DJ Mixing Demonstration of Nu Disco BY Ellaskins DJ Tutor

0:00 Track, disco, loop slowly

Alright guys, in this video we're going to do a transition using one of my favourite genres, which is known as New Disco. New Disco is pretty much as it says, it's disco style, but today it's modern, it's not your old school, it's new school disco. I'm just going to move this one back a little bit. Okay, two tracks I'm using is NBMD, Use the Stuff You Lose, it's the original mix, and we're going to go into Loz Goddard track entitled Persistence, it's the original mix. Okay, so this style is... It's not fast, it's around about sort of 110 to 115, 118 BPM, so it could be classed as a very slow sort of house music, but there's more to it. These two tracks are very good and very deep, bit of soul in there as well, but also they are disco-y.

5:08 Let's try half, bring the bass back in

Okay, so what I'm going to do with this transition, because there's a lot going on at the end of the NBMD track, I'm going to form a loop. I'm going to go into the Persistence over the loop, then I'm going to reduce the bass from the track, the NBMD track. Hurry on playing that loop, slowly use the high-pass filter out, or take, use the high-pass filter on the loop, and then slowly bring in more so the Persistence track. Okay, so we're coming towards the end of this track now, and I want to make sure that I'm in loop mode.

Now, I've already pretty much sort of beat-matched them anyway. Again, with this sort of style, you do find the tracks themselves, they don't need to be played beginning and end, but you have got a defined beginning and end, and the middle just builds, it's got a lot of... They've got a lot of vibe. Okay, we're coming towards the end of the track now.

2:45 What I did there, as soon as I hit, I started the other track

What I did there, as soon as I hit, I started the other track. I'm going to take the bass out now, on the loop, engage high-pass filter, pass filter, treble out. Also, one factor when using the high-pass filter, you will have a defined high sound, and that could, if you're very clinical about this, overpower the mix. So, as I did there, I reduced the high as well, just to get rid of that click, the high kick from the track going out, in the loop mode. Okay, so what I'm going to do now is this, an eighth. Now, there's too much going on there, it's too bassy, so I'm going to take the bass away, have mid and treble. That was one-eighth of a beat. Let's try half, bring the bass back in. I don't know if you noticed.

I'm pressing here, but as soon as I move the crossfade over, I'm pressing on the loop mode. I'm doing that because when I press on one of the loops again, for example, four-two-one-half-quarter or eighth, I start the loop over. So, let's say, for example, now the loop's playing, it might be out of time. If I just press one over one in time... One-two-three-four-one. Right, I'll leave that now. Now, have a listen. We can hear that's out of time. But if I press that now in time and at the same time move the crossfade over, it will be in time.

A couple of tips and tricks here. I'll put the names of the tracks in the description. Practice and enjoy, thank you.

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