Great Way to CATCH-UP on the Old School Party and Club Classics

0:01 First of all, my disclaimer

Right, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, my disclaimer. CDPool didn't ask me to physically do this video, but they did send me the thumb drives. So there's my disclaimer. Now, first and foremost, if you are a new DJ or if you're the sort of DJ that's been around for like 6,000 years, you got rid of your vinyl, got rid of your CDs, now you're relying on hard drives, then I mean, really, this video is for anyone and everyone. So I've got two different thumb drives, also known as stick drives. I've got the XDJ-XZ and I have on this one here, the Essential series and this one here, the Club series. Now, there are more than one from each series. And if you are interested, go and check out the link in the description. It will take you to cdpool.com.

So first and foremost. Are you a club DJ or are you more predominantly, let's say, a mobile party wedding style DJ? Then if you are one of those which I mean, all right. You know, at the end of the day, you could be a radio DJ, which means you probably would be interested in playing both of them. But you're probably not going to be playing cheesy music in a club and you're probably not going to be playing all the old unheard of for a lot of people classic dance tracks. You're probably not going to be playing all the old unheard of for a lot of people classic dance tracks at a wedding, but who knows? It depends on the gig. So club series. So I'm in USB two and we've got the club series now. So I'll run you through some of the tracks you can expect to get.

And again, at the moment, these are only alphabetical order. These are not they haven't gone through record box or anything like that. So what you could potentially do is, you know, you get the thumb drives. You put them into your laptop. Run them through. Your appropriate software. Then either load them onto another thumb drive. So they've gone through the software. Alternatively, just load them on your laptop and then use them accordingly. So what have we got? Renegades of Funk, which is African bomb batter. Great classic sort of electro funk hip hop band from the I think late 70s. Definitely early 80s. Alan Braxey, Fred Flake track in time. Title intro. I'll play a little bit. This is one of my one of my absolute classic dance tracks.

2:43 Alex Party, read my lips

I'm not going to play too much of the track simply because I don't want to get any copyright issues. Alex Party, read my lips. Alicia Myers. I want to thank you. I believe this was sampled by can't think of the guy in a hip hop artist a while ago. There you go. Alison Davis. David. What else? We've got our McCall and emotion obsession. I'm in Van Helden. You must have heard of him. Crikey. Ashford and Simpson. Let's just skip through. Got Blaze Black Science Orchestra, Body Rockers, Bob Sinclair, Bobby Brown. Let's go to see Candy Staten Candido BT Chemical Brothers. What else have we got? We've got Chic. We've got Colonel Abrahams. We've got Cypress Hill. Got Daft Punk, Deep Dish, Dead or Alive. So basically what we've got here, it's not just your house dance.

It's old school as well. It's also some good quality hip hop here. Absolute classic dance track. Meet her at the Love Parade. Just listen. This is the Pete Hellers style mix, I think. I mean, I personally enjoy the original, but there you go. Dead or Alive. You spin me right round. I mean this track now. There you go. Now this track is one of those songs that you could play in 20 years time and people are still going to love it because it's an absolute monster. Destiny's Child. So let's just go down to see the Js. Jamiroquai, James Brown, Jamelia, Jack Frost. I think we had In Excess in there. Jay-Z. We've got Jocelyn Brown. What's that? Kenny Jason. We've got Kool Moe Dee. Go See The Doctor. What an absolute wicked hip hop tune from years gone by.

5:27 Essential series and you'll see straight

What have I... No. What have I stuck my duck in? Now I know why my ex-boyfriend Dave calls me. He calls her Mrs. Microwave because she was harder than ever and I had to learn. Yeah, just you've got to check that out. In fact, I can't play it here but go and check out after this video Kool Moe Dee Go See The Doctor. Okay? There it is. Let's have a... There we go. Kool Moe Dee Go See The Doctor. It's just an amazing old school hip hop track. Let's have a look. Let's go through. We've got Madonna. We've got loose ends hanging on a string. One of the... I mean, this just epitomizes 80s groove. Oh, that is just something to die for. Okay, so that is your club classic series. Now we're going to go to the essential series and you'll see straight away if you look at

The screen. For anyone partially sighted, I will explain what we're looking at is we've got ABBA. ACDC. Okay? We've got African Bombardier again. What have we got? Alison Limerick. Andy Williams. You're just too good to be true. Can't take my eyes off of you. Aretha Franklin. Think. Anita Baker. Sweet Love. Another 80s classic soulful track. Average White Band. Let's go around again. We've got Beck. We've got the Beach Boys. We've got Basement Jacks. We've got Barry White. Beyonce. Jay-Z. Crazy in Love. Frank Sinatra. Gap Band. Gorillaz. Gloria Estefan. Grandmaster Flash. The Message. Ooh! Oh, hold on a minute. Yeah. All my children in the daytime, Dallas at night can even see the game or the sugary fight. The bill collectors.

Yeah, you know it. Okay. You're just too good to be true. You're just too good to be true. You're just too good to be true. All my children in the daytime, Dallas at night can even see the game or the sugary fight. The bill collectors. Yeah, you know it. Okay. Herbie Hancock. Rocket. I mean, this track here is just one of those tunes that you think, hold on a minute. Hold on. This is like it. When was it made? I mean, if you haven't heard this tune before, you probably think, oh, this is something from like three or four years ago. No, this is like 80s style. I mean, Herbie Hancock and Rocket was so far ahead of its time. It's unreal. And again. It's the sort of track you could play anywhere. Incognito, Imagination, I Can Tina Turner, Riverdeep Mountain High, Classic Nutbush City,

8:11 Whereas what CDpool have done, they've just gone, hold on a minute

Iggy Pop Passenger, Jim Marraquai, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Kylie Minogue, Level 42. Okay. The list goes on loads of Madonna on here. And again, this is just one of them. So what I'm trying to emphasise here is, you know, we're in the realms now of if you're a new DJ or you're trying to desperately find those classic tracks. It is a logistical nightmare to dig through CDs, to go through files, to download. Whereas what CDpool have done, they've just gone, hold on a minute. Let's go through all of the best tracks. Now, of course they can't put everything on there. But what they've done is have gone, hold on. We've got pretty much two types of DJs. We've got your club DJs and we've got your mobile DJs. So the club DJs, even though they're always up to date with the latest tunes, they want

To bring in that banger that will just gel into the set they're playing. And at the same time, like a mobile DJ, you know, you may have all the latest pop stuff, but you might not have all the music. But you might not have the old classics. Michael Jackson, Michael McDonald and Nelly on here. New shoes. I can't wait. That's been sampled no ends of times. Listen. Oh, hold on that one. Not that one. That's something. I mean, even by playing that tiny bit, I bet you there's probably not one person watching this video who would not recognise that sound because it's just one of those tunes that is played again and again. And again, Oasis don't look back in anger. Pet Shop Boys, Paul Weller, Paul Hardcastle, Punjab MC, Outkast, Ottawan, Otis Redding.

We've got loads of Queen here. I mean, any DJ who hasn't got Queen and you're a mobile DJ. Well, sorry, Bohemian Rhapsody. Don't stop me now. We will rock you. I mean, like, hold on. We will rock you. There you go. All right. Like I said, just have a think about it. If you do want any more information, check out the link in the description, go to the website and if you're in and around Europe and you're a working DJ, yes, you can get these. Sadly, if you're in the Americas, you can't because you should by all rights have your own pools of music. So this is really just for the European market. And if you're interested in maybe asking a few more questions, don't hesitate. Give the guys a call, maybe speak to Tim and just ask him a little bit about the whole

Compilations. And if you have watched this video, just say, oh, I saw the video that Jonathan made. All right. Thank you very much for watching. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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