DJ Mixing Lesson and CD Pool Underground New Releases November 2015

0:00 Got some new releases for you from CDport

Alright guys, got some new releases for you from CDport. In this video we're looking at the underground releases for November 2015. Also, we're going to be doing some mixing that isn't mixing. We're going to be mixing different genres in together that wouldn't normally mix and I'm going to be doing my normal random stuff. Confused? Good, because if you're not then, I don't know, you'll be like me, a bit strange. So, track one from disc number one. This is the Chemical Brothers track entitled Sometimes I Feel So... Hold on. Don't go away. Sometimes I Feel So Deserted. Okay, we're going to bring it into format B, chunky, bit of a drummer bass tune. So, these two tracks, it's going to be really difficult to beatmatch them. What we can do though, is we can add an effect. So, I'm going to put an effect in...

Over the Chemical Brothers, and let's imagine you're in a club and the DJ before you happens to have been doing a house set. And the next DJ yourself, you're doing drum and bass set. Well, the normal rule of thumb is that the last DJ will let his or her track play and walk away and leave you to take over. They'll never stop the track and go, thank you very much. Walk and then you have to dive in and start playing. The rule of thumb is they have their track, they put the last track on, thank you very much, walk away and let you get on with it. Of course... But if you're playing a completely different genre, it may be a little bit difficult to mix the tracks in. So the key here is of course the key. Make sure that the track you bring in is the same key or a key that works to keep the flow of the music. And also you can add a bit of an effect. Now if you don't want to beatmatch, a great way is to add an effect. So what I'm going to do is this, and I've talked about this before. If you imagine we've got a drum and bass tune, have a listen here.

2:07 We can hear the BPM or we can hear the tempo of that

Now we can hear the BPM or we can hear the tempo of that. So 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. If we listen to this, a lot slower. What I'm going to do is I'm going to set the effect to echo. We're going to go on channel 2 because we want the echo to be on channel 2. We want to have remnants of this track fading away in an echo Overlapping the beginning of that track. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to tap in time to the drum and bass track. So what this means is we will have this track playing at 127 BPM, but the echo will be 86.3 BPM. So the echo will actually overlap the track coming in. Now it may be a little bit difficult for you to understand But what is happening, instead of the echo being you know bam bam bam bam or bam bam bam bam bam bam, the echo will be in time with the track coming in. So let's just bring this forward a little bit. Let's put it to sort of about there-ish. So what I'm going to do now, I'm gonna press play here and I'm now gonna tap there. Now I've tapped in time with this track here but the echo

Is going to be over this track here. You could add a bit of filter if you wanted. I could have let the Echo play a little bit longer if I wanted to, but this is a really quick and very basic transition going from one style of genre or one genre to another. And believe me there's a million more ways of doing this. Track 1, disc number 2. Let's do this again. The Echo, track number 2, Disclosure, a track entitled Jaded, The Lone Remix. These are the underground releases Check out the link in the description or take it to cdpool.com. So again, if you can't beatmatch, there's always a way of mixing somehow. This sort of style as well is very good for when you're always mixing different genres. For example, you're a mobile DJ and you're going from house to R&B, from R&B to 60s, some 60s to 90s, 90s to disco and so on. You wouldn't always add an echo, but...

5:40 This is a really good track by the way

Somewhere along the lines, you would be adding some form of an effect, but more so if you're a mobile DJ, you may want to just talk in between the tracks and introduce the tracks or talk to the public, have a bit of a banter with them. Who knows? This is a really good track by the way. Here we go. Okay, so we've done our little bit of kind of transitions. Now I've got to play this actually. This is track number five. These are the first times I've heard these tunes as well myself. Okay, track five from disc number two. My other half Yvette is going to love this because this is like full on. Track number five which is Misanthropop, a track entitled Collapse. It's the original mix, it's on Ram Records and it's rather large. This is really good. Liking it, liking it. What kind of mix? I found heart in that track that wasn't at the beginning. Have a listen again. Alright let's just put the headphones off.

7:57 Track number three, this one, Hot Since 82, Vainz original mix

Let's go back a little bit. This is how it starts. I just went in here. Track number three, this one, Hot Since 82, Vainz original mix. Same kind of thing. I've been moving clothes about the place so my nose is dripping. I do apologise. Don't look. Here we go. In here, again, I went sort of halfway through the track and didn't start at the beginning. Also, when you start mixing in the middle of track, not just beginning and end, but you're almost... Getting into more of a vibe, a more full-on vibe in your mix instead of having this introduction, an outro, another introduction, another outro, another introduction. It's a bit the analogy I'll give you, it's like eating a meal, a starter, main course and sweet. All you're doing is you're giving the people the main course all night and at the end of it, bit of sweet. Give them a starter, loads of main course and finish them off with a sorbet. There you go. Alright, okay.

9:59 I'm going to finish off with track number 11 from disc number 1

I'm going to finish off with track number 11 from disc number 1. As I said, I have not heard these tracks before. I'm putting them on now. So you and I are listening to these possibly for the very first time. And when I do listen to tracks for the first time, quite often when I hear the first sort of even one beat or two beats or one bar, I'm like, nah. This is one of those. Okay, check it out. Here we go. Track number 11, disc number 1, cdpool.com. Check the link in the description and I will finish off with practice and enjoy track number 11. Auden, Simmer down the original mix. Shall I start with just a kick? No. Shall I start with a bassline? No. Shall I give people eargasmic, an eargasmic experience from the word go? Yes. This is Haagen-Dazs ice cream, double chocolate, with cream, with fondant, all over your body. Love it. Loving it. I may have shown you this before, right? When you've got a long break...

And you want to just spice the break up. Speed it up, but slow it back down when the break finishes. So have a listen. Normal speed. You can hear the break is finishing. We're getting to that build-up. And there. Right, so listen. Where the pitch is now. It's right about the centre. It's a lot faster. Speed this up a little bit. There.

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