How to Choose a Track You Like Without Spending All Day Listening to the Whole Song

0:00 Record shops and I'd ask

Right, got some tunes here from CDpool. These are the Urban releases for April 2019. Let's go back in the day. So many times I'd go to record shops and I'd ask the guy behind the counter for like the new releases so I'd have a whole stack of 12-inch and I would go through them to see if I liked them or not. If I didn't like them it was like no just put it to one side. If I did like them then I tried to sort of have an image of how it made me feel. Did it make me feel happy, sad, euphoric, deep, soulful and so on. So that's what we're going to do here with the new releases now. So Urban releases April 2019. The tracks I'm going to be playing are in no particular order. They're just pretty much as they are but what I will do I will give you title and or track artist and so on. So if you do want to click the link

In the description to CDpool.com just go to the Urban releases for April 2019 and you can get the relevant tunes I'm using. I probably won't play all of the tracks but there are sound bites of every single track on the downloadable version so let's have a listen. This one here is a track by Christopher Martin, a track entitled Life, the original mix. So let's imagine back in the day just turned up to a record shop. I put the needle on the record, press play. Now as you can imagine alright if I let's say for example chose 20 12-inch singles and each one of those singles was let's say about six seven minutes long that would be a very long time to sit there and decide whether I did like or didn't like the track. So what I used to do was play the beginning, have a quick listen,

2:16 I'll be honest with you don't like this

Skip through a bit more and within sort of about I would say listening to less than 10-20 seconds of the track I would be able to make my decision based on that amount of time. Now this one here I'll be honest with you don't like this. It's not bad but it's very modern day kind of commercial sort of soulful music. Now I'm not saying that that is a bad track. I'm giving my opinion based on whether I like it or not. You may like it, all good. Okay this one here now is Coco CTRL the original explicit. Let's press play. Okay so if this was a 12 by now I'd be going come on I want to hear some more. No definitely not for me and the next one at day featuring Bruna Boy a track here entitled location. Press play. Not bad.

Okay so far out the three tunes that's the best one so far because it's got a little bit more soul to it, a little bit more body but I'm still not you know if these were 12 inch singles I would not be taking any of these home yet so I would have saved quite a bit of money. Alright so the next one a track here entitled be happy. Let's have a listen. Slightly better, a bit more uptempo. Singer sounds a bit like Mickey Mouse but bad good bass line to it. I like this. This may have been in the maybe pile because again when you go to a record shop you know you've got a certain amount of money so what you do or what you did is you thought well there's the maybe pile. There's the definite pile and there's the pile that is just a pile. Okay and once you have

4:39 Explicit

Sorted out the definite and then the maybe and the not at all, then you look how much money you've got and you think well I can definitely afford to the definite and I've got a bit extra and then you then go through the maybes again to go well I can maybe have that one on that one because I've got enough money. All old school DJs will understand this. Okay so let's go to a track here. entitled lifestyle now that's not for me all right again I'm only being honest here okay and this is what I would be doing with tunes I don't you know like a lot of DJs you don't have to listen to the entire track even sometimes a few seconds it's like yes yes no okay this one here is what do you see okay let's have a listen

The cat music. No definitely not for me this one here next one is entitled meet up the explicit don't forget the urban releases are soul hip-hop R&B sometimes as I played earlier got bit like to step in there as well garage styling it's not bad it is very commercial it's very upbeat it's a nice kind of track it's got the explicit so maybe the non explicit would be good. So let's have a listen. For daytime radio but I wouldn't be walking home with that from a shop at all okay we'll do a couple more this one's gigs a track entitled baby explicit again nice bass line. You see now right okay. Let's go let's go there you go. I've just formed. A loop. Now that to me right I could just play that maybe not all day but.

6:44 Random tune this one here is freaky explicit again

It's rolling that's a roller okay I'm I'm with that one alright so so far that is the best track not the entire track but part of it and again this is what we would do we would listen and think you know what most of it's a bit naff but there's one part that is very very good. But there's one part that is very very good. That is. That's the man. I like that big time okay so we do one more it's going to like that and we'll just stop there and open hold on. Let's go alright well get out OK. Random tune this one here is freaky explicit again. Woke me up jeez by my. No definitely not for me alright so again. This shows you not. Again please just because I'm saying. I dislike. I disliked. the tracks does not mean to say that the tracks are not any good because what is

Great for one person is rubbish for someone else and what's rubbish for that person is fantastic see you know this is this is the great thing about being unique okay so once again these are the urban releases from CDPool check out CDPool.com and these are for April 2019 practice and enjoy let's just go to there and do that why not this is what I'm feeling as well if they'd have kept back to two-step beat on that sort of melody based line in the background without the vocals that would be a really good tune anyway once again practice and enjoy thank you very much

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