DJ Lesson New Releases CDPOOL Underground and Club music May 2013 EDM

0:00 Another demo stroke review of some CDs from CDPool

Alright ladies and gentlemen, another demo stroke review of some CDs from CDPool. In this video we're looking at the underground releases for May 2013. Also the club releases kicking off with track 1 from disc number 1 from May 2013. In these videos, as well as giving you some new releases, I'm also going to do a few tips and tricks. First one I'm going to do is about a transition. And the transition from one track into the other isn't about beat mixing, it's about almost blending the two tracks together without having to think about beat matching. Because for example you could let's say have a track with 120-140 BPM and you want to mix something in let's say 110 BPM. If the BPMs are very different the only way of doing it is of course to move the pitch but if you want to keep

The track that you're mixing in at the original speed it was intended to be at, then one of the only ways to mix it in is to blend it. And I'm going to show you how to do that now. What I've done, got this track ready. By the way, the track you're listening to at the moment is track 1 from disc 1. This track here is track 1 from disc number 2. Crossfade in the middle. What I'm doing now, I'm trying to listen to an appropriate place. A lot of things happen there. is that I was counting bars, you know, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. I made sure that this track here was going to start at the count of one and I made sure that when I brought that track out it was at the count of one as well. So even though different BPMs, the continuity of the time was still there but also as well the feel, the vibe and the key was the same as well. Put master tempo on now.

2:31 Transitions like this are great if you

Transitions like this are great if you... You can't beatmatch or you just don't want to. Sometimes, you don't have to beatmatch tracks. Mixing is not about continually beatmatching. Mixing is about transitions. Track two, disc number one. Don't forget from the Underground May 2013. What I did there, I added a little bit of an effect. I used the echo. The players I'm using by the way are Cam, KCD 550 USBs. At the moment I'm using CDs, but you can put USBs in this as well. The mixer is a Cam K160 USB mixer. This one here is track number 3 from disc number 2. 5 from disc number 1. I'm just going to overlay the beat off this track. This bit of track 3, this one's a bit of track 5. So what happened there? I overlaid some of track 5 over track number 3.

7:10 Dis number two, sorry, number one, I beg your pardon

And I was actually overlaying just the beginning of the track, and then let it play and naturally bring it in. Dis number two, sorry, number one, I beg your pardon. We'll play one more from dis number two, and then we'll go into the club releases. My mate, X Price 2. Fixin' the world, but we'll get that one in, okay? This one here is track number seven from dis number two. Check out now the May releases for... Should I say the club releases for May 2013? What I'll be doing very shortly as well, a review on the kit I've got. The mixer itself has bass, low-mid, high-middle and then treble. So it's a four band EQ which I like actually. Personally, my own personal opinion I think every single mixer should have that. Excuse me. Swang this forward a bit. There's one thing about Express 2, very minimalistic.

And their tracks, very progressive. They seem to sort of build and build and build, so I like it. It's got like a chop effect. Let me know if my cough is a real cough or a nervous one. Oh, my God. Classic. Here from disc number two, club. So actually the sound is the speaker. What I will do when I do a proper review of the mixer, I'm going to try and hardwire in directly into the camera. And then use a radio mic, so I'll still be able to talk because this has got a microphone input and then while I'm doing some sort of review you'll be able to hear the true sound of the mixer because we can go through bass, low middle, high middle and then treble. Track one, disc number two. Sometimes I find a good way of mixing is trying out tracks that you've never ever heard before because your mind's open

15:21 Open to the unexpected

Open to the unexpected. And when you haven't heard certain tracks before, it is completely unexpected. Or what you hear is unexpected. So you're more open and you're more alive and you're more thinking about the tracks instead of, oh I know this one, I know where the break is, I know where the instrumental is, I know where the vocals come in. The difference is, you don't know where things are coming in. Track number 7 from disc number 1. Disc, should I say. Okay, this one here is track number 7. Oh, sorry, there you are. I was actually showing it to the screen. Alright, there you go. Club releases May 2013. Practice and enjoy. This one here is track 7. I'll just spin it on a little bit. Hold on, we'll go to search mode. Okay, we're on search mode now. Or we were. No, we are. We're still on. As ever, please, if you want any more information on these tracks,

Check out the link in the description. It'll take you directly to the CDpool website and I'll say practice and enjoy. Nice one.

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