Essential Series Vol 2 from CD Pool UK Mobile DJ Mixing Help

0:00 I've got a bunch of tunes here from CD Puller

Alright guys, I've got a bunch of tunes here from CD Puller. In fact, there are two CDs from the Essential Series. On the right hand side I've got CD number 24 and on the left hand side I've got CD number 23. These videos are in a selection I'm doing on the Essential Series and these... The CDs, the box sets, are really targeted for the mobile DJ who's looking to not just enhance their collection, but let's imagine you're a new mobile DJ and you've got all the latest charty stuff. You've got everything from the top 40, but you're maybe missing the classics. These have the classic tracks, pretty much from the last 50 years. Everything you can think of from, you know, almost like rock and roll up to modern day-ish. Not right up to date, but, you know, you're looking at sort of the mid 2000s now, your R&B and your sort of dancey tracks.

You know, a track like this, alright, this is Maggie Mae, Rod Stewart. So, believe it or not, a track like this in a wedding, right time, right place will go down a treat. Okay, what else have we got on here? Here we go, another Rod Stewart tune. Love Cats, now this here by The Cure is one of the best. Popular songs from the 80s. Now this sort of tune is immense. In fact, only last week I played this at a wedding and this is what the bride and groom wanted for their first dance. I kid you not. Let's see what else we've got on the other side. So I'm going to pause that for a second. Let's have a listen. Let's see if we've got something that will go with Love Cats. Maybe. What I'm going to do...

2:16 Track number eight here from

I'm going to let Love Cats carry on playing because I want to try and find something that will harmonically match. Whether it's the same key, one that'll rise or dip but we don't want an oblong kind of mix that just doesn't work so... Okay track number eight here from... Disc number 23, Teenage Kicks. Okay, this one here, track number three, I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight. Again, this is from CD number 24. Now these kinds of transitions as well, the sort of transitions I would be doing... A wedding gig. Simply because we're using popular songs, we haven't got a long kind of 16 or 32 bar intro. It's just bang, it starts. So these are the transitions I would be doing practically all night if I was mixing these styles of tunes. And that's a talkover as well. Notice I carried on talking until the vocals comes in, but that's a whole new different video.

4:12 Let's find something else from disc number 23

Right, let's find something else from disc number 23. Okay, track number 10. Okay, I'm going to find something else now from disc number 24. Let's just bring this forward a bit. Yeah, that'll probably do, but let's find something more interesting. Okay, I'm going to finish off with this one, The House Martins, The Happy Hour. Now again, this video is about showing you what to expect. Now, there are four binders, of course from 1 to 20, 20 to 40 and so on. Each one of the binders has got, if I show you all the information on there in the inlay cards, and opposite, of course, you've got the CDs. Okay, I mean, for example, let's just have a look at CD number 30. What have we got on here? Better Off Alone, Alice DJ, Body Groove Architects, Moving So Fast, The Artful Dodger, Rewind, Artful Dodger, Woman Trouble, Artful Dodger, 9pm till I come.

6:47 It's right time, right place

ATB, a classic tune. Also, one of my favourite kind of grimy Brazilian style tunes is Red Alert, Basement Jacks, love it. Gypsy Woman, Crystal Waters, you know, she wakes up early in the morning. And then we've got a tune like, you know, Dupe, by Dupe. I mean, again, that's the sort of track at a wedding especially that will get people nuts on the floor. But... It's right time, right place. Alright, let's have a look at one more of the CDs. Let's flick through. I'm just going to go there. Right, OK. So, number 38, Don't Turn Around, Aswad, classic, No Woman No Cry, Bob Marley. I mean, the guy, you know, he is the king of reggae, period. Sit Down, James, Limp Bizkit, we've got Lynyrd Skynyrd, sorry, Sweep Home, Alabama, which, I mean, that sort of tune now. Alright, let me play it for you, but this is the sort of track...

You would play at the end of the night at a wedding and people would go absolutely nuts. They would be climbing over each other to get your business card. Why? Because you're playing a classic track at the end of the night that people want to single on to. Now here's a good tip for you. If you want to finish your night with a bang, play something where everyone can get on the floor All grab each other and just sing along. I mean, come on, here we go. So this is video number two on a series I'm doing on the Essential Series from CDPool. If you want any more information on this binder as well as the others then check out the link in the description. You do have to follow certain criteria. You've got to be a DJ, you've got to be in and around Europe but...

Give them a call and they will help you immensely. CDPool are there to help, they're not just there to grab your money off you. At the end of the day, there's no point having a binder like this if it's no use to you. But if you are, like I said, an up-and-coming mobile DJ who needs to get a very good back catalogue, then I highly recommend you go and at least check this out. If you go to the website and you follow the link to this binder, you'll have a list of every single track on each CD. OK? Thanks very much. Practice and enjoy. Nice one.

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