these bloody tripods, crap. Right so what we do is we press that so we're on the wide feature. Now I have got virtually no control over the pitch at all because...

7:21 This one here is track number five

I can now slow it down 100% or speed it up 100%, so the moment it is at, right about, I don't know if you can see top over there, it's at 90.4 BPM, but I need to get that to zero. That other one. Right, it's 87 BPM, so I've now got to try and beatmatch it. Bye! Slowing it down. So if we have a listen to this. Okay, that's another way of beatmatching tracks that are completely off-beat or not really in the right time signature. This one here is track number five. Again, these are very random, these videos. Have you guessed already? Love it. That's not it, let's leave it like that. This one's going out to DJ Sauce. Definitely a Sauce tune. Go and check YvetteB24, which is my partner on YouTube. I'll put her name in the description as well because she's a shit-hot drum and bass DJ. She's got some good mixes as well. Okay, this is Wilkinson featuring Iman, track entitled Need To Know, it's the original mix. Iman

9:37 It can be done really badly and terribly and it sounds atrocious, also

I reckon we could do a bit of a spin back there and bung that one in. So, again, it can be done. It can be done really badly and terribly and it sounds atrocious, also atrocious. I'm listexic. Why do they... I mean, I'm dyslexic. Maybe I've said this before, but why on earth make a word that people who are dyslexic like me can't even bloody spell? You see a little break there?

Do it about there, so I've got that one ready. It's a bit, again, I feel the keys are a little bit lower here. We are going down a couple of scales. Not scales, sorry. Enter cold as well. Crossfade. Okay, we're straight into track number eight. Taken from disc number one. And this is Rob Martin and T.O. Again, people all the time they say, oh what were the tracks? What you need to do is listen to the numbers I say, the discs I say, then go to the website cdpool.com and you can see the tracks associated with the ones I'm playing. Duh. Bit of a stomp for this. Jack to the sound of the underground. Jack to the sound of the underground. Oh, crossfade. Again, I'm...

12:04 Mind you, the kids like it

You know, doing random stuff here. Ooh, I like that. That's what I love about these tunes. They're just like... Like, you know, they're completely different. I mean, I would love to... In fact, I might do it one day. Do a wedding and bride and groom... Probably get booed off the stage. That's happened before. No! You know, bride and groom just finished their... Ladies and gentlemen, the bride and groom have just done their first dance and come in with a track like this. They'll be scratching their heads going... Or they may go...

I like this, this is different, instead of like rock around the bloody club, one, two, three o'clock, like Little Rich Tutti Frutti or It's The Macarena. You know, when I actually finish DJing, which is probably the day I die, so I'll never actually get to do this because I'll be dead, but while I'm dead, I'm going to physically burn those tracks. No, it's alright, I do like them, it's just when you are a DJ, mobile DJ and people, can you play The Macarena? It's like... That's one track I would not play at home. Mind you, the kids like it. Okay, so I'm digressing. I have to apologise. Take it off wide. Track number eight from disc number two. Track here entitled Heart and Soul. It's a nice, vibrant, happy-sounding track list. I like it. I wouldn't be surprised if this is in a major key as well.

14:07 We'll take one more from disc number one

And here's a tip for you as well. If you want to continually get your crowd uplifted, you want to make them feel good, try and play a lot of tracks in the major key because it's almost as though the crowd don't know what's going on but the major keys do make people more vibrant. They seem to lift the vibe in the room.

I think Avicii, if you check out Avicii, a lot of his tracks that he makes are all in the major key. Okay, we'll take one more from disc number one. I like the feel of this track. Again, a good way of judging if keys clash is a track will give you a certain feel, a certain vibe. If you then mix another track, which is near enough what happened there, with a key that maybe doesn't match, You do tend to feel a very big difference in the way the sound is and also how you feel. It's like it doesn't work. It's a bit like trying to mix ingredients that just don't work. You know, like too much salt and too much... Salt and pepper works. I'm trying to give an analogy here. It's not working. There you go. That's what I'll do. It's not working. The analogy is the analogy that isn't working. Hope you get that. Alright.

This one here, finish off with track 11 from disc 1, practice and enjoy. These are the new releases, underground, February 2013. Thank you, practice and enjoy. Good track. Let's give it a skip beat. Skip beat. I love skip beats. I use the hot cues and I hit hot cue on the high, on that cha, and then the bum. Now there's one and the two. And then I was like, ba-dum, ba-dum, ba-dum, ba-dum, down, dum. Small... Thank you very much. I'll shut up now. Bye!

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