DJ Mixing Music Without a Mix Underground September 2021

0:00 A slight difference to the CDPool website

Right, ladies and gentlemen, a slight difference to the CDPool website. Now I'm going to do a video on their website in depth in the near future, but for now just give you a little bit of insight into what some of the differences are. Now if we go back in time, literally like days, a couple of weeks, a month or so, what would happen is there would be the new releases. So for example, if you have the hard copies, or indeed you have the downloads, you would have the downloads for that month. So at the beginning of say, for example, August, you'd have the August downloads. What they're doing now though, is over the month, they are just updating the new releases. So what this means is that if and when they find a good track, or all of a sudden something's released, or it's a pre-release, it will be put on the website.

What it means is that you're just going to be a little bit more ahead of the rest of the bunch, because as soon as a tune comes out, it's there. You see, once they've put everything on a CD, and something else appears, and they think, well we should have had that on the CD, it's too late. But now... What happens is at the end of the month then, they will go through all of, for example, the house releases, and there may be 35, 40 of them, for example. What they'll do is they will take the cream of the crop, put it on a CD, instead of at the beginning of the month, compiling that CD, and then maybe realising, wow, there's a few more really good house tracks we could have put on that CD, but we can't now, we've got to wait until next month.

So it's a way of maybe having a step... Step forward for the better. Right, so let's get down to it. Now in this video what we're going to do is we're going to look at how we can go through really sort of having a mix and a mashup. Not so much a mashup, but a mix of different styles. Now I've got the Underground series here from CD Paul, which is an eclectic mix of beats, breaks, and bass lines, and drum and bass, and all sorts. So have a listen here.

Drum sounds. I've got a bass line, Smith. And just so we know the exact... Hold on, if I go back, because if I do that now it will... Hold on, there we go. I can see it load up now. Bad Boy Sound original mix.

Now you can't do this all the time, but when you've got an intro of a track with just a melody, that's when, you know, you've got this sort of artistic... Artistic... Artistic, right? Artistic, right? To sort of chuck it in anywhere. Now I'll demonstrate that by... Let's do... Right, I'm going to do that. Random... I don't know where the hell I am. And I'm going to do that. Right. The hymn.

Neck on the block here. Okay.

Okay, this is the hymn, the original mix.

So what I'm going to do, I'm going to maybe... Have a listen to it.

Very good.

Okay, what I'm going to do here... I'm going to go to Echo. And a nice long echo.

4:20 I wasn't really waiting for the end of a phrase

Let's have a look. Bad Boy Sound. So... I wasn't really waiting for the end of a phrase. I was sort of almost waiting for the end of a sound that I could bring this sound in with that one. Now we've gone from a house vibe into D&B. Now let's try and do the opposite. Go from D&B into house. Let's try anyway. Going forward.

It's that separation of beat. 87. 87. Now again, if you see 87 and on the other side you see 174. And you're thinking... 8 and 8 is 16. 7 and 7 is 14. 160 and 14 is 174. So really what's happened is quite often or sometimes twice a week. I don't know. The software may half time it or double time it. What did I do? Counting. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1.

Let me do that again. Listen. Go back a bit.

1, 2, 3.

7:06 I'll do it one more time

So I'll do it one more time. What I want you to do, I want you to tap your foot while I'm doing this. And what should happen is you should be tapping your foot quite fast and then all of a sudden quite slow. Now the objective here is very simple. If people were dancing to this drum and bass tune, hopefully they'd be dancing in time. You know, 1, 2, 3, 4. Even if they don't know what they're doing very often. I would say the greater proportion of dancers, even though they do not understand bars and phrases and whatnot. They understand timing. And if I started this at the wrong time, their dancing would sort of it would be off, you know, because they have a natural kind of metronome inside them. So I'm going to do it correctly and then I'm going to do it incorrectly when I do it each time.

I want you to tap and you'll find that the first time you're tapping fast and then slow or slow. And fast, depending on if you're counting, tapping half time or double time and then you will carry on tapping in time with the house tune. The second time I do it, it doesn't matter whether you're tapping fast or slow. As soon as I start the other one, you'll be like, whoa, tap three, seven, nine.

Right. OK, here we go. Let's put that back on.

All right, let's do it the wrong way now.

Now, even though it was sort of in time, it wasn't in the correct frame. We're going to do it again. So we are going to start with the same thing and then it's going to be a little bit more of a clashing. It's going to be a little bit more of a tracing. Now, again, if I wanted to make it a little bit neater, I could bring in the next phrase so we got some kind of melody there. But this is where you have to be careful because if you start chopping a melody from one track into the other and you're just chucking it in and the melodies don't work harmonically, then it's going to sound a bit of a clash. Yeah. All right. We won't go there. So you have to be very careful. You know, there's a top three with mixing music.

9:52 Let's go this one here, which is rave against the system

Or DJ number one is make sure you mix in key, number two in beat and then the last one phrase. You're probably thinking, well, no, but it's true because you could mix two tracks completely offbeat so long as they're in key, it'll work. The next one is, of course, in beat if they're in beat and in key fantastic. But if they're in phrase and say out of key, it's going to sound rubbish if they're in phrase and in beat, it's going to sound a bit dodgy. That's the cat running around everywhere. And if they're in key and in phrase but not in beat, it's not going to sound too bad. But it's definitely not going to sound good if they're not in key in beat or they're not in key and in phrase because it's just going to sound a clash mishmash of music.

So don't go there. All right, let's go this one here, which is rave against the system. Yeah, man. It's just sounded up police like no. I mean, I don't know about you, but I mean, I grew up with the house parties and like rave scene. And they're trying to stop it, aren't they? They're slowly trying to take away everything we've got. And what I still can't understand, not getting political here, but sometimes I do try and talk how I feel and feel how I talk and walk how I talk and feel and scratch. I mean, testicles and stuff. No, but anyway, listen, shut up. Okay, shouldn't say things like that in the right place is what is wrong in someone having some land? They own the land, someone deciding to put a sound system on their own land, inviting friends that you know, and playing some music in the middle of nowhere.

Now you tell me what's wrong with that, even if let's say it's in the middle of nowhere. Yeah. You've got your own land, and you're not going to annoy anybody because there's no neighbors.

What's wrong in that? Yet they're trying to stop that. Open your fucking minds people, because slowly but surely they're taking away your bloody freedoms, and it's not right. Okay, tourist mix.

12:11 I started what I first said about just chucking something in

My one bar loop. I started what I first said about just chucking something in. Just gonna filter this out. This one up. Okay, proximity. The Laura remix sounds like something you'd stick up your nose, isn't it? Excuse me, don't check. I've got a problem with my nose. You're blocked. You need a loss on a review. Check out the link in the description to citypool.com. Go and check out the new website and practice and enjoy. Nice one. By the way, I'd like to see what's happening in October. There will be a link in the description. Go and check it out. Come along to the city pool stand and come and say hello, and if you talk nicely, chuck them loads of money and I'm sure they'll sort you out. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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