How to Evevate the Dance Floor and Dance Releases for May 2017 from CD Pool

0:00 Some more dance releases from CDPool May 2017

Alright guys, some more dance releases from CDPool May 2017. If the dance releases was a person, it would be a very big, luctuous woman with big boobies. A sort of woman that was kind and considerate and wanted to give you a big hug. These are the tunes. In other words, there's a lot going on. They're monstrous, they're extravagant, lots of music. Lots of high feeling, lots of energy. This one here is track number 14, disc number 2, Soul Shaker. As ever, check out the link in the description. It will take you to cdpool.com where you can get more info on all of the tracks I'm playing as well as the rest of the CD and the other releases. This is the crazy thing. I mean, I don't know if you have just started listening to music or maybe you're a new DJ, maybe you're an old DJ. If you're sort of...

3:46 In the middle, then, you should remember a band called Steps

In the middle, then, you should remember a band called Steps. Well, my God. This here is Steps and it's entitled Story of a Heart. It's the 7th Heaven Club Mix. My God, I thought they'd died years ago. Again, no, I've got to emphasise this. It is actually very important. The CD pool new releases, first of all... Well, for that matter, CD pool is not for everyone. First of all, you have to be a DJ. Of course, you have to be in Europe. But also, every single disc may not be suitable for you. You may find that you're listening to these dance tracks now and thinking, oh my God, what is going on? On the other hand, you could listen to the urban tunes and go, you know what, these are brilliant. You could listen to the global releases and think, what a load of pants. What you need to do really is go and check out the website and have a listen to the tracks and then you can judge for yourself which compilations are more suited for you, okay? We're going to bring in track 8 from disc 1, Clean Bandit, Remixers, MK. Okay, we'll bring this one forward a little bit.

6:07 Phrase mixing is very important

Okay, phrase mixing is very important. What I'm going to do now is not phrase mix, I'm going to drop one tune into the other. At the moment, this track here is at, the clean banner is at 121.5 BPM and track number two, disc number two, My Bad... The track title Party on a Weekday is at 1.24. I'm going to speed that up even more. What I'm going to do is drop the party on the weekend, on a weekend, straight in. So no mixing, just from one straight to the other. Both volumes up and I'm going to use the crossfade. Okay, here's a tip for you as well. It's a great way of elevating your mix. If you think about it, if you're not beatmatching two tracks, so you're not forming a transition of 4, 8 or 16 bars, you can, if you think about it, you can elevate the mix by dropping in the next tune but having that next tune not only a higher kind of vibe and feel and key but also

A higher BPM. So you're just giving more emphasis to the mix. Try it and what you'll see is the dance floor gets that little bit more of a buzz. People will automatically dance faster but they don't know what you've done. It's almost as though they're thinking, hold on, what's going on here? I seem to be... Elevated more, I seem to be dancing faster, but little do they know, all you've done is you have increased the BPM of the track that you dropped in. Remember, in key, in time, in phrase, bring up the BPM and bingo, there you go. Alright? Okay, finish off here with track. No, in fact, let's play one more from disc 1 and one more from disc 2.

8:57 Finish off with track number 3 from disc number 2, full vocal mix

Very big clash, so what I'm going to do actually, because it's quite a good tune, I'm going to just drop it in. Now that is the sort of mix that you would probably have to drop the next tune in anyway. This one is track number 13, a track entitled New Moon, it's the original club mix. Okay, finish off with track number 3 from disc number 2, full vocal mix. Cocky. Track entitled Chasing. As ever, check out the link in the description to cdpool.com. Finish off with practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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