DJ Mixing Lesson and CD Pool Underground New Releases September 2015

0:00 Time for another new releases here from CDPool

Alright guys, time for another new releases here from CDPool. In this video we're looking at the underground releases for September 2015. In this video we're going to go through some of the tracks from the twin CD and also I'm going to show you how to do a mix that is not a mix. Confused? Then watch. Okay, if you don't know anything about CDPool new releases, they are from CDPool. A collection of tunes from around the world put together on two CDs that are the underground grimy style. This is the sort of tune you would hear somewhere in a basement. Yes, you'd be walking along the street, there'd be a very small door. As you open the door, a pile of smoke would pump out of the room. You'd look inside, you'd see people puking everywhere, you'd see vomit, sick, smell of beer, piss and poo. But you walk inside...

The sound system would be banging and you'd go in there and you'd go, you know what? I want to live here. This is the sound of the underground. Twisted electro, crucially grimy kind of vibes of all shapes and sizes bunged in to one twin CD. If you want to know any more info about this CD, twin CD, check out the link in the description. It will take you to cdpool.com. Also, this video is dedicated to my son Ryan Lewis who is 18 today. Ryan. Happy birthday. Alright? You're a man now. Sort yourself out. Come and see your dad. You're a man. Sort yourself out. Come and see me. Come and have a chat, mate. Alright? It's very simple. Anyone out there scratching their head wondering what the hell I'm on about, don't worry about it. It doesn't matter. Anyone who does know, then you know where I'm coming from. It's been a tough journey, but I am still here to...

Tell the tale. And as I said to you, Ryan, a long time ago when you were a lot younger, Dad would never lie to you. And I never have. Right. Track one from disc number one. We're going to bung in track number three from disc number two. So, I'm going to show you how to mix that isn't a mix. Now let's imagine you're not too sure about if the next track will mix into the last one. How can we form some form of transition without it sounding really bad, really terrible, out of key, out of time, out of sync? How can we do it? Very simple. There's many ways of doing it. In this one I'm going to use an echo, bring the next track in. It's very simple if you know what to do. If you don't know what to do, it's really difficult. So I will take you step by step. Okay, so we're on track 1, disc 1. I am going to set the mixer here.

2:45 To channel 3, which is the channel I want to

To channel 3, which is the channel I want to... No, sorry, actually channel 2, beg your pardon, which is of course where I want the echo to be on, which is this track here. I've got my next track set. This one here is at 122.8 BPM, this is 122.4. Let's bring this one up to 125.7 so they wouldn't beatmatch at all. Even if you try for the rest of your life, they could not beatmatch. But we don't want to beatmatch them, we just want to do some mix. So I'm now going to look at my LEDs. I can see there we're pumping into the 4. I'm going to tap that one. That's into 2. I'm going to turn that up slightly so it's in 4. Alternatively, I could turn that one down. But if that one's over the main PA, the last thing I want to do is start lowering the volume while people are dancing to it. So it's better to turn up the volume on the track that isn't playing not the other way around. So I know that's at 4 now. What I'm now going to do is just tap along in time like that.

I'm going to go 1 over 2, which is half an echo, wait for my phrase and bring the next one in. That's it. Now you may be scratching your head thinking that's not a mix, that was terrible, that was crap. It's not supposed to be a mix. It's supposed to be a way of formulating some kind of transition without doing a mix. Now like I said there's many ways of doing this. You could scratch your balls halfway through. You could poke your eye, you could use the microphone or you could just add some form of effect with the track that's playing. Let that effect take over the track and then as the effect starts to glide away bring the next track in which is exactly what I did with track number three Robin featuring Morluka, Love Is Free. Love Is Free. Now again listen to this track it's a nice tune.

5:26 A sweet, absolute frigging genius

Wang it forward a bit. I'm liking the bass line with this. It's a very subtle bass line, very subtle, but it's really good. Yeah, like it. Again, I can visualize this in that nightclub I told you about, dark and dreary. I don't really like the idea of the smelly of the wind, the poo, but I like the rest of it. Not sick either. You know, a nightclub where you've got 10k and... Nine and a half of that is bass, and the DJ thought, well let's just chuck a two-inch compression driver and add a little bit of top for good measure, because, you know, which is fine by me. Right, let's find... Oh, now there we go. Listen. So sweet. A sweet, absolute frigging genius. Now, don't get me wrong, maybe the producer, when they made this track, it was four o'clock in the morning and they were all smoking weed. I don't know, but... I like it, I like it.

This is track number 3, taken from disc 1, Melissa Steele, You Love Me. I'm Ryan, I love you mate. Yeah, fool. Fool dude. Not really. Nah, you know what I mean. Track 5, disc 2 coming in. That was very dodgy there. You could tell straight away it was just like a bit... So we won't continue with that. Bear with me a second. Talk about yourself.

Okay, I want to bring that back. Four taken from disc number one. How do you make a mix more interesting? How can you make your mix stand out from others? Don't mix beginning and end, mix middle in with middle. Much better. Wind this back a bit. We've got the break! Found a point here which is about eight bars into track number nine from disc number two. This is track four from disc number one. I'm going to wind that back a little bit and start mixing this in at the break. Quite nice acid sort of feel to this.

11:04 I'm going to just carry on bringing that in if I can

I'm going to loop this one here. I shouldn't have done that. I'm going to just carry on bringing that in if I can. Got cat hair all over me. Just taking Jim Jam to the left. Okay, track number nine, disc number two. The track here entitled Solar Detroit, the original mix. I really do hope YouTube don't say this video's flagged because you played like a snippet of some track while you were talking over it and people are going to download that track and use it in a nightclub while I'm talking over it.

12:47 Again, let's relate back to that dark and dreary bass room

Anyway, right, moving swiftly on, let's find another tune from disc number one. Boom. Ah. Come on. You see? Again, let's relate back to that dark and dreary bass room. That room down someone's backyard. You're hearing that sort of... And all of a sudden you've just got that... Bloody hell this is good. This is fucking awesome. This really is fucking awesome. Good to go! Oh dear. Actually, I think this should come in after it's gone... Hold on. No, it's all there. Right, what happens here? Yeah, that track should start to come in here, so I'm going to bring it back. Nope, not yet. Got to turn this up. Shows us how much fun you can have just with two CDs. I'm shaking, that room's vibrating. Oh, bloody hell. Take this one out, face away from this side here.

15:47 Keep the loop going

Keep the loop going. Track five from disc number one over here now in the mix. Break now, so I'm gonna probably get this out of the mix to make the break a little bit more vibrant. I want emphasis on this break, so... Let's find something else from track, uh, disc number two. Good, but I don't really go with the mix. Okay, we'll do that. Okay, I'm gonna finish off with track number ten from disc number two, Backstab. This is the original mix. Don't forget to check out the link in the description Go and check them out. Even if you're not interested, go and check them out because they've also got loads of other quality compilations. Old school, new school. If let's say for example you just started as a DJ and you need a back catalogue of some seriously rather large beats, go and check it out. If you're a mobile DJ and you want some mobile stuff, go and check them out. A radio DJ, go and check them out.

18:51 Email address, show

If you're Auntie Joan and you're doing the washing up and you like dance music, carry on with your washing up. No, go and check them out. I will see you at the BPM show NEC 2015 this September 12th, 13th and 14th. I'm also raising money for charity on the Saturday where I will be dressing up like a tart. I'm going to put the link in the description as well where you can donate money for that cause. And anyone who donates... We will put you in a pool and you get the chance of winning some sort of DJ-related prize. It could even be some headphones. So, go and check it out. Also, if you want one-to-one Skype lessons by myself, Jonathan, DJ Tutor Ellaskins, nutterguy, then check out the info in the description. There's an email address. You can contact me via the email address and we will talk and do Skype. Okay, thank you very much.

Thank you for watching. I will see you at the BPM show any scene very soon. Come along, say hello. A106, that's my stand. CD Pool is very close to me. Buy tunes, have some fun. Don't forget, please donate for my cause which is for people who have serious hearing problems. Pardon. It's an issue for quite a few DJs out there. I'm going to be dressed up in drag on Saturday at the BPM show, which will be very interesting. So that's pretty much it. Thank you very much. It's the 7th of September 2015. 18 years ago, my lad was born. Ryan, I love you. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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