For the DJ Who Does Not Want to Mix Demonstration Beats September 2020

0:00 Something a little bit different

September 2020, this is Beats track one from disc number one. Now I'm going to show you something a little bit different in this video. So let's play the track first. Again what I try and do with these videos is give you an idea of what to expect on the new releases from CDBall. So the beats is all about urban, hip-hop, soulful R&B styles. Sometimes you get a bit of two step in there as well. Now a lot of people have been asking me about how you can play tracks that are not in key and get away with playing them one after the other if they're not in key. Now believe it or not I've probably just done that because I've talked in between the tracks. Now if you listen to radio presenters and this is more often than not will happen with the professional radio stations

It's when they're playing one track after the other with nothing in the middle those tracks should in some way shape or form be harmonically matched. On the other hand if you hear an advert in between them or there's a jingle or the DJ talks then very often they do that because they want to separate the two sounds. So you're not used to listening to one fading out and the next one coming in and having this kind of weird sort of feel in the middle where they just don't seem to work. Okay so this is track one from disc number two. So what we played here on the left side was Drake featuring Lil Dirk. Great name. Laugh now, cry later. Oh god. Anyway. And on this one here we have track number one disc number two which is WAP, Cardi B.

All right so let's do something similar now I'm just going to go to track number two.

Now that's another way it's just slow the track down so you can do this with vinyl as well all you've got to do with the vinyl turntable is just turn the power off and of course the turntable has no power it can't work anymore and it's just going to slow down. Okay track two from disc number one so again I'm not choosing my tracks I'm just going one, one, two, two, three and so on okay this one here is real life um Burn A Boy and Stormzy okay hopefully you won't get hounded by YouTube for playing tracks. All right so I'm going to go over here to track number two.

3:08 Next track

Spin back all right and then boom actually that sort of worked, I like that, that kind of worked. Okay this one here try number two. Come for shame. It's the explicit.

Don't forget to go to the next track.

You don't want to be me. Okay so we're going to track number three from disc number one which is a track entitled Freak, it's the explicit.

Right here I just want to bring the volume down a master.

Slip there a little bit, so what I did there I just had the volume up and down up and down again what I'm trying to do is cause some kind of effect where people go oh what's going on and before they know it something else has come in. This one here like I said track number three Freak. I like the beginning of this one actually a bit sort of like swingy sort of like 40s and 50s Like me But it's not swing. Haha okay. Do one more go to track number three from disc number two which is Fireboy a track DML, a track in style entitled Lifestyle.

What the hell am I gonna do now? I'll show you. Right so again probably if I was going to do this I would, which I will do, I'll wait for like the end of a phrase. Here we go.

5:11 These sorts of transitions are not real transitions

So that's like almost the opposite of a song. I'm going to slow down, I'm spinning it up so it's not a back spin it's almost like a spin forward back spin forward spin okay this one here like I said track three Fireboy DML Lifestyle. Alright so these sorts of transitions are not real transitions. I would highly recommend you don't do this when I say it's a live gig let's say for example at a big gig where you've got thousands of people. Then again though would they really know what you were doing? You see think about this if you're doing a wedding party something where you've got a mixed

Group of generations okay so you've got everything from children up to people who are average age between 90 and dead then you could have think if you imagine you have 100 people a mixed age group in that 100 people there will be one or two DJs. There will be half a dozen who'll know what you're doing but I'll be honest with you most of them won't have the foggiest what you're doing their idea of a DJ is this

That's a DJ to them they don't really know what you do and a lot of them if you do a dodgy transition probably wouldn't even know you've done a dodgy transition. Anyway so in a way I'm not saying you should do transitions like this what I'm saying is if you've got an eclectic mix of music you're going from house then to soul then to hip-hop then to 60s then to jazz and then to something else maybe something like this will work because you're not only separating the keys of music you're separating the genres as well all right the hope is that you're going to be able to do a lot of different things and you're going to be able to do a lot of different things. So if you're interested in doing this then I'd be happy

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