DJ Mixing Urban Tunes with Very Little Intro CD Pool July 2019

0:00 Some new releases from CDPool

Right, ladies and gentlemen, some new releases from CDPool. These are the urban releases for July 2019. Something amazing is happening because if you subscribe to CDPool for the very first time, of course you have to be a working DJ and you have to be living in the United Kingdom or Europe, for the first month you will get 50% off. Now that's a big deal because that's like half. So what we're going to do, we're going to do a bit of mixing on some chilled out sort of soulful tunes. Now you've got to be careful when mixing these sorts of genres because you've got to watch your keys, make sure they work well together but also you have very little time in transitions or to form that transition especially if you're using tracks with minimal breaks.

Because quite often with a radio version, and I've said this time and time again, I'll carry on saying it, because it is actually very, very important. Let's imagine you're at a gig and most of the tunes you play are radio versions, and you're just banging your head against a brick wall thinking, how on earth can I mix these tracks? Because there's nowhere to mix them. Well, that's quite right. Half the time there isn't because it's two bars intro, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, instrumental break, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, finish and that's it. And you haven't got this long extended 16 bars of dum-dum-dum-dum-dum where you can bring in the other dum-dum-dum so you've got da-dum-da-dum-da-dum, well, you don't really want that. Right, two tunes I've got here, You're All Show on the right, it's the Flair's remix and on the left Calm Down. Eh? Eh? Eh? Calm down!

2:37 Other side

Calm down! Right, let's have a listen first. Now there's a lot going through my mind right at the moment. One is that this one's got quite a long introduction. Okay, so what can we do here? Okay, let's have a listen to Calm Down. And this one's got quite a long introduction. Alright, let's imagine they haven't. In fact... Okay, okay, so let's make this difficult for me. So right, I've just got my, I've given myself two bars before the vocals come in. Listen. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. There. I'm going to do the same thing on the other side, okay? So let's prove a point here. This is how we can get around this. Let's go to the other side. By the way, I'm using rekordbox software and Quantize is now engaged.

Right, so... One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. So imagine now we've got two bars on each intro. It's horribly heated! Right, it depends really what you want to do. If you really want to spend the time doing something like this then carry on watching, if not, bugger off. On the other hand, if you have got a lot of 7-inch singles and you just want to get a really nice mix together where you don't have loads of breaks and just parts of your mix where it's just drums and percussion, you want to give some soul and vibe and energy to a mix. In other words, you want to make sure that you've got the 7-inch singles, there's vocals, melody, chorus, vocals, chorus, or sorry, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, little break, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, and so on.

5:27 God, this is awkward

I'm going to sort of rewind a little bit because what I want to go to now is your all show. Now bearing in mind now that I can't do this exactly because the Calm Down track does have a long intro, but hopefully you'll understand exactly where I'm coming from here. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to go back and your all show. Let's get to that one. Where is it? Calm down. You'll all show why I know what's happened here. It's got a load of other tracks on it, so... So let me go to that point where we've just got the two bars. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. I actually can't even do that because it's got that... It's got that... Before the one. God, this is awkward. But it's not actually. Let's just do one bar. OK, so what I've done there, I have made a loop. Now you're going to have to follow me here and you are also going to have to read between the lines because I haven't got, first of all, a good two bars before the one because the vocals come in... Sorry, I haven't got... Yeah, I haven't got two good bars...

7:03 Loop, playing, beginning

Before the vocals comes in, because the vocals comes in not on the one, it comes in sort of inside the second bar which is an absolute nightmare. But we can get around it. So, right, so we have got the same track on the right hand side and we've got the same track on the left but we've got now a one bar loop. So this is what I'm going to do, but I can't do it as quickly as I should be able to do if the next track was indeed two bars intro. Oh, I really do hope you get what I mean. Now I've got to remember what track I played at the beginning. Oh God. Help. Right, so let's just go to here. I'm not going to edit that, I'm just going to carry on. So if you think about it now. Okay, so now what I've done, if you think about it, if this actually worked, which it does work, but in a tutorial there's more to it than me just giving a demo because I'm explaining as much as I can. What I did there, I went from the end of the track to the beginning of the same track and to that loop.

Now again, I was only able to do a one-bar loop, which doesn't really matter because while that's playing now, I'm going to go back to the track which was... Oh God, what was it? Hold on. Not that one, not that one. It was... No, it wasn't that one. Oh, freaking heck, I've got a memory like a spatula, honestly. Very annoying. No, it wasn't that one. And it was... No, it wasn't even that one. Not broken leg. I should have a broken leg actually. There it is. There. You see? Okay, so I really do hope you're following this. So the one track is playing, the same track you get a loop of the beginning or a loop where there is not much going on and then you play that loop and then while that loop's playing, now bearing in mind you've mixed the loop over the original track anyway, while that loop is playing you can then bring in your next track so let me revert back to this loop. The only reason you haven't got any sound now is because I didn't want to have that loop playing again and again and again so let's just go back to that loop.

Now what I can do is, I don't have to cheat because I'm not cheating. I'm going to have a two bar loop and I'm gonna have that on a hot cue but I'm also going to have the beginning of the vocals on a hot cue so in a way I'll still be using that two bar loop but bringing the vocals over the hot cue. You see there is so much you can do with modern-day kit it's ridiculous! Right, so that's that. So now let's go back to Calm Down 888 and...

10:29 Remember give myself two bars?

Remember give myself two bars? In fact, actually I don't have to have the vocals in anyway because... No do I? Do I have to have the vocals in? Oh god, even I'm confused now. Shall I stop this video and do it again? Oh god, no I won't, no. Right, okay, so I've got my two-bar loop here. I have played the original track anyway. I've brought in my two-bar loop that's really... It's not cheating actually. So what I'm going to do now, I'm going to play that and... Just making sure it's in B. So I've got it ready. I don't even like to come out of that. Right, so I've gotta be so careful in case I start confusing people which is probably what I've done. I do apologize. But okay this one here, calm down.

What I want to try and explain to you really is, you know, if we go back to the 80s, you had two turntables, you had a mixer. If you were really lucky, and I mean if you were really lucky, you had a crossfade. Wow! Crossfade! And back in the day, if you had two turntables and you had a 19-inch Shatronic rack mount mixer, you actually had to buy, if you wanted to, a 19-inch one unit. crossfade you could plug into it and it was like this I mean crikey it took you half a day to get from one side to the other but now you've got so much technology in front of you so what it is really it's about using your bloody bonds okay because if you think about it let's for example calm down okay so let's go to this gotta quantize again so two three four one two three

13:54 Sort of, but I wouldn't want to do that all day

See if this works. Sort of, but I wouldn't want to do that all day. But you see, all I've done here is I have got two bar loop. Now, it may be slightly off, but there's a reason for that and that is because it's slightly off, or it might be. You had the beginning of the track on the one, then there's no need to even press the in on the loop because that would automatically be the in and then of course when you get to the second bar you press the out. Now bearing in mind as well I am using rekordbox and I'm using quantize. I highly recommend you use that if you want to get a loop that's bang on the money which maybe it is, hold on. So let's go again. Oh, I'll start it from there. It's slightly off as well now. Okay, let's try this. Yeah, it is. And I had to start that loop.

Not on the one. Anyway, that's slightly more difficult. Right, I really hope I haven't confused people there. Oh God. Right, okay, so let's try something else. I'm going to go to Contra La Parade. Parade, I think. The Banks and Ranks remix. Okay, let's check this out. Now, this is going to be the first time I've heard this one. So again, with the Urban releases, it's all kinds of hip-hop, R&B, soul, two-step, some UK garage in there as well. So you can expect everything. Okay, let's have a look and see what else we've got on here. Okay this one here is a track entitled Drive By, now this is the explicit version so if there are little naughty swear words in I do apologize. And if you're listening to me now, in the kitchen while you're cooking and your youngster is watching me, tell them perhaps they shouldn't or at least zip it forward after this tune. But then again, that could be like, the explicit could be like, oh yeah, shit! And that's about it. I don't know, it could be like... And all that sort of stuff. I have no idea. Sounds pretty good to me.

17:13 Maybe it's like that 2-1-2, you know?

Maybe it's like that 2-1-2, you know? You've got to read between the lines what she's on about. Talking about naughty bits and tongues and stuff. Sounds alright to me. Speed it forward a bit. Okay, good love here. This is going to be the next one. So this one here is Drive By. Oh god, another one. Right, it says explicit but we didn't hear anything naughty there. This one here, good love, explicit, do apologise if there's naughty words in here. Let's try this one. Sorry they said sex. That's terrible. I'm going to go to hell. Right. Okay, we'll play one more long run. Okay, this is the radio mix. Alright, don't forget if you're into sort of your urban, your sort of the hip-hop soul R&B releases then go and check out CDPool. Now in the description of this video is a code so if you're interested in subscribing to CDPool go to the website there's also a hyperlink in the description to the website and if you're a first time user use that code and like I said the first month you will get 50% off now you can get

The hard CD copies, you can also get WAV and you can also get MP3 as well. It's nice as well to hear people sing and use their voice. Practice and enjoy, thank you.

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