DJ MIXING LESSON ON TIMING IN THE MIX Tune By Lenny Fontana Raise your hands.

0:00 Got a cracking tune for you now

Alright ladies and gentlemen, got a cracking tune for you now. It's Mr Lenny Fontana, track entitled Raise Your Hands. What I'm going to do, I've got a loop on the right hand side and I've got the beginning of the radio version on the left hand side. Now the whole idea of this video is to help you with your timing. If you haven't got good timing it's going to sound terrible so let's put the track on. If you want any more information about this tune by the way, check out a link in the description. It'll take you to Karmic Power Records. So, okay. What I've got now is I've just got the loop of one of the mixes of the track. On this side now, I've got the radio version with an acapella. Listen. 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4.

1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1.

Hello? Yo! Hello? What are you doing with my record? What are you doing with my record? What in god's name are you doing to that record? What?! Hold on, let's go. Who are you?! No! Who- Who are you?

Who am I? I'll tell you who I am. Who's this? I am a friend of yours. Yeah. My name is Lenny Fontana. Get the frick out of here! welcome to my neighborhood oh my god you're playing around my record what are you doing well i don't know i mean i'm just trying to do a demonstration tutorial here i must have left skype on and there you are you friggin nutter great where are you lenny where are you at the moment right now with miami going on i'm actually in new york in the studio working yeah um and just churning out tunes again like a madman yeah back in the science lab you know just doing my little you know tricks yeah stuff reaching out to some of my friends and see what's cooking so what do you got going on in the magic lab over there oh well the usual thing we've

Got uh the kit we've got the pioneer we've got uh believe it or not i happen to have a karmic power records t-shirt just there all right you still have one left yeah i think what i'm gonna okay with this video once these videos i just thought of this right now i love randomness once this video is online on youtube i'm gonna give from the time this video goes online say should we do one week or two weeks you're asking me yeah two weeks or well i'm gonna give i think two weeks is sensible okay it's a good number all right two weeks and the best comment from someone who just pretty much has to give a good reason why they need this t-shirt i'll send it to you why i need it you do let's see what well let's see what they have to

Say all right world has to say about this all right there you go karmic power records t-shirt i mean you can't but you can't buy these really can you or can you no actually they were made as promotion um gifts to everyone in the industry okay and we just we still are at the point we still have some left and we're still loving and get we give them away right now soon we'll be

Doing a lot of promotional exercise all right it seems that everybody loves them yeah everybody loves those t-shirts all right so two two weeks uh you've got two weeks from the time of the upload of this video to give a good reason why you should get that t-shirt it's open to anyone around the world and it can be yours right lenny tell me what inspired you to do this tune because it's a beautiful track for mr d train of course yes um actually i'll tell you real quick i always loved music when he had it back in the 80s yeah i always felt that for him to get back what he left the world with that sound that iconic d train sound i figured we had to go back so what i did was it's like going in a time machine i stepped

Back into the 80s and just pulled something i knew that people would adore and just fiddled with it and he came in and we started writing a song and basically that's really how it happened and then it just from there you know couple more times him coming back and retracking vocals and then working on it this is what we came up with raise your hands yeah he's done a great job on it it's blowing up man isn't it it's absolutely blowing up big time it's north america already it's starting to get radio plays on daytime radio um the record seems to have promise and d train also has a lot of love yeah people that voice is very iconic in clubland beautiful so name check now i mean louis vega who else has been playing it oh god and list goes on

And on you the first ones that came to me with david morales and louis vega yeah they were the first i mean louis vega basically played it um on new york radio on wbls uh three weeks ago when i gave it to him he was on it right away then morales and then i had all three of them at the at the kings street kings party in miami beach they played it not once but twice and i was like floored that is so cool i i saw that video what i'll try and do if i can remember i'll put the link to that video in the description of this one as well so people can check that out i'm going to check that out um and then from there i mean we just put up the videos and you know you know how the internet works it just got crazy yeah how can people get it how can people get this track well

6:00 Last question, feel

Right now it's not out yet it starts the 15th of april is the track source um uh exclusive and then on the 29th all stores itunes beatport everybody has it cool all right lenny listen i won't keep you keep any more of your time but thank you so much it's been it's been a pleasure thank you and tell me you know you must have other tracks coming out soon oh my god right now in your country right now on cr2 chocolate sensation annie mac has been hammering it yes and that record's starting to take a you know a humongous um place again with all the djs so it's like christmas again for me now you deserve it all right one last question one last question there are probably a lot of producers who will watch my videos

Can you give a good tip for say a new producer you know young lad young lady in their bedroom they've got ableton they've got maybe fruity loops give them a little bit of a tip to inspire them to get a good track out there okay um well you know what i always a lot of us always done is we we are inspired by other great records you know listen to other records and understand why and how they got that sound and see if there's something in there that

That's one of the ways um as well also you know pay attention to what's around you all the other producers and djs that are playing stuff so you get a feel of what the sounds are and what people are into and also you have to go with your gut yeah you know artistically you have to feel this if you don't feel it you can't do well at it so you've got a lot it has to do with this you know your internal makings

All right lenny listen let's finish this video with uh practice oh yeah of course most importantly you the producer dj or the punter must practice and enjoy lenny much love man take it easy thank you thank you bro nice one nice one

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