DJ Lesson and New Releases CD Pool Underground October 2013

0:00 Some more new releases for you from CDpool

Alright guys, some more new releases for you from CDpool. In this video we're looking at the October Underground releases. Now you can believe me if you want to or you can think that I'm talking a load of crap but I'm now going to open this twin pack of CDs for the very first time, put them in here and have a very random mix on tunes I haven't heard before. I mean, I may have heard one or two of them on the radio in passing or whatever but I have not opened this CD. First of all... Explanation. Maybe you've got a mate down the road, they've got a bunch of tunes, they're a DJ, she, he, DJ, and you are. Swap tracks. Maybe they're into trap music, maybe you're into jungle, maybe they like dubstep, dubstep, you like techno, doesn't really matter. Try their tunes. First of all, you are mixing a completely new different genre.

And also, you're mixing new tunes so you don't know what to expect. It's a great way of practicing. Okay, so what we're going to do is take out disc number one, put disc one, look, that's a rather new CD, and this is disc number two, and let's press play on track one on disc number one. Straight away, it's quite a chugger, but it's got that mmm, hallelujah, uplifting sort of vibe. It's nice, very good. I can see a break coming in. Track one, disc number two. Okay, this one here is track 1, Clapton featuring Jaw, No Eyes. Just kidding, mix. Right, what I'm going to do actually is get the headphones and what I'm going to do, I'm going to try and find a tune that will go in well with this one, but something that will make it a little bit more twisted. You know, put a bit of life into it. I'm not saying there isn't any life, it's just a good track.

3:34 I've just got track number three here now, halfway through

Okay, I've just got track number three here now, halfway through. Okay, yeah, yeah, I'm getting this right. Just going to pause that note. Mixing isn't all about beginning and beginning end. Sometimes mixing a track is halfway through, right at the beginning, right at the end, right middle, quarter of the way through, first eight bars, about experimentation, having fun. It's the excitement. I'm not just doing beginning and end, beginning and end, beginning and end, beginning and end. So, just before where I cued it was the point where I'm thinking, yeah, I could bring this part of this track number three in from disc one into track one from disc two. So... This one here is track number three. This is number one. I've just got to play this next tune. All right, I've got... This is like... This is very good. This is essence track.

5:45 Give you love, the original mix

Give you love, the original mix. Now, when you've been a DJ for as long as I have, and there are probably a lot of DJs out there who watch these videos have been DJs far longer and far shorter, maybe some have been on it that long or that long, maybe that with a tail. Sorry, about that big. Because I did, it was about that big. Honestly. Right. Yeah. When you've been a DJ for a considerably long time, or for that matter... No, actually, that doesn't even come to the equation. When you're a DJ and you listen to a track for the first time, you don't really have to listen to the entire track. You just listen to certain little bits. And it's either, nah, nah, or it's like, bloody hell, that's good. Now for many years while I was going to record shops, etc., I would skip through tracks. You'd listen to the beginning a little bit, middle and end, and very often you'd listen to the first couple of bars on a vinyl, piece of vinyl, and you'd go, yeah, this is good, and you'd carry on.

7:54 We'll see what we've got here

Or you'd listen to the first few bars and go, don't like that. And you knew because it was crap. This one here, I just went, yeah, wow. It was like, fucking hell. Very good. You check this out. This is track number three. Straight away, it's like fast growing. I'm not going anywhere because the paddles are in the water going back and forward so the boat's just doing that. Right, okay. It just gets better. Yeah, see? Ideally I need something with the same sort of vibe but... We'll see what we've got here. Yes. From the beginning, because there is sort of a lift, probably 16 bars from the track where it starts, the melody starts to come in. Because the melody doesn't come in at a set point, bang! It's very difficult to capture that point. You'd almost have driven at the very beginning, then mix it in and you'll hear the vibe as well. So here, you'll see what I mean now. Track number six from disc number one. Well, track number seven, again, love the vibe of this track. Fair do so, what CDPool now have done is

11:14 I mean, I've been listening to their Underground series for a very lon

I mean, I've been listening to their Underground series for a very long time. It appears that they're going more house-tip vibe, almost like pretty soulful. Maybe someone else has started taking over, choosing the tracks. I don't know, that's not for me to say even though I said it, but it's not a bad thing, it's a very, very good thing. Through this? Okay, here's another one from number 1. Number 11 from disc number 1. Choose one more from disc number 2.

13:21 Loving these cuts by the way, loving these cuts

I have seriously, seriously gone to town with some underground house music here because track number 10 from disc number 2, Da Weird and Alan Deer, Laniere, So So Sick, and it is sick. Loving these cuts by the way, loving these cuts. There is the twin CD. There it is, very good. Right, I'm going to at some point. Like I said, very good idea to choose tracks or find tracks from someone else you've never heard

Right, not so much a tutorial here except giving you some ideas on how you can combine to different genres. This is more really, I suppose, yeah, admittedly, new releases from Seagull as ever. Look in the description, check out the link taken directly from the Seagull website. There'll be more in the next few weeks on club, urban, the underground, the dance and the global. So that many more to come. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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