GRANDMASTER Summer Anthems, From MastermixDJ

0:00 It's known as Grandmaster Summer Anthems from Mastermix

Alright folks, a bit of a review on this guy here. It's known as Grandmaster Summer Anthems from Mastermix. What we've got is 25 tracks of summer style hits all mixed in together and there's a couple of absolute stonkers in here. This one is Todd Terry Missing, Everything But The Girl. We've got Groove Jet, we've got Lady By Mojo, I Like It Like That, we've got Bingo Bango, was it Bango Bingo? We've got, what else? Let's Get Loud. Electric Avenue, I'll Be Ready, Sunny Shining, I Know Corrida, Dr. Pressure, New Horizons, Club Tropicana. Basically it's like a bit of a summertime sort of mix. And what am I going to do now? Let's have a look. I'm going to go to... where is it now? Spiller, yes, Spiller. Alright, it's track number 10. Now this is an absolute classic track. I mean, this is summer. It says, Hi, I'm Summer.

1:23 Track number 19, The Vinyl Shakers

So far, at the moment, it's quite warm actually. It's really nice. You'd better say that quietly otherwise you're going to start pissing down. Let's turn it up. You've got the original 12-inch of this, but I have, and there's a wicked break in it where it's just percussion. It's just hard. It's wonderful. All right, get your idea down. I'm going to go to track number 16 now. I know Corrida. The original was by Quincy Jones, and that guy is a genius. And he used to help Michael Jackson a lot with all of his tracks. I mean, the guy is just wonderful. Right, what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna go to track number 19, The Vinyl Shakers. This looks quite interesting, Club Tropicana. You see, what I'm picturing here, right, I'm trying to work this sort of mix out. And what we've got, which is really, really, really clever, they've sussed this out big time.

They started off with very sort of like cheesy, happy-go-lucky sort of mumsy-dadsy songs that people will dance to because they know them. The likes of say Mojo, Missing You Todd Terry, Groove Jet. But then slowly we've got slightly faster, a bit more uplifting and also more clubby. So it's gone from the commercial pop to more like the clubby pop. So in other words, psychologically what's happening is mumsy-dadsies will start dancing away. And before you know it, they're just boogeying at some hardcore. Well, ish. Okay. Right, I want to do a track number 20... Where are we? No, it's not 27. It's 23. Cafe Del Mar, Energy 52, which is the bomb. I'm going to just fast-forward it a little bit. See, what's really good is they've finished off with Playing Alive, the Bongo song, Safra Duo, which is absolute classic again.

3:26 In between the Ichigubos, the ding-a-be-doodle-bop boxes, you know, th

I mean, again, you know, the whole mix is sort of building higher and higher, which is what I've said to everyone. You know, if you want to do some sort of a mix, sometimes, not always, it's a good idea to start it mellow, slowly build, build, build, and eventually go, wham! In between the Ichigubos, the ding-a-be-doodle-bop boxes, you know, the balls. Right, we're good. Alright, 20... Pause that. 24 is on the beat, so that's 125, so we'll get a track number 25. Here we go. I mean, what stands out here, of course, is that... And then, of course, that bass line. Let's fast-forward this a little bit. And again, we've got that nice little break. Now, believe it or not, even though there's no beat, there is timing still in here. So think about it, right? If you match up, say, one track with this part of the tune, or you match up, sorry, one track with, say, this track...

But you match the beats where the two beats are working together. And theoretically, if you've got perfectly beatmatched, you can bring this part in and it will sync perfectly with the track over the first track's beat. And you can have this over the first track's beat. Do you see what I mean? Hopefully you do. Alright, quick look at that. I'll put a clickable link in the description that will take you to this CD itself. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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