DJ Make You Mix Rough and Real Underground Tunes CD Pool April 2018

0:00 This tune here is entitled El Pavistuena

Alright guys, this tune here is entitled El Pavistuena. I think that's how you pronounce it. It's foreign, I do apologise. My pronunciation was crazy there. It's taken from Underground April 2018 from CD4. What I'm going to do here, I'm going to do first of all a little bit of a mix where we're going to have to use the filter. I will explain in a little bit. The tune I'm going to be bringing in is by Alex Metric and Ten Venn, entitled Otik. Yeah, Otik, I think it's the extended mix. All the information that you need will be in the description of this video, and all you've got to do is go to CD4 Underground April 2018. Now, with a lot of tunes, let me just spin this forward a bit so you get an idea of this track.

With a lot of dance tracks, they seem to sort of break down. So you may have the bassline, the melody, vocals, and then after the phrase is finished, then you maybe just get the bassline, melody and beat. And then after the next phrase, maybe just the bassline and beat, and then the next phrase, just the beat. This tune on the other hand, have a listen. Alright, there's not much of a breakdown here. We've got a beat, bit of a bassline in the background. And that kind of twisted melody, listen. Now there's only a tiny, oh it's finished, there's only a tiny amount at the end where you've got a natural kind of breakdown so there isn't that much time to form some kind of mix unless of course you loop the end which you can do if you want to but when you mix on the fly as I like to do

2:30 It's the Black Legend remix by the way

You've got to think outside the box. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to be using the filter for the end of the mix. Now what this will do, this will just almost like start to make the track disappear. Now what is the best effect with any kind of player? Is it the echo? Is it the reverb? The flange? Is it the pitch? Is it the roll? It is in my mind the filter. Now you may beg to differ, but what you find with the filter is you're able to almost naturally get the track to disappear. Okay, so what I'm going to do, I'm going to go towards the end of this track here. It's the Black Legend remix by the way. Okay, we've got Otik on the other side, the extended mix. Right, now I'm going to pause that there. Let's just have a listen to Otik first of all. How does it start? Okay.

What I want to do here, I want to get to the beginning of the next phrase where we've got a kind of a melody starting off. You'll see what I mean in a bit. There. It's a nice bassline sort of melody. Right, there we go. Okay, so all I've done, I've started that at the beginning of a phrase and I've set a hot cue. So, let's go towards the end of the Black Legend remix and... Let's have a look. Now if you're not sure about where a phrase starts, then I recommend you go to a point in the track there is a definite change. Like there for example. So what I did, I waited for a break. Now again, let's say for a beginner it's very difficult to find the defined start or end of a phrase. But, like I said, if you go to a definite change, you know, the beginning of a break, the end of a break, the beginning of some vocals, the end of some vocals, then it's very likely, it's not definite, but it's very likely that will be the beginning of your next phrase. And if you're not sure, set a cue point from that point where you think it's the beginning of the next phrase and then start to count.

4:42 Count, maybe

And if you count your bars correctly, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3 and so on. If you get to an 8 or a 12 or a, sorry not a 12, I'll start again, an 8, beg your pardon, or a 16 or maybe a 24 or maybe a 32, if you're, let's say playing long extended mixes of Minimal House or Techno, then... You will find that that was the definite start of a new phrase because if you get to, let's say, an 8 or a 16 and there is another change, then you were right to start from that point to begin with. So, let's just go back a little bit. Here's my break. Okay, there. Let's just go back a bit. Now, did you hear a subtle kind of change there? Alright, so let's just count from there.

6:55 I'm going to start to use the filter and straight out

There. 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 5, 1, 2, 3, 6, 1, 2, 3, 7, 1, 2, 3, 8, 1, 2, 3. There, that's where I put the other hot cue. Okay, so there we go, structure here. So let's go back to the first hot cue I set. And that's going to be my timing, so from there, let's count maybe 16 bars. 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 6, 1, 2, 3, 7, 1, 2, 3, 8, 1, 2, 3, 9, 1, 2, 3, 10, 1, 2, 3, 11, 1, 2, 3, 12, 1, 2, 13. 14, get ready, 15, 16. Now I'm going to start to use the filter and straight out. Okay, let's find something else from the underground releases. Okay, let's take a random. I'm going to do something like that and there we go. This is a random kind of selection now. Bearing in mind the underground releases isn't strictly house music. It's all kind of twisty bendy sounds.

Alright, let's try something completely unique here. What I'm going to do, I've got the echo on, channel one, tap in time. Let's do a random kind of crazy transition. Now I've got a really weird sound starting off with this one here. This is the Epiphany featuring Matt Wilson. Bit of an echo, just start the next one off. Now sometimes, not always, it's a way... Transitioning from one style to another or if you've got an interesting kind of intro to another track. A mix isn't always about same BPM, same time signature. Sometimes it could just be something very eclectic, something weird and different. A bit like that really. Okay, let's find something else. Oh, don't want to do that. Okay, let's put this forward a bit. Skip it forward.

10:44 Planets To Move, The Voyager Mix

I'm going to do the same with this one, a bit of an echo, bring in the next tune. Two, three, four. Two, three, four. Two, three, four. Okay, Planets To Move, The Voyager Mix. Play one more tune. Don't forget, check out the link in the description to the cdpool.com website. Once again, these are the underground releases for April 2018. Very eclectic sort of style, well mix of just all sorts of different kind of underground feely beats. Underground feely. Let's have a look. What should we put on there? Ah! You must have heard of the plump DJs. Okay, let's just pause that. What I'm going to do here, I'm going to set, I'm going to make a loop. So one, two, three, four, one. One, two, three, four. Put that into a hot cue. Slightly too short. It's not a perfect loop but that'll do. So come out the loop. I've set that in a hot cue. Okay so I'm getting something now right? So yeah we'll start it there. I haven't got my timing right. I'm just chucking it in really. So see what I mean? Just a bit of fun. Okay so give you a general idea here.

15:13 You become part of it

What I've said many times and I'll say it again, don't follow every single move I do. Hopefully one tip, one trick will inspire you and you can just add it to your set. What I like doing, which is hopefully you can see what I'm doing, is it's very rough, it's very real. And that's how DJing should be, rough and real. As soon as you completely rely on that huge big screen in front of you, that laptop, you've lost the whole soul of DJing. Be real. If you're using a laptop, by all means use it, but don't abuse it. If you abuse it, then you become like the laptop. You become part of it. You become a machine. You're not a machine, you're a real person. Practice and enjoy. Bounce. Thank you.

This is an enjoy, thank you.

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