How to Make the Best DJ Mix of Your Life Underground CD Pool April 2019

0:00 To you how you can start

Right, first of all this video could be a little bit rude and secondly I'm going to explain to you how you can start to appreciate good quality music. So, there are tracks that you like. I mean let's be honest there's a certain track that you like and think oh I like that sound. You know you listen to it and you think oh I could go along with that and you shove it on the player or you go and buy it, you download it and you think oh I like that tune. On the other hand there are songs maybe... Like me, you're a mobile DJ and you have to play them, and you're not particularly fussed if you ever heard them again. In fact, you wish you didn't have to hear them again, but being a mobile DJ, of course, you have to play for the crowd, not for yourself. So really there, there are probably a lot of tracks that you would never dream of playing them at home. In fact, like me...

Once they are in the thumb drive, in the hard drive or on this CD case over there, they will stay there until the next gig. But there could be a track that just makes you go, Oh my God, I need some toilet paper. Because certain tracks just give you that... There are certain songs that you have to listen to once and you go... Bang! That is it. That is the one. It's just like boom. It's like was. It's like bing. It's like the first time. Is this what it's like? Child support. No. This is one of those tunes, okay? Now I'm playing some tracks from the underground releases from April 2019 from CDPool. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to go through a bunch of these tracks and I'm going to give my own personal thought from a scale of...

2:45 We do not have those tracks in the top 40 because everyone loves them

I'll be honest with you, 1 to 10. What you have to understand as well here is that this is my perception of the tracks I'm listening to. You may have a different idea, a different perception. So for example, I may give a track 1, which means not that fussed with it. I may give a track 7, which means that track's got balls. On the other hand... For you, the track that I've given 1 to could be a 7 and the 7 could be a 1. So it's up to you. Now this is the important thing. It's that the music you like is the music that you like and not what everyone else likes. You see we're following on here from other videos where I've discussed about Top 40 and why we have tracks in the Top 40. We do not have those tracks in the top 40 because everyone loves them. We have those tracks in the top 40 because everyone who listens to them, they're sheep, they're idiots. They are following everyone else, whereas hopefully people who watch me will follow your heart, your liver, lungs, intestine, lower intestine and testicles and fanny bits. Just kidding! You will follow your instinct, your inner self. Don't think about everyone else.

You, you're the important one. Now this track here, did I say 1 to 10? Sorry, this one is a 50 million. This track here has got balls, testicles. If this was an animal it would be a dinosaur. It would have the biggest hanging thing you could imagine. Fixate versus Double 99, Rip Groove. Fixate Remix. Now you may have heard this a couple of times on the web, but you know what? This tune here has just got it, alright? Now as soon as I heard this a while ago, I think it was The Boiler Room that played it, I thought, freaking heck man, what on earth is that? That just dropped! It absolutely dropped! Seriously, it's just like, it's... Oh my god! I mean, I'd be happy to play this at a wedding, right?

5:15 This one here is track number 1 from disc number 1

And I know, right time, right place, people will go, you know what? Yeah. Just, just, come on. Oh my god. Do you know what I like about this as well? Is that when Rip Groove was out in the original 99, it was the jungle kind of era. And what have they done? They've just gone... Let's keep to its roots and give it the jungle vibe. Shit, man. This is off the hook. This is completely and utterly off the hook. All right? If you were fishing and you caught a huge big tuna, it's gone. It's off the frigging hook, man. Because that tuna's gone. Sod you. I'm not going to be steaks. I'm going to go out there, copulate and make more fish. Yeah. Right. I'm going to get a bite right there. Like that. Alright, so this one here is track number 1 from disc number 1. We're going to go over here now to track number 1 from disc number 2. So again, I've given you my thought on that, which is up there. That's 1, that's 10. Sorry, that one's like with the gods. This one here, track 1, disc number 2. Now again, when listening to different tracks, what you shouldn't do, what you can't do,

The last track. So, just because this maybe hasn't got so much vibe or energy, I can't think, well it's actually not as good as the other one, so I'm going to give it a three. No! Every track is unique. Every track is different. Every track deserves its own recognition. So, now for me, this has got bounce, drum pattern, even though it's four to the floor. It's still got a nice bit of bounce to it. I like it. Nice build. You see, I'm feeling this. Alright, I admit. It's not giving me as much energy as the last one, but then it's got a nice kind of bounce and a feel to it. This is Henry Hacking, a tracking part of Roller, the original mix. Don't forget if you want any info on these tunes, check out the link in the description to cdpool.com right down there. By the way, patch. Alright, okay so that's that.

7:54 Yeah, alright, so this one, sorry, that last one, what would I give it

Right, let's have a look at Bear Up Pull Up Original Mix track 2, disc number 1. Okay, if you're a dark D&B fan, look no further. I mean, well, don't look here, look over there. Oh, you get what I mean. Yeah, alright, so this one, sorry, that last one, what would I give it? I'd give that a 4 to a 5. This one here, I'd probably give again a 4 to a 5. Why the number's so low? Well, if you start doing, oh, love it, love it, love it, it's a 10, oh, love it, a 9, you know, you... There is meaning to the madness of this at the end of the video, which I will explain because every time you listen to a track, make sure you give it a number. Make sure the number corresponds to the track. I'll explain at the end of the video. Right, so let's go to a random number here. This is track number six. This is number two. A track entitled Flames. Again, the underground releases are...

Twisty, bendy, experimental, pokey things. You know, if I could put, if I could build up an analogy, it would be a bit like going into a room, like across between a dentist hospital and a vet's and having loads of instruments there and some strange bloke saying, come and sit down, I'd like to tell you a story. And all of a sudden the lights start flashing and people start poking you and prodding you and you're like... And gothic lights all around you and people in rubber going like that. A lot of people would find that quite attractive. Sorry. Alright, this one here. Okay, this one again. For me, three to a four. Because it's got it. I like it. But my tens at the top are those sort of tracks that I can listen to again and again and again and again.

10:16 I'm going to random track here

And just not get bored of them. Never, never, never get bored of them. This one here, I'd be like, yeah, it's a good track. I'm not saying I'd get bored of it, but then I wouldn't miss it if I never heard it again. On the other hand, if I never heard this, the rip groove again, I would cry. I would just be very, very upset and go and annoy the neighbours. Right, okay, so I'm going to random track here. We've got to number five here on disc number one, which is In The Ghetto. Nice bouncy feel to this, straight into four to the floor. That reminds me of... I bet you that'd mix in with this. You see, that's another thing. If you listen to a song and it reminds you of another one, it's very likely that they'll work together. There's nothing wrong with it at all but it's not the sort of track...

I would be, say, driving along and going, oh, I like this, this is brilliant, this is amazing, I must go and shazam it. It'd be like, I'm happy listening to this, and in comes the next song, and you're like, oh, there we are. Do you see what I mean? Bloody hope so, because I don't. Right, OK, so let's go to track number 10, disc number 2, which is Groove, the electronic youth remix. Speed it forward a bit. Nothing wrong with it. I like the vibe, I like this kind of style, but again... This is about me defining which tracks are up there with the gods or palatable. This is palatable. And by the way, the likes of general top 40 music and the sort of stuff I would play a time and again and again and again at top 40, we're probably going into the realms of minus 8, minus 10, minus 20, minus infinity. So these are the tunes that I automatically will like.

12:50 You're giving the numbers

Anyway, anything from the top 40 pretty much, I'm sorry, isn't worth even me going to the toilet and using it to wipe my butt cheeks. Right, so track number 7, this one here is... Can you imagine? Oh, excuse me, can I have track number 42 please? No, actually that isn't in the charts. Can I have track number 22 please? I've just had a poo and I want to wipe my butt cheeks. Thank you. Hmm. I can't picture that, sorry. No, it's not there. Right, this one here is track number 7 from disc number 1. Nice melody. Catchy kind of melody. 2 to 3 for me. OK, let's go one more on this side and after this I will explain why you're giving the numbers. OK, some people might like it, I give that a 1. OK, so why these numbers? Right. Now, let's...

Think that you've done this with all kinds of genres, all kinds of styles and all of a sudden you have a folder with... And again, you can always do different folders. This is just another set of folders. We've all heard of copy and paste. So you've pasted 300 tracks in a folder and you put that at number one. Well, they may be great tracks but... They may be not memorable to you. On the other hand, you have a folder, or folders, with tracks 7, 8, 9 and 10. Now think about this, this is the genius. When you open that folder of track number 10, 9, 8 and 7, which are like the creme de la creme, they are songs that give you a buzz, that make you... that just give you that UGH! Those are the tracks you're more likely to enjoy mixing and bringing into the set because they give you the buzz. And when you're out there in front of the crowd, that's what you need to give. You don't want to be playing tracks of 1, 2, 3, 4 because you're there going, oh yeah, you're enjoying this, but you aren't. They're enjoying it, but you aren't. You need to be the one enjoying it. So when you play tracks that are high up there with the gods...

You are with them, spinning the tunes while they've got their tripod, tridents and stuff like that. Alright, so thank you very much to CD Paul, and by the way... If you're not doing anything towards the latter part of this year, check out the BPM show because I will be with CD Paul playing a whole bunch of tunes. So come along, have a bit of fun. We'll do a bit of live streaming and also if you hassle them, you may be able to get a couple of discounts. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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